Your first "Uber Demanding" game which kicked your rigs butt?

Rroff · 4 Mar 2016 at 11:01

Turning on hardware 3D in Jedi Knight: MOTS for the first time, Quake 3, X-Isle (basically Far Cry tech demo).

heman · 4 Mar 2016 at 11:37

Crysis for me too. Took a few upgrades before could run that game at 1080p smoothly.

Twirlywoos · 4 Mar 2016 at 11:40

Metro 2033 and Crysis 3 probably. They were and remain games that are great stress tests for GPUs. Battlefield 4 I use for CPU stability testing.

Akagi · 4 Mar 2016 at 11:42

Oh yes, Metro 2033 killed my GTX480.

Raumarik · 4 Mar 2016 at 11:47

~>Dg<~ said:
cant believe no one has mentioned F.E.A.R

that hammered rigs.

doom3 then crysis 1.

Yeah but Fear was reasonably recent compared to the first game many of us nearly melted our PCs with

robfosters · 4 Mar 2016 at 12:15

Medieval 2: total war.

Loved that game but it did not like my Radeon X800 one little bit. Life got a bit easier when I introduced it to a 8800GTS 512mb.

I've always found TW games rig killers. Even Rome 2 can barely hit 30fps on a 980Ti.

arc@css · 4 Mar 2016 at 12:20

robfosters said:
Medieval 2: total war.

Loved that game but it did not like my Radeon X800 one little bit. Life got a bit easier when I introduced it to a 8800GTS 512mb.

I've always found TW games rig killers. Even Rome 2 can barely hit 30fps on a 980Ti.

Isn't that because they are more cpu bound games?

robfosters · 4 Mar 2016 at 12:27

arc@css said:
Isn't that because they are more cpu bound games?

Maybe but I can't remember now if I changed my CPU when I changed the card. I was full of ale for a lot of them years I'm afraid. There was definitely a huge difference though.

I never even bothered with crisis as I knew it wouldn't run acceptably on any machine I owned.

bazzabear · 4 Mar 2016 at 12:28

I'm struggling to remember exactly what game it was, but I distinctly remember having a game on my 386 SX 25 which would only run a pared down version because I didn't have the maths co-processor which those stuck-up DX boys had.

Nieldo · 4 Mar 2016 at 13:11

Rainbow 6: Raven Shield

Had to get a new graphics card

Kosmiche · 4 Mar 2016 at 13:29

Half Life 2

I bought a radeon 9800 pro so I could play it.

TehBluebear · 4 Mar 2016 at 13:34

trying to run Crysis on a nVidia 6200 TurboCache

LizardKing · 4 Mar 2016 at 13:43

Klingon Honour guard on a 166mx, had to overclock it to 200mhz to get it playable, except it brought on random crashes.

The most modern game that depressed me for even trying to play it was GTA3 but that was bad on anything when it first came out on PC!

Mockingbird · 4 Mar 2016 at 14:04

I recall having to buy a joystick for the original Tie Fighter.

Other than that... I think it was maybe Quake that made me buy my first 3D graphics card?

Richeh · 4 Mar 2016 at 14:05

Quake 3. First time I spent hours tweaking gfx options to get smooth fps. Think I managed 40avg with all low settings lol

Lustral · 4 Mar 2016 at 14:12

Command & Conquer Generals

Hammered my Alienware P4 3.06Ghz HT with a 9700 Pro at the time

cadmunkey · 4 Mar 2016 at 17:10

Mockingbird said:
Other than that... I think it was maybe Quake that made me buy my first 3D graphics card?

3DFX Voodoo card for Quake

Looked brilliant! I remember going to a LAN event and everyone being amazed at the graphics.

Teaf · 4 Mar 2016 at 17:18

Quake 2

I was only using software mode at the time, didn't have a dedicated graphics card. Talking like 2 to 5 fps at 300 x 240

rubberduck · 4 Mar 2016 at 18:23

Wing Commander 3... Made my DX2/66 cry. Upgraded to a P133 and had a blast with that game.

Rroff · 4 Mar 2016 at 18:29

LizardKing said:
The most modern game that depressed me for even trying to play it was GTA3 but that was bad on anything when it first came out on PC!

And now you can run it on a mobile phone smoothly.