Whats the most Hardware demanding game to date?

spellcaster · 20 Jul 2008 at 16:43

Hello,

getting my new ati 4850 card soon and wanted to stack it up against the most hardware eating game? Is it still Crysis or is thee something else that eats graphics cards for breakfast?

shauncr91 · 20 Jul 2008 at 16:45

Still Crysis I reckon.

Parsley · 20 Jul 2008 at 16:45

Crysis

psychas · 20 Jul 2008 at 16:46

Crysis
Age of Conan

KNiVES · 20 Jul 2008 at 16:46

Crysis, without any doubt.

spellcaster · 20 Jul 2008 at 16:50

Thats answered my question then thanks everyone

Sinny · 20 Jul 2008 at 16:56

Crysis but it still runs great on cheapish pc's. 8800gt runs it fine.

thecremeegg · 20 Jul 2008 at 17:10

I wouldnt say crysis is demanding - its just horrendously coded, which to me isnt the same thing

mame · 20 Jul 2008 at 17:20

crysis but even so, it's not a very good indication of how good your PC is for games. As said above, a cheapish PC (8800gt, 4850 etc) will run it quite good but a high end system won't run it THAT much better

KNiVES · 20 Jul 2008 at 19:07

thecremeegg said:
I wouldnt say crysis is demanding - its just horrendously coded, which to me isnt the same thing

It's got the best graphics of any game to date, plus large open expanses - I'd say it's demanding. There's no way you could code that thing to just run willy-nilly on any old computer really.

Limenote · 20 Jul 2008 at 19:13

thecremeegg said:
I wouldnt say crysis is demanding - its just horrendously coded, which to me isnt the same thing

unless you are a games dev and has looked through the code HOW WOULD YOU EVEN KNOW? slightly irritates me when people make comments like,

If we are going to speculate without any knowledge then id say ARMA was "horrendously coded" i mean just look at the state of that game

snowdog · 20 Jul 2008 at 19:23

Xink said:
unless you are a games dev and has looked through the code HOW WOULD YOU EVEN KNOW? slightly irritates me when people make comments like,

Because we can all see the performance hit in dx10, with almost no visual improvement at all... It's terribly coded.

They claimed it would be optimized and run fine, use all cores properly, etcetc, none of this is true, it barely uses all cores, it runs crap and it's a crap game too, the gameplay is just poor.

Deluxe1 · 20 Jul 2008 at 19:28

Didnt they also claim that it would run maxed out on a 8800GTS?

psychas · 20 Jul 2008 at 19:31

they clamed that it will run on high on 8600gt

Limenote · 20 Jul 2008 at 19:38

snowdog said:
Because we can all see the performance hit in dx10, with almost no visual improvement at all... It's terribly coded.

They claimed it would be optimized and run fine, use all cores properly, etcetc, none of this is true, it barely uses all cores, it runs crap and it's a crap game too, the gameplay is just poor.

but how do you know weither it could be coded better? just annoys me when people presume it could have been coded better on limited hardware?

snowdog · 20 Jul 2008 at 19:46

Xink said:
but how do you know weither it could be coded better? just annoys me when people presume it could have been coded better on limited hardware?

I presumed it because crytek promised that, they are nothing but liars and lazy ***** ... I don't know whether it COULD be coded better, but it should and that's what both Microsoft claimed with directx10 and crytek claimed...

They should have shut their mouths and said the truth: It will run fine in 3-5 years time, instead of saying that current hardware will run it out maxed...

Azagoth · 20 Jul 2008 at 20:00

Xink said:
but how do you know weither it could be coded better? just annoys me when people presume it could have been coded better on limited hardware?

What limited hardware? Are you saying that Crytek didn't have access to the best hardware around to produce one of the most hyped games ever?

Zefan · 20 Jul 2008 at 20:02

Azagoth what he means is coded better for use on less up to date hardware, not developed on.

5punk3monk3y · 20 Jul 2008 at 20:12

there was a vid on youtube of 3 gtx280's running it in sli 59fps avarage i think it scored all maxed out before one of the gtx's died

thecremeegg · 20 Jul 2008 at 20:13

Xink said:
unless you are a games dev and has looked through the code HOW WOULD YOU EVEN KNOW? slightly irritates me when people make comments like,

If we are going to speculate without any knowledge then id say ARMA was "horrendously coded" i mean just look at the state of that game

Explain to me why it runs so so badly on even high end pcs on high? Its a pretty game no douubt, but its not THAT good looking until you get to very high settings
Badly coded, crytek themselves admitted as much