What's the most demanding game on pc?

[Brookstone]

2 years ago, I would have said Crysis. That's no longer the case, as it will do nicely on many new systems with a fair video card.

One of the most demanding recent games is Battlefield: Bad Company 2. The absolute minimum is a dual core processor. Though it mentions a 3 ghz Pentium D, just try running it without a $300 video card and an unoptimized system. BBC2 is one of the newer games taking advantage of Dual core (& I think quad core too)

Other recent games with heavier system requirements than Crysis: Bioshock 2, Assassin's Creed II & Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, although that one is pretty flexible.

[Ren7on]

Originally Posted by Brookstone

One of the most demanding recent games is Battlefield: Bad Company 2. [...] just try running it without a $300 video card and an unoptimized system.

With a 9800 GT ECO I run BC2 without HBAO, AA and Shadows in LOW, everything else maxed out at 1920x1200 and I get 40-50 FPS average.

I think right now the "Beast" is Metro 2033. With Advanced DOF only an SLI of GTX 480 can run it smooth.

There are some heavy games from the CPU point of view like GTAIV or Ghostbusters and someothers from the GPU side, like Crysis, Metro 2033 or Just Cause 2.

The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena is pretty heavy to with ambient occlusion (as same as any game who uses 16-bit floating point for SAO).

Also... remember Cryostasis!