Your favorite games to revisit after GPU upgrade?

[Attic]

I recently went from 460GTX to 460GTX SLI, also did CPU upgrade.

Previous games I was able to really enjoy more fully after being able to crank the details were Clive Barkers Undying, FEAR, HL2, Alice.

I'm thinking about giving Metro 2033 another go as one 460GTX forced me to lower details, but looking for other ideas of games where the graphics really shine at full detail. Maybe Crysis.

 

[Dankk]

Metro 2033 and Battlefield: Bad Company 2 were the first two games I wanted to play when I got my new 6950.

Crysis is a bit dated now, but on maximum details, it's definitely still a beautiful game and is worth checking out also.

I recommend checking out The Witcher 2. It's currently the most beautiful RPG available.

 

[Stringjam]

Crysis...modded. Still eye-popping.

 

[Zenoth]

I'd say revisiting Crysis (especially with mods) and Far Cry 2 (game-play is crap in FC2, but the graphics are great).

 

[videogames101]

Modded Crysis still best looking game. Battlefield 3 is a must, especially the carrier level.

 

[Powermoloch]

Oblivion

:awe:

 

[Red Storm]

Age of Empires II and Baldur's Gate II.

To make sure they still work.

 

[shortylickens]

Age of Empires II and Baldur's Gate II.

To make sure they still work.

Ditto.

One of these days I will need to make a Win98 system with socket A so I can play older stuff.

 

[irishScott]

Got a sweet deal on a used 6970 to upgrade my aging 4850. Supposed to be delivered tomorrow, so I'll be cranking up the graphics on L.A. Noire, Shogun 2: Total War, and The Witcher 2 for starters.

 

[Josh123]

I still have never played through Crysis and won't until I upgrade my mobo, proc, and memory.

 

[Beev]

Crysis and Half-Life 2.

HL2 is one of my favorite games ever, so I use new hardware as an excuse to play it again

 

[pontifex]

unless you guys only upgrade once in 10 years, don't you run into diminishing returns? I can't imagine that HL2 looks that much better on a card from 2011 than one from 2008.

 

[brianmanahan]

betrayal at krondor

 

[Beev]

unless you guys only upgrade once in 10 years, don't you run into diminishing returns? I can't imagine that HL2 looks that much better on a card from 2011 than one from 2008.

It doesn't, but my current PC was built in 2006 .

 

[jordanecmusic]

upgraded from

Dell mobo, 2 gigs of ddr 2 ram, 300 watt psu, geforce gt 240, core 2 duo 2.54ghz, dell case,

to

Thermaltake v3 case, i5-2500k, 8 gigs of corsair vengance, 600 watt psu, geforce gtx560 2gb, msi motherboard, seagate hdd

I AM GOING BACK AND PLAYING EVERYTHING.

gta4, homefront, crysis 1 and 2, war inc., maybe even halflife 2

I will be playing massive amounts of framerate perfected left 4 dead 2 lol

and maybe if i feel like it...sigh...dead island....more like boring island...

 

[pontifex]

betrayal at krondor

good game, and i played this on my 486, but it seems pointless to play it again just because you got new hardware. a game that doesn't even require a 3d graphics card from 1993 isn't going to look any better on new hardware...

 

[skipsneeky2]

When i went from a 8800gts to a gtx280 then to a gtx295 the first title always was Crisis,then UT3.

Put the settings for Crysis to where i was sitting around 55fps average and be set

 

[Barfo]

unless you guys only upgrade once in 10 years, don't you run into diminishing returns? I can't imagine that HL2 looks that much better on a card from 2011 than one from 2008.

Well, with everything maxed out plus forced 8x SSAA it looks much better than running on 2008 hardware.

 

[RavenSEAL]

FarCry2 for shure, oh and just cause 2!

 

[mazeroth]

Gta4

 

[spittledip]

good game, and i played this on my 486, but it seems pointless to play it again just because you got new hardware. a game that doesn't even require a 3d graphics card from 1993 isn't going to look any better on new hardware...

'Twas a joke

 

[marmasatt]

Yes, I definitely have a game like this, Stalker. Load one of those puppies up withe the "complete mod" and you won't believe the real time lighting and effects.

 

[rgallant]

Yes, I definitely have a game like this, Stalker. Load one of those puppies up withe the "complete mod" and you won't believe the real time lighting and effects.

+1

 

[VulgarDisplay]

Half Life 2 with the cinematic mod and 8xSSAA looks quite nice.

 

[mmntech]

Flight Simulator X has always been my go to, to see if it actually will run smoothly this tie. Hint, it took a quad core, 8 gigs of RAM, and a 6850 to get it to reliably hit 60fps.