What games require top end hardware?

[Aedus]

Willy waving, plain and simple.

I like willy waving, I normally do it in a helicopter motion near the side of my case, the extra air blown in by my ****-o-copter gives me 1 degree less on my temps and allows me to overclock just that little bit more, which in turn allows me to willy wave even harder, and it repeats itself in a cycle.

Who needs LN2?

 

[wedgie]

In my experience there certainly are a number of games that require some compromise. Metro 2033 and GTA IV are unplayable when maxing every single option. To this day Crysis doesn't run especially well, though it is possible to essentially brute force it. Arma 2 seems like a pretty major gpu hog also (based on the brief time I spent messing with the settings). Couldn't say if the exact same applies to Nvidia, but those few games are enough to suggest there's no ATI solution that would be overkill for every single game.

 

[Ozzie Dave]

Flight Sim X can destroy my hardware easily with addon planes and scenery maxed out. It's still the daddy for pushing a rig till it weeps...

 

[Margaret]

Flight Sim X can destroy my hardware easily with addon planes and scenery maxed out. It's still the daddy for pushing a rig till it weeps...

It's also the daddy for boring somebody to death.

In my experience there certainly are a number of games that require some compromise. Metro 2033 and GTA IV are unplayable when maxing every single option. To this day Crysis doesn't run especially well, though it is possible to essentially brute force it. Arma 2 seems like a pretty major gpu hog also (based on the brief time I spent messing with the settings). Couldn't say if the exact same applies to Nvidia, but those few games are enough to suggest there's no ATI solution that would be overkill for every single game.

GTA IV doesn't really count though considering how bad of a port that thing is. It's incredibly poor really and it doesn't even work properly on ATi cards. (stuttering despite high framerate)

 

[Skellig]

FSX. /thread

Pretty much.

I do like my 3870 X2 being such a workhorse but it's damn time I get on to the new generation.

 

[C64]

Battlefield 3 will probably need something more beefy than a 5770.
I have the same setup as you but I do have 1680-1050 only so i can still get away with the 5770 just about.
If you want to run higher res and have AA and Af etc then the 5770 doesn't cut it.

If anything the upgrade path should be sell 5770 get second hand 5850.

 

[Metalface Mark]

I think this is more because GTAIV is a badly coded console port more than anything else.

Thats a misonomer.

 

[willhub]

Mine craft.

+1

 

[HAz]

none since crysis tbh, you can easily get away with a 4 year old card atm. I sold my 5870 for £300 ages ago and downgraded back to my 8800 gtx, running all games fine at high detail and high fps.

I really dont understand why ati and nvidia are still bringing out £400+ cards for such a small market lol.

 

[willhub]

Why do car manufacturers bring out uber expensive cars for such a small market, some of those cars are actually made at a lass too.

 

[Kosmiche]

I challenge anyone to play cities xl 2011 and get it to run smoothly at ground level with some buildings on the screen.

 

[Combat squirrel]

Iv had to grudgingly get another 5770 as I now have a 30" screen, its just not quite fast enough and juddery in some games, another 5770 should fix it.

 

[Purgatory]

FSX. /thread

FSX is CPU limited not GPU... So best upgrade for FSX would be a better faster CPU. People that keep putting FSX into GPU limited don't use it or understand how it works.. A GTX 280 with lots of mods to FSX is more then it requires... Ofcourse more high res mods means you need a graphics card with lots of VRAM.. The GPU in modern cards is only idling in FSX because the CPU does most of the work..

 

[scrlk]

FSX is CPU limited not GPU... So best upgrade for FSX would be a better faster CPU. People that keep putting FSX into GPU limited don't use it or understand how it works.. A GTX 280 with lots of mods to FSX is more then it requires... Ofcourse more high res mods means you need a graphics card with lots of VRAM.. The GPU in modern cards is only idling in FSX because the CPU does most of the work..

Well I looked at the thread titles and thought FSX. OFC I do play FSX (since release, on and off) so I have a clue what it needs.

 

[HangTime]

People that keep putting FSX into GPU limited don't use it or understand how it works..

I don't think anyone is?
This thread is about games needing top end hardware with the OP referencing CPUs as well as GPUs, and FS:X (along with GTA4 and ARMA2 etc) undoubtedly needs some serious cpu grunt.

Sometimes people have the view that is a game is cpu-limited then it 'doesn't count' in terms of hardware demands but that certainly isn't the case in my book.

 

[Guest2]

^ nor mine. I forgot about supreme commander 8 players on the huge maps. I bet that still eats up the latest CPUs

 

[Substance]

I'm still getting very good fps with my ATI 3870 X2! There is no need to upgrade. I will only upgrade when the AMD 6990 X2 its released with battlefield 3 ofc Running a 1920 x 1080 resolution, Max settings for most games.

Seriously? how? my 4870 is starting to stuggle at 1680x1050 on max settings, I have a q6600 @ 3.2GHz and 4GB of fast DDR2, I do aim for 60 fps constant though, I seem to notice FPS dips nore than other people, constant 30 is fine but jumping between 60 and 30 really annoys me.

 

[oulton]

Its all to do with what rez you are running - if your graphics cards only need to fill 720p or 1080p then yeah sure, you will be fine using a card 3 or 4 years old. But if you want to play at eye scorching resolutions (like I do) then you will need to spend 300- 450 min on your cards. Believe me, 1080p is great but 2600 x 1440 is a whole new experience in some games...

 

[Noxia]

Judgin by last night, Rift. My PC is probs the higher end of mid range but it got silly even on medium settings,