I can play pretty much any game on max...however...
Skyrim, 1920x1080, max settings+2k texture mods+fxaa+enbseries with SSAO on=my pc BARELY makes it at a reasonable framerate (which I consider 30+ reasonable, I don't notice anything past that, but my eyes are bad anyway)
I can run the new batman game on max, just cause 2 on max, crysis 1+graphics mods on max. I can run crysis 2+graphics mods on max too, but barely.
It seems Skyrim taxes my system the most, with texture mods installed and the enbseries/fxaa. But, looks so good. Crysis 2+graphics mods taxes my system a lot too, not as much as skyrim+modded, but would go 2nd place. Just Cause 2 is no problem at all and the new batman game runs well enough.
Once the new consoles come out, my PC is pretty much done for. As it currently is, my PC barely manages to get good FPS with new games+mods installed.
crysis1 and crysis:warhead have more advanced graphics than crysis2, with 2 they simplified the graphics slightly for console porting (most notable with the god rays, multiple shadows and the way sunlight works with foilage)
crysis1, rage & serious sam 3 probably the most taxing / best for benching.
1st for effects
2nd for texture load
3rd for the amount of stuff it chucks on the screen
Fully modded with HD textures and ini-tweaked to render the whole world in high quality without reducing texture quality and geometry over distance (uGrids to 11).
I would have to say FFXIV, but only because of how horribly coded it is. I have to manually set the fan speed of my GPU to 75-80% to keep the temp under 75c. Normally a game like Crysis, Crysis 2, BF3, Just Cause 2, Metro 2033 and the like ~ the temps stay under 60c, just running the fan at about 60-65%...
I was messing around with Skyrim mods the other day. I used the 2k mod and my CPU never goes below 95% usage, memory is always maxed out, and every single fan in my computer (6 of them) comes on and stays on....we have a winner. Really it's kinda cheating using mods to get it to do it, out of the box Skyrim runs easy though hehe. All this was on my desktop with i7, 8gb ram, and Radeon HD 6950 Crossfire X graphics cards...uh yeah that's a taxings
The most taxing games for me are --> AoC (Max Settings), Witcher 2 (Max Settings), Skyrim (Max Settings)
I am upgrading my video card this summer so I can play TERA...Hopefully a single overclocked GTX 580 will do the trick for me because I am a single GPU guy....I know its cliche
If you you edit the skyrim ini to support a ugridstoload=9 and exteror cell buffer=100...along with texture mods+lighting mod...Skyrim becomes incredibly pretty. No game has taxed my system until Skyrim.
ugridstoload allows things in the distance to load, so at 5, a lot of things don't render...at 7, a bit more things render and at 9 a lot of the background is rendered. So you could be standing in whiterun, but see a campfire far in the distance that would otherwise be invisible until you get close.
Keep in mind, do NOT save a game with ugridstoload, UNLESS you know your PC can handle the much higher performance required for higher gridstoload. If you lower gridstoload, and a saved file was saved with a higher gridstoload, the save won't work and it will crash skyrim. Which means either setting it back, or having the save be useless.
This is easy most taxing EQ2 STILL lmao. The post asked most taxing that would be it, but by no means still best looking it just has really bad backbone. The game however is still imo one of the best if not the best mmo on the market though. The mass and content of this game is just unreal, and it comes as close as I have seen these days to a hybired sandbox/theampark mix. Anyway I am ranttting sorry. One of the best looking games if your just interested in looks I really like Eve still.
Skyrim.but for the wrong reason.to consider a game taxing it need.64 bit.tessalation etc etc etc .mosr cant cause the of the3.5 gb ram limit.so we end up with low fps game that would have done 60 fps maxed if dev didnt chose ram saving vs fps
If you you edit the skyrim ini to support a ugridstoload=9 and exteror cell buffer=100...along with texture mods+lighting mod...Skyrim becomes incredibly pretty. No game has taxed my system until Skyrim.
ugridstoload allows things in the distance to load, so at 5, a lot of things don't render...at 7, a bit more things render and at 9 a lot of the background is rendered. So you could be standing in whiterun, but see a campfire far in the distance that would otherwise be invisible until you get close.
