...or badly optimized.
*cough Crysis*
*cough Metro 2033*
Ex: My EVGA Gtx 570 can handle pretty much anything that's optimized alright at full graphics. Crysis 2, BF:BC2, Black Ops, etc, and they all look incredible. White, say, Metro, does look amazing, for the incredibly little difference in the high-end graphics options, the FPS hit is HUGE.
Last edited by Chickensoup23; 2011-06-13 at 05:13 AM.
This is why its occasionally fun to play some console games towards the EOL, where the developer uses every trick they learned over the years to make something that looks like its beyond the system's capabilities.
http://www.racketboy.com/retro/ninte...ics-sound.html
I'm pretty sure almost all of the people browsing these forums (including you) don't own a Gtx 580 or the equivalent. The 570 I have is the equiv to AMD's top card (6970) and can't go higher than ~30 FPS with EVERYTHING (including AAA & shit) maxed. I think here they just didn't bother optimizing the game. I can still run it on very high with 4x AA instead of 16x well.
Take for instance the first Gears of War. It looked AMAZING (for that time) on both PC & Xbox while being much less demanding. It's just that lately, for games ported to the Xbox, devs don't bother optimizing it for the PC, but do it for everything else. Frustrates me.
The game is simply really demanding for today's hardware, just like The Witcher, or like Crysis was when it came out. Required REALLY expensive systems to run at max resolution with EVERYTHING maxed, see near impossible for the mainstream gamer. Now, if you have a system like Synthaxxx's...but hey, how many of us do?
Last edited by Chickensoup23; 2011-06-13 at 05:58 AM.
This was exactly my initial worry when BF3 and Skyrim was announced. Stupid consoles taking precedence in having their GFX optimized, then all the developers do is shift that over to PC, where the system can easily handle greater settings than the consoles. Luckily, both developers behind BF3 and Skyrim have said this won't be the case, I can't wait to see BF3 on max settings!
Yeeeah, that'd be great! I'm sure you've already seen it but check this game-play video out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UwOrl036_A
Looks amazing, can't wait.
Exactly. In a way I'm really happy to see games such as Metro, Skyrim & Witcher II that can play with much greater graphics on the PC than on consoles, but in a way, SOME (not all) of them are optimized to take more power than they should, thus leaving you with...well...yea.
Also, even thought my rig is not the best, I'm pretty sure that it's better than 95% of the consumer computers out there, hence why when I can't run a game at comfortable frames, it means that it takes some serious power.
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Jesus christ this looks amazing.