Just curious what most people feel (or is known) to be the most taxing game graphically at this point. I'm thinking it may be crysis 2 or metro 2033 but is there something else out there? No real reason just curious what people think (without facts just opinion). What game makes you think you need a super computer to run it at max everything.

Age of Conan at max graphics seems to be amazingly beautiful.   It will make you shed a tear for how good that game could have been.  And im a 2 year vet to that game so that should say a lot XD

Crysis 2 has been the most intensive on my system, followed up by Battlefield 3 and Skyrim all maxed. 

Arkham City is probably the only game i've played recently that made my PC really think about trying to run it. Thats with the DX11 features and Physx all turned on, worth it though, great looking game :)

It's actually Metro 2033, but that has more to do with the game engine being embarrassingly inefficient on higher end settings.

Originally posted by pl3dge

Arkham City is probably the only game i've played recently that made my PC really think about trying to run it. Thats with the DX11 features and Physx all turned on, worth it though, great looking game :)

Just curious. Is that before or after they suposedly "fixed" DX11?

Originally posted by xenogias

Originally posted by pl3dge

Arkham City is probably the only game i've played recently that made my PC really think about trying to run it. Thats with the DX11 features and Physx all turned on, worth it though, great looking game :)

Just curious. Is that before or after they suposedly "fixed" DX11?

After.

Witcher 2 is also considerable as far as RPGs go.

Originally posted by Ceridith

It's actually Metro 2033, but that has more to do with the game engine being embarrassingly inefficient on higher end settings.

I was also thinking Metro. Mainly because even at med to high settings it seems to chug on above average systems. Couldnt talk to max settings because it would simply crash on me lol.

Anyone know how FEAR3 ran/runs? I didnt buy it but FEAR2, for its time, took a pretty good machine to run it maxed with no real framerate issues.

If you play battlefield 3 or skyrim on max settings your fans never turn off.  I'm waiting to be running around and my keyboard and mouse just melt in my hand lol.

Crysis games have, over the years, been used for benchmarking a computer.  That should say something I guess, but I've never played any of them.

BF3 though requires a pretty beefy system if you want it to look beautiful.

I wouldn't count Skyrim as a taxing game though.  Maybe if you installed nothing but those HD retextures, but vanilla Skyrim hums along on an older computer I had that was 3 years old.

lol @ Skyrim...

Metro or BF3 I think.

Crysis 2 is actually really well made, unlike the first one.

Also consider that Skyrim's optimized mainly for the consoles.  That should say alot also on what kind of rig you need.

Skyrim with all the 2k HD Textures and tweaked ini plus ENB and FXAA injector mods pretty much makes Skyrim one of the most taxing modded games today.

On default I'd say it'll be crysis though.

There's a few people saying Crysis 2, but it was my understanding that Crysis 1 had higher system requirements because of how the game was made. -shrug-

Originally posted by Serelisk

There's a few people saying Crysis 2, but it was my understanding that Crysis 1 had higher system requirements because of how the game was made. -shrug-

That was until the hi-rez texture pack along with the tesselation dx11 patch was released. Drastic performance decreases with those two turned on. 

it's Metro 2033. Crysis 2 maxed out with high res textures and BF3 maxed out still produce a higher framerate across all levels of hardware.

if we want to get into crap shit coding and optimization, saint's row 2 doesn't run on the pc....period, it crawls.

GTA IV initially, it's gotten better though.

FFXIV

some japanes dating simulator had the highest system requirements ever.

Skyrim with an ungodly amount of high res textures and post process injectors. Nothing else comes close.

I for one can't say I've played Crysis 2 or metro 2033, but I do own BF3, Skyrim, Rage, and Batman: AC. Of those I can tell you although Skrim looks great, it doesn't really tax my system and could be a lot better. I've played the first Crysis and know that it did take a lot of resources. 

Of the games I have played I would say it goes like this:

Batman: Arkham city (Amazing game btw... I couldn't put it down)

Battlefield 3 (You're typical FPS... I prefer Planetside)

Rage (Kinda got bored of it)

Skyrim (Got bored of this too)

Now since I haven't played the other 2 I can't really say, but I would suspect that Crysis 2 and Metro would be up there at the top.