FPS and RPG? Get STALKER!!
And Metro 2033 (tho don't be surprised when you have to turn the settings down)
I recently played Risen (RPG) which was a very good 35-40hr game, but it has a few bugs.
And of course Fallout 3/New Vegas for more FPS/RPG.
Crysis and Warhead are actually quite good games if you never played them.
Oh and I dare you to play Amnesia: The Dark Descent.
EDIT: Seems to be a lot of debate about RAM... let me just throw in my 2 savy cents. 4GB is definitely a minimum for a smooth PC using experience. You can get by with less but it slows things down, while 8GB will speed things up.
Why?
Even if you never go over 3.5gb used, you'll still see benefits for having more RAM. It's quite simple. File paging. Windows will allocate as much RAM as possible to be used, but if it determines you don't have much to spare then it will start to store more and more in file paging. What this means is your hard drive is being used as RAM, and a hard drive is... thousands of times slower than RAM. We're talking thousands less I/Os per second, and file paging is all about the Random Access Memory so I/Os are what matter. If you have an SSD, this will be far less of a problem.
However, with 8GB of RAM you will use almost NO file paging whatsoever. There is, for some reason, a few Windows things that require FP so you can't disable it. But, speaking as someone who made the jump from 4 to 8GB I noticed a difference. My FP usage went from around 500-1gb to about 100mb, while my RAM usage while sitting in windows doing nothing went from ~800mb to 1.8gb.
Basically the more you can put on your RAM and not on your hard drive, the better off you are.
And Metro 2033 (tho don't be surprised when you have to turn the settings down)
I recently played Risen (RPG) which was a very good 35-40hr game, but it has a few bugs.
And of course Fallout 3/New Vegas for more FPS/RPG.
Crysis and Warhead are actually quite good games if you never played them.
Oh and I dare you to play Amnesia: The Dark Descent.
EDIT: Seems to be a lot of debate about RAM... let me just throw in my 2 savy cents. 4GB is definitely a minimum for a smooth PC using experience. You can get by with less but it slows things down, while 8GB will speed things up.
Why?
Even if you never go over 3.5gb used, you'll still see benefits for having more RAM. It's quite simple. File paging. Windows will allocate as much RAM as possible to be used, but if it determines you don't have much to spare then it will start to store more and more in file paging. What this means is your hard drive is being used as RAM, and a hard drive is... thousands of times slower than RAM. We're talking thousands less I/Os per second, and file paging is all about the Random Access Memory so I/Os are what matter. If you have an SSD, this will be far less of a problem.
However, with 8GB of RAM you will use almost NO file paging whatsoever. There is, for some reason, a few Windows things that require FP so you can't disable it. But, speaking as someone who made the jump from 4 to 8GB I noticed a difference. My FP usage went from around 500-1gb to about 100mb, while my RAM usage while sitting in windows doing nothing went from ~800mb to 1.8gb.
Basically the more you can put on your RAM and not on your hard drive, the better off you are.
