best looking game

Now a days, EVERY game has incredible graphics, be it PC or console. We're in an era where everything looks good, and that's probably not a good thing. When every game has cutting edge graphics, the next determinate becomes substance of the game, and that's when you'll see just how lacking this generation of games is. Before, games only had some weirdass gimic or feature and not much of a story at all (Max Payne, Killswitch, Gears of War, etc.). The only reason to play was some 'nice new graphics' and some gimic of 'oh you take cover in this game!' or 'ohh bullet trail lol' and that's why it sold. Now EVERY game looks cutting edge, and people will realize "wait why am I playing this POS game cause it's hyped, when 50 other games look just as good, yet are more fun to play.."

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Like I said. Why don't we all agree that dual 8800GTX is the way to go?

saintvalentine

Hey saint, go into your crysis beta options and look at the anti-aliasing option. You'll notice that it has been turned to off.

i have a feeling edeekos and raven are the same guy lol...and if they arent the same, they are probablybuttbuddies or friends, something like that.Anyways, cant you guys just argue and discuss without throwing in personal insults and all these damn "u r 10 lulz, PWnEd". Just discuss without trying to insult everyone that doesnt agree with you, geez...

( To raven a.k.a. edeekos :P)

Well if you are FPS nut you could always play Bio shock (but I couldn't recommend you because I haven't played it and so I am only relying on what I have read). You could buy rainbow six vegas it will give your PC a good work over and it looks fantastic for an Unreal engine game.

If you want an RTS to test your PC than theres Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts or Simply Company of Heroes, Supreme commader simply because it robs the PC of all it Horse Power or World in Conflict because its truly a Dx10 game so you will see your cards real potential.

Take my advice save the money buy a better card 8800GTX or 8800Ultra and download UT3 demo to see the performance or Call of Duty 4. To save money on the card look for other PC manufacturers that are not famous PINE, INNO etc

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Well if you are FPS nut you could always play Bio shock (but I couldn't recommend you because I haven't played it and so I am only relying on what I have read). You could buy rainbow six vegas it will give your PC a good work over and it looks fantastic for an Unreal engine game.

If you want an RTS to test your PC than theres Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts or Simply Company of Heroes, Supreme commader simply because it robs the PC of all it Horse Power or World in Conflict because its truly a Dx10 game so you will see your cards real potential.

Take my advice save the money buy a better card 8800GTX or 8800Ultra and download UT3 demo to see the performance or Call of Duty 4. To save money on the card look for other PC manufacturers that are not famous PINE, INNO etc

:P

sheeda_blade

I would go the opposite way and not recommend unknown hardware manufacturers, that's just silly. :?

Well you are right but it all comes down to how the things are manufactured and since they all use the same components the excpetion being that the cheaper cards like 8800 gtx by INNO 3d Vs 8800 gtx of MSI have more bigger software bundles with them and they are hence more expensive. Like I bought my 6800 GT by INNO 3d for the price of a 6600 GT by MSI I only got a copy of some obscure Delta Force title and not Doom 3 and other 5 or 6 games that would have come with the 6600 GT by MSI but I got a better card for the same price and it ran longer many people say that there are cooling issues and stuff but mine came with a heat sink made by Cool Master and I was surprised after wards that why don't people by these cards they are virtually the same thing with the same amount of Warranty so why buy an expensive card.

Peace :D

wow i dont know where you are living but for me a GTX is 750 $ + 14% Tx AHAHAHAHA

Maybe its stuff that fall form delivery trucks ahah (you know what i mean)

Yeah I would also recommend a GTX. And since you want to play games withhigh agraphical performance I would suggest you buy some more RAM, upgrade to like 4 Gigs or sum. Especially for games like Crysis.

KiwiforBrain

No game including crysis takes advantage of more than 2GB of ram. The rest will help keep windows and background apps stable but won't affect map loading or reduction in game stuttering at all.

Unless you're a video editor, work with photoshop, 3dsmax, or any 3d package, or intensive software, there is no reason for more than 2 GB.

try stranglehold

I feel I have to point out a few things:

1. When people say a game runs at 30fps they are talking about the average. I don't know about other people, but when I play a game it fluctuates by about 10 fps depending on whether I'm shooting up a building full of hostiles or when I'm crawling my way through a vent. A game running at "30 fps" may indeed dip into the low 20s during action, making things look slow or choppy. A game running at 60 fps however will usually never go below 40 fps, so it will remain much more fluid, to use this thread's buzzword.

2. Personally I never trust reviews from Tom's hardware. The only thing I ever use it for is to compare the 3dmark settings from their massive comparison list. If you notice, on the last test from http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/10/09/directx_10_shootout/page7.html the 8600 GTS apparently out performs the 8800 GTS 640. Now some people may look at that, then look at the 768mb GTX and say that the GTX is 4 times faster than the GTS, when in actual fact, the only reason the GTS is getting 6fps is because WiC on very high 19x12 uses just a bit more than 640mb of video memory. Bottlenecked fps should never be compared to unbottlenecked fps.

3. Why do you people insist on using the absolute maximum settings? If you want to play a game on max go get yourself SLI 8800Ultras. Personally I can't tell the difference between ultra high and a custom setting with everything on ultra except one or two of those little extra effects that you only notice if you have been shown a comparison screenshot that generally knock 15-20% off of the fps.

Games are made to be scalable, so saying that you 'need' to upgrade your video card in order to play games that are coming out in a few months is absolute BS. I'm using an x850xt, a card that came out in 2004, and I max, or nearly max every game not made in the last year and a half, and can run any game made this year(exluding the SM3.0 exlusives:evil: ) at at least medium settings, expect crysis, which I run at low, although it still looks better than any other game I've played on max. I paid $70 total for my card, and I'm getting nearly as much enjoyment out of it as those of you who spend upwards of $300 for the latest technology. When the 9x00 series comes out I'm going to start looking for a cheap 7900, x1950 or maybe even a 7950. Basically what I'm trying to say is that if you absolutely need to run a game at max, then don't complain about the price, if you don't mind running a game on high or very high, then it doesn't really matter what video card you get at long as it isn't a completely stripped down shell of a better card(cough*x1900gt*cough).