5 most resource demanding games.

SergB · Oct 14, 2006, 12:56 PM

Hello, everyone, I am currently building a system for overclocking, so I need some test software, for my PC. And what better then a good game

especially if its a resource eating monster...

Ok here is my list:

1. BF2 + BF2142
2. CS:S
3. Oblivion
4. Splinter Cell, Chaos Theory
5. FEAR

I allready have Half Life 2, DOOM 3, Far Cry, Neverwinter Nights... So what your list, or maybe addition to my list

F1N3ST · Oct 14, 2006, 02:59 PM

FEAR Is free, download it.

Sandok · Oct 14, 2006, 04:50 PM

Company of Heroes. Nothing brings my system to such a crawl. Nothing at all.

niceguyrichy · Oct 14, 2006, 06:18 PM

ditch CS:S, it's not that much of a resource hog at all

Sandok · Oct 14, 2006, 06:39 PM

Wanna test Ocing? Get 3DMark06. Nuff said

Retarp · Oct 14, 2006, 06:41 PM

Oblivion can grind my system to a halt. Also Company of Heros, which has a free demo which did a good job of bogging my computer down.

Source is no longer really considered a hog, niether is FEAR, I can tear both up no problem.

Judas · Oct 14, 2006, 06:42 PM

Lineage2, that sucker sucks the living crap outa any computer you throw at it.

ViP3RH3LL · Oct 14, 2006, 06:46 PM

FEAR is a system hog.
Doom 3 isnt that much of one but it can be laggy unless you have a good vidcard.
FARCRY - still laggy framerates.
Oblivion - memory hog 1.5+ GB DDR Ram - need fast memory and a kickass card to run it well.
Crysis will be the most resource hog ever to come out - so I probably wont play it.
Neverwinter nights isnt a resource hog, I ran it on my old amd 800 mhz system and it ran pretty good. Just cant use 32 bit textures but the game was still nice.

FEAR and Farcry and probably the worst resource hogs.

SFOSOK · Oct 14, 2006, 08:26 PM

Don't know what you guys are talking about. My comp tears up F.E.A.R. on the highest settings. Farcry too.

Tipstaff · Oct 15, 2006, 05:16 AM

Microsoft Flight Simulator X (Deluxe Edition)

Vikingod · Oct 15, 2006, 05:52 AM

Id say FEAR and Oblivion, Comany of Heroes too, but I don't seem to have a problem. Oblivion is by far the worst for me.

**MIG-31** · Oct 15, 2006, 08:02 AM

For me F.E.A.R and Far Cry is the most demanding for my pc,which just about runs at high quality with a satisfactory frame rate.With the exception of the game save stutter which bugs me the most.

Tipstaff · Oct 15, 2006, 10:48 AM

Oops.. I should have read the title better.

Microsoft Flight Simulator X (Deluxe Edition)
Microsoft Flight Simluator: Century of Flight
FarCry
Oblivion
Tom Clancy's G.R.A.W

Just you wait though. As Viper hinted at, Crysis will require some pretty high specs. Take a look at them below (reposted from the Crysis forums, which was posted by one of the admins there):

Minimum Requirements
CPU: Athlon 64 3000+/Intel 2.8ghz
Graphics: Nvidia 6600/X800GTO (SM 2.0)
RAM: 768Mb/1Gb on Windows Vista
HDD: 6GB
Internet: 256k+
Optical Drive: DVD
Software: DX9.0c with Windows XP

Recommended Requirements
CPU: Dual-core CPU (Athlon X2/Pentium D)
Graphics: Nvidia 7800GTX/ATI X1800XT (SM 3.0) or DX10 equivalent
RAM: 1.5Gb
HDD: 6GB
Internet: 512k+ (128k+ upstream)
Optical Drive: DVD
Software: DX10 with Windows Vista

CDsDontBurn · Oct 15, 2006, 01:16 PM

ROME Total war, bf2, Far Cry, doom 3...those are a few games that i can think of ATM that are pretty mean resource hogs. i'm sure that there are other games out there as they have been mentioned in this thread already.

bananaman · Oct 15, 2006, 07:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sandok

Company of Heroes. Nothing brings my system to such a crawl. Nothing at all.

