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#1  Edited By Bardock47
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PC gets the shortend at times with bad ports of games. What's the worst you've played?

Personally, mine is Call of Duty: World at War. Got is on sale recently to relive some glory days. The single player campaign/ zombies portion works fine, but the mp has issues. The resolution defaults to like 800/ 600 or something like that, and crashes when you change it (this does not happen in SP portion), punkbuster doesn't work properly kicking me from games as well. Don't know what happened but damn is it sloppy. It isn't the worse probably, but dualed with the fact the mp is on its last legs, it is not worth the effort to get it working properly.

At least it comes with all the DLC.

You guys?

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#2 freedomfreak
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Kane and Lynch.

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#3 kipsta77
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GTA 4 on launch day (without the patches)

But you know what, it still ran better than the console version.

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#4 wolverine4262
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Dark Souls followed by GTA4

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#5 melonfarmerz
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GTA 4.

I'd just like to point out though that even though PC gets bad ports, they usually still run a lot better and look a lot better than their console counterparts so please, cows, don't turn this into a PC bashing thread.

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#6 lawlessx
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@wolverine4262 said:

Dark Souls followed by GTA4

does it count if they've been patched?

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#7 padaporra
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Dark Souls was indeed terrible.

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#8  Edited By wolverine4262
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@lawlessx:

Neither of them ever worked well for me.

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#9 thehig1
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LA Noire is pretty bad, control problems, graphic problems, crashes, glitches its got it all

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#10 PsychoLemons
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Resident Evil 4.

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#12  Edited By PimpHand_Gamer
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To be honest, most all the PC exclusives ran pretty darn bad for the high end system I had at their time of release. Crysis, Stalker series for example had lots of bugs and performance issues. Some worse than many ports.

Bad port wise, hardly know where to start. Omikron, NFS undercover which still crashes to this day, The first RE4 PC port release, GTA 4...I couldn't get it to run for the first 2 weeks, One of the Splinter Cell games had a messed up DRM that wouldn't allow me to play...ever. No point in going on really as I'm over it And I'm reading lots of performance issues with WatchDogs in quite a few forums.

When a PC game runs great it's awesome. When it doesn't it's a freaking nightmare, rarely ever in-between.

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#13 AmazonAngry
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Looks like it might be Watch Dogs according to ign's latest vid. http://youtu.be/zW9i-WqBPCE

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#14  Edited By JangoWuzHere
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@lawlessx said:

@wolverine4262 said:

Dark Souls followed by GTA4

does it count if they've been patched?

Yes

Dark Souls was never fixed officially and GTA 4 didn't iron out all of the PC problems until the DLC came out.

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#15 JangoWuzHere
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@freedomfreak said:

Kane and Lynch.

What was wrong with Kane and Lynch?

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#16 speedfreak48t5p
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GTA 4 I guess.

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#17  Edited By pelvist
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@JangoWuzHere said:

@freedomfreak said:

Kane and Lynch.

What was wrong with Kane and Lynch?

I know you couldnt play LAN coop on that game unless both computers had a 360 controller plugged in, even if you where using mouse and keyboard.

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#18  Edited By Cloud_imperium
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Grand Theft Auto 4

Dark Souls

LA Noire .

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#19  Edited By deactivated-59b71619573a1
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@amazonangry said:

Looks like it might be Watch Dogs according to ign's latest vid. http://youtu.be/zW9i-WqBPCE

Ugh give it a rest, WD is performing poorly on AMD systems, not all PCs in general. It runs flawlessly on my Nvidia rig

Regarding the topic at hand I'd say Dark Souls

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#20 UnbiasedPoster
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@lawlessx said:

@wolverine4262 said:

Dark Souls followed by GTA4

does it count if they've been patched?

As long as no one bought them on launch day.

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#21 GodspellWH
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Dark souls since it was practically a straight up port.

