Poll: How well does your PC run games

[she_never_was]

Horribly.
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[SL33TBL1ND]

With an i7 950, 6gb of ram and a GTX 295 mean I can play whatever the hell I want!

 

[Antitonic]

You can play games on PC? Wow, I thought it was just an expensive typewriter!

In all seriousness, it struggles with anything more intensive than Windows Solitaire.

 

[Pegghead]

Pretty crappily.

Even with all the settings as low as possible Alien Swarm runs like a powerpoint presentation and Left 4 Dead is fairly choppy.

But then again when it comes to the actual hardware side of pcs I don't know a motherboard from a graphics card and overclocking might as well mean having too many clocks around your house.

 

[TheComedown]

i7 870
4 gig of dual channel DDR3
HD 5770

most things maxed out at 1680*1050

Looking to upgrade my GFX soonish tho, looking at getting 2 GTX460s SLI when I get a new PSU.

 

[Gildan Bladeborn]

Every title in my collection (and there are quite a few) plays silky smooth and for the most part error free - some games are just buggy, irrespective of the hardware you're running them on. I'm not operating with particularly bleeding edge innards either, I just have a "reasonably sized" monitor - games that would probably be borderline unplayable if I was attempting to play them on a ginormous widescreen display at max resolution run just fine and dandy for me.

The Source Engine though isn't particularly graphically demanding - I shudder to think how obsolete the OP's box must be if those bring it to its knees.

 

[barash]

http://reviews.cnet.com/laptops/asus-g73jh-a2-core/4505-3121_7-33973053.html

Got one of those, runs everything on ultra @1920x1200. Quite happy, especially on LAN's when everyone else is lugging around huge towers ^_^

 

[Dr. Gorgenflex]

I can play any game in existence maxed out at at least 40 fps.

 

[ItsAPaul]

The one that just died on me ran new games on high setting; the one I have now can barely run Fallout 3 on low settings. Feels bad man.

 

[Deguasser]

what i'm on is a PPC G4 Mac, so no it won't run anything good, except the original fallout and fallout 2.

 

[Wolfram23]

So... everything at highest settings, 1080p works great.

OP: What's your system specs? Might be more than a GPU needed to help it along. For example, less than 3 gigs of RAM and you're probably hurting.

 

[efeat]

3.4 GHz C2D
4 GB DDR2
8800 GT
W7 Professional x64

Spent ~$500 total on the hardware upgrades 3 years ago, and I can still run anything I want with respectable performance and image quality. <3 G92

 

[Sir Thomas Sean Connery]

Let's just say it struggles with Pong...

 

[dbmountain]

I run Minecraft on "Fast" graphic settings and the fog set to "Tiny". Also I have the framerate limited. It still gets laggy sometimes

 

[Substance-E]

Pretty decent if I turn off AA (I've seen people bust a nut over jaggies but I don't see the big deal) and I usually turn shadows to low or off since they tend to look crappy in most games I've played anyway why not just go the full mile and get a few more FPS I guess...

Just remember it's not just the GFX card. A good cpu and plenty of RAM goes a long way also...

 

[Ultima Shadow]

Dual-core Athlon, 4gb of DDR800, 1gb 9800GT. It runs most things pretty respectably, tiny bit of lag occasionally (GTAIV lags a bit more with most of the graphics turned up). Probably need to upgrade to a Phenom at some point, but no real need at the moment.

 

[Worgen]

I can run pretty much everything at high settings without much frame drop off, I think the 2 games that give me the most grief are crysis and civ 5 but they are both playable, just choppy at times, I suppose its about time I upgrade, Ive had the same setup for like 3 years now