The most graphically demanding games on PC. The most difficult games in history

What to play on a powerful PC? Today we bring you the Top 10 games for powerful PCs. For those who spared no expense to upgrade their PC. Here you will find good gameplay and the best graphics.

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

The game takes place in a fictional fantasy world resembling medieval Europe. The protagonist Geralt of Rivia, the "witcher" - a professional monster hunter - sets out on a journey in search of a girl named Ciri, who possesses supernatural abilities. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is an open world game: the player can freely travel across vast territories, independently finding new places and tasks.

• Processor: Intel CPU Core i7 3770 3.4 GHz / AMD CPU AMD FX-8350 4 GHz
• RAM: 8 GB RAM
• Video Card: Nvidia GPU GeForce GTX 770 / AMD GPU Radeon R9 290
• Disk space: 35 GB

Tom Clancy's The Division

Tom Clancy's The Division is a multi-platform TPS video game, the first in the Tom Clancy's The Division series of games. In 2012, a group of American scientists and politicians launched a project called "Dark Winter" - a special program designed to test the ability of society to quickly respond to attacks by bio-terrorists. The simulation revealed how quickly everything can collapse, leading to many deaths and the complete collapse of a civilized society.

• OS: 64-bit Windows 7, 64-bit Windows 8 (8.1) or 64-bit Windows 10
• Processor: Intel i7-3770 @ 3.5 GHz or AMD FX-8350 @ 4.0 GHz
• RAM: 8 GB RAM
• Video card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 or AMD Radeon R9 290 with 4 GB memory
• Disk space: 40 GB

Fallout 4

Fallout 4 is a continuation of the famous post-apocalyptic series, the events of which take place several years after the end of Fallout 3. The protagonist of the game is the only survivor from Vault 111, which was located near Boston. By the will of fate, the main character will have to leave his home to embark on an adventure full of dangers, where mutants, raiders, mercenaries and various natural hazards will stand in his way.

• OS: 64-bit Windows 7, 64-bit Windows 8 (8.1) or 64-bit Windows 10
• Processor: Intel Core i7 4790 3.6 GHz/AMD FX-9590 4.7 GHz or equivalent
• RAM: 8 GB RAM
• Video Card: NVIDIA GTX 780 3GB/AMD Radeon R9 290X 4GB or equivalent
• Disk space: 30 GB

Battlefield 1

Battlefield 1 is a multiplayer shooter dedicated to the events of the First World War. Where up to 64 players fight in a variety of locations, including a captured French city, the Italian Alps and Arabian deserts. There will be various equipment: tanks, motorcycles, biplanes, battleships.

• OS: 64-bit Windows 7, 64-bit Windows 8 (8.1) or 64-bit Windows 10
• Processor (AMD): AMD FX-8350 Wraith(Intel), Intel Core i7 4790
• RAM: 16GB RAM
• Graphics Card (AMD): AMD Radeon™
• RX 480 4 GB, nVidia GeForce® GTX 1060 3 GB
• Disk space: 50 GB

Resident Evil 7: Biohazard

In Resident Evil 7, players will travel through the gloomy mansion of the Baker family, which, as a result of some experiments, have become walking biological weapons. The main character, Ethan, will have to find clues regarding the whereabouts of his mysteriously missing wife, without becoming a victim of crazy rednecks along the way. In the process of wandering around the mansion, Ethan discovers the secret of the origin of strange monsters, as well as the madness of the Baker family.

• OS: 64-bit Windows 7, 64-bit Windows 8 (8.1) or 64-bit Windows 10
• Processor: Intel® Core™ i7 3770 3.4GHz or AMD equivalent or better
• RAM: 8 GB RAM
• Video Card: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1060 with 3GB VRAM
• Disk space: 24 GB

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Forza Horizon 3

The continuation of the acclaimed series of racing, this time the action of the game will unfold in the open spaces of Australia, where players will be able to test many cars in not the most friendly conditions. As expected, everything will take place in a completely open world.