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#22  Edited By aroxx_ab
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The first Assassins Creed, i remember hermits was crying so much over how "not" optimized that game was :P

GTA IV must be a good one too lol

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#23  Edited By naz99
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Resident Evil 4

@seanmcloughlin said:

@amazonangry said:

Looks like it might be Watch Dogs according to ign's latest vid. http://youtu.be/zW9i-WqBPCE

Ugh give it a rest, WD is performing poorly on AMD systems, not all PCs in general. It runs flawlessly on my Nvidia rig

Regarding the topic at hand I'd say Dark Souls

Runs flawless on my 1st gen i7 and AMD 7970 ghz so im not sure why everyone keeps thinking its all AMD Cards,it may not be as optimised as much as nvidia cards but im getting a smooth stutter free experience..that was after i turned texture quality down to High,it was using nearly 4gb of video memory on Ultra and i only have 3gb :P

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#24  Edited By DeathLordCrime
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@naz99 said:

Resident Evil 4

@seanmcloughlin said:

@amazonangry said:

Looks like it might be Watch Dogs according to ign's latest vid. http://youtu.be/zW9i-WqBPCE

Ugh give it a rest, WD is performing poorly on AMD systems, not all PCs in general. It runs flawlessly on my Nvidia rig

Regarding the topic at hand I'd say Dark Souls

Runs flawless on my 1st gen i7 and AMD 7970 ghz so im not sure why everyone keeps thinking its all AMD Cards,it may not be as optimised as much as nvidia cards but im getting a smooth stutter free experience..that was after i turned texture quality down to High,it was using nearly 4gb of video memory on Ultra and i only have 3gb :P

It could be just the newer AMD cards with the most issues

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#25  Edited By glez13
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Splinter Cell: Double Agent

Original Resident Evil 4 release

Dark Souls

Grand Theft Auto 4

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#26 Ballroompirate
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To name a few

  • RE4
  • Dark Souls 1
  • Darksiders 2
  • GTA4
  • Deadly Premonition
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#27 Jankarcop
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Whats funny is everyone is naming the same 2-3 games, while just about every other multiplat is better on PC.

Thats what, 98% of all ports are better on PC?

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@Ballroompirate said:

To name a few

  • RE4
  • Dark Souls 1
  • Darksiders 2
  • GTA4
  • Deadly Premonition

That game ran fine on my pc hell even my labtop

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#29 R4gn4r0k
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@freedomfreak said:

Kane and Lynch.

I played that on PC recently and it's just an awful, awful game. Dunno if that has anything to do with the port, is the console version better ?

It's the only IO game that I didn't finish, I couldn't stomach more than an hour of K&L. Truly horrible.

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@TheFadeForever said:

@Ballroompirate said:

To name a few

  • RE4
  • Dark Souls 1
  • Darksiders 2
  • GTA4
  • Deadly Premonition

That game ran fine on my pc hell even my labtop

Want a cookie

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#31  Edited By dbtbandit67
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GTA 4. Rockstar better take forever on the GTA 5 port than release that colossal failure of a port again.

Watch Dogs is up there though.

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#32  Edited By Snugenz
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@seanmcloughlin said:

@amazonangry said:

Looks like it might be Watch Dogs according to ign's latest vid. http://youtu.be/zW9i-WqBPCE

Ugh give it a rest, WD is performing poorly on AMD systems, not all PCs in general. It runs flawlessly on my Nvidia rig

Regarding the topic at hand I'd say Dark Souls

I'm gonna have to go ahead and call bullshit on that, my PC isn't much different than yours and i get crippled with stutter if i play at the settings this game should run at on my Nvidia rig.

Unless you set stuff much lower than you should have to (medium textures etc), i find it very hard to believe this game is running "flawlessly" for ya.

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#34  Edited By Toxic-Seahorse
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The two obvious ones are GTA IV and Dark Souls.

RE 4 was also bad and so was Saints Row 2.

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#35 clyde46
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@Snugenz: reminds me of AC4. I played that at nvidias spec and it still run like ass.

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#36  Edited By thehig1
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@naz99: it even runs fine on my 7850 I've said several times, the 7850 is mid range at best too.

