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#1 deactivated-5f4694ac412a8
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I heard Assassin's Creed was because it's poorly optimized. Is it still the latter?
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#2 kozzy1234
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You know its Crysis....

Crysis >>>> all

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#3 PC360Wii
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Crysis ... I can max Assassins Creed just fine on my 2 year old rig.
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#4 -Master_St3ve-
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uh...Crysis
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[QUOTE="kozzy1234"]

You know its Crysis....

Crysis >>>> all

I remember hearing it was Assassin's Creed because Ubisoft did a poor job optimizing it. Isn't this right?
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#6 naval
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Assassin's Creed was not so bad (hardware requirements wise I mean, ans not gameplay wise) -- I was easily able to max (or close to it) it using a single 8800GT IIRC. Personally I have found the most demanding games to be World in Conflict and Crysis
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#7 kozzy1234
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[QUOTE="kozzy1234"]

You know its Crysis....

Crysis >>>> all

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I remember hearing it was Assassin's Creed because Ubisoft did a poor job optimizing it. Isn't this right?

Crysis is far more demanding then AC was. AC runs fine for me.

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#8 deactivated-5f4694ac412a8
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I knew Crysis was the most graphically impressive, but someone told me Assassin's Creed was the most demanding. Alrighty, then. Case closed.
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#9 naval
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I knew Crysis was the most graphically impressive, but someone told me Assassin's Creed was the most demanding. Alrighty, then. Case closed.DeathScape666
I think that twas because there were some rumors earlier on regarding minimum and recommended requirements which were really high, but the turned out be false later on
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http://www.gamespot.com/pages/forums/show_msgs.php?topic_id=26421287

Here's the thread I was talking about.

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#11 crozon
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most demanding games are armed assault, flight sim x and DCS black shark. Crank up the levels and watch your frame rate die
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#12 AAllxxjjnn
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Stalker Clear Sky, because it's not optimized well.
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#13 JosamaBinEating
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Crysis, GTA IV, FSX, Stalker Clear Sky. As a general rule, I am NOT counting the buggy games. GTA IV isn't amazingly well optimised, but the game is massive.
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#14 dgsag
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Didn't GTAIV take that crown? Crysis is actually less hardware intensive and looks better...
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We have a rig we built specifically to run Crysis at max settings. On that same rig, Age of Conan chugs in the most demanding cities. My Dell XPS laptop, which runs Crysis nicely at medium settings, can barely run Age of Conan with all settings at lowest. Of the PC games I have recently played, Age of Conan is certainly the most demandinig game I've enountered, and asks more out of these systems than Crysis did.Kevin-V
Age of Conan wins.
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#16 Salt_The_Fries
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most demanding games are armed assault, flight sim x and DCS black shark. Crank up the levels and watch your frame rate diecrozon
100% agreed about ArmA.
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#17 aliblabla2007
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Microsoft Flight Simulator X.
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microsoft FSX, damn thing can 100 % load a 4.4 GHz i7 965, no other game does it. Crysis, the GPU eater, age of conan, most demanding MMO. and Wolrd in conflict can be a CPU whore as well
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#19 mo0ksi
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MS Flight Sim X and GTA4
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#20 Velocitas8
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[QUOTE="kozzy1234"]

You know its Crysis....

Crysis >>>> all

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I remember hearing it was Assassin's Creed because Ubisoft did a poor job optimizing it. Isn't this right?

Huh? Assassin's Creed ran great for me, even in DX10 (actually, it even runs a little better in DX10 than DX9 iirc.)

The most demanding PC games as of now are probably Crysis and Clear Sky.

Edit: Oh, and FSX would be up there too. GTA4..not really. It actually runs great here; better than Crysis/Clear Sky..though maybe that has something to do with running it on a Quad.

If you want to count emulation..the most demanding PC gaming application would be the PS2 emulation of various games, most of which which can bring even the highest-end of PCs to their knees (extremely CPU-dependent.) It's possible to run some full-speed, but you need a beast of processor.