• OS: Windows 10
• Processor: Intel® Core™ i7 3770 3.4GHz
• RAM: 12 GB RAM
• Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970/NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060
• Disk space: 55 GB

FOR HONOR

For Honor is a team "medieval" action game in which players, divided into three teams, fight each other on various maps, besiege castles and participate in fierce duels. characteristic feature For Honor is an innovative combat system that allows you to control the direction, angle and force of the blow.

• OS: Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 (64-bit versions only)
• Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K | AMD FX-6350 or equivalent
• RAM: 8 GB RAM
• Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX680/GTX760/GTX970/GTX1060 with 2 GB VRAM or more | AMD Radeon R9 280X/R9 380/RX470 with 2 GB VRAM or more
• Disk space: 40 GB

Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus

America, 1961 By killing the Nazi General Skull, you have won only a temporary victory. The Nazis continue to rule the world. You are BJ Blaskowitz, nicknamed "Creepy Billy", a resistance fighter, the storm of the Nazi empire and humanity's last hope for freedom. Only you have enough strength, guns and ingenuity to return to the United States, kill the Nazis and fan the flames of the second American Revolution.

• OS: 64-bit Windows 7/Windows 8
• Processor: Intel® Core™ i7 / AMD FX-8350
• RAM: 8 GB RAM
• Video Card: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 660 / AMD Radeon™ R9 280 (3GB or more VRAM)
• Disk space: 38 GB

Grand Theft Auto V

The game that could not miss the Top 10 games for powerful PCs. Grand Theft Auto V takes place in the fictional city of Los Santos, which first appeared in one of the previous games in the series - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. The game takes place in 2013, when former friends and bank robbers Trevor and Michael meet again. The main goal of the player is to enclose the US Federal Vault, taking with him more than two hundred million. On the way to this goal, friends will face many obstacles that will lead to one of three endings - which has never happened before in any part of the series. Don't forget about the GTA Online mode, where even more action awaits you.

• OS: Windows 8.1 64 Bit, Windows 8 64 Bit, Windows 7 64 Bit Service Pack 1
• Processor: Intel Core i5 3470 @ 3.2GHz (quad-core) / AMD X8 FX-8350 @ 4GHz (octa-core)
• RAM: 8 GB RAM
• Video Card: NVIDIA GTX 660 with 2 GB VRAM / AMD HD7870 with 2 GB VRAM
• Disk space: 72 GB

• OS: Windows 7/8.1/10 (64-bit versions)
• Processor: Intel Core i7-3770/AMD FX-8350 or better
• RAM: 8 GB RAM
• Video card: NVIDIA GTX 970 4GB/AMD Radeon R9 290 4GB or better
• Disk space: 55 GB

Every year we sum up the results for the PC platform, presenting a list of the most optimized games. Over the years, a lot of information has accumulated and we decided to collect it in one article to make it easier for everyone to find optimized PC games. There are more than 60 games on our list, so sit back and let's go!

What games are considered well-optimized?

But first of all, we will announce the rules according to which the projects that fall into our field of vision are determined.

Games slow down a lot? Old computer? We start from the technical state of the release version of the game: there should be no crashes, lags, gameplay bugs and graphics artifacts, since the buyer should immediately receive a high-quality product, and not download a bunch of patches for another six months, in order to finally play normally.

But, given the current state of the gaming industry, we are giving a chance to those games in which the problems were quickly fixed by the first patches and they are fighting on a par with those games that did not have any special technical problems at the time of release. All others are immediately excluded.

For the games remaining on the list, performance scaling is carefully considered - how much the project reveals the potential of a particular video card, processor and computer system as a whole, how performance grows with the transition to new and more advanced architectures.

An important advantage may be the presence a large number settings, because thanks to them the user is able to adjust the performance of the game to his system. For example, after working with the settings, sometimes you can significantly increase FPS and almost not lose image quality - it is logical that such projects get an advantage.

The final list is compiled in such a way that it includes games that scale their performance best, with the least number of technical problems at the time of release, with a large number of settings. We try to make the list include popular and relevant for different systems projects and when compiling it, we do not judge which game from our list is better than another or which has a higher rating.

