Top 10 worst console ports of all time.

[Pighardia]

I was waiting for someone to mention FF7, that was a very lazy port (IIRC it was basically a one game PS emulator), it made what was a good game, a pain to play.

What's worse is they re-release it 15 years later and it is barely any better!

 

[TommyV]

Came it to suggest GTA4, was pleasantly suprised when I saw it's already top of the list ^^

 

[carrot1401]

I think the FC3 menus deserve an honourable mention

Was gonna say, saw the 1 vote for it on the list and was like (wait, we got Direct X 11 support and it plays well, how the hell did that get a vote!?!?!? )

Worse day 1 port I played was Mercenaries 2: World In Flames. Water shaders on high killed performance, no AA and max 720p. Think patches improved it, but was too little too late in my book.

 

[KillBoY_UK]

Dark Souls for sure

 

[Omaeka]

Dark Souls for sure

Stop it!

 

[Malc]

I remember Rainbow 6 Vegas as being particularly bad. The frame rate would just dip for the laugh.

 

[Twirlywoos]

dead space 3

 

[Sleepery]

Stop it!

I have to hand it to the Dark Souls brigade, you've been remarkably restrained in this thread

 

[Craig R]

Not sure GTA4 is even a bad port, it's a badly optimised game full stop.

Exactly. It ran badly on consoles. The PC version actually performs better on a similarly spec'd machine on the same settings as consoles.

 

[bemaniac]

Dirt 1 for Pc. Some reason it simply won't work on windows 8

 

[iv-tecman]

Exactly. It ran badly on consoles. The PC version actually performs better on a similarly spec'd machine on the same settings as consoles.

Yeah, GTAIV ran like a dog on my PS3, I've recently ran GTAIV on my 7970m laptop and it runs really well and modded looks VERY nice.

Agreed, it seems a badly coded game.

LA Noire is another one, I never could get that running smoothly, stuttering mess.

Skyrim was a stutter bug until I tweaked around with Radeon Pro etc.. Runs smooth as silk now.

 

[Omaeka]

I have to hand it to the Dark Souls brigade, you've been remarkably restrained in this thread

This is a democracy after all.

 

[iv-tecman]

Dirt 1 for Pc. Some reason it simply won't work on windows 8

There was an xml file for dual and quad core CPU that needed to be changed to get Dirt 1 to run, I had the same issue on windows 7, that game is VERY CPU dependent. The better your CPU the better that game runs.

My old Q6600 with a 5870 stuggled at times, yet my Dell Studio with a i5 540m and weaker 5650m seemed about on par, yet my M17x with a i7 and 7970m totally destroys dirt 1 yet doesn't even tax my GPU.. Hmmm

 

[Mark3h]

Flatout: ultimate carnage. Not because it ran badly, smooth as you like as it wasn't very demanding.
But the menu had xbox controller buttons on it regardless of if you had one plugged in or not.

Annoyed me more than it should have.

 

[G-MAN2004]

EDIT: Woah no, the award for worst ever port does go to GTA IV...

"-norestrictions". Sorted.

 

[Pixel]

Aside from being a terrible port, GTA IV also had some of the worst DRM in recent times.

 

[PaulyD]

Aside from being a terrible port, GTA IV also had some of the worst DRM in recent times.

Agreed. Bought it very shortly after It came out and took far far longer than it should have to get installed and running. Couldn't believe it myself with GFWL and Rockstar social club, updates, everything!

 

[Omaeka]

"-norestrictions". Sorted.

Legend!

I honestly don't think GTA IV is a badly coded game, it has a lot of DRM issues, and silly little things like what I posed earlier yeah but it runs very smooth.

Statistics
Average FPS: 60.21
Duration: 37.95 sec
CPU Usage: 54%
System memory usage: 45%
Video memory usage: 37%

Graphics Settings
Video Mode: 1920 x 1200 (60 Hz)
Texture Quality: High
Shadow Quality: Very High
Reflection Resolution: Very High
Water Quality: Very High
Texture Filter Quality: Anisotropic x16
Night Shadows: Very High
View Distance: 100
Detail Distance: 100

Hardware
Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate
Service Pack 1
Video Adapter: AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series
Video Driver version: 8.17.10.1169
Audio Adapter: Speakers (High Definition Audio Device)
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3570K CPU @ 3.40GHz

Really needs anti-aliasing though.

 

[HangTime]

Ooh I forgot Saints Row 2, that was appalling!
My thoughts here: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=21816086&postcount=58

 

[Guest2]

Maybe its just me but GTA4 seems to work great.

Running highest everything with following mods

Ultimate textures v2.0
HD road textures
trees_textures_mod_vanni83_v1_2
ENB by L3EVO87

Statistics
Average FPS: 38.45
Duration: 37.09 sec
CPU Usage: 40%
System memory usage: 41%
Video memory usage: 100%

Graphics Settings
Video Mode: 2560 x 1440 (60 Hz)
Texture Quality: High
Shadow Quality: Very High
Reflection Resolution: Very High
Water Quality: Very High
Texture Filter Quality: Anisotropic x16
Night Shadows: Very High
View Distance: 100
Detail Distance: 100

Hardware
Microsoft Windows 7 Professional
Service Pack 1
Video Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570
Video Driver version: 296.10
Audio Adapter: Speakers (ASUS Xonar Essence ST Audio Device)
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU 760 @ 2.80GHz (CPU is actually clocked at 4ghz)

File ID: Benchmark.cli

Easily playable and looks amazing - one of the best looking games IMO (with the mods of course)

images from benchmark

http://www.anony.ws/i/2013/01/23/CSDHF.jpg
http://www.anony.ws/i/2013/01/23/7koKa.jpg
http://www.anony.ws/i/2013/01/23/K51Pe.jpg