Most Demanding PC Game?

I had a quick search, and found nothing on this subject. What do you think is the most demanding game available on the PC format?

 

Crysis, without a doubt. Next up is probably Oblivion and Supreme Commander.

I'm not counting bad console ports like Lost Planet.

 

without a doubt, Crysis.

 

crysis right now. oblivion was demanding 3 years ago.

 

Oblivion is still demanding, with only the best cards capable of running it at all highest settings.

 

Yea Crysis is the most demanding game. I haven't seen a computer to this day that can run Crysis with every setting maxed out.

 

FSX


(with high traffic, weather, bloom, etc.)

 

Definitely Crysis, and you could argue Flight Simulator X too, that's if you max everything out with AA and resolution and want over 40+ FPS.

 

FSX. My machine can deal with Crysis and have a smooth gaming experience, but I have stutters in the frame rate no matter how I tweak FSX, so I still use FS9 ( that even with everything at max and several add-ons, is smooth as glass).

 

about oblivion its not graphically demanding

my brother runs it on ati x1270 with everything low and some on medium with decent frame rates and hardly ANY hiccups or stutters. i was so surprised it could even run! but the best way to enjoy oblivion is using the full settings. btw its not patched with oldblivion. it really works on this intergrated card.

crysis is defintely next gen gaming..the 8800 on the desktop runs it on medium, its the one with the most decent framerate. cant run it on max. i heard even with sli has problems. how true that is i dunno lol coz i dont have any sli friends.

 

crysis definately

 

Crysis, only thing on my rig so far that isn't straight 60s at high/max

 

Oblivion IS demending. Cards like the 7800GTX/8600GT will play it at high / ultra with HDR and 4xAA but if you wanna max everything (100% sliders everywhere) with HDR 4xAA 1680x1050. you need a Radeon X1950XT/X or a 8800.

The 1270 is the best integrated graphics chip and is about a GF 6200 so yeah it runs. OLDblivion makes it run suing shader model 1.3 rather than 2.0 so since the 1270 is fully compatible with it, runing oldblivion woudln't even change a thing.

 

I found Colin McRae DIRT to be pretty demanding. I tried it on a Nvidia Geforce 7800 GTX and ATI Radeon 3850 and couldn`t get playable framerates at low resolutions. Not sure what happened here.

 

oh yeah... forgot about DiRT. Diffidently. i have it for the 360 and it stutters every once in a while even on the counsel. probably do to the advanced HDR it has

 

Have you guys played emulated sega or nintendo games? even on my beast some of them lag

Appart from that, Crysis, of course...not even ultras 8800s can max out the game and not experience shuttering...

 

When you consider this is the only game in which the highest settings aren't even unlocked because no computer available right now can play them, it's pretty clear that Crysis is the winner.

 

Which really makes me wonder how they tested it...

 

Very good point... I remember reading that they demonstrated it to the public awhile back with a crossfire based system (x1950 maybe?).

 

Isn't it obvious? They warped 3 years into the future to test it on a machine there >_>;

 

QUAD SLI 8800GTX Ultras with a 2 processor board with dual Q6850's and 16 gigs of RAm, on a secret testing OS?

 

Pfft, you could just go Q9650's and 32 GB of RAM if you're going to go that far.

In terms of graphics, sure, Crysis, but there's other games that are even more demanding in terms of processing power and memory (hard drive space too I'm sure). For "most demanding game" you need to be specific as to what it is demanding on.

 

Speaking of which - Supreme Commander, one of the most demanding games, processor wise.

 

BattleCruiser 3000AD no patches....it brings even the staunchest machines to their knees. Of course it doesn't utilize your GFX cards so....

I can only imagine what " Desktop Commander" would do to a mondern day machine!!

 

World of Conflict is quite the beast for torturing your system, it's very processor intensive like supreme commander and you need one hell of a desktop system to run everything maxed out.

Crysis is probably still the most ridiculous game on the market right now, even the minimum specs for the game video-card wise are higher than the recommended ones for other games.

 

Let's distinguish the difference between demanding system requirements due to technology vs. poorly coded games. I think DiRT, while a lot of fun, is poorly coded. There's no reason for its stiff system requirements.

Crysis and FSX are probably the two most demanding for technology reasons, although both could probably use some performance tuning themselves.

 

How do you distinguish between poorly coded games and plain hardware-torturing games? Crysis is probably the latter while universal consensus is that Lost Planet belongs to the former. But where does one draw the line for games like Oblivion, World in Conflict and Supreme Commander?