The Most Optimized PC Games of 2012

2012 was remembered for the release of a very interesting games, one might even say, unique in their genre and for a long time gone down in history, overgrown with memes and jokes. It is very pleasant that most of them came out with excellent graphics and worked well on systems that were relevant for that year. In addition, games of various genres and publishers managed to break into the list.

The Most Optimized PC Games of 2013

In 2013, we found ourselves in an interesting situation. The graphics in PC games and console games differed so dramatically that many visually advanced games were sharpened specifically for personal computers. And naturally, many games received not only high-quality graphics, but also excellent optimization. In the list you will see games of various genres and publishers.

The Most Optimized PC Games of 2014

This year has been a landmark year for the PC gamer audience, as the transitional state between past and current generation consoles has required developers to pay more attention to the PC audience. Firstly, we saw a maximum of optimized games - there are 14 of them in our list, and secondly, the quality of optimization for almost any game released in 2014 was higher than in previous years.

Thirdly, the quality of the graphics has reached a transcendental level, as it seemed then. Genre diversity will allow everyone to find the game of their choice.

The Most Optimized PC Games of 2015

But 2015 turned out to be very faded - high-quality ports turned out only for long-term construction, that is, for those games that were developed for 3-5 years. Almost our entire list consists of them, and it's just a coincidence that in 2015 we immediately saw a parade of long-term construction.

As for the rest of the games, all of which have already been developed for the current generation consoles, which is called "from scratch", they received poor optimization and did not make it to our list.

The Most Optimized PC Games of 2016

The main triumph of 2016 was Electronic Arts, which was able to release excellent PC ports with good graphics and optimization. Moreover, that the priority platform for the company is personal computers, so this result is natural. As for other publishers, only a few managed to break into our list, and moreover due to high-quality re-releases of old hits.

Want to know what games will squeeze all the juice out of your hardware? Find out now: the guys from GameSpot have picked up 18 of the most graphically demanding games.

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For analysis, they used a comparative test, as well as the Fraps program. The main criterion in the order of exposure was the average frame rate. The lower the score, the higher the game is on the list. In order to get the most out of the PC, they played in 4K (3840x2160) resolution and with the highest graphics settings. Even anti-aliasing was turned to the maximum, which, in fact, does not affect 4K in any way. The purpose of this experiment was not to select the optimal settings - the journalists wanted to turn everything to the maximum and see how the game would behave on a powerful computer.

The only setting that was decided to be turned off is vertical sync, and for the sole purpose of not being limited by a 60Hz monitor. In each game, the journalists spent five minutes, and so that the speed of the Internet did not affect the download process in any way, they tested only the single mode. Also abandoned various mods.

It was decided to take the following basis for the future computer: Bulldog 2.0 from Corsair, which includes:

• Motherboard Mini-ITX Z270
• Corsair Hydro Series H6 SF CPU Liquid Cooling System
• 600 watt power supply

• Quad-core processor Intel Core i7-7700K 4.2 GHz
• 16GB DDR4 RAM 2133GHz Dual Channel
• Corsair and MS Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Overclocked to 1683MHz, 8GB GDDR5X, Water Cooled

Many of the selected games are multi-platform projects, some of which, admittedly, were not well optimized on PC. The extent to which a game performs well on PC, as opposed to consoles, is difficult to determine. And if in this matter many people rely only on the visual component, then in this article the authors decided to mention only numbers.

18th place: Doom

• Developer: id Software
• Game engine: id Tech 6
• Release Date: May 13, 2016
• Minimum FPS: 47
• Max FPS: 91
• Average FPS: 65.2

Doom looks pretty as hell, thanks in large part to the id Tech 6 engine, which suits PC very well. At the very beginning we shot monsters, at 4K resolution and maximum settings, the game averaged 65.2 FPS. The lowest score is 47, which will naturally force many players to lower their graphics settings. But in general, the gameplay was quite enjoyable.