I second Company of Heroes

uses pretty much all of CPU and all 2 Gigs of Ram

then again i do play at 1920x1200 :P

FPS-wise it gets down to about 20 if there is a shed-load going on but usually up in the 40 area but it is an RTS so it doesnt matter too much

OmegaRED · Oct 15, 2006, 07:54 PM

Are you gonna be doing actual benchmark numbers or just eyeing it? For automated benchmarks I'd go with Company of Heroes and FEAR. BF2 (not 2142) and Oblivion for general game benching. For BF2 make sure you play on a 64 man server any comp can run 16 man with high fps.

OldBuzzard · Oct 16, 2006, 06:27 AM

Tipstaff has it right with FS9 and FSX.

FS9 at max settings will make almost any system start 'breathing hard'.
FXS at max settings will make ANY current system 'beg for mercy'.

Tipstaff · Oct 16, 2006, 01:51 PM

Another one I just thought of: The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay. Up the rez, turn on the eye candy, and watch your system beg for mercy.

SergB · Oct 18, 2006, 11:38 AM

Cool guys thanks for all the tips gonna try that Company of heroes thing.

Quote:

Are you gonna be doing actual benchmark numbers or just eyeing it?

I am not gonna go in to the details, maybe some FPS with FRAPS and some memory usage tests, but as long as it runs smooth, its ok...

By the way, this is the rig:

Mobo: Asus P5B, P965, Socket-775, ATX, GbLAN, 6xSATAII, PCI-Ex16

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 1.86GHz Socket LGA775, 2MB, BOXED

Would be nice to do 3,2Ghz+ on it

Video: XFX GeForce 7900GS 480M Xtreme 256MB GDDR3, PCI-Express, 480/1400Mhz, 2xDVI

Lets say GT not GS

Ram: Corsair TWIN2X 6400 DDR2, 2048MB CL5 Kit w/two matched CM2X1024A-6400 Dimm's

the same as FSB on mobo. A lot of fun time ahead

If I am not to burn the damn thing with high voltage tho

pr0digal jenius · Oct 18, 2006, 06:06 PM

Riddick isn't that bad until you pass across 1280x1024...then it gets kinda rough

FEAR is pretty wicked, but not as bad as it's reputation....if you tune the settings a bit, you can make it run nice and look awesome...that game's fast paced enough that the difference between super HQ shadows and medium isnt bad

Far Cry was pretty rough, but I still opt to blame that on a bloated engine more then anythign else. No way in hell a well written game that old would chug like it does on current systems

NFS:Most Wanted can actually rip your PC to peices if you crank it...dunno how many of oyu have ever tried it...but I can chug it down to about 12 FPS on mine

[loads of particles and reflections]

Chaos Theory was pretty wicked too....but damn was it fun

Doom 3 ate ATi cards for breakfast, but nVIdia never had much of a problem, as I recall

Im_TRAGIC_Foo · Feb 1, 2007, 04:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tipstaff

Microsoft Flight Simulator X (Deluxe Edition)

yeah get flight sim 9 or X and TURN EVERYTHING up .... have a defib ready cuz your pc might have a heart attack.

~~DudeBoyz~~ · Feb 1, 2007, 05:32 PM

Lord of the Rings - Battle for Middle Earth II would seem to be one.

I had to upgrade from 1gig to 2gig to improve shutdown performance, for example. It would literally take 3-5 minutes to shut down after playing a long match. Now, shuts down in under 20 seconds.

Jetsetlemming · Feb 1, 2007, 06:37 PM

Rainbow 6: Las Vegas. It's a poor port from x-box 360 to PC, and suffers badly from it.
This article breaks down the performance of just about the best (strongest) videocard setup you can get, two GeForce 8800 GTX's in SLI mode. They run Quake 4, FEAR, Oblivion, Half Life 2: Episode 1, G.R.A.W., R6: Vegas and a couple benchmarking programs like 3dmark 06 in 2560x1600 resolution with driver forced 16x AA and all games on max video settings. Rainbow 6 gets the worst framerates out of the bunch.
http://techreport.com/reviews/2007q1...i/index.x?pg=1
Here's the page on R6 specifically: http://techreport.com/reviews/2007q1...i/index.x?pg=9
Even with twin 8800 GTX's, they only got 48 FPS with those settings turned up so high, and very poor framerates on everything else.