 

Crysis, I say. They probably tested it on like a $6K machine, saw that it could only run at 40fps max, and they released it into the market hoping that 3 years from now you could run it at everything maxed out and get 60fps.

Okay I was being stupid there, but yeah Crysis is very demanding =)

 

Solitaire! No matter what rig youhave, the darn thing couldn't play faster than 10fps.

 

No the 8800GTX runs the game in Very high/High in DX10 and Very High tweaked for DX9 XP and this smoothly. Now with the latest drivers for Vista I could even run Very High on Shaders at the same time as Post Processing and that is amazing what kind of boost these drivers did to Crysis. And that stuttering do you mean frame rate drops or just stuttering like Oblivion has? Because when I run Crysis I don´t have any stuttering at all.

 

Lost Planet increased it´s performance drastically with newer drivers and the patches. Now I can even run the game on my laptop in sig at 1280x800 and I max it out on my desktop rig with even soft shadows now which I couldn´t do before the patches and newer drivers.

 

Not very easy to distinguish I know. But when it is a console port, there's no reason it shouldn't run well on an average PC (i.e. Gears of War). As far as Crysis, the destructible environments, high use of shader effects in the massive open environment is clearly a strain even for a well coded game.

There's always similar games to compare with each other as well.

 

FSX in my humble opinion.

 

There is no doubt why Crysis demands so much of your hardware considering how it looks, compared to the corridor shooter Cod 4. Imagine if you would have free roam in Cod 4 do you think that game with it´s low poly characters would run really well?

 

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yeah crysis for sure

 

Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance is pretty demanding. With some major battles on the screen id say moreso than crysis.

 

Rainbow Six Vegas is pretty HORRIBLY optimized too. I'm surprised I can run Crysis 1280x800 on high setting for everything but I can only run R6V on 800x600 with everything on medium and it still lags.

 

My point exactly about a console port. There is no reason this shouldn't run with options on high @ 1280x800 on an 8600m GT or even 8400m GT.

 

Crysis.....

 

Flight Simulator X (10), Crysis, Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance, and World in Conflict

I'd nominate those for most demanding games.

 

Crysis is a very demanding game. This game has very good graphics but you need a hefty video card and ram to play it at its best.

 

This one might be able to run Crysis pretty decently for $7800

http://h20435.www2.hp.com/#/home/
System Foundation

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Quad Core - Intel(R) Core2(TM) Extreme Quad-Core 3.0GHz QX6850 performance enhanced
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4 GB 1066MHz CORSAIR PC2-8500 DDR2 SDRAM SLI Ready Thermal Management
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ASUS Striker Extreme 680i
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Microsoft(R) Windows Vista(TM) Ultimate (Free Upgrade)

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Dual ATI RADEON(TM) X2900 XT 1GB, with 1GB of GDDR4 SDRAM (LC)
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Ageia PhysX(tm) 100 Series PCI-E GFX Accelerator Card
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Creative Audio Sound Blaster(R) X-Fi(TM) XtremeGamer Fatal1ty Professional
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1.1KW Power Supply

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RAID (0) Performance - 3 x 160GB 10,000 rpm SATA
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1TB 7200 rpm SATA
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Super multi-drive, slim slots with Lightscribe (DVD+/-R/RW+/-DL)
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Second Super multi-drive, slim slots with Lightscribe (DVD+/-R/RW+/-DL)
5.25" Bay
Blu-ray Rewriter and HD DVD-ROM Super multi-drive with LightScribe (CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW/RAM, +R/RW, +/- R DL) (Selecting this option may delay your order)

Speakers Systems
Bose Companion(R) 5 multimedia speaker system
Mice
Voodoo Mouse by Razer
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Voodoo Keyboard by Razer

 

can you play crysis on a laptop? i just installed it on my laptop lol... i have 4 gig ram m1530 dell intel core 2 duo

 

Let us know how you make out - what video card in the 1530

 

it's a 8600m gt ddr2


i've seen a hp blackbird on display playing crysis on all high settings at 30-35 fps. it looked pretty smooth

 

A Go-L computer can play Crysis at 120FPS 2560x1600 4xAA with everything on Very High.

Lets not get into a discussion of what can and can't play what. Lets stick to the topic please of what is the most demanding game.

 

no i think the most demanding game is black site 51 there is no setting to turn the graphics down

 

what is this go L thing you speak of?

i vote crysis.....and then oblivion/supreme commander/ FSX

 

have anyone tried blacksite area 51 i know the game sucks but i think it is the most demanding it requires 3ghz minium and it plays it 9-14fps on my system specs below where crysis i can get 20-25 easily on mostly high