Quote Originally Posted by DrGonzo View Post
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.