Games to flex that new PCs muscles.

[House]

Come the weekend my new rig will be up and running, (touch wood for no problems)
Once its built and tested stable with the usual benchmarks and apps which games are best to push it.

Going to install ACC and Dirt2.0 first see how they run and if VR is playable.
New plague tale is on gamepass and is meant to be taxing, any other games there?

DCS, MS Flight sim & Star Citizen will be installed but waiting for my new sticks to arrive before setting them up.

Thinking of grabbing a copy of Spiderman to give it a go, and maybe Stray as well cause its on sale, maybe RDR2 if i can find it cheap and play through that again.

What other games would you recommend?

 

[House]

Well Days Gone is under £10 on CDkeys,
Metro Exodus is also dirt cheap,
I did cyberpunk and RDR2 on my Xbox series X and dont really fancy buying them again unless i can get a good deal.
Forza, yeah thats on the list and Gamepass got me covered there.

As for Graphics barely moved in 10 years,

Insert spec savers image.

 

[House]

Make sure Metro is the Enhanced Edition. Don't know what GPU you have but a 3080 Ti runs it at 3440x1440 with everything whacked up nicely.

How does the "Enhanced Edition" work? does it not come with every version of the game? as just another separate install steam isn't very clear on it. I have a 4090 and come Friday something to plug it into.

 

[House]

I know you’ll be installing it eventually but honestly Star Citizen at 4K is beautiful, I was driving around a planet earlier and legit it looks realistic.

Yeah it's been uninstalled for years now, runs like powerpoint on a 6700k and a 1080.

I just have to wait till my new sticks arrive as well, then i plan on having fun sat in my rig in front of a 4k OLED screen.

@mrk
Your right, flight sims like MS flight sim and DCS look amazing in trailers and messing around with cameras but get too close to the ground and the illusion collapses pretty quick, like zooming in too far on google earth.