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Hi. Maybe i'm really stupid here but i keep on hearing people go on about how much more console games are optermized than pc games. I was wondering if there was any way to optermize pc games to the level of consoles on YOUR personal herdware. Is there software than could do that?

It would be awesome if you could. I could optermize fear to run much better than before!

Thanks

Patrick

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most games have ini files and settings located in the options, that is what you can use, henve the reason they are there.

Reply to strangestranger

Try tweakguides...

Reply to STEMNIN

I'm lost.. Console games are optimized because it's a known hardware group. Basically, they can optimize the program to work with that specific hardware; gpu, cpu, southbridge, northbridge, hd, etc... It's a known factor. PC's will vary a ton in hardware, so the game itself is written to accomodate all the various possibilities in hardware and isn't optimized to work with a specific .

You can't optimize the game itself since it's a hard code unless you rewrite the game itself.

No worries though; most gaming PC's are faster and able to handle a lot more than a console.

Reply to cfisherrktk

Every see an Nvidia icon starting your game or ATI logo? Games are alot of times optimized for one type of Video Card or another. Granted they usually play fantastic on both, but the settings are changable. If you have a highend card you can crank them all up. A lower end card you have to start sacrificing some quality. Consoles are a known factor like stated above, so obviously every game is going to try to optimize their software for the hardware. PC's have that unknown variable so that's why settings and resolutions can be changed.

The best thing about PC gaming is you probably already have a PC just beef it up a little to run games so that you can run the biggest and baddest ones out there.

Reply to jay2tall

.....just one example:

Supreme Commander.

1) Retail game BSOD (blue screen of death), about 10-20% of the time when you start up Supcom, it crashed, this ONLY happened with nvidia cards.

2) Shields not rendering/displaying properly, ONLY, on nvidia cards.

I know of another game which was supposedly "optimized" for nvidia, well, the game was alot better for ATI cards, I can't remember the game though...

Those logos are just marketing, and bad marketing at that if they can't run as good.

Reply to STEMNIN

This situation happened when DOOM3 was released, with Nvidia cards running the game much faster than ATi cards. But a matter of months down the road after a few patches and .ini file tweaks, the game was made to run much faster on ATi cards. It is in the end of the day all marketing, but you will always find the some cards do run games much faster than the competitor. Not because they are designed to but simply because one card does a certain features much better than the competitor and if the game is designed to take advantage of this feature then the game will obviously run much faster on this card.

A good example of that is Half Life 2.

Reply to cafuddled

Here is an optimization guide, you can try:
http://www.gamespot.com/features/6 [...] ot;title;1

The rule of thumb is that none of the new games that are pushing your hardware will run flawless right out of the box, on the PC. After a few months the developer will patch it up and then it will be smooth, but again that still depends on your hardware, and the developer team.
Rainbow Six Vegas for example runs like shite on every PC no matter what you have because it was a terrible coded game. A bad console port.

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