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Stalker Clear Sky, because it's not optimized well.AAllxxjjnn
I agree with this. I cant even run this game on medium settings. I cant even imagine Maxed settings + AAx4/AFx16.
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#22 organic_machine
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Grand Theft Auto IV
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I knew Crysis was the most graphically impressive, but someone told me Assassin's Creed was the most demanding. Alrighty, then. Case closed.DeathScape666

spawning over 50 zombies in doom3 will make ur fps drop to 0 lol screen will freeze..cpu cant handle all of it..plays a second..freeze .

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Most of these games are just horrible optimized. The most demanding game is easily World in Conflict. I can run everything maxed with no AA on 1440x900 except for that game. It slows down to a crawl when those huge nuclear explosions happen.
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#25 organic_machine
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[QUOTE="DeathScape666"]I knew Crysis was the most graphically impressive, but someone told me Assassin's Creed was the most demanding. Alrighty, then. Case closed.yowtfyowtfyo

spawning over 50 zombies in doom3 will make ur fps drop to 0 lol screen will freeze..cpu cant handle all of it..plays a second..freeze .

Doom 3 is the greatest game of all time...right?

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#26 yowtfyowtfyo
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Most of these games are just horrible optimized. The most demanding game is easily World in Conflict. I can run everything maxed with no AA on 1440x900 except for that game. It slows down to a crawl when those huge nuclear explosions happen.Aljosa23

nah...the most demanding is doom3 high character count in one room because each has ragdolls and when you blow them up with a rocket this will absolutely kill the framerate the cpu's of today cannot handle that many ragdoll physics objects reacting at once.

that's why dead rising zombies have no ragdolls.

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#27 osan0
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probably GTA4. they really went nuts with the pc version. i dont think theres any PC hardware available at the mo that can actually max it and keep a stable framerate.
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[QUOTE="Aljosa23"]Most of these games are just horrible optimized. The most demanding game is easily World in Conflict. I can run everything maxed with no AA on 1440x900 except for that game. It slows down to a crawl when those huge nuclear explosions happen.yowtfyowtfyo

nah...the most demanding is doom3 high character count in one room because each has ragdolls and when you blow them up with a rocket this will absolutely kill the framerate the cpu's of today cannot handle that many ragdoll physics objects reacting at once.

that's why dead rising zombies have no ragdolls.

Someone is ban-dodging I see. ;)
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[QUOTE="yowtfyowtfyo"]

[QUOTE="Aljosa23"]Most of these games are just horrible optimized. The most demanding game is easily World in Conflict. I can run everything maxed with no AA on 1440x900 except for that game. It slows down to a crawl when those huge nuclear explosions happen.Aljosa23

nah...the most demanding is doom3 high character count in one room because each has ragdolls and when you blow them up with a rocket this will absolutely kill the framerate the cpu's of today cannot handle that many ragdoll physics objects reacting at once.

that's why dead rising zombies have no ragdolls.

Someone is ban-dodging I see. ;)

bans dodge me.

BTW basically any game where you can spawn unlimited amount of enemys on screen untill ur fps hits 0 is most demanding but doom3's about only title i can think of you binding a button and spawning zombies.

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#30 iam2green
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i think startcraft is the most wanted game.
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[QUOTE="Aljosa23"][QUOTE="yowtfyowtfyo"]

nah...the most demanding is doom3 high character count in one room because each has ragdolls and when you blow them up with a rocket this will absolutely kill the framerate the cpu's of today cannot handle that many ragdoll physics objects reacting at once.

that's why dead rising zombies have no ragdolls.

yowtfyowtfyo

Someone is ban-dodging I see. ;)

bans dodge me.

BTW basically any game where you can spawn unlimited amount of enemys on screen untill ur fps hits 0 is most demanding but doom3's about only title i can think of you binding a button and spawning zombies.

il bet ya my 3.6 GHz Q6600 will spawn as many as you want -.-
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[QUOTE="Aljosa23"][QUOTE="yowtfyowtfyo"]

nah...the most demanding is doom3 high character count in one room because each has ragdolls and when you blow them up with a rocket this will absolutely kill the framerate the cpu's of today cannot handle that many ragdoll physics objects reacting at once.

that's why dead rising zombies have no ragdolls.

yowtfyowtfyo

Someone is ban-dodging I see. ;)

bans dodge me.