Keep in mind, do NOT save a game with ugridstoload, UNLESS you know your PC can handle the much higher performance required for higher gridstoload. If you lower gridstoload, and a saved file was saved with a higher gridstoload, the save won't work and it will crash skyrim. Which means either setting it back, or having the save be useless.
This is why I say Skyrim, changing the ini you can turn the game into super beast mode and melt your computer lol. You used to be able to use a bow and shoot from the wall outside Whiterun and hit a deer or elk that took over 2 minutes to run to thanks to this...You had to aim like 2 inches over the little dot on your screen, but you could hit it with a couple of shots...They changed it though and added a maximum range on arrows
so far Arkham City, if i set it to the highest settings plus DX11 i cant play....(first and only game to do that on my pc so far) perhaps its because i dont use nvidia video cards? this game kind of supports nvidia and physyx more than anything related to ATI...
edit: i can play it at highest settings but its slow and choppy, so no lol
so far Arkham City, if i set it to the highest settings plus DX11 i cant play....(first and only game to do that on my pc so far) perhaps its because i dont use nvidia video cards? this game kind of supports nvidia and physyx more than anything related to ATI...
AC runs like crap on dx11 because of their coding, not because it looksd better than other games or you have the wrong hardware. They still havent released a decent patch to fix it yet.
so far Arkham City, if i set it to the highest settings plus DX11 i cant play....(first and only game to do that on my pc so far) perhaps its because i dont use nvidia video cards? this game kind of supports nvidia and physyx more than anything related to ATI...
AC runs like crap on dx11 because of their coding, not because it looksd better than other games or you have the wrong hardware. They still havent released a decent patch to fix it yet.
If we're speaking purely from the standpoint of non-OC'd PCs, Crysis still runs like garbage for me, and I have a 580 and before that I had two Radeon 5870s. Aside from that EQ2 is pretty crap as is AoC.
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I can play pretty much any game on max...however...
Skyrim, 1920x1080, max settings+2k texture mods+fxaa+enbseries with SSAO on=my pc BARELY makes it at a reasonable framerate (which I consider 30+ reasonable, I don't notice anything past that, but my eyes are bad anyway)
I can run the new batman game on max, just cause 2 on max, crysis 1+graphics mods on max. I can run crysis 2+graphics mods on max too, but barely.
It seems Skyrim taxes my system the most, with texture mods installed and the enbseries/fxaa. But, looks so good. Crysis 2+graphics mods taxes my system a lot too, not as much as skyrim+modded, but would go 2nd place. Just Cause 2 is no problem at all and the new batman game runs well enough.
Once the new consoles come out, my PC is pretty much done for. As it currently is, my PC barely manages to get good FPS with new games+mods installed.
Geforce GTX260 896 mb
1920x1080 monitor
windows 7 64bit
8gig ram
i5 3.3 ghz
crysis1 and crysis:warhead have more advanced graphics than crysis2, with 2 they simplified the graphics slightly for console porting (most notable with the god rays, multiple shadows and the way sunlight works with foilage)
crysis1, rage & serious sam 3 probably the most taxing / best for benching.
1st for effects
2nd for texture load
3rd for the amount of stuff it chucks on the screen
People are going to laught but
Skyrim
Fully modded with HD textures and ini-tweaked to render the whole world in high quality without reducing texture quality and geometry over distance (uGrids to 11).
High end gaming rigs break down to 15fps on it.
Its great for screenshots though.
"I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!"
Minecraft is taxing, but not graphically. That answer was silly even if said in jest.
I would have to say FFXIV, but only because of how horribly coded it is. I have to manually set the fan speed of my GPU to 75-80% to keep the temp under 75c. Normally a game like Crysis, Crysis 2, BF3, Just Cause 2, Metro 2033 and the like ~ the temps stay under 60c, just running the fan at about 60-65%...
