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Title: Looking for graphically demanding games with some requisites
Post by: Ai Shizuka on November 03, 2022, 11:32:19 am
Hello, just bought a new PC (ryzen 7 5700x, 32 gb DDR4 3200 MHz, geforce RTX 3038). Pretty beefy components because it must last for a long while, must be good for 4k video-editing and must be good when I feel the urge to play the latest battlefield game with maxed settings.

Right now I'm not in the mood to play a FPS or action stuff like God of War and the likes, but I want to test the new PC with some demanding games with great graphics.
Can be grand strategy, turn-based, RPG, survival. Something with good replayability and high hardware requirements that's not the usual AAA 10 hours adventure.
Title: Re: Looking for graphically demanding games with some requisites
Post by: Dostoevsky on November 03, 2022, 11:53:38 am
Great graphics, or demanding graphics? I feel like the genres you mention tend to not really go for the cuttingest of cutting edge graphics, but there are some terribly-optimized ones out there if you want to ram your rig into a wall and see how well it pushes through.
Title: Re: Looking for graphically demanding games with some requisites
Post by: Ai Shizuka on November 03, 2022, 12:03:26 pm
Great graphics, or demanding graphics? I feel like the genres you mention tend to not really go for the cuttingest of cutting edge graphics, but there are some terribly-optimized ones out there if you want to ram your rig into a wall and see how well it pushes through.

Ideally graphics that are both great and demanding, which I realize isn't that common in the genres I mentioned.
I can also consider action games with some depth to them, as long as it's not the usual railroaded graphic adventure.
Title: Re: Looking for graphically demanding games with some requisites
Post by: nenjin on November 03, 2022, 12:04:11 pm
Off the top of my head, with recent games....

CP2077 with the ray tracing and all the extras turned on.
Elden Ring with the same. I think ER may still have some optimization issues but cranking everything up on it should test the system pretty well.
Dark Tide is also about to drop and I think it's pretty demanding when everything is cranked up.

Weird how my brain still thinks Crysis when people ask for a demanding game, even though it's old as balls now. I feel like "this game will melt your PC" isn't as much of a selling point as it used to be once graphics cards became so damn expensive.
Title: Re: Looking for graphically demanding games with some requisites
Post by: Ai Shizuka on November 03, 2022, 12:53:29 pm
Right, forgot about Cyberpunk. How is it doing currently? Last time I checked I've read it still has some glitches, but nothing game-breaking.
Elden Ring, that's a no. Don't like the genre at all.
Darktide looks interesting, I'll keep it in mind. For some reason I never really got into warhammer games (only played mordheim for a while), so this looks like a good opportunity.
Title: Re: Looking for graphically demanding games with some requisites
Post by: AlStar on November 03, 2022, 03:09:07 pm
Control is a beautiful game. Excellent creepy atmosphere, too.
Title: Re: Looking for graphically demanding games with some requisites
Post by: LoSboccacc on November 03, 2022, 03:50:49 pm
this is a raytracing shader for minecraft, which recently had a free release: https://www.patreon.com/sonicether  - you can set it to be pretty gpu hevy

and for going outside the beaten path...

flight combat simulation: last upade has dynamic clouds and highly detailed terrain shadow, people are complaining a lot about performances https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/
comes with 2 boring free planes but the f-15c is great, simple and cheap

tank game: https://gunnerheatpc.com/ great garphics, very detailed and gpu punishing.
should be a demo available


Title: Re: Looking for graphically demanding games with some requisites
Post by: nenjin on November 03, 2022, 04:55:22 pm
Control is a beautiful game. Excellent creepy atmosphere, too.

I didn't find it too demanding on my 1070 with everything cranked up to max. Games primarily targeting consoles tend to always not fully utilize a PC's power because its spec'd to the max a console can handle. And a high end gaming PC will always crush whatever the console generation is at.

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Right, forgot about Cyberpunk. How is it doing currently? Last time I checked I've read it still has some glitches, but nothing game-breaking.

It's as up to snuff as I think a game which had a super rocky release can be. It was fully playable for me at release, just crappy in a lot of ways. It's got most of its polish now. I enjoyed my time in it.

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Darktide looks interesting, I'll keep it in mind. For some reason I never really got into warhammer games (only played mordheim for a while), so this looks like a good opportunity.

It gun be good. And more to the point, it's got a lot of graphical whizz bang my system can't handle so it should be good maxed out on your system.

TBH though, you could just go do a 3DMark test and get some numbers out of your system too, without needing buy a game just to test it.
Title: Re: Looking for graphically demanding games with some requisites
Post by: Mephansteras on November 03, 2022, 06:58:53 pm
Mount and Blade: Bannerlord on high setting should be a pretty good stressor on the system.
Title: Re: Looking for graphically demanding games with some requisites
Post by: Aoi on November 03, 2022, 08:37:51 pm
How about any factory game, with a mature (or intentionally system-murderous) setup? I'm thinking LGIO's Satisfactory death spiral. Depends on what part of the system you want to tax.
Title: Re: Looking for graphically demanding games with some requisites
Post by: JWNoctis on November 03, 2022, 08:56:39 pm
Bannerlord probably fits your requirements best, especially on 4K resolution.

Control is too much FPS, and Horizon Zero Dawn is too much AAA action.

MW5 should load your new graphic card beautifully, if giant stompy mecha action is your thing.

Distant Worlds 2 just got a major update, and I understand could be pretty demanding late-game.

No Man's Sky is still getting development, though it's not so demanding anymore. Try out DLAA on that one for even finer visuals.
Title: Re: Looking for graphically demanding games with some requisites
Post by: Salmeuk on November 03, 2022, 08:59:09 pm
Off the top of my head, with recent games....

