Free game to show off a new PC - with 360 controller support

valve90210 · 17 Mar 2011 at 14:29

Hi All

Pretty much as per the title, can anyone suggest any free games which will run nicely (and look lovely) on a newly purchased PC (an i3 with a 5570) and have really good support for a wireless 360 controller to impress my girlfriends Dad who has just purchased the pc.

Thanks

Tummy · 17 Mar 2011 at 14:30

"free"

Can't think of any.

Neil79 · 17 Mar 2011 at 14:32

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18226383&highlight=mario

?

or you could just look up some high quality indie titles?

McGray · 17 Mar 2011 at 14:40

http://www.crysisdemo.com/

cmndr_andi · 17 Mar 2011 at 14:40

For a price of "free", your best bet is to install steam and download a few demos of AAA games like Crysis 2 (multiplayer), Mass Effect 2, Dirt 2 or Just Cause 2.

If you have your own steam account with purchased games that would look good - you could always log in as yourself on this PC and play the full game (just remember to make sure the computer does not remember your steam password).

May I ask what the resolution monitor this new PC is driving?

apatia77 · 17 Mar 2011 at 14:42

Just get some demos, most games support xbxox 360 controller.

uv · 17 Mar 2011 at 14:43

valve90210 said:
which will run nicely (and look lovely)

tbh, there's not much that will look lovely on a 5570 - it gets beaten by the GT240, which is often used in HTPCs rather than for 3D acceleration.

deko · 17 Mar 2011 at 14:48

uv said:
tbh, there's not much that will look lovely on a 5570 - it gets beaten by the GT240, which is often used in HTPCs rather than for 3D acceleration.

I'm not entirely sure about that, with my 5770 I can run most games at high with dollops of AA and AF at 1080p, and they generally look fantastic.

Valve, it's not free but you can pick up Batman AA cheap enough now that it's probably worth it, fantastic looking game that he will probably enjoy even if he's not into Batman, and you could keep it and play it. It's only a fiver or so now, and it works great with the 360 controller.

Ewaf · 17 Mar 2011 at 14:49

Yea as above not to **** on your bonfire or anything but, I doub't crysis 2 demo etc will look good on a PC like that. Maybe minecraft

Try thehunter http://www.thehunter.com/pub/

just Scott · 17 Mar 2011 at 14:51

deko said:
I'm not entirely sure about that, with my 5770 I can run most games at high with dollops of AA and AF at 1080p, and they generally look fantastic.

Valve, it's not free but you can pick up Batman AA cheap enough now that it's probably worth it, fantastic looking game that he will probably enjoy even if he's not into Batman, and you could keep it and play it. It's only a fiver or so now, and it works great with the 360 controller.

5770 and 5570 are very different cards though.

cmndr_andi · 17 Mar 2011 at 14:56

H2F Scott said:
5770 and 5570 are very different cards though.

+1

Looking at this set of numbers - the 5570 is about 35-40% of the speed of a 5770 in games.

Depending on the resolution, modern games should be playable on a 5570- but you will need to turn down a lot of the settings to keep the FPS above 30.

Avathar77 · 17 Mar 2011 at 15:03

no idea how 5570 will work but BatmanAA is very nice and works very well with the 360 controller.

valve90210 · 17 Mar 2011 at 15:05

Cheers guys, the pc was best of a bad bunch from the purple shirt people and he insisted on buying from a shop as he didn't want the hassle of buying online if there need to be returns etc

Fortunately it's only for a small monitor resolution of 1600 x 600 (does that sound right?)

krooton · 17 Mar 2011 at 15:42

5570 would really need a res of 1280x1024 or worse.

My old 5770 just about coped with 1680x1050.

valve90210 · 17 Mar 2011 at 15:46

Well, I can always drop the resolution down a little, he'll never know

Just wish he'd listened when I said to buy online and get much more bang for his buck...but no, wanted it there and then!

Avathar77 · 17 Mar 2011 at 16:00

may be you should put crysisdemo and show how bad it is then? <insert evil grin face>

valve90210 · 17 Mar 2011 at 16:26

that would just be mean!!!

AHarvey · 17 Mar 2011 at 18:25

Lord of the Rings Online is free to play and from what i've been told can look very good

Ignore, missed the 360 controller support, although I don't really see how that is supposed to show off a PC

PapaLazaru · 17 Mar 2011 at 18:27

JC2 demo.

Not that taxing on a GPU but still looks amazing. 360 support as well.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/8190/?snr=1_4_4__13

I cannot think of anything better.

deko · 17 Mar 2011 at 20:17

Apologies for my earlier post, I read 5770 instead of 5570, yeah it won't look great on a 5570.