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#1 skeleme
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Heres mine:

Resident Evil 4

Dead Space

Saint's Row 2

GTAIV

Bioshock

I found with bioshock is was really hard to navigate through your god damn weapons.

Those are some crappy ports to PC.

Share the crappy port games you have play!

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#2 GeneralShowzer
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Why do people call GTA IV a bad port? It controls better on PC, it runs better on PC, it looks better on PC. Have you played the console version? The game is a blob, you can't even spot shapes. Not to mention it dips below 20 fps sometimes.
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#3 deactivated-5cf4b2c19c4ab
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[QUOTE="GeneralShowzer"]Why do people call GTA IV a bad port? It controls better on PC, it runs better on PC, it looks better on PC. Have you played the console version? The game is a blob, you can't even spot shapes. Not to mention it dips below 20 fps sometimes.

cause when it released it had absolutely horrid optimization. It got a whole bunch of updates so now it only runs like crap.
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#4 biggest_loser
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San Andreas - visuals weren't updated, awful controls, buggy with a lot of crashes, non existent AI.
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#5 G-Lord
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Why do people call GTA IV a bad port? It controls better on PC, it runs better on PC, it looks better on PC. Have you played the console version? The game is a blob, you can't even spot shapes. Not to mention it dips below 20 fps sometimes.GeneralShowzer

I think the fact that it didn't support ATI (now AMD) cards in the beginning and it needed a quadcore CPU to run decently made people call it a bad port.

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#6 biggest_loser
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[QUOTE="GeneralShowzer"]Why do people call GTA IV a bad port? It controls better on PC, it runs better on PC, it looks better on PC. Have you played the console version? The game is a blob, you can't even spot shapes. Not to mention it dips below 20 fps sometimes.G-Lord

I think the fact that it didn't support ATI (now AMD) cards in the beginning and it needed a quadcore CPU to run decently made people call it a bad port.

Aren't there also missing textures, memory leak problems too?
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#7 SPBoss
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It runs perfectly fine on my secondary rig (in sig) which is a dual core.. even before the patches were released
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#8 G-Lord
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[QUOTE="G-Lord"]

[QUOTE="GeneralShowzer"]Why do people call GTA IV a bad port? It controls better on PC, it runs better on PC, it looks better on PC. Have you played the console version? The game is a blob, you can't even spot shapes. Not to mention it dips below 20 fps sometimes.biggest_loser

I think the fact that it didn't support ATI (now AMD) cards in the beginning and it needed a quadcore CPU to run decently made people call it a bad port.

Aren't there also missing textures, memory leak problems too?

Now that you mention it I remember that many had this problems. Glad I didn't.

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#9 G-Lord
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It runs perfectly fine on my secondary rig (in sig) which is a dual core.. even before the patches were releasedSPBoss

Looks like 3.9 GHz might be enough ;)

I used to run the game at 3 GHz with a Core2Duo and didn't manage to always get over 30 fps even with the lowest settings. Getting a Core2Quad helped a lot.

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#10 DoomZaW
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Whats so bad about the SR2 port? it pales in comparison to GTA IV or TFU (shivers)

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#11 FelipeInside
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Heres mine:

Resident Evil 4

Dead Space

Saint's Row 2

GTAIV

Bioshock

I found with bioshock is was really hard to navigate through your god damn weapons.

Those are some crappy ports to PC.

Share the crappy port games you have play!

skeleme

There is NO QUESTION about it...

Splinter Cell: Double Agent

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#12 murekkep
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[QUOTE="skeleme"]

Heres mine:

Resident Evil 4

Dead Space

Saint's Row 2

GTAIV

Bioshock

I found with bioshock is was really hard to navigate through your god damn weapons.

Those are some crappy ports to PC.

Share the crappy port games you have play!

FelipeInside

There is NO QUESTION about it...

Splinter Cell: Double Agent

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Conviction is worse. And the sad thing is it's using Unreal Engine 2.
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#13 FelipeInside
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[QUOTE="FelipeInside"]

[QUOTE="skeleme"]

Heres mine:

Resident Evil 4

Dead Space

Saint's Row 2

GTAIV

Bioshock

I found with bioshock is was really hard to navigate through your god damn weapons.

Those are some crappy ports to PC.

Share the crappy port games you have play!

murekkep

There is NO QUESTION about it...

Splinter Cell: Double Agent

/topic

Conviction is worse. And the sad thing is it's using Unreal Engine 2.

I disagree. Double Agent had missing cutscenes, KEY to the story..... it locked up, lagged, and crashed numerous times.....tales of saved games lost..... and graphics missing from the PC version. Conviction had some optimization problems in some levels, but I played it through start to end without any major hassles.
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#14 wooooode
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Star Wars The Force Unleashed is garbage. I played the PS3 demo and thought it was ok, so when it was cheap on Steam I got it and it crashes and stutters all the time.
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#15 Tresca_
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There is NO QUESTION about it...

