Whats the most Hardware demanding game to date?

Revolution6000 · 20 Jul 2008 at 20:23

The easy way to see how poorly Crysis is coded is to open the console and watch all the error messages that get reported

5punk3monk3y · 20 Jul 2008 at 20:24

the worst game for coding I have ever played is Empire Earth 3 that just looks poor and runs at a snails pace on my SLi system

Skyboat · 20 Jul 2008 at 20:43

Minesweeper

AbsenceJam · 20 Jul 2008 at 20:53

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?

They saw they'll be able to make it run far faster if they come back to patch it after their next game. Therefore...

milkinc13 · 20 Jul 2008 at 20:55

i'd say crysis, but MSTS can be a pain espcecally when trying to get decent frame rates when doing speed, as the scenery has to be constantly made

matt100 · 20 Jul 2008 at 21:03

Xink said:
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

I'd be happy to speculate that... at least Crysis is pretty.. jesus I tried to play ARMA on a 7950GX2 (when they were current) and dropped the res all the way to 1280x1024 and it was still a jerkfest AND looked ****

matt100 · 20 Jul 2008 at 21:04

aren't the new flight sim games really tough when you turn everything up?

milkinc13 · 20 Jul 2008 at 21:05

matt100 said:
aren't the new flight sim games really tough when you turn everything up?

last i read sim X was almost impossible to get running smoothly at max settings on a 22ish+ monitor

Huddy · 20 Jul 2008 at 21:19

Yeah Flight Sim X maxed out taxes current generation hardware.

Crysis is another good example.

Kezmo · 20 Jul 2008 at 22:02

The flight sims like FSX are cpu limited not gpu.

marl · 20 Jul 2008 at 22:10

I've got an 8800gt and Q6600. Tried the Crysis Demo and thought graphics were poor with this card!

Tute · 20 Jul 2008 at 22:11

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

Because it runs hofficially yet looks hardly any better than the likes of CoD4.

Margaret · 20 Jul 2008 at 22:15

psychas said:
Crysis
Age of Conan

Eh? Conan doesn't really look that good though, it is a pretty big hog mind.

Delvis · 20 Jul 2008 at 22:16

marl said:
I've got an 8800gt and Q6600. Tried the Crysis Demo and thought graphics were poor with this card!

Bit like when I had it with my x1900xtx, you put it to recommended, and it goes to Medium, which just looks pants. Even on my current card I think it put everything to medium...

It was only when I tweaked the game it looked and played better on Custome High settings.

Gerard · 21 Jul 2008 at 00:26

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?

They practically admitted they screwed up on crysis in one of the interviews for crysis: warhead, they were talking about the engine needing substantial fixes and that the fixes may find their way to the original game.

Despite having stopped patch support for the original Crysis (PC), Yerli said these optimizations could eventually make their to the first game. "That will take a long time, because the fixes are fairly profound," he noted. "We are still in the process of the steps, but first we want to conclude Warhead."

Doesn't take too much to read between the lines there they just stopped short of admitting it.

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/53217

SS-89 · 21 Jul 2008 at 00:33

Tute said:
Because it runs hofficially yet looks hardly any better than the likes of CoD4.

Ok although I agree that crysis could have run better it is a damn sight better looking than Cod 4 on high settings or above. Cod 4 was all about specular lighting but has poor textures and a distinct lack of detail at closer inspection (Absolutely great game though which crysis isn't

). Also Gerard is correct, it is fairly obvious from that interview that the engine is indeed in a poor state.

Shamikebab · 21 Jul 2008 at 00:35

Agreed, it's leagues above COD 4

HighlandeR · 21 Jul 2008 at 00:38

Gerard said:
They practically admitted they screwed up on crysis in one of the interviews for crysis: warhead, they were talking about the engine needing substantial fixes and that the fixes may find their way to the original game.

Doesn't take too much to read between the lines there they just stopped short of admitting it.

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/53217

Yeap just needs to be read to understand the real fixed crysis is warhead

Either way we will find out this fall...

Tute · 21 Jul 2008 at 01:01

Shamikebab said:
Agreed, it's leagues above COD 4

Really? Can't see it myself. I certainly don't think Crysis anywhere near warrants it's stupid requirements.

snowdog · 21 Jul 2008 at 01:07

Tute said:
Really? Can't see it myself. I certainly don't think Crysis anywhere near warrants it's stupid requirements.

Call of duty 4 looks terrible in some places, just look at Chinatown, all the textures look quite terrible, the lightning there is very simple, and it just looks old there.

But on other maps like creek it looks superb, it's mainly due to the nice light effects, I love em but when they're gone, the game looks very dated...

Without the lightning, some effects like okay ish smoke and heat haze effect and motion blur /depth of field, and many others, the game would looks quite poor.