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Recommend impressive hardware-intensive PC game demos
Stasis
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I work at a computer shop and a customer is having us build him a really nice gaming computer. I want to install a couple game demos so he can fire it up and see what it can do right out of the box.
Crysis is an obvious choice, but what are some other graphically impressive PC game demos that will really take advantage of his hardware? For reference, it's going to have a 3.0 GHz Core 2 Quad, two GeForce GTX280s in SLI, and 8 GB of RAM and will be running Vista Home Premium x64.
Thanks!
Crysis is an obvious choice, but what are some other graphically impressive PC game demos that will really take advantage of his hardware? For reference, it's going to have a 3.0 GHz Core 2 Quad, two GeForce GTX280s in SLI, and 8 GB of RAM and will be running Vista Home Premium x64.
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I'd recommend Company of Heroes.
Mirror's Edge looks nice.
But Crysis is your best bet.
The Demo for Empire will also be very nice - Be warned it has long load times due to not being optimized final code.
Crysis and Crysis Warhead
and Empire: Total War
Try the Devil May Cry 4 benchmark at 1080p. That can really bog a system down at points.
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Thanks for the suggestions though.
There is an x64 edition of XP you know.
You could also download the demo for The Witcher, it is a very pretty game as well.
If you get 30fps out of that, you have a God machine.
Fixed. I can easily get 30fps, it's just that most settings are on med-high.
That's also an amazing game to have a second monitor for, you can use it as a topographical map which is useful as hell and since it has almost no textures or anything like that there's barely any performance hit.
Far Cry 2 is less demanding, for sure. I know that for a fact. Crysis runs worse on my rig, and i can run Far Cry 2 at full blast smoothly even with 8x AA, and my PC is peanuts compared to this one that hes talking about.
Man my PC ran that maxed out when it was released, all except AA and AF. Sometimes slowdown on really huge battles but on the whole it runs pretty smooth on an 8800.
Company of Heroes is far, FAR more taxing on my system. When I tried to max that out on DX10, slideshow.
The DMC4 Demo is good since it comes with it's own 10-minute timedemo testing various scenarios and showing how your PC performed through the, although the game probably won't tax a system with dual 280's. I'm not sure there's anything out there that WILL tax a system like that, not unless you're pumping up screen resolutions for a 30" monitor. Otherwise I'm guessing it ought to annihilate most games running at 1050 x 1680, or even at 1080p.
World in Conflict demo's also good, and has a good timedemo to go with it. Nicely illustrates DX10 features like soft particles.
Can't you make a bogus Steam account just for ETW?
Yeah but depending on what they do, most UE3 games aren't that taxing on new hardware.
The most intensive game I can think of is Mass Effect, which can actually get pretty stuttery on even high end machines. I can't remember if there was ever a PC demo for it though, I don't think there was.
Well, I don't have an 8800 or anything close to it so I wouldn't know about that. I just use an old X1950 Pro and it's served me well all these years. :P
They don't go hand in hand all the time. Half life 2 Episode 2 or Portal or Team Fortress 2 with 8x AA and all settings max would also be good showcases. Not sure if you can find a non-steam demo of them however.
There is a Burnout Ultimate demo that also pretty. If there is a Gears of War Demo that would also look nice.