Looking to test out my new system with a computer game that will fully use all 4 cores, 1gb of video memory, 4gb of ram....and a lot of free time on my hands.

Age of Conan?

1/17/2009 4:30:56 PM

LOL

run the F@H GPU client and CPU client simultaneously while booting from a RAM disk

I'm not aware of any games that make use of much more than 2 cores or 1GB of RAM

1/17/2009 4:47:25 PM

^If you read, hes bored and wants to play on his computer, not put it to work when hes not on it.

I dont think there are too many multi-threaded games out there. Supposedly Supreme Commander is. Im sure there are others.

From Google (I make no claims for any of this)

http://www.hardwaregeeks.com/board/showthread.php?t=32483

Supreme Commander (THQ/Gas Powered Games)
• BioShock (2K Games/ Irrational Games)
• Microsoft Flight Sim X – (MGS)
• Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 (Ubisoft/ GRIN)
• Stranglehold (Midway)
• Enemy Territory: Quake Wars (Activision/ iD/ Splash Damage)
• Assassin’s Creed (Ubisoft)
• Warhammer MMORPG (EA/Mythic)
• Unreal Tournament 3 (Midway)
• The Witcher (Atari/CD Projekt)
• Half-Life 2: Episode II (Valve)
• Tabula Rasa (NC Soft)
• World in Conflict (Vivendi/Sierra)
• Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway (Gearbox/ Ubisoft)
• Fury (Auran/Gamecock)
• Alan Wake (MGS/ Remedy)

[Edited on January 17, 2009 at 4:49 PM. Reason : Tibs post]

1/17/2009 4:48:31 PM

I've heard that GTA IV tests a lot of people's systems. That game was developed to take advantage of a quad core.

1/17/2009 7:15:55 PM

From what I have heard GTAIV is just a piss poorly coded game. It hogs all of the resources and has many coding errors that cause the game to crash.

1/17/2009 9:50:33 PM

Yeah, it hogs resources... so it's good for testing to see if your computer has a lot of resources.

1/17/2009 9:55:23 PM

^ technically by how vista operates, it could do the same thing...

1/17/2009 10:37:26 PM

i dont have any games, but i do have some deterministic nuclear transport calculation programs that would take your computer out for a nice workout and not call her the next day

1/17/2009 11:30:55 PM

Warhammer online would be beautiful on max settings & graphics.

same with fallout 3.

1/18/2009 12:01:17 AM

Quote :

"Warhammer online would be beautiful on max settings & graphics."

It's not... at least, not exceptionally so. Also, it only utilizes multiple cores for just a few specific tasks.

1/18/2009 2:50:42 AM

4x single threaded games

1/18/2009 3:19:49 AM

Quote :

"^If you read, hes bored and wants to play on his computer, not put it to work when hes not on it."

I try to avoid reading threads before replying whenever possible.

PS. SARCASM IT IS CALLED, YES, HMMM???

1/18/2009 4:09:40 AM

I don't think Fallout 3 would be that good of a test. I've gotten really good results out of that game on a system has half the hardware in every category you mentioned.

1/19/2009 7:38:40 AM