The most GPU intensive game you've ever played?

Before tonight I would say crysis, but now Flight simulator X is clearly the ultimate hardware killer to me. all settings ultra high under 1920x1200, 11fps. Yes! 11fps! that's half of what I got from crysis with same settings. I have read many posts regarding how graphically advanced flight simulator X is, but couldn't believe that it just trashed my 8800m into nowhere.
edit: I had SP1 patch installed already.

 

I AGREED! Soo much for saying that Crysis is a highly GPU demand game, try FSX at full settings!!!

 

are you running FSX in DX10?

FSX might not be optimised thats why your FPS suck

Crysis would have to be the most GPU demanding game

 

They are supposed to be demanding, both GPU and CPU wise. I remember on one of the FSX developers' blog (or was it forum posts?), that FSX was never meant or intended to be ran with all sliders to the max on current generation of graphics processing powers, the only reason they are doing this is to prolong the life of FSX for at least 2 or 3 years.

Then again the MSFS series has always been pushing the edge of graphics hardwares. I still can't get a decent frame rate with FS9 (struggling at 20ish FPS) at major airport/city with maximum graphics settings.

Anyways, you can find the blogs of the developers of ACES Stuido here:
http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=121&topic_id=424185&mesg_id=424185&page=
You can always complain to them there :

 

I encoutered a ton of problems whe playing FSX. Not only was it poorly optimized, but "Ultra" settings looked like Flight Sim 7.

Crysis hands down for the most intensive on GPU.

 

Probably Doom II. LOL.

Commander Keen IV and Descent all the way.

 

No I am running XP SP3, DX9

you mean it's poorly optimized for GPU? I set all the traffics to maximum, so I don't know if my CPU was bottlenecked also at this point.
it is really frustrating since flight sim x doesn't offer better visual than crysis nor running at higher frame rate.

 

Reduce the air, sea, road traffics to about 25% or less, seriously, with maximum traffics settings in FSX, it's gonna eat up all your CPU power.

Be sure to install the FSX SP1 and SP2 patches, they really improve the overall performance, fix a lot of bugs and glitches too.

Then do the performance and visual trade-off: move all your graphics settings sliders to the left, one by one, move them slightly to the right (set them higher), try them out and monitor the frame rate (Shift+Z) each time, see how you like it. That should give you a good judgment as to how much visual you wanna sacrifice for performance.

If you're really just done with FSX, then sell it, wait for FSXI, in the mean time, try out X-Plane 9.0:
http://www.x-plane.com/
For the first time, with the latest 9.0 version of X-Plane, you can now really compare the graphics between FSX and X-Plane, with much improved graphics, like water reflection, detailed 3D c*ockpit, etc...
Though not as pretty as FSX, but definitely uses much less resources.

 

well that all depends on how smooth u want to fly in a civilian flight simulation, not combat. 20 -30 fps is fine for me, to allow casual flying without worrying about stalling.

 

i would have to say Simfarm is the most GPU intensive game.

j/k: Crysis

 

Probaly starcraft with a zergling orgy on 8 players. Only other game I played was CS + D2 religiously, and a bit of WoW.

 

That's more of a CPU issue, I'd think.

My vote goes to Supreme Commander on max visual settings. Just wait about 20 minutes into a 2v2 match and suddenly you are drawing over 2000 units and buildings as they blow each other up.

Crysis, after a heavy SupCom.

 

How about we change his slightly to, most GPU intensive at time of release? I would nominate BF2 and HL2.

 

So what GPU/CPU set up will you need to handle that at decent framerates?

 

oh man. crysis... im waiting three more months to upgrade from the 7950 to 9800 before i play crysis... then maybe dual 9800s down the road... im intrigued about all this FSX talk. I may have to look into that.

 

Crysis runs decent on my computer but is still the most intense so far.

 

Try it, its like a boy's dream come true... to fly anywhere without the annoyance of reality. such as work, school, or megatron.

 

TBH, the most graphics intensive game I've played would be BF2. Lol, I feel like a century old.

 

i would have to say crysis all the way for me tbh. but i havent played FSX yet, but i cant see it beating crysis, sure its not just got horrible errors/problems with driver support?

ill probably go out and buy it to see if its true, i wasnt expecting something to beat crysis's "raping of the CPU and GPU" for at least another year, maybe 2 or 3 even.

 

I vote Supreme Commander since a BIG game with 4-8 players and several thousand units on screen is going to be hell on the player electing to be server.

Just about everyone else will say Crysis and they'll be right, I just think a hefty CPU matters more for Supreme Commander than Crysis.

 

i would choose
crysis
suppreme commander
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