Old games with high GPU requirements (and look great)
i have a pretty good GPU now.
besides crysis, what old games can i go back and play on ultra-super-max settings and would still give my GPU a good workout?
or what games looked really good on ultra at the time but struggled to deliver fps, and would now be a joke for a modern high end GPU?
What’s your threshold for “old”?
Couple more demanding games / difficult to run at launch that come to mind for me:
Cyberpunk 2077 is about to be 5 years old (2020)
Red Dead Redemption 2’s PC Port is about to be 6 years old (late 2019)
Metro Exodus is coming up on 7 (early 2019)
If this is your first foray into Ray Tracing capable cards, Control makes good use if that feature (Mid 2019)
Shadow Of The Tomb Raider was used as a benchmark for years (2018)
As you start going older than that, even the Steam Deck ends up being very capable.
People had a rough time with Batman Arkham Knight, still looks pretty IMO (2015)
If you’re looking for games that are coming up on 15-20 years old, like Crysis:
S.T.A.L.K.E.R (2007)
Metro 2033 (2010)
Rage (2011)
Doom 3 (2005)
Elder Scrolls Oblivion (2006)
RDR2 was one of the first things i tried to replay, but i was having weird problems with rockstar launcher (maybe only a problem on linux)
i'm playing gtaV enhanced maxed out. Looks great
Shadow of TR, great suggestion. I'll grab it on sale
Metro and stalker are great suggestions, but i'm really not into horror (i like to sleep at night)
There's a specific version of proton to use for RDR2. I believe it's Hotfix. Do a search for getting it to run on Steam Deck, because I recall there may have been a command line argument to add to get it to run.
Set proton to Experimental.
Set this as the launch options:
WINEDLLOVERRIDES=vulkan-1=n,b %command%
If you're interested in TR, then also try the Uncharted collection.
Great looking and it plays without hiccups (had a couple of crashes in specific places due to forcing my GPU).
Note though: has a bumpy start but after the first level it is all smooth sailing.
How about Skyrim with a bunch of heavyweight ENB effects?
Minecraft with rtx + texture pack + shaders
That shit still will bring a 5090 to its knees.
In addition to all the suggestions - check out modding databases like nexusmods or whatever. Many older games that would not fit your definition have graphical mods that will make your GPU work.
Personally I've played modded stalker, fallout, elder scrolls. Hell, you can make Minecraft look absolutely amazing, but it's a pain to set up properly. You've mentioned you're not into horror games, some games also have total conversions available that do a some genre bending too.
Cyberpunk is not that old, but it's one of the best looking games ever made IMHO.
Witcher 3, also potentially with mods.
Any of the Battlefield titles look pretty great.
Total War games, like Shogun 2, Rome 2, Three Kingdoms or any of the newer Warhammer TW. It sucks that blood is a fucking dlc on those games
Titanfall 2
Doom 2016 and Doom Eternal
Monster Hunter World (currently on sale, too)
Max Payne 3
Metal Gear Solid 5
Oh damn, that's a good one! i never got to watch a battle in total war with max number of troops
Isn't doom optimised to work on a toaster? The others I agree with
I think they mean for high/max settings.
Mechwarrior 2 had a Titanium Edition that really stepped up the gfx.
Age of Empires, Definitive Edition is honestly amazing to look at. Cities Skylines with mods and all DLC. Fallout NV with mods can get insanely good looking. Just cause 2 and Just Cause 3 are both beautiful at ultra settings. Star Wars The Old Republic gets fairly pretty for an MMO. Obligatory EvE Online, just don't try to play the game. Took me 16 years to win EvE.
I know you said Crysis (1?), but I think Crysis 3 still looks great
The Division is almost 10 years old and the environment is one of the best ever created.
Thanks for the reminder. That was on my wishlist for a while. Totally forgot
not that old (2019) but Control with RT and Ultra quality will probably stress it some, looks really nice too!
Witcher 2 had the "Uber-sampling" setting.
Cities in Motion 1 with the free look and largest size maps mods. Even at 1440p (not to mention 4K) it will bring a modern CPU to its knees in the mid to late game if you completely disable fog.
Morrowind with ALL the good mods. So many.
Unreal.
Battlefield 5 is quite good.
I'd say BF2042 but its a glitchy mess
Friendly reminder for those looking here about !videogamesuggestions@lemmy.zip. (Stuck this question on the thread of links to video game suggestion threads started outside the community, so no need to repost at my community.) Wish I could answer your question but I always just happily played on whatever graphics my laptop would run and paid high-end graphics zero attention, so no idea. Fun question though!
I had the bright idea to run Carmageddon many, many years after I got a "proper" video card!
...It was still just 256 colours VGA pixelation central. Didn't use the video card at all. 😂 Still fun though!
Call of Duty till mw3/bo2