system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Why do older games like to crash or have problems on newer computer?

My buddy has a pretty decent pc he can run Doom Eternal at a smooth 60, but when he tried to run Unreal Tournament 2004 it was pretty much unplayable and I was curious as to why.
gpt
Think of it as a language. If you'd jump back in time to a year around 1500 a.d. and try to talk to a person speaking the English language, you'd likely have quite some problems because the language changed a lot since then. Ways computers do stuff evolves too, and UT2004 simply doesn't know the latest vocabulary.