CP2077 with the ray tracing and all the extras turned on.
Elden Ring with the same. I think ER may still have some optimization issues but cranking everything up on it should test the system pretty well.
Dark Tide is also about to drop and I think it's pretty demanding when everything is cranked up.

Weird how my brain still thinks Crysis when people ask for a demanding game, even though it's old as balls now. I feel like "this game will melt your PC" isn't as much of a selling point as it used to be once graphics cards became so damn expensive.

crysis honestly holds up. the foliage / tree destruction and open world level design (ignoring the awful space levels at the end) promote interesting gameplay.

RE: op's question. . . Horizon Zero Dawn is really nice stylistically, imo. great environments if you ignore the robot dinosaurs trying to eat you. I guess it's an FPS though.

total war warhammer games can really bog down when you run at max unit size. turning off the U.I. and enjoying the carnage is great. the best way to play is mortal empires / immortal empires, but that can be costly to pick up all the factions. honestly a rip off, but if you have the $$$

dyson sphere program is pretty popular if u like factorio in space.

beamng can be graphics'd to hell and back, if you want, and the driving scenarios are finally updated and pretty fun. nothing like driving random italian backcountry roads
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seconding No Mans Sky, though it is kind of a disappointment in terms of RNG. I have been wow-ed by many planets, like no joke some of the most interesting experiences I have had in recent gaming memory, but the majority of gameplay is kind of samey. I was trying permadeath NMS runs for a bit but the process of climbing the tech tree is genuinely boring.

finally, you might venture into VR games since, well, you have the kit to run them
Title: Re: Looking for graphically demanding games with some requisites
Post by: nenjin on November 03, 2022, 10:58:00 pm
Total Warhammer games also do ok for me on ultra unit scale and high settings. Again on my 1070. Where it chugs is when you hyper stack your entire army into the same space, and the campaign map. Both of those I think are due to the game's optimization and less about how demanding it is.
Title: Re: Looking for graphically demanding games with some requisites
Post by: Dostoevsky on November 03, 2022, 11:17:26 pm
I guess I'd echo the mentions of bannerlord, particularly if you both run high settings and massive battle sizes.

In terms of survival games, most of them are more on the badly-optimized end of the spectrum than amazing-looking. No Man's Sky has gotten more optimized, but also has some limiters that reduce the overall load - if you do try that, I'd suggest checking out the modding community for a few of the ones that add back some of the more demanding biomes, or increase draw distance, etc.

Though NMS also is still getting substantial updates a few times a year, so may be mods haven't caught up with the latest version. At least the latest update has much more customizable difficulty settings if you want to cut down the grind.

Conan and maybe even Ark can look pretty at times, though they tend to be much more on the poorly-optimized end of the spectrum.

If I'd suggest any Total War game for being both pretty and demanding... not really the warhammer ones. They look fine, but they're not really beautiful. Three Kingdoms, however, may scratch that itch.
Title: Re: Looking for graphically demanding games with some requisites
Post by: E. Albright on November 04, 2022, 02:02:00 am
I'd second de-optimized NMS. It's got enough messy, fidgety stuff that could strain a good processor if you try to make it do as much as it can. I'm getting a comparable desktop soon and will be testing it out.

Conan can be very pretty and its engine is FunCom programming at its worst. It could easily strain a decent processor if faced with overwrought building. Some of the public servers for that game had areas that were basically unapproachable with at-the-time decent graphics processors just b/c of how much janky graphical junk you could stack on top of each other. I don't think the servers were enjoying it either, but there appeared to be plenty of client-side pain just trying to render all the objects at once. That's not a universal of that game, though; most places in it my 2GB graphics card ran very smoothly. Again, it's FunCom at their worst.
Title: Re: Looking for graphically demanding games with some requisites
Post by: Ai Shizuka on November 04, 2022, 07:09:24 am
Thanks everyone for the input.
Completely forgot about the TW games. Weird, considering I've played a lot of Rome (the first one) and Empire in the past.
Dyson Sphere should fit perfectly my tastes (218 hours on Factorio and 618 on Oxygen not Included) and also Mechwarrior 5. Played a shit-ton of MW2 when I was a teen.

NMS, I don't know. I was very hyped but I read it can be quite repetitive. May consider it when it's on sale.
Title: Re: Looking for graphically demanding games with some requisites
Post by: E. Albright on November 04, 2022, 03:50:43 pm
NMS is fairly repetitive, yeah. It's a personal taste thing; if you like exploring and don't mind that there aren't profound differences between the endless worlds you can find, it's great. O/w it gets old.

One thing that helped pull me back into playing it were the Expeditions they did, but those were limited-time variant games with different goals. So while doing all of those could throw another 30-50h of gameplay at you, you can't do them until and unless 1) they release a new one, and it's up for 6w; or 2), they temporarily re-release the old ones (they did all of them again at the end of last year). It's a pity, but I get why they limit them; they want them to be community expeditions, not SP expeditions.
Title: Re: Looking for graphically demanding games with some requisites
Post by: Dostoevsky on November 05, 2022, 03:48:10 pm
Probably too much of an FPS for your current tastes, but I've been spending some time with the latest STALKER Anomaly mod phenomenon, GAMMA (a... modpack for a modpack, I guess). It's got poor to middling optimization (which probably shouldn't be surprising given it's running on a pretty darn old engine these days), but it can look quite impressively beautiful and there's room to really crank things up. While there are some plotlines it's overall a sandbox/survival experience, depending on the difficulty settings you pick.
Title: Re: Looking for graphically demanding games with some requisites
Post by: Vector on November 11, 2022, 01:47:52 am
Hmm... no Death Stranding?