OmegaRED · Feb 1, 2007, 09:58 PM

Bad ports shouldn't count as they aren't optimized well.

Jetsetlemming · Feb 1, 2007, 10:07 PM

The poor quality lowers your overall performance, but a good setup will still run it better than a lesser one, so it can still be handy for a test of how your system performs. *shrug*

topbob · Feb 1, 2007, 10:53 PM

yea lose source, valve actually knows how to make things look amazing with out draining resources.

OldBuzzard · Feb 2, 2007, 06:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jetsetlemming

...2560x1600 resolution with driver forced 16x AA and all games on max video settings. Rainbow 6 gets the worst framerates out of the bunch...Even with twin 8800 GTX's, they only got 48 FPS with those settings turned up so high, and very poor framerates on everything else.

And if they would have tried FSX at those settings they would have been lucky to see max rates in the teens, and they would be in single digits in places like NYC.

You act like 48 FPS is slow...hell, I would kill for a system that could get those rates in FSX at those IQ settings.

That's one reason you see VERY few sites use FS9 or FSX for vid card tests, and when they do they generally run them at reduced settings. No vid card maker wants to see his card showing FPS numbers in the teens and lower

Judas · Feb 2, 2007, 06:26 PM

Age Of mythology, the only game even with todays quad core intel junkies on crack and Quad SLI setups can blow through that game without dropping to frame rates under 5 after about 3 hours of play. That's with every slot filled by a CPU. Oventually the game slows down so much, due to so many things happening, that the entire game turns into a slideshow or oventually appears to freeze for seconds and then minutes on end.

OmegaRED · Feb 2, 2007, 10:51 PM

I'll add my vote to the latest MS Flight Simulator...it brought my relatively high end system to a halt.

Jetsetlemming · Feb 2, 2007, 11:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by OldBuzzard

And if they would have tried FSX at those settings they would have been lucky to see max rates in the teens, and they would be in single digits in places like NYC.

You act like 48 FPS is slow...hell, I would kill for a system that could get those rates in FSX at those IQ settings.

That's one reason you see VERY few sites use FS9 or FSX for vid card tests, and when they do they generally run them at reduced settings. No vid card maker wants to see his card showing FPS numbers in the teens and lower

The twin 8800 GTX's got 150+ FPS on those settings on most of the other games. 48 is relatively low for that kind of power.
Personally, I'm fine with anything over 20 FPS. I play Fable in the 10-30 FPS range. Some games just look worse than others at low framerates, though. Fable is playable at 10 FPS without your ability to play suffering, while BF1942 at those same FPS is impossible, as you'll be dead before you can properly line up your sights.
Gaming with a PCI card is a test of will, to be sure. :-P

Oct 14, 2006, 12:56 PM	#1
SergB DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 6 Rep Power: 0	5 most resource demanding games. Hello, everyone, I am currently building a system for overclocking, so I need some test software, for my PC. And what better then a good game especially if its a resource eating monster... Ok here is my list: 1. BF2 + BF2142 2. CS:S 3. Oblivion 4. Splinter Cell, Chaos Theory 5. FEAR I allready have Half Life 2, DOOM 3, Far Cry, Neverwinter Nights... So what your list, or maybe addition to my list __________________

Oct 14, 2006, 08:26 PM	#9
SFOSOK 939 Goin Strong Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Ontario Posts: 7,033 Rep Power: 90 System Specs	Don't know what you guys are talking about. My comp tears up F.E.A.R. on the highest settings. Farcry too. __________________ Warning - Explicit Content Preceeding METAL!!