I was messing around with Skyrim mods the other day. I used the 2k mod and my CPU never goes below 95% usage, memory is always maxed out, and every single fan in my computer (6 of them) comes on and stays on....we have a winner. Really it's kinda cheating using mods to get it to do it, out of the box Skyrim runs easy though hehe. All this was on my desktop with i7, 8gb ram, and Radeon HD 6950 Crossfire X graphics cards...uh yeah that's a taxings
For me it has been the following
BF3
Arkham City
Saints Row 3 (on occasion)
Metro 2033
This was on mostly maxed out settings, generally I'll have to turn off SSAO
Witcher 2 with uber sampling is the biggest resource hog on existance until today (it raped my gtx570 +i5 2500k to the point of unplayableness)
And I see the majority on here has not played this wonderful game
"It has potential"
-Second most used phrase on existence
"It sucks"
-Most used phrase on existence
still Metro 2033.
Witcher 2 with uber sampling
My rig:
Intel i7-2600
GTX 480
16GB RAM
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
The most taxing games for me are --> AoC (Max Settings), Witcher 2 (Max Settings), Skyrim (Max Settings)
I am upgrading my video card this summer so I can play TERA...Hopefully a single overclocked GTX 580 will do the trick for me because I am a single GPU guy....I know its cliche
Ive no trouble with any game so far but maybe becouse no game besides BF3 is DX11.
Metro, crysis, stalker pripyat and other games are partly DX11 not corebuild DX11.
Hope to build full AMD system RYZEN/VEGA/AM4!!!
MB:Asus V De Luxe z77
CPU:Intell Icore7 3770k
GPU: AMD Fury X(waiting for BIG VEGA 10 or 11 HBM2?(bit unclear now))
MEMORY:Corsair PLAT.DDR3 1866MHZ 16GB
PSU:Corsair AX1200i
OS:Windows 10 64bit
If you you edit the skyrim ini to support a ugridstoload=9 and exteror cell buffer=100...along with texture mods+lighting mod...Skyrim becomes incredibly pretty. No game has taxed my system until Skyrim.
ugridstoload allows things in the distance to load, so at 5, a lot of things don't render...at 7, a bit more things render and at 9 a lot of the background is rendered. So you could be standing in whiterun, but see a campfire far in the distance that would otherwise be invisible until you get close.
Keep in mind, do NOT save a game with ugridstoload, UNLESS you know your PC can handle the much higher performance required for higher gridstoload. If you lower gridstoload, and a saved file was saved with a higher gridstoload, the save won't work and it will crash skyrim. Which means either setting it back, or having the save be useless.
This is easy most taxing EQ2 STILL lmao. The post asked most taxing that would be it, but by no means still best looking it just has really bad backbone. The game however is still imo one of the best if not the best mmo on the market though. The mass and content of this game is just unreal, and it comes as close as I have seen these days to a hybired sandbox/theampark mix. Anyway I am ranttting sorry. One of the best looking games if your just interested in looks I really like Eve still.
I would say this as well, as far as RPGs go. I dont play FPS but I am sure there is one out there that is more taxing.
This is why I say Skyrim, changing the ini you can turn the game into super beast mode and melt your computer lol. You used to be able to use a bow and shoot from the wall outside Whiterun and hit a deer or elk that took over 2 minutes to run to thanks to this...You had to aim like 2 inches over the little dot on your screen, but you could hit it with a couple of shots...They changed it though and added a maximum range on arrows
so far Arkham City, if i set it to the highest settings plus DX11 i cant play....(first and only game to do that on my pc so far) perhaps its because i dont use nvidia video cards? this game kind of supports nvidia and physyx more than anything related to ATI...
edit: i can play it at highest settings but its slow and choppy, so no lol
AC runs like crap on dx11 because of their coding, not because it looksd better than other games or you have the wrong hardware. They still havent released a decent patch to fix it yet.
BF3 Ultra on 64 man servers, Crysis 2 DX11 and witcher 2 with ubersampling are the most legitimately demanding games.
Skyrim doesn't count, without unoptimised mod's it's not demanding at all. Arkham city is relatively close to the above 3 titles.
its good to know, thanks for info
If we're speaking purely from the standpoint of non-OC'd PCs, Crysis still runs like garbage for me, and I have a 580 and before that I had two Radeon 5870s. Aside from that EQ2 is pretty crap as is AoC.
I think it's Metro 2033.