You're not much younger than I. Only ever had a modest rig (for the times) and a rotten ping, In those days playing on US or Scandinavian servers from London wi

You're not much younger than I. Only ever had a modest rig (for the times) and a rotten ping, In those days playing on US or Scandinavian servers from London with a ping of 250 was normal, and we used dial-up modems. I hit my peak in FPS at about 30 and could stay top the board in any counterstrike or team fortress server for as long as I wanted. Always got accused of cheating of course. I put my good playing skill down to knowing the maps. Most Unreal Tournament, TFC and CS servers ran the same old maps all day and night. I had every angle and line of sight worked out. Once you had a few killer moves worked out it became muscle memory and anticipation. What you see, in terms of great frames-per-second and resolution becomes less important. By 40 my reaction time had dropped. I got humiliated on new games. It also took longer to learn new maps and find the good timing and sweet spots. That part of my brain gets very little exercise these days.