Best PC Game Graphics To Date?

What PC games have the best graphics to date?

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Anything other than Crysis? I'm looking for a game to really work my 2 4870x2's Crossfired

S.T.A.L.K.E.R Clear Sky should tax your setup but I'm not sure if it's patched to run under a quad fire setup.

The Natural Mod adds photorealistic lighting effects to the game and yes, it will make it run slower. The difference is astounding. I showed it a friend who is a hard core gamer and his jaw dropped stating it's the best graphics he's ever seen and I agree with him. You can find more info here:

http://www.crymod.com/filebase.php?fileid=763.

I'm running it at okay frame rates on an core i7 system with 6 gb of DDR 3 ram and an overclocked GTX 280. This is at 1900x1200

There is no game out there that will tax your graphics cards as much as Crysis will even though it came out in late 2007, plus you can get it cheaply. I've heard that GTA IV is rather taxing but more on the processor than on the GPUs.

Also, to really work your 4870s, run them on a 30" monitor which is why a poster above asked about the res your using.

I have Crysis set at 1920x1200 with 2x aa and all settings at very high. Actually texture, shadow and shader qualities are all at custom from the mod. Using the benchmark I average about 20 fps which is lower than I thought and pretty low overall but still playable by me. May not be for others.

I just saw that you have 4870x2s. I thought they were just 4870s. Your crossfired 4870x2's should eat this game alive.

But again, this is most graphically intensive game that I know of. What else do you need to know?

That's pretty sweet! Yeah, I'm playing it on Vist 64 on DX 10 as well. 1680x1050? What size of monitor do you have? If you really want to tax those 4870x2s, you'll need 30" monitors to run the high resolutions.

Grid looks nice that and warhead the reason crysis taxes a system is because the graphics are not effectivly presented Warhead is way better in the way the graphics are used. to me its more important that there is an artfullness to the graphics so it runs cleaner and gives deeper immersion by not having to chug in certain areas, STALKER Clear sky is ok but the ambient sound is what makes it great, I hated the constant drums in farcry but loved the interactive folage, to test out the cards get Oblivion plus realism and overhaul mods (the open cities mod esp), same with STALKER mod the games out to really push the cards i put Fallout3 maxed out on my dual HD4870's but the damn things that buggy it slows down for no dicernable reason in some areas. had to run it windowed to play it with everything maxed out graphically without crashing the box (Be sure to install all updates) .
Motherboard: GA-X48T-DQ6
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8500@ 3.16GHz OCED TO 3.80GHz
Videocard Name: ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series (two of crossfired)
Corsair Memory: 3,325.58 MB DDR31600MHz
Monitor Viewsonic: VX2233wm

Anyone can use higher res textures and add more effects to make it look cool, but if only 5% of gamers get to see those in all there glory, I have a tough time saying "best". The best to me would be fantastic looking and playable on a good range of systems due to good coding. I'm tired of waiting 2-4 years to max a game out when I have a more than capable system (i7 920 9GB & 4870 @ 1920x1200). That said, gimme FC2 over Crysis anyday, why? Because it honestly looks better on my system because I can turn it up.... "AND" play.

If I can't see them while playing, then they are not the better graphics imo.

Overclocking isnt a simple thing, its a whole science mate and there is a forum dedicated to it which would be a good starting point.

It looks like you got the same CPU as me which is an AMD Phenon 9500 or 9550, and that was a relatively simple overclock. I havent overvolted but only got a rise of .3Ghz...not a great overclocker.
Im interested to know who you post that you have a 2.2Ghz CPU and yet your opening line suggests you want to OC from 3.16 to 3.8

another thing,,,,,,when i first bought my parts for my PC...the Mobo was an XFX nForce 750a SLI AM+2....im building PC since 2004....and i couldnt mount it with the XFX...that freekin MOBO...give all kind of codes....the last one was code 88 it wasnt even in the manual,,,,i try everything,,,i take out the Video Card..i manage to boot the MOBO but it was fom the VGA...cause the DVI didnt work either,,,,meanwhile i started putting the OS and it frozed 3 times before the installation of windows all 3 times in the same page,,,i got mAD,,, and I end it with the Asus MB.....so my question is...if anyone here have tried that XFX MObo???,,,,if someone do...please let me know if it gives the same error code...or if someone acomplish to make it work.....sorry for my incovenience.....thnks!!!!!!

Hi,

With everything turned on at high, at 1920 X 1080, I get ~ 35 fps with my config. Is this good?

C2D E4400 2.0Ghz
4GB Apacer RAM
XFX 9500GT 512MB GDDR3
200GB Samsung HD

"Graphics" to me means the entire visual experience, not just still shots. Crysis might look the best in just a still picture, but when it doesn't run very good, the overall "graphical" experience takes a drop. I prefer the Call of Duty graphical experience over Crysis. It runs great and looks great. Crysis looks great, but runs bad, that's not "best graphics" in my opinion.

Most Technical: Crysis: Warhead
Most Artistic: Team Fortress 2, Bioshock
Most Brown: Far Cry 2
Most Grey: Gears of War

I run the natural mod on my 8800 GTS 640, but I have some custom config files, to fake high settings in DX9.
But I think this defeating the purpose of the mod. I get like 25-30 FPS @ 1440x900 no AA X8 AF. But I doubt I am getting the full benefit of the mod as I don't have the hardware to fully implement it. My Crysis still looks pretty good, but definitely no where near ULTRA settings.

i dont think you can run crysis on enthusiast setting with anything less than a GTX 260 or a radeon 4870 and have it be enjoyable. i run it with a 4890 oc'd to 980mgz at the core clock and its pretty good about 45fps on enthusiast settings 4x AA and 8x AF with the natural 2.0 (all with dx 10.1). anyways so if you want to play and actually enjoy crysis you got to have a pretty good setup personally i just shelled out the money for a good setup when the i7 came out because it wont be out of date for a while not to mention DDR3 is going mainstream too...

system specs. 8gb DDR3 1333mgz, i7 at 2.66ghz, Gigabyte x58 mobo, Radeon 4890 oc'd (xfx), 2x 500gb seagate hard drives in RAID 0, vista 64 bit (obviously)

Crysis/Crysis Warhead...nothing even comes close

i play online in crysis all the time xD

Yeah but I don't see you talking with just an 8800GT.

How do you intend on doing that. You're only 17. Are your parents rich?

Hrm will this natural mod run on the crysis demo? Also i have a 4850 1gig and i run on enthusiast at 1650 1080. I looked at screenshot comparisons of the natural mod and normal vhigh settings and i think in some areas it looks better and in others worse. it seens the mod uses to much fog in some areas, it reduces the visibily to much cause of the fog. Now when your by the shore it definitly looks better. Im gonna try it with the demo

I've still never owned Crysis, although played it through with friends, how do you think it and the Natural Mod will run on my newly OCd rig?

i7 920 @ 3.46GHz
6GB Corsair Dominator 1866MHz
EVGA GTX295 (OCd by ~3%)
Asus P6T Deluxe

I normally run all games at 1920 x 1080.