Anyone play video games?

[Jeremy C]

New PC Games are a major tax on hardware specifically the Video Card. Unless your playing Tiny-Toons or something low graphic.

Crysis 2 was the last game I messed with on PC. I am running a quad core AMD black x64 at 4.5ghz with 8gb ddr3 ram and 3x nividia gtx9800 GPUs in SLI. If I can't run the game with full video effects on max I'm not going to play it!! Had performance issues with both Crysis 2 and Battlefield Bad Company 2.

And the concept of Steam SUCKS!! Go out buy a game get home all excited to play and you spend the next 12 hours waiting for it to download.. WTF!! I picked up a couple older games like "Left 4 Dead" Get home and install the disk to find out the disk only comes with a fucking Steam install!!! I waited 6-9 hours for the game to download from their shit servers... I was so pissed!! I don't even think I played the $5.00 game that long.

In the end I'll stick with console as they are all designed to use the same hardware/technology so the game play is the same on every system and when I buy the game I maybe have a 10-20 min download for patches and such not wait for the entire game to download........

Love Steam here. I've spent about $80 so far this sale. Not too bad, as I've done a lot worse before. And 6-9 hours to download? How bad is your connection? Whenever I pickup a game, it's always maxing my bandwidth, never taking more than an hour, maybe 2. About the only time it takes longer is if I buy something for each account and all 3 are downloading at once. (me, wife, kids have our own Steam accounts)

Crysis 2 didn't really do much for graphics. Definitely was a step back from the original. Didn't even support DX11 out of the box and when the DX11 patch was released it was crap. Low res textures, big blocky poly's, just another console port. A single 480GTX will max everything in that game and wonder what you were thinking. BF3 and Witcher 2 can tax new rigs pretty good, but unfortunately most games today are console ports made to run at 720p/30fps on 5 generation old GPU's. I'm still running a 285GTX and haven't had the need to upgrade as there aren't any games that I play that have really put it down yet.

[DrGonzo]

Ohh my network internet speed is up to the task! Pretty sure most people won't see speeds like this....LOL



The issue was not my connection but the Steam servers.... Don't know if it was due to it being an older game and they allot they bandwidth to newer games but the ones I had to download took forever and it really turned me away from steam.

[IPD]

New PC Games are a major tax on hardware specifically the Video Card. Unless your playing Tiny-Toons or something low graphic.

Crysis 2 was the last game I messed with on PC. I am running a quad core AMD black x64 at 4.5ghz with 8gb ddr3 ram and 3x nividia gtx9800 GPUs in SLI. If I can't run the game with full video effects on max I'm not going to play it!! Had performance issues with both Crysis 2 and Battlefield Bad Company 2.

And the concept of Steam SUCKS!! Go out buy a game get home all excited to play and you spend the next 12 hours waiting for it to download.. WTF!! I picked up a couple older games like "Left 4 Dead" Get home and install the disk to find out the disk only comes with a fucking Steam install!!! I waited 6-9 hours for the game to download from their shit servers... I was so pissed!! I don't even think I played the $5.00 game that long.

In the end I'll stick with console as they are all designed to use the same hardware/technology so the game play is the same on every system and when I buy the game I maybe have a 10-20 min download for patches and such not wait for the entire game to download........

so let me get this straight:

you won't play pc games unless you can max out the video settings on everything....and if you can't do that, you will play it on a console where you're limited to 1080p?




jeremy is spot-on. 99.9% of all pc games simply will not tax your hardware--especially if you have a desktop. the reason laptop gaming has become "acceptable", is because of the absolute fail on the part of software developers to continue to push graphics forward.

[IPD]

p.s.

i'm going to rename my fleet "3SGTO of STO", just in case anyone wants to look it up.

[Zaroth]

jeremy is spot-on. 99.9% of all pc games simply will not tax your hardware--especially if you have a desktop. the reason laptop gaming has become "acceptable", is because of the absolute fail on the part of software developers to continue to push graphics forward.

There are plenty of taxing games out there. You apparently only play ancient or low end games when Steam hands them out for free.

[BigTyla]

I'd agree that there are plenty of taxing games, but they are certainly in the minority. Crysis, Batman: Arkham Asylum, etc, are the exceptions, not the rule.

If I can run SC2 on ultra and maintain 60+ fps during a massive battle with something as budget-oriented as a GTS 450 (a $100 card), I'd say I have a video card that can handle much more than just "ancient or low-end games."

[IPD]

There are plenty of taxing games out there. You apparently only play ancient or low end games when Steam hands them out for free.

care to explain how COD or BF are even remotely taxing on a PC....when they were designed to run an a shitty-ass console at a max of 1080p? and honestly, in any event--my point is valid. how can you possibly knock the graphics on your pc if you're willing to settle for console gaming?

[nodoze]

I run battlefield 3, in max setting with a quad core amd , and a decent 1gig VIP card without a flaw I'm not at home to remember the series for everything

amd phenom 9850 quad core , 8 gigs of 1066 ram , radeon hd 4850 , plays battlefield at full settings flawlessly
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[Jeremy C]

care to explain how COD or BF are even remotely taxing on a PC....when they were designed to run an a shitty-ass console at a max of 1080p? and honestly, in any event--my point is valid. how can you possibly knock the graphics on your pc if you're willing to settle for console gaming?

just making a quick note here as I've seen it a few times now...

The consoles don't play anything at 1080p. The max resolution they run is 720p and upscale it to 1080 and a max of 30fps (at least as far as the last time I looked at anything with them). The hardware in the console is simply not capable of playing anything decent if it actually rendered 1080.

-back to your regularly schedule programming

[Jeremy C]

There are plenty of taxing games out there. You apparently only play ancient or low end games when Steam hands them out for free.

Please name all these taxing games. If it plays at max settings and over 60fps at 1920X1080+ on hardware from within the last 3 years, then it is not taxing. Go look at most video card reviews lately, and you'll see that they have to run 2560X1600 just to get the average between 45-60fps.