Splinter Cell: Double Agent

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FelipeInside

Correct!

I still can't get the game to run at a decent frame rate.

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#16 FelipeInside
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[QUOTE="FelipeInside"]

There is NO QUESTION about it...

Splinter Cell: Double Agent

/topic

Tresca_

Correct!

I still can't get the game to run at a decent frame rate.

Be happy you got to RUN the game stable......
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#17 dos4gw82
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There is NO QUESTION about it...

Splinter Cell: Double Agent

/topic

FelipeInside

You beat me to it. By far, the worst port I have ever played.

The game was actually broken for me for the longest time. There was a control panel I had to use to complete the first mission, but I was unable to reach it because I kept falling through the floor in front of it. Had to wait for the patch for that one.

On top of that, the game had horrid performance issues, looked worse than the Console version, and it only had a few small resolutions to choose from (none of which fit my then 16:10 monitor). Much of the story didn't make sense due to missing in-game exposition and/or cutscenes. Random bugs everywhere. Self-corrupting save game files.

Worst. Game. Ever. For those who need further proof, click here.

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#18 FelipeInside
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[QUOTE="FelipeInside"]

There is NO QUESTION about it...

Splinter Cell: Double Agent

/topic

dos4gw82

You beat me to it. By far, the worst port I have ever played.

The game was actually broken for me for the longest time. There was a control panel I had to use to complete the first mission, but I was unable to reach it because I kept falling through the floor in front of it. Had to wait for the patch for that one.

On top of that, the game had horrid performance issues, looked worse than the Console version, and it only had a few small resolutions to choose from (none of which fit my then 16:10 monitor). Much of the story didn't make sense due to missing in-game exposition and/or cutscenes. Random bugs everywhere.

Worst. Game. Ever.

All correct until last line. Game was fine, even GREAT in part. You should have said Worst. Port. Ever. LOL :)
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#19 SapSacPrime
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I picked up DMC3 because my PS2 died on me, its actually a worse port than RE4 :cry:.

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#20 Daytona_178
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Performance wise it was GTA IV on launch, its a lot better now though.

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#21 Phelaidar
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Have to agree with DMC3, Splinter Cell DA and Force Unleashed 1. Man, those ports sucked... Every aspect of those games were butchered.
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#22 DigitalExile
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Halo 2. It's basically like running a legal emulated rom of the xbox version. I had to turn Vsync on because the framerate was too high - this led to severe issues (input from the mouse and keyboard were very slow). It was literally the xbox version, but it felt worse because of the higher resolution but retained the xbox graphics, and it was obviously built for a controller and not mouse and keyboard. This was supposed to be a game to sell Vista, rofl.

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#23 eagle63
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final fantasy 7

final fantasy8

legacy of cain soulreaver

were the worst ports i ever played.the res maxed out at 640x480 or mabe it was 800x600 but in any case they looked like crap on pc and were pretty much unplayable if you didnt have a game pad.ps1 games didnt translate well to pc at all

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#24 andalore
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GTA4 by far, I can run Crysis on maximum settings with no lag but when it comes to GTA4 It stutters to the point of being unplayable.

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#25 Crimsader
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Saints Row 2. Its performance was below any criteria. The game stuttered even at low.
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#26 KleptoZ
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GTA4 by far, I can run Crysis on maximum settings with no lag but when it comes to GTA4 It stutters to the point of being unplayable.

andalore

Yep, when you get high enough in the game world (like on the skydiving mission in BoGT) the textures are entirely messed up. Awful port, still a great game though.

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#27 KillerJuan77
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GTA IV. Also TFU.

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#28 dakan45
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[QUOTE="GeneralShowzer"]Why do people call GTA IV a bad port? It controls better on PC, it runs better on PC, it looks better on PC. Have you played the console version? The game is a blob, you can't even spot shapes. Not to mention it dips below 20 fps sometimes.

Nope its crap. This game is so badly ported that they had to re make the engine to make it proper. From my experiance it does not look, run or control better on pc. But ofcourse nothing matches double agent, that game crashes all the time.
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#29 topgunmv
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Red Faction Guerrilla. I have to force dx9 mode because in dx 10 the framerate drops to like 4 for a moment every few seconds.

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#30 pcgamer_07
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For me its gears of war. Too many things to say so - complete trash.

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#31 Darksonic666
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GTA 4 was the worst by far I can't even play it to this day without horrible lag its simpily unplayable.

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#32 Papadrach
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Call of duty black ops. True story...

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#33 Skullcandy
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Resident Evil 4. Tragic.

