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Old 11-19-2009, 10:44 PM
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What are the most hardware intensive games?

I'm trying to get a feel for like, the top 5 games right now in terms of steep system requirements. The first ones that come to mind are for instance:

Crysis Warhead
Modern Warfare 2
FEAR 2
Dragon Age: Origins

What does the list really look like? I'm looking over some GPU reviews for example, and seeing things like Arkham Asylum and a few others.
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Old 11-19-2009, 10:59 PM
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Re: What are the most hardware intensive games?

MW2? Its the COD4 engine, which runs fantastic.
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Old 11-20-2009, 12:48 AM
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Re: What are the most hardware intensive games?

Crysis and GTA4

And if you add ambient occlusion forget it
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Old 11-20-2009, 01:26 AM
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Re: What are the most hardware intensive games?

So many games are demanding cause of crappy optimization though.
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Old 11-20-2009, 05:34 PM
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Re: What are the most hardware intensive games?

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MW2? Its the COD4 engine, which runs fantastic.
COD2 engine hehe
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Old 11-20-2009, 06:53 PM
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Re: What are the most hardware intensive games?

I've heard that Grid is pretty hardware intensive.
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Old 11-23-2009, 01:03 PM
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Re: What are the most hardware intensive games?

arma 2, crysis, crysis warhead, maybe something else
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Old 11-23-2009, 06:27 PM
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Re: What are the most hardware intensive games?

Flight Simulator X, with everything maxed out.
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