17th place: GTA V

• Developer: Rockstar North
• Game engine: RAGE
• Release Date: April 14, 2015
• Minimum FPS: 16
• Max FPS: 270
• Average FPS: 60.9

GTA V has a wide variety of settings, you can tweak the quality of textures, shaders, tessellation, and even increase the number of people on the streets. When we set maximum performance, our car is very tense. Luckily, the GTX 1080 handled that game as well. As a result, the average FPS is 60.9. The game did not experience jumps in frame rate, the game did not stumble, although it gave out 16 FPS once.

16th place: Just Cause 3

• Developer: Avalanche Studios
• Game Engine: Avalanche Engine
• Release date: December 1, 2015
• Minimum FPS: 44
• Max FPS: 381
• Average FPS: 55.9

Just Cause 3 is a huge game with an equally huge open world and rich landscapes. The Avalanche Engine allowed complex physics to be implemented; in the game you can blow up and destroy everything your heart desires. And this, in turn, has a significant impact on performance. As a result, Just Cause 3 became the first game to average just 60 FPS. And even at these 55.9 it was pleasant to play, no frequency jumps were noticed.

15th place: Battlefield 1

• Developer: EA DICE
• Game engine: Frostbite 3
• Release Date: October 21, 2016
• Minimum FPS: 42
• Max FPS: 68
• Average FPS: 55.5

Battlefield 1 came out last year and nearly caught up with Just Cause 3 with an average 55.5 FPS. We played the first few minutes of the single player campaign, and we have to admit that the game looked very realistic at maximum settings. Frostbite 3 allowed the game to keep a fairly stable process and FPS did not fall below 42.

14th place: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

• Developer: CD Projekt RED
• Game engine: REDengine 3
• Release Date: May 19, 2015
• Minimum FPS: 24
• Max FPS: 52
• Average FPS: 39.9

The Witcher 3 is a great game. And all thanks to the artistic and refined engine REDengine 3. The game has a lot of graphic settings that allow you to change the quality of hair, volumetric light and the depth of effects. While we were riding horses and admiring the forest landscapes, we noticed how gorgeous the lighting effects in this game are: the rays of the sun looked through the branches of the trees. And all this beauty, of course, has its price. Average FPS is almost 40 and we thought it would become the minimum, but no, at one point the frequency dropped to 24.

13th place: PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds

• Developer: Bluehole
• Release Date: March 2017 (Early Access)
• Minimum FPS: 26
• Max FPS: 51
• Average FPS: 38.5

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is one of the most visually impressive games on this list and, unfortunately, is very taxing on the system. One of the reasons why the game on Unreal Engine 4 is so demanding is the support for the game world 7 by 7 miles and the possibility of simultaneous presence of almost 100 players.Our rather powerful computer gave out an average of 38 FPS.Let's hope that the developing project will be improved and optimized.

12th place: Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice

• Developer: Ninja Theory
• Game engine: Unreal Engine 4
• Release date: August 8, 2017
• Minimum FPS: 32
• Max FPS: 43
• Average FPS: 37.2

The most recent game on this list is Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice from Ninja Theory. The game has a very realistic face main character, which fits perfectly into the harsh and frightening surroundings of the world. However, all this beauty greatly affects performance. The average FPS is about 37, and Senua takes his honorable 12th place.

11th place: Arma 3

• Developer: Bohemia Interactive
• Game engine: Real Virtuality 4
• Release Date: September 12, 2013
• Minimum FPS: 28
• Max FPS: 44
• Average FPS: 35.6

And while Arma 3 is one of the oldest games on this list, and in general its presence here can be challenged due to insufficient colorfulness, Real Virtuality 4, in turn, supports up to 270 square kilometers open world. Also, Arma 3 has impressive physics and destructibility. At the beginning of the game, we flew in a helicopter and were able to look around the scale of the world, the beauty of which cannot but be admired.

10th place: Watch Dogs 2

• Developer: Ubisoft Montreal
• Game engine: Disrupt
• Release Date: November 29, 2016
• Minimum FPS: 23
• Max FPS: 55
• Average FPS: 30.0

Watch Dogs 2 climbed to number 10 on our list. The game uses a modified version of the Disrupt engine. The same one that was used in the first part of the game. At maximum settings, Watch Dogs 2 showed us a long distance view, vibrant colors and very realistic water effects. While we were driving through the streets of San Francisco, the average FPS was 30.

