The most demanding game for your card?

MooSey-UK · 31 Oct 2006 at 18:07

Despite what magazines review and what benchie scores they get, whats the most demanding games you own and run?

for me its; (@1280x1024)

CoD2 - always been a pig and drops below 20 fps sometimes.
Q4 - the odd laggy bit in ultra hi

erm thats it cos i don't have oblivion and all my other games run smooth maxed out.

point being though i've always found cod2 to be my personnal demon. despite spex below, i can still not run it at utter max settings and get smooth play.

whats your personal nightmare game that may be contrary to popular opinion?

x24400 @ 2.4 - gainward 7800gs+(agp 7900gt) 512 525/700 for games - 2 gig geil - x-fi

Cyber-Mav · 31 Oct 2006 at 18:31

call of juarez

man_from_uncle · 31 Oct 2006 at 18:41

Neverwinter Nights 2 is supposed to be at least as demanding as Oblivion. But it's not out till Friday in this country, so I won't know till then.

Other than that I guess it's Oblivion and Company of Heroes. In fact Caeser 4 is also VERY slow at MAX settings at 1600x1200, but it's a city builder so an ultra frame rate isn't essential.

Firegod · 31 Oct 2006 at 18:49

CoH.

Can't crack 30fps in that mother! And it ain't even an FPS title!

FPS wise, probably FEAR pushes it the most.

(7800GTX)

CRoWE · 31 Oct 2006 at 18:53

COD2 for me. DX9 @ 1280x1024 (online) can get a bit sluggish at times, especially with all the candy on..

Everything else I have runs pretty much flawlessly..

w3bbo · 31 Oct 2006 at 19:54

COH with highest settings...brings my 7950GX2 to its knees.

FreeStream · 31 Oct 2006 at 19:57

FS-X, although im not convinced its using all the card.

50C load is not 100% load

no_1_dave · 31 Oct 2006 at 20:57

CoD 2 DX9 mode with full settings, 4aa 16af 1280x1024

Tute · 31 Oct 2006 at 21:07

I would have thought Oblivion and FEAR are the two most demanding games.

Mul · 31 Oct 2006 at 21:09

MS FlightSim2004.

Mul

oweneades · 31 Oct 2006 at 21:12

Oblivion at absolutely max settings with 8x AA and 16x AF (6x AA if running an ATI card).

Also if running an ATI card add HDR & AA at the same time.

Watch your framerate drop into the low teens at certain points. (even on top end SLI / CF rigs)

Hamoodii · 31 Oct 2006 at 21:18

F.E.A.R, very demanding, maybe due to bad engine coding......

COD2 with everything maxed out at 1600.x1200 is silky smooth on my PC! With 16x AF

matt100 · 1 Nov 2006 at 00:02

F.E.A.R had my 7800gtx sli worried.. yet to try it with a single 7900gtx

it has to be said I am giving serious consideration to selling up and taking up reading because assuming you need £600 of hardware to play a recetn game looking nice is just madness.. I remember the days when I had a childish "I'm mad I am" cackle over blowing £190 on a 9800pro *sigh*

Gregster6 · 1 Nov 2006 at 06:33

X3 Reunion is the most demanding game that I posess both graphics and CPU wise.

On the graphics front, events such as a medium to large sized in-sector dogfight or a capital ship battle can slow frame rates right down. At these (not too frequent, thankfully) times X3 makes my PC's F.E.A.R. and Oblivion performance seem positively blistering.

On my PC at least (X2 4800 / 1950XTX / 1280 * 1024).

ernysmuntz · 1 Nov 2006 at 08:14

F.E.A.R....

When there's a few lights about, we're talking 15 frame per second :rolleyes:

tiber · 1 Nov 2006 at 09:52

deffo ms flight sim x.try it,it will bring any current system to its knees!!

Lolcb · 1 Nov 2006 at 10:15

ms flight sim x.... i tried the demo, crashed n crashes and my set up is suppose to be good enuff to run any games out there

4T5 · 1 Nov 2006 at 10:30

This is a weird one for me.
I got a 2nd hand copy of Oblivion yesterday expecting it to push my system. After loading it auto set to Ultra High settings and played as smooth as silk.
BF2 creates the most heat i can say that but apart from that i have not really found any game my system struggles with.

Even though i will get flamed till next Thursday i have to say that i feel poorly set up systems are more to blame for poorly running games.
I think people concentrate on individual hardware performance rather than Overall system performance for gaming.
Mismatched hardware, wrong version drivers and poorly maintained systems full of dust and spyware i feel are more to blame for underperforming systems.
After all i succesfully game to a high standard and am still on AGP.

Edit for correction from A to AGP. Sorry all.

man_from_uncle · 1 Nov 2006 at 10:33

malc30 said:
This is a weird one for me.
I got a 2nd hand copy of Oblivion yesterday expecting it to push my system. After loading it auto set to Ultra High settings and played as smooth as silk.
BF2 creates the most heat i can say that but apart from that i have not really found any game my system struggles with.

Even though i will get flamed till next Thursday i have to say that i feel poorly set up systems are more to blame for poorly running games.
I think people concentrate on individual hardware performance rather than Overall system performance for gaming.
Mismatched hardware, wrong version drivers and poorly maintained systems full of dust and spyware i feel are more to blame for underperforming systems.
After all i succesfully game to a high standard and am still on socket A.

What rig have you got?

4T5 · 1 Nov 2006 at 10:35

man_from_uncle said:
What rig have you got?

AMD64 3500 @ 2.4 with a Freezer 64 fitted.
Asus A8V Deluxe.
Gainward 7800GS+ @ 495/715 Drivers 91.47's.
2Gig of Geil.
80Gb maxtor.
Antec Trueblue 480w PSU.
Windows XP home SP2 Up to date.
Ally KB and a MX1000 as handlebars.
Pulling
06 score of 4054.
05 of 8172.