Best game to test my upgrade

khisanth75 · 27 May 2007 at 19:49

Okay just bought the C2D E6600/2Gb Geil ram/Gigabyte bundle with a BFG 8600GT OC from OcUK to upgrade my aging system running XP. going to be a very pleasant change in performance!

question for you - what would be a good game to show off what my new hardware can do? supreme commander? c&c 3? S.T.A.L.K.E.R. SoC?

Helium_Junkie · 27 May 2007 at 19:54

Quake 4.
Good frames even with all that action.

~>Dg<~ · 27 May 2007 at 19:56

stalker will eat your card for breakfast so i would say sup com not that its graphically intense. maybe something like cod2 or new tomb raider.

Slinky1989 · 27 May 2007 at 19:57

Helium_Junkie said:
Quake 4.
Good frames even with all that action.

lawl

Big multiplayer online fps game. You'll notice the difference in the big servers so try a battlefield 2/2142 64 man server or something like that.

HangTime · 27 May 2007 at 20:00

If you want to bring your system to its knees, try something like Oblivion or the Lost Planet/DIRT demos. Should be able to get that puppy well down under 30fps in places

setter · 28 May 2007 at 02:08

nice rig m8 i knowstalker brings my old rig to its knees u, have a good setup and its a game that seems to run better on xp, ive tried it on my nephews system on vista and its a disaster

HAz · 28 May 2007 at 02:22

Tomb raider gets 20fps i hear

Vern1961 · 28 May 2007 at 08:47

FSX with SP1 installed.

People have been posing on Avsim that FSX is an overclock killer with SP1 both cores now in use and systems which are stable on Orthos/Prime have been BSOD'ing!

And you can buy FSX from the UK division of South American River for £9.97 at present.

V1N · 28 May 2007 at 08:48

What about grabbing that Colin McRae DiRT demo, that's discussed in other threads in this forum.

That's the first game I've tried to really make my system struggle.. at least on Ultra mode. FPS in the teens, if that!

V1N.

EDIT: if you do want to try it, just had a recheck, and this is the fastest link I came across. Came down at 730-750k per sec for me.

http://www.filemirrors.com/search.src?type=contains&file=Dirt_Demo&action=Find

Have fun!

khisanth75 · 29 May 2007 at 10:08

thanks again everyone

Been looking forward to DiRt for a while now and the Xbox 360 demo is excellent, it looks gorgeous and is great fun (esp the dune buggys).

Probably grab quake 4 and stalker for a good work out. i hear stalker is a big resource hog.

Bring on Bioshock and Hellgate: London !!