9th place: Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands

• Developer: Ubisoft Paris
• Game engine: AnvilNext
• Release date: March 7, 2017
• Minimum FPS: 24.4
• Max FPS: 34.6
• Average FPS: 29.8

Ghost Recon Wildlands by Ubisoft is one of fresh games this publisher in our list. The game has a very detailed world filled with various panoramas. We were pleased with the effects of fire and smoke. But to everyone's surprise, the FPS was lower than in Watch Dogs 2. Wildlands was the first game on this list with an FPS below 30.

8th place: Mass Effect: Andromeda

• Developer: BioWare
• Game engine: Frostbite 3
• Release date: March 21, 2017
• Minimum FPS: 10
• Max FPS: 40
• Average FPS: 26.7

And while face animation in this game needs work and work, Frostbite 3 still allowed the developers to create intricate and detailed worlds with amazing lighting effects. And even if the game looks good on modern computers, then at maximum settings, even a powerful machine will be hard. The average is 26.7, the frequency was unstable and dropped to 10 in places.

7th place: Assassin's Creed Syndicate

• Developer: Ubisoft Quebec
• Game engine: AnvilNext
• Release Date: November 19, 2015
• Minimum FPS: 1
• Max FPS: 33
• Average FPS: 25.6

Syndicate used AnvilNext, the same one used to create Ghost Recon Wildlands. From the experience of past years, we know that the optimization of the game is not the best. Not only because the game completely lacks SLI support, but also because Syndicate is one of the few games that runs terribly on computers with two video cards. But be that as it may, Syndicate looks good and gives us a very realistic picture of London. Victorian era. On average, the game was 25.6 FPS, but it also happened that the frequency dropped to 1.

6th place: Crysis 3

• Developer: Crytec
• Game engine: CryEngine 3
• Release date: February 19, 2013
• Minimum FPS: 18
• Max FPS: 31
• Average FPS: 23.0

The original Crysis came out in 2007. This game was so graphically demanding that even the "But can it run Crysis" meme appeared. Crysis 3 is the oldest game on our list, but certainly no less demanding. CryEngine 3 supports a huge amount of particles, complex physics and tessellation. In the game, among other things, textures high resolution. Maybe all this influenced the fact that the average FPS was 23.

5th place: Ark: Survival Evolved

• Game engine: Unreal Engine 4
• Release Date: June 2015 (Early Access)
• Minimum FPS: 17
• Max FPS: 42
• Average FPS: 21.4

Unreal Engine 4 allows developers to create a truly huge world and rich landscapes. The game has very realistic water effects, clear textures and lush vegetation. Turning the settings to the maximum and playing the first few minutes of the campaign, the game immediately fell into fifth place, showing 21.4 FPS.

• Developer: Crystal Dynamics
• Game Engine: Foundation
• Release date: January 28, 2016
• Minimum FPS: 2.2
• Max FPS: 56.3
• Average FPS: 18.7

Crystal Dynamics created their own engine specifically for Rise of the Tomb Raider. This allowed them to create a truly real characters with high quality animations. In addition, the game has a beautiful and detailed environment. At launch, with Lara in both the tomb and the tundra, the system averaged 18.7 FPS, making Rise of the Tomb Raider the first game on this list to have below 20 FPS.

2nd place: Project CARS

• Developer: Slightly Mad Studios
• Game Engine: Madness
• Release date: May 6, 2015
• Minimum FPS: 15
• Max FPS: 19
• Average FPS: 17.9

The only racing games on our list and, with the highest level of graphics settings, the most realistic. Project Cars will bring your PC to its knees. The developers heavily modified the Madness engine that was used for Need for Speed: Shift. With a dozen cars on screen, the game averaged 17.9 FPS.

