most hardware taxing game?

[Spikesoldier]

in your opinion, whats the game that just needs powerful hardware? for arguements sake lets say were doing 1280x1024 with no FSAA or AF.

 

[jgbishop]

Far Cry is pretty intensive (at high detail levels).

 

[CalvinHobbes]

Doom3, Half-Life2.

 

[biostud]

Chronicles of Riddick

 

[biostud]

Originally posted by: CalvinHobbes
Doom3, Half-Life2.

HL-2 isn't that demanding

 

[KoolDrew]

Doom 3

 

[homercles337]

Originally posted by: KoolDrew
Doom 3

Without a doubt...

 

[Fern]

All these games mentioned are very taxing. but Painkiller should be added to the list, especially with the BOoH expansion.

My testing with all these games (except HL2, which I have, but yet regretably not yet installed) shows that D3 is the best coded and, therefore, did not tax my system as much as FC and PK+BOoH.

For example, game load (and reload after dying) times improved considerable for FC and PK when moving from 512MB of ram to 1 gig. D3 showed little or no improvement. With 512MB D3 is still faster reloading that the other two with a gig.


Fern

 

[harrkev]

Tie between:

Nethack

Zork

 

[bNeta86]

EQ2

Oddly.

 

[Malak]

Originally posted by: bNeta86
EQ2

Oddly.

I tried EQ2 at highest settings, no issues. Doom3 is a beast on any system, and is the only game that helps the arguement of SLI. Of course, the game sucks, so it's not worth it still.

 

[bNeta86]

malak - in a city? or with 10+ other people around?

It takes a serious machine to run it at max settings...mine sure cant handle it ;-)






You're right on D3 - hehe I would have tried it at max settings but the game was so weak I didnt even bother.

 

[Smilin]

Originally posted by: homercles337

Originally posted by: KoolDrew
Doom 3

Without a doubt...

Graphics wise Doom 3 will cripple a weak graphics card.

Memory wise, Sim City 4 will cripple even a machine with a Gig of ram

CPU wise - it's a tossup. There are quite a few games that cpu bottleneck after graphics.

 

[BigPoppa]

Originally posted by: malak

Originally posted by: bNeta86
EQ2

Oddly.

I tried EQ2 at highest settings, no issues. Doom3 is a beast on any system, and is the only game that helps the arguement of SLI. Of course, the game sucks, so it's not worth it still.

You ran EQ2 at extreme quality no problem? /bow down. Care to pose some screenies? Highest I've run was HQ on a 6600GT. Playable during xp, but not in the cities.

 

[Malak]

Originally posted by: bNeta86
malak - in a city? or with 10+ other people around?

It takes a serious machine to run it at max settings...mine sure cant handle it ;-)

No I never made it to a real city, seemed to be just a village I was in. It was for the free trial. I never once had even so much as a hiccup though. There are dozens of NPCs around and a dozen or so PC's. I've heard EQ2 could take advantage of 2GB of RAM, which I only have half of. Without any experience in a city I can't really vouch for that.

 

[Pr0d1gy]

Planetside is a beast on your FPS. I have a killer new system and my frames still drop into the 5-10fps range in big firefights.

 

[cbehnken]

Originally posted by: malak

Originally posted by: bNeta86
malak - in a city? or with 10+ other people around?

It takes a serious machine to run it at max settings...mine sure cant handle it ;-)

No I never made it to a real city, seemed to be just a village I was in. It was for the free trial. I never once had even so much as a hiccup though. There are dozens of NPCs around and a dozen or so PC's. I've heard EQ2 could take advantage of 2GB of RAM, which I only have half of. Without any experience in a city I can't really vouch for that.

Yes EQ2 is the most demanding game so far.

It will use much more than 1 GB of ram on max settings. I run High Quality at 1600x1200 on my x800XL and it plays very well. If I turn it on Very High Quality in the cities it uses 1300 MB of ram and I begin swapping and thus terrible performance. Runs fine in open country on max settings though.

 

[Malak]

Originally posted by: Pr0d1gy
Planetside is a beast on your FPS. I have a killer new system and my frames still drop into the 5-10fps range in big firefights.

You have a configuration problem then. I played Planetside on an old computer and never had that problem.

 

[flawlssdistortn]

Originally posted by: cbehnken

Originally posted by: malak

Originally posted by: bNeta86
malak - in a city? or with 10+ other people around?

It takes a serious machine to run it at max settings...mine sure cant handle it ;-)

No I never made it to a real city, seemed to be just a village I was in. It was for the free trial. I never once had even so much as a hiccup though. There are dozens of NPCs around and a dozen or so PC's. I've heard EQ2 could take advantage of 2GB of RAM, which I only have half of. Without any experience in a city I can't really vouch for that.

Yes EQ2 is the most demanding game so far.

It will use much more than 1 GB of ram on max settings. I run High Quality at 1600x1200 on my x800XL and it plays very well. If I turn it on Very High Quality in the cities it uses 1300 MB of ram and I begin swapping and thus terrible performance. Runs fine in open country on max settings though.

Maybe it's just sloppy programming?

 

[Cawchy87]

Originally posted by: CalvinHobbes
Doom3.

There's a difference between taxing and poorly coded.

Farcry

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Deus Ex 2 and Doom 3.

 

[j511180]

Of the games that I'm playing now, I'd say GTR FIA GT (racing sim), especially in a race with 20+ cars.

 

[blazer78]

Simcity 4

once u have a huge population in your city, you'll be needing a supercomputer.

 

[cbehnken]

Originally posted by: flawlssdistortn

Originally posted by: cbehnken

Originally posted by: malak

Originally posted by: bNeta86
malak - in a city? or with 10+ other people around?

It takes a serious machine to run it at max settings...mine sure cant handle it ;-)

No I never made it to a real city, seemed to be just a village I was in. It was for the free trial. I never once had even so much as a hiccup though. There are dozens of NPCs around and a dozen or so PC's. I've heard EQ2 could take advantage of 2GB of RAM, which I only have half of. Without any experience in a city I can't really vouch for that.

Yes EQ2 is the most demanding game so far.

It will use much more than 1 GB of ram on max settings. I run High Quality at 1600x1200 on my x800XL and it plays very well. If I turn it on Very High Quality in the cities it uses 1300 MB of ram and I begin swapping and thus terrible performance. Runs fine in open country on max settings though.

Maybe it's just sloppy programming?

Mostly just huge textures. Have you ever played it? The environment is huge, especially in the cities.