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#34 Litchie
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Probably GTAIV. Never touching that turd again..
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#35 Bigsteve3570
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GTA IV Saint's Row 2 Red Faction Guerrilla Resident Evil 4 SC Double Agent Alien Vs Predator IMO.
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#36 topgunmv
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GTA IV Saint's Row 2 Red Faction Guerrilla Resident Evil 4 SC Double Agent Alien Vs Predator IMO.Bigsteve3570

What's wrong with the AvP port?

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#37 dakan45
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[QUOTE="Bigsteve3570"]GTA IV Saint's Row 2 Red Faction Guerrilla Resident Evil 4 SC Double Agent Alien Vs Predator IMO.topgunmv

What's wrong with the AvP port?

This: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_S9JuXRLIU I still cant figure out how they messed up so badly. Something triggers it for some people on the highest texture quality settings.
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#38 CellAnimation
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Saints Row 2 - I love a game that runs at a choppy frame rate with an i7, and 2 GTX 480s.
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#39 wis3boi
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GTA IV (at release....it's fixed now...took a while though)

but I think, in my experience, Force Unleashed takes the cake and eats it too. The game takes up 35gb for a 6hr singeplayer only game. Framerates were single digit, then the patch that fixed the framerates was 2gb and increased the install folder size by 5gb.....wat?

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#40 topgunmv
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[QUOTE="topgunmv"]

[QUOTE="Bigsteve3570"]GTA IV Saint's Row 2 Red Faction Guerrilla Resident Evil 4 SC Double Agent Alien Vs Predator IMO.dakan45

What's wrong with the AvP port?

This: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_S9JuXRLIU I still cant figure out how they messed up so badly. Something triggers it for some people on the highest texture quality settings.

Weird. I've been playing the marine campaign with all the settings maxed out and it hasn't happened for me yet.

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#41 mAnIk800
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mine would have to be

Juiced 2 HIN

NFS Undercover

And GTA SA

All lag incredibly and the more you upgrade the comp the worse it gets :O

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#42 FelipeInside
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[QUOTE="dakan45"][QUOTE="topgunmv"]

What's wrong with the AvP port?

topgunmv

This: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_S9JuXRLIU I still cant figure out how they messed up so badly. Something triggers it for some people on the highest texture quality settings.

Weird. I've been playing the marine campaign with all the settings maxed out and it hasn't happened for me yet.

Was that only in DX10? I played the whole game in DX9 and it worked fine....
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#43 topgunmv
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[QUOTE="topgunmv"]

[QUOTE="dakan45"] This: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_S9JuXRLIU I still cant figure out how they messed up so badly. Something triggers it for some people on the highest texture quality settings.FelipeInside

Weird. I've been playing the marine campaign with all the settings maxed out and it hasn't happened for me yet.

Was that only in DX10? I played the whole game in DX9 and it worked fine....

I've been playing it in dx11.

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[QUOTE="GeneralShowzer"]Why do people call GTA IV a bad port? It controls better on PC, it runs better on PC, it looks better on PC. Have you played the console version? The game is a blob, you can't even spot shapes. Not to mention it dips below 20 fps sometimes.

It does NOT control better with the m/kb and it's horribly optimized.
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#45 James161324
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GTA IV hands down

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#46 deactivated-5bda06edf37ee
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Devil May Cry 3 or Resident Evil 4. both because of the controls...

GTA IV had a sucky performance.

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#47 dakan45
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[QUOTE="topgunmv"]

[QUOTE="dakan45"] This: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_S9JuXRLIU I still cant figure out how they messed up so badly. Something triggers it for some people on the highest texture quality settings.FelipeInside

Weird. I've been playing the marine campaign with all the settings maxed out and it hasn't happened for me yet.

Was that only in DX10? I played the whole game in DX9 and it worked fine....

Nope i was playing in dx9 too.
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#48 the_ChEeSe_mAn2
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A lot of the ports everyone mentioned thus far ran fine for me... Except for Saints Row 2 and Resident Evil 4. The first one ran worse than GTA IV at release and RE4...too many things to list.
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#49 Phelaidar
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[QUOTE="the_ChEeSe_mAn2"]A lot of the ports everyone mentioned thus far ran fine for me... Except for Saints Row 2 and Resident Evil 4. The first one ran worse than GTA IV at release and RE4...too many things to list.

Impossible "Double Agent" ran fine... it's missing files from the disc! I mean, even if you did get to play it, you did not get the play it completely.
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#50 the_ChEeSe_mAn2
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[QUOTE="Phelaidar"][QUOTE="the_ChEeSe_mAn2"]A lot of the ports everyone mentioned thus far ran fine for me... Except for Saints Row 2 and Resident Evil 4. The first one ran worse than GTA IV at release and RE4...too many things to list.

Impossible "Double Agent" ran fine... it's missing files from the disc! I mean, even if you did get to play it, you did not get the play it completely.

Hence why I said a lot not all, because I steered away from Double Agent just because many professional reviews were unanimous in their criticism of DA running poorly.