The new 14.6 catalyst driver sorted a lot of issues.

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#37 pelvist
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Most of the games people are listing worked flawlessly for me. When I think of a bad port I immediately think Dark Souls. Although the game performed well, (- the 30fps cap) there was a clear lack of effort put into making it a game for PC gamers.

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#38  Edited By deactivated-6127ced9bcba0
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CoD: Modern Warfare 2. Probably the worst PC port I've ever played. Never played a CoD game on the PC or consoles ever since. And never will.

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Dark Souls was a horrible port until I got the third-party patches installed, game was kind of left out to dry as well despite its popularity.

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Of what I played (as I'm sure there's far worse out there), Sonic Adventure. While I still did have fun with it, the PC version had glitchy visuals, keyboard controls that were a straight up mess and joypad controls that, while made the game more playable, were still bogged down by how heavy it felt.

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#41  Edited By Roler42
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Assasins Creed 2

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#42  Edited By TheFadeForever
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@Ballroompirate said:

@TheFadeForever said:

@Ballroompirate said:

To name a few

  • RE4
  • Dark Souls 1
  • Darksiders 2
  • GTA4
  • Deadly Premonition

That game ran fine on my pc hell even my labtop

Want a cookie

Sure and I hopethe game didn't run too bad

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#43  Edited By lawlessx
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@jeager_titan said:

Dark Souls

GTA 4

LA noire

Deadly Premonition.

LA. noire ran fine for me

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@aroxx_ab said:

The first Assassins Creed, i remember hermits was crying so much over how "not" optimized that game was :P

GTA IV must be a good one too lol

I never had any trouble with AC. I don't get all the gripes about how AC4 runs, either. I just had to lower a few settings to the second-highest setting rather than the highest, and it runs great.

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@Snugenz said:
@seanmcloughlin said:

@amazonangry said:

Looks like it might be Watch Dogs according to ign's latest vid. http://youtu.be/zW9i-WqBPCE

Ugh give it a rest, WD is performing poorly on AMD systems, not all PCs in general. It runs flawlessly on my Nvidia rig

Regarding the topic at hand I'd say Dark Souls

I'm gonna have to go ahead and call bullshit on that, my PC isn't much different than yours and i get crippled with stutter if i play at the settings this game should run at on my Nvidia rig.

Unless you set stuff much lower than you should have to (medium textures etc), i find it very hard to believe this game is running "flawlessly" for ya.

I have everything on Max and yes I get an odd stutter, no more so than any other game I have,but other than I'm running it up in the 50s and 60s pretty consistently

780Ti

i7 4770k

16GB RAM

Newest Nvidia Beta Drivers

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#46 rogelio22
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Watch dogs!!! Couldnt play it due to extreme lag/stuttering even capped at 30fps! On all settings and with the newest nvidia drivers! 2500k/8gb/evga 770sc.. finally tried it in windowed borderless and it seems to work decently there is a few other fixes ive been reading about today that I wanna try when I get home.

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#47  Edited By AM-Gamer
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@Jankarcop: and 0% are better on your pc. Especially since the new consoles.

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#48  Edited By Kiro0
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Binary Domain was pretty horrific.

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#49 StrifeDelivery
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Here's a random game for some folks: Call of Cthulu: Dark Corners of the Earth

Had a few minor issues; however, near the end of the game was a bug that made it almost unplayable. Using a long range gun, you had to shoot at these lights that were on an island. Of course, there were no lights on the island as it didn't make it over for the PC version. I had to watch a gameplay video just to see where the lights were and then try and try again until I made it past that point.

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#50  Edited By Ribstaylor1
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Watch dogs in it's current state is horrible port to pc. So was GTA4 when it released, being damn near unplayable by most people who purchased it. Battlefield 4 is also in general just a horribly put together pc tittle. I love me some crazy battlefield action but that game is broken on so many lvls. Oh and any of the dark souls games, the company behind them has zero clue on how to develop on pc it seems so much could have been done with those tittles but nope lets just make a shit console port.