What games do you want to see benchmarked on a laptop?

[fbrdphreak]

Hey guys,
We're revamping our laptop review gaming test suite and wanted to get your thoughts. We want to keep the number of gaming tests to 2 on a laptop review, along with the 3DMarks of course. What 2 do you want to see?

Right now our thoughts are for COD2 & FEAR. They are the most graphically challenging games available pretty much, and should give a good indication of how a laptop will perform in other games.

Q4 was on the list, but since it is very similar to Doom 3 and that engine is older than FEAR or COD's engine, we opted it out.

HL2: Lost Coast was also on the list, but pretty much if you can run COD2 or FEAR well then you can run HL2 & HL2:LC well. Also it saves us a lot of time from not having to install HL2 and all the Steam updates.

Thoughts?

 

[fbrdphreak]

For those who voted other, you need to tell me what other is!

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Far Cry and Deus Ex 2.

 

[fbrdphreak]

Far Cry isn't a bad idea, still a very challenging graphics engine. It is pretty outdated though and has been benchmarked all to hell. Will keep it in mind tho

And Deus Ex 2 is REALLY old, and not very popular overall from my knowledge. However if there is demand let it be shown

 

[hans030390]

CoD2 and FEAR are the most demanding, so I'd use those.

 

[fierydemise]

AOE3 possibly but COD2 and FEAR are probably the best things around for stressing a system

 

[Skott]

Yeah, COD2 and FEAR would be my choice as well.

 

[dug777]

Fear and farcry

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Originally posted by: fbrdphreak
Far Cry isn't a bad idea, still a very challenging graphics engine. It is pretty outdated though and has been benchmarked all to hell. Will keep it in mind tho

And Deus Ex 2 is REALLY old, and not very popular overall from my knowledge. However if there is demand let it be shown

Far Cry may be old but the graphics are much better than those of Doom 3, Quake 4, and Half-Life 2. Deus Ex 2 is the only other modern game that I own so that's why it's in second place for me.

 

[fbrdphreak]

Haha, I gotcha.

I agree about Far Cry, just hard to pick it due to the game's age; nothing against the engine

And dug I swear you are obsessed with Far Cry!!

 

[KeepItRed]

Half-Life 2 & Half-Life 2: Lost Coast.

 

[dug777]

Originally posted by: fbrdphreak
Haha, I gotcha.

I agree about Far Cry, just hard to pick it due to the game's age; nothing against the engine

And dug I swear you are obsessed with Far Cry!!

it's true *goes back to enjoy his 64-bit patch extended content goodness on his 32-bit OS *

 

[fbrdphreak]

Update: It turns out the benchmarking utility I thought I found for COD1 was indeed for COD2. Custom-made timedemos will not run reliably on different machines. So it looks like COD2 is down the toilet, and will be replaced by HL2:LC. So right now its looking like HL2:LC & FEAR

 

[Wreckage]

#1 Quake 4 - It covers OpenGL & FPS

#2 Other - WoW, AOEIII or other non-FPS game.

 

[mwmorph]

fear is a bad game. I'd take BF2 for DX performance and Quake4 for OGL performance.

 

[BlingBlingArsch]

World of Warcraft