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MIG-31 HardwareHeaven News Mod Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Nottingham,UK Posts: 56,818 Rep Power: 471 System Specs	For me F.E.A.R and Far Cry is the most demanding for my pc,which just about runs at high quality with a satisfactory frame rate.With the exception of the game save stutter which bugs me the most. __________________ Please Post Your News Submissions Here

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Tipstaff HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Real capital of Canada: Torauna Posts: 6,773 Rep Power: 190 System Specs	Oops.. I should have read the title better. Microsoft Flight Simulator X (Deluxe Edition) Microsoft Flight Simluator: Century of Flight FarCry Oblivion Tom Clancy's G.R.A.W Just you wait though. As Viper hinted at, Crysis will require some pretty high specs. Take a look at them below (reposted from the Crysis forums, which was posted by one of the admins there): Minimum Requirements CPU: Athlon 64 3000+/Intel 2.8ghz Graphics: Nvidia 6600/X800GTO (SM 2.0) RAM: 768Mb/1Gb on Windows Vista HDD: 6GB Internet: 256k+ Optical Drive: DVD Software: DX9.0c with Windows XP Recommended Requirements CPU: Dual-core CPU (Athlon X2/Pentium D) Graphics: Nvidia 7800GTX/ATI X1800XT (SM 3.0) or DX10 equivalent RAM: 1.5Gb HDD: 6GB Internet: 512k+ (128k+ upstream) Optical Drive: DVD Software: DX10 with Windows Vista __________________ Portal: The Flash Version _________________________________ Brain: So, you sacked the cocky khaki Kicky Sack sock plucker? Mr. Sackett: The second cocky khaki Kicky Sack sock plucker I've sacked since the sixth sitting sheet slitter got sick. Last edited by Tipstaff; Oct 15, 2006 at 11:09 AM.

Oct 14, 2006, 02:59 PM	#2
F1N3ST DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Michigan, USA Posts: 123 Rep Power: 0	FEAR Is free, download it.

Oct 14, 2006, 04:50 PM	#3
Sandok DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 9,472 Rep Power: 0	Company of Heroes. Nothing brings my system to such a crawl. Nothing at all.

Oct 14, 2006, 06:39 PM	#5
Sandok DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 9,472 Rep Power: 0	Wanna test Ocing? Get 3DMark06. Nuff said

Oct 14, 2006, 06:41 PM	#6
Retarp DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 119 Rep Power: 0	Oblivion can grind my system to a halt. Also Company of Heros, which has a free demo which did a good job of bogging my computer down. Source is no longer really considered a hog, niether is FEAR, I can tear both up no problem.

Oct 14, 2006, 06:46 PM	#8
ViP3RH3LL DriverHeaven Addict Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: BF2142 Posts: 265 Rep Power: 0	FEAR is a system hog. Doom 3 isnt that much of one but it can be laggy unless you have a good vidcard. FARCRY - still laggy framerates. Oblivion - memory hog 1.5+ GB DDR Ram - need fast memory and a kickass card to run it well. Crysis will be the most resource hog ever to come out - so I probably wont play it. Neverwinter nights isnt a resource hog, I ran it on my old amd 800 mhz system and it ran pretty good. Just cant use 32 bit textures but the game was still nice. FEAR and Farcry and probably the worst resource hogs.

Oct 15, 2006, 05:52 AM	#11
Vikingod Int'l Fish Liaison Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: By the light of lamp I sit and type... Posts: 16,197 Rep Power: 112 System Specs	Id say FEAR and Oblivion, Comany of Heroes too, but I don't seem to have a problem. Oblivion is by far the worst for me.

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CDsDontBurn Lurking DriverHeaven Join Date: May 2003 Location: Southern California Posts: 22,779 Rep Power: 235 System Specs	ROME Total war, bf2, Far Cry, doom 3...those are a few games that i can think of ATM that are pretty mean resource hogs. i'm sure that there are other games out there as they have been mentioned in this thread already. __________________ Her First Day \| A year later

Oct 15, 2006, 07:54 PM	#16
OmegaRED Relapsed Gamer Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Ottawa , Canada Posts: 5,688 Rep Power: 173 System Specs	Are you gonna be doing actual benchmark numbers or just eyeing it? For automated benchmarks I'd go with Company of Heroes and FEAR. BF2 (not 2142) and Oblivion for general game benching. For BF2 make sure you play on a 64 man server any comp can run 16 man with high fps. __________________ E Penis Specs: <------------- See System Specs