1st place: Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

• Developer: Eidos Montreal
• Game Engine: Dawn Engine
• Release Date: August 23, 2016
• Minimum FPS: 2.6
• Max FPS: 8.7
• Average FPS: 6.1

A lot of the games on this list would make you and your PC sweat, but Deus Ex: Mankind Divided in 4K will make you cry. Deus Ex's results may be the worst thing that can happen to a game, but it's the most graphically demanding game we've ever tested. The average FPS is 6.1. It was a complete slideshow. But the most interesting thing is that the maximum number of frames that we could see is only 8.7. And this is something with our rather strong computer.

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Everyone has their own idea of ​​what is the most difficult game in the world. However, there is a generally recognized list of games designed to give food for thought.

The most difficult game in the world is a game called Go. She came to Europe from Japan. In the country rising sun it is referred to as "i-go". In Korea, entertainment is called baduk, in China, weiqi. This game is the oldest on Earth. According to various sources, its age is from 2500 to 4000 years.

About rules and meaning

Chess

Chess is at least one and a half thousand years old. The parent game is chaturanga. It appeared in India around the 6th century AD. As the game spread around the world, its rules changed. In their usual form, they were formed only in the 15th century, and finally standardized only in the 19th century. Since then, international tournaments of this one of the most difficult games have been systematically held.

Rubik's Cube

At first it was called the "Magic Cube". The most difficult puzzle in the world appeared in 1974 and was patented a year later. Its author is the Hungarian sculptor Erno Rubik. The Rubik's Cube is a plastic cube made up of 54 visible small cubes. 26 of them are able to rotate around the internal axes. Each side consists of 9 squares, which are painted in their own specific color. Turns can be used to rearrange the colored squares. The task of the game is to solve the Rubik's Cube, that is, return it to its original state so that each side is the same color.

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Another way

Erno Rubik's laurels are now claimed by British inventor Chris Pitt. He came up with a crazy toy called Revomaze. The puzzle appeared in stores relatively recently, in 2009. On the surface, the toy seems very simple, but behind it lies the depth and non-triviality.

Labyrinth completed!

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On the World Wide Web, you can find a lot of games that will make the brains of users work. But one of the most popular and difficult - the most difficult game in the world (and it is for such a request that it can be found on the net).

Video example of the most difficult game in the world

Its name is the most difficult game fully justifies. It is a well built and thought out mini-puzzle. The user's attention, without any technical inventions, is offered to solve 25 questions. At first, you might think that these levels can be completed once or twice, but that was not the case. Some of them can't stand the nerves and they give up the search for answers, while others begin to live only with this most difficult puzzle in the world.

Each question of the puzzle has clues. They can only be obtained after some time has elapsed. Moreover, if you think in a standard way, then the tips will not help. The creators of the puzzle are advised to take the clues literally, but at the same time think not as usual.

However, there are already answers to each of the points of the puzzle. But in order to use them, one must also have not a hefty ingenuity.
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In front of you is a certain large closed area in which there are two green fields. Both green fields are separated by a white field. On a white field, several killer balls move along a certain trajectory. But they are there for a reason, since on one of the green fields there is a square with a red core, which needs to get to the opposite edge of the closed figure, that is, to the next part of the green field. Thus begins one of the most difficult logic games, and to be honest, the developers didn’t give it such a name for nothing - the Most Difficult Game in the World 1. To make sure of this statement, we ourselves tried to go through a couple of levels, but our passion and arrogance changed to disappointment right in the first level. Unfortunately, the disappointment was not related to the game, but to our abilities, because we spent quite a lot of time to cope with the task of the first level, not to mention the second level and the next ones. The game, despite the complexity of completing tasks, is quite exciting, you understand this from the first seconds, when everything seems to be simple, but at the same time it is so difficult that it disassembles the feeling of excitement, because before releasing the game, it was tested and probably passed more than once. Perhaps the developers know certain secrets of passing, but we will do everything honestly and will definitely cope with all the tasks, no matter how difficult it is.

How to play?

When you start the game, get ready not only to think quickly and solve emerging problems at the speed of light. Learn to respond quickly to ever-changing conditions and hazards. So your square is constantly in danger, balls are trying to attack it, but if you move quickly, before choosing a path for yourself, you will certainly cope with the level and move on to the next one.

Here you can play for free online game"World's Hardest Game 1"