Most Demanding PC game atm?

[Willir]

I know there is a good few demanding PC games out at the moment and some older games that still hold up as being demanding, but just from curiosity, what would you say is the most demanding and graphically/memory/CPU intensive game you have played or tested?

I have recently started playing DOOM which I got free with my Red Devil RX480 and found it a heavily intensive game to run. Looks gorgeous and plays smooth as butter with the odd frame drop.

 

[Glanza]

The Witcher 3 with everything maxxed and hairworks turned on,
Wildlands again with everything turned up.

Depends on the resolution also, I run games at 3440x1440 and that requires some power to get most modern games at a good fps with settings turned up.

 

[Wucked]

I've read that Dues Ex: Mankind Divided is one of the most graphically demanding games out, I haven't played it though. Witcher 3 I have played, that will give your PC a good kicking and it looks amazing.

 

[Nexus18]

**** optimised games that bring cards to their knees?

Ghost recon wildlands maxed out
deus ex mankind divided maxed out (drop a few of the broken settings and you will get a better looking game that runs superbly)
witcher 3 (just turn hairworks on with max tess. but without this it actually runs very well)
GTA 5 (just turn up the advanced view distance in advanced settings and turn grass to very high [that has no impact on IQ but tanks FPS] and turn MSAA up to max)
Batman AK (with gameworks smoke)
Assassins creed unity/syndicate

And for the most demanding POS optimised game ever..... Ark.

 

[heartburnron]

Crysis 3 will still bring most cards to submission

Try cranking up the FX effects in Metro Last Light too and see what happens... or what doesn't happen!

 

[Brazo]

Doom is easy for any card to run even a 480 can run it well at 4K.

I would say hunter: call of the wild. My 1080 can't sustain 60fps at 1440p ultra.

 

[mossi123uk]

I get crap fps on player unknown battle grounds with a 1070 and i7 3770k

 

[DONOHUE07]

Are we ruling out early access alphas/betas?

 

[Mr_Sukebe]

Plug in a VR headset and then up the detail in nearly any VR ready game.

 

[Thekwango]

I get crap fps on player unknown battle grounds with a 1070 and i7 3770k

That's because it's not fully optimised yet, which the devs have openly admitted.

 

[C64]

Player unknowns battlegrounds

 

[squerble]

Flight Simulator X or Prepar3D. Even with mega CPU and not super-high settings you'll struggle to get 60fps. I've got an i5-4690K OC'd to 4.3GHz, with a GTX970 and can barely get 20-25fps in clouds in a heavy airliner (PMDG 747, FSL A320 etc).

 

[BriT]

Yeah I play a lot of P3D and even my rig i get 30fps at Heathrow. Looking forward to v4 with 64bit.

 

[~>Dg<~]

call of the wild all up will test your cards.

doom4 is pretty easy to run.

 

[tommybhoy]

deus ex mankind divided maxed out (drop a few of the broken settings and you will get a better looking game that runs superbly)

Iv'e got it but only played a little as something else came out, (I must say screenshots don't do it justice as the screenies I took don't certainly don't do it justice to what's outputting in motion so, when I get round to it, what settings are broken that need disabled mate?

 

[Nexus18]

Iv'e got it but only played a little as something else came out, (I must say screenshots don't do it justice as the screenies I took don't certainly don't do it justice to what's outputting in motion so, when I get round to it, what settings are broken that need disabled mate?

Contact hardening shadows, completely messes up shadows and iirc, it is a big fps killer.

I also turned off lens flare and bloom in the end as it was far too overdone and as per usual, motion blur + chromatic aberration turned off.

You will need to mess about with MSAA + TAA + the sharpness setting and choose what you like here, MSAA is very demanding and TAA isn't as demanding but does make the image a bit more blurry. Unfortunately the sharpening setting is only a toggle so you either have a very blurry/soft image or an over sharpened image.

And yeah I find that with a lot of games now, very hard to get screenshots that do certain games justice. Here are some of my screenshots, some are using bloom + lens flare with sharpness turned on or off, don't think I used any AA due to TAA being too blurry and MSAA being too much of a performance hog.

Spoiler

 

[HangTime]

Somewhat bizarrely the toughest game I've found to run is Wolfenstein: The New Order. Pretty much the only game where I've not found a way to stop the framerate dropping under 30fps at 1080p. Mankind Divided seemed quite cpu limited but at least I could get 50+fps out of it.

 

[arc@css]

I've barely played it but wasn't Arma 3 considered quite a resource hog, IIRC?

 

[pingu666]

Train simulator

FYI the steam version of fsx ran 2 3 times faster for my dad than the disc version...

 

[tommybhoy]

Contact hardening shadows, completely messes up shadows and iirc, it is a big fps killer.

I also turned off lens flare and bloom in the end as it was far too overdone and as per usual, motion blur + chromatic aberration turned off.

You will need to mess about with MSAA + TAA + the sharpness setting and choose what you like here, MSAA is very demanding and TAA isn't as demanding but does make the image a bit more blurry. Unfortunately the sharpening setting is only a toggle so you either have a very blurry/soft image or an over sharpened image.

And yeah I find that with a lot of games now, very hard to get screenshots that do certain games justice. Here are some of my screenshots, some are using bloom + lens flare with sharpness turned on or off, don't think I used any AA due to TAA being too blurry and MSAA being too much of a performance hog.

Spoiler

Cheers Nexus.