BTW basically any game where you can spawn unlimited amount of enemys on screen untill ur fps hits 0 is most demanding but doom3's about only title i can think of you binding a button and spawning zombies.

You can do that in Left 4 Dead. OMG Most demanding game.
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#33 ps3_owns_360Wii
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gta 4 then crysis following up very closelty
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#34 perfect_chao
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Crysis isnt that good anyway, im surprised they still make games that you need a rig that is 1+ year newer than the game for it to run at a reasonable framerate.. fortunately we have much better games that run better and look very good as is.. Left 4 Dead being 1 example.
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#35 J-REAL
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I say World of GOO man that game kills my PC!!
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#36 deactivated-57af49c27f4e8
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crysis. i would say gta4 and the like, but word on the web is it's poorly optimized so it's hard to call it demanding when it doesn't use what you have efficiently.
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#37 Espada12
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MS flight simulator. Nothing is more demanding that stuff.
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#38 Killfox
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Sorry its not crysis for the people saying crysis. Its World in Conflict by far.
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I heard Assassin's Creed was because it's poorly optimized. Is it still the latter?DeathScape666
this is so obvious Crysis
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#40 sethman410
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nope its not crysis, its medievel total war custom battle maxed out grapics. it still lags on best computer out there.
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#41 Killfox
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nope its not crysis, its medievel total war custom battle maxed out grapics. it still lags on best computer out there.sethman410
Ill except that answer as well. Ive seen benchmarks using tri sli and just sli/cf and World in Conflict maxed out to rediculous res., AA, af, and max everything still run just above 30FPS or so which is the average.
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that would be gta4, nothing can currently max it out, but it still looks way better on medium than the console version.
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GTA4. The minimum requirements alone are pretty high not to mention the poor optimization.
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Crysis. See unlike other games, Crysis is actually optimized. It just is that much of a demanding games.
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[QUOTE="AAllxxjjnn"]Stalker Clear Sky, because it's not optimized well.Jamiemydearx3
I agree with this. I cant even run this game on medium settings. I cant even imagine Maxed settings + AAx4/AFx16.

I can max it 8) No wet surfaces or volumetric smoke though. :( They won't activate.
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[QUOTE="Kevin-V"]We have a rig we built specifically to run Crysis at max settings. On that same rig, Age of Conan chugs in the most demanding cities. My Dell XPS laptop, which runs Crysis nicely at medium settings, can barely run Age of Conan with all settings at lowest. Of the PC games I have recently played, Age of Conan is certainly the most demandinig game I've enountered, and asks more out of these systems than Crysis did.DeathScape666
Age of Conan wins.

I use to play that. I would say it's more the crappy servers then the game. Such a shame because it was pretty cool and good looking.
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its not a game but i do alot of rendering animations in 3DS max 9. if i get too ambitious the renderer can run for days with and make my PC virtualy unusable. i have a AMD X2 64 4200 with 2 Gb RAM.

the end results are worth it though

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I knew Crysis was the most graphically impressive, but someone told me Assassin's Creed was the most demanding. Alrighty, then. Case closed.DeathScape666
If you mean just to get it run then I'd say AC is more demanding. You can run Crysis on a pretty bad system but you need a mega system to run it on high/very high.
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Assassin's Creed was not so bad (hardware requirements wise I mean, ans not gameplay wise) -- I was easily able to max (or close to it) it using a single 8800GT IIRC. Personally I have found the most demanding games to be World in Conflict and Crysisnaval
yeah them games are insane, although i think i got through world in conflict with most sliders up with a few instances of minor slowdown, crysis however that is just crazy. On very high it's just unplayable and even on high you need to make sacrifices.