Oct 16, 2006, 06:27 AM	#17
OldBuzzard DH's oldest Geek Join Date: May 2003 Location: Oberlin, OH Posts: 2,781 Rep Power: 142 System Specs	Tipstaff has it right with FS9 and FSX. FS9 at max settings will make almost any system start 'breathing hard'. FXS at max settings will make ANY current system 'beg for mercy'. __________________ When looking for a reason as to why things go wrong, never rule out sheer STUPIDITY

Oct 16, 2006, 01:51 PM	#18
Tipstaff HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Real capital of Canada: Torauna Posts: 6,773 Rep Power: 190 System Specs	Another one I just thought of: The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay. Up the rez, turn on the eye candy, and watch your system beg for mercy. __________________ Portal: The Flash Version _________________________________ Brain: So, you sacked the cocky khaki Kicky Sack sock plucker? Mr. Sackett: The second cocky khaki Kicky Sack sock plucker I've sacked since the sixth sitting sheet slitter got sick.

Oct 18, 2006, 06:06 PM	#20
pr0digal jenius Delete Me Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 14,648 Rep Power: 0	Riddick isn't that bad until you pass across 1280x1024...then it gets kinda rough FEAR is pretty wicked, but not as bad as it's reputation....if you tune the settings a bit, you can make it run nice and look awesome...that game's fast paced enough that the difference between super HQ shadows and medium isnt bad Far Cry was pretty rough, but I still opt to blame that on a bloated engine more then anythign else. No way in hell a well written game that old would chug like it does on current systems NFS:Most Wanted can actually rip your PC to peices if you crank it...dunno how many of oyu have ever tried it...but I can chug it down to about 12 FPS on mine [loads of particles and reflections] Chaos Theory was pretty wicked too....but damn was it fun Doom 3 ate ATi cards for breakfast, but nVIdia never had much of a problem, as I recall

Feb 1, 2007, 05:32 PM	#22
~~DudeBoyz~~ banned Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: USA Posts: 1,677 Rep Power: 0	Lord of the Rings - Battle for Middle Earth II would seem to be one. I had to upgrade from 1gig to 2gig to improve shutdown performance, for example. It would literally take 3-5 minutes to shut down after playing a long match. Now, shuts down in under 20 seconds.

Feb 1, 2007, 06:37 PM	#23
Jetsetlemming DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 16 Rep Power: 0	Rainbow 6: Las Vegas. It's a poor port from x-box 360 to PC, and suffers badly from it. This article breaks down the performance of just about the best (strongest) videocard setup you can get, two GeForce 8800 GTX's in SLI mode. They run Quake 4, FEAR, Oblivion, Half Life 2: Episode 1, G.R.A.W., R6: Vegas and a couple benchmarking programs like 3dmark 06 in 2560x1600 resolution with driver forced 16x AA and all games on max video settings. Rainbow 6 gets the worst framerates out of the bunch. http://techreport.com/reviews/2007q1...i/index.x?pg=1 Here's the page on R6 specifically: http://techreport.com/reviews/2007q1...i/index.x?pg=9 Even with twin 8800 GTX's, they only got 48 FPS with those settings turned up so high, and very poor framerates on everything else.

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OmegaRED Relapsed Gamer Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Ottawa , Canada Posts: 5,688 Rep Power: 173 System Specs	Bad ports shouldn't count as they aren't optimized well. __________________ E Penis Specs: <------------- See System Specs

Feb 1, 2007, 10:07 PM	#25
Jetsetlemming DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 16 Rep Power: 0	The poor quality lowers your overall performance, but a good setup will still run it better than a lesser one, so it can still be handy for a test of how your system performs. shrug

Feb 1, 2007, 10:53 PM	#26
topbob HardwareHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: SFBA, CA, USA Posts: 463 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	yea lose source, valve actually knows how to make things look amazing with out draining resources. __________________ 12090 in 3DMarks06 on current system, 5001 on old system, 4164 on older, 1587 on oldest

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OmegaRED Relapsed Gamer Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Ottawa , Canada Posts: 5,688 Rep Power: 173 System Specs	I'll add my vote to the latest MS Flight Simulator...it brought my relatively high end system to a halt. __________________ E Penis Specs: <------------- See System Specs