Which PC games are the most poorly optimized?

[F2K8]

Hey, recently built a PC that can run a few decent games and going to go on a short gaming spree, just want to steer away from the poorly optimized games as I'm not looking forward to troubleshooting instead of actually gaming.

 

So, over the last decade, which games have been the most poorly optimized (most likely console ports)? I'll start it off.

For me, GTA IV was terrible, it ran like absolute crap, yet it still looked terrible! 

Oh, and Thief! It runs terribly! It stutters ever so much and once again, doesn't look 'phenomenal'. 

 

Yours? 

[Lord Gaben]

Watch_Dogs

[cluelessgenius]

watch dogs - first!

 

EDIT: shit

[Coombzy]

Any Ubisoft game from recent years they have just been horrible optimization wise.If you can get past that then the games are actually decent.

[BonBon Scott]

Watch Dogs lolololololol

[Askew]

You see what you have done Ubisoft?

 

You're top of the wrong chart.

[Volbet]

• Watch_Dogs

Max Payne 3

GTA IV

Assassins Creed 3

Dark Souls (I can't really blame them for that)

[Oshino Shinobu]

Arma 2 and anything that runs on that engine. 

[ivhyn]

Grand Theft Auto IV, Dark Souls and Need for Speed Rivals.

[Mateyyy]

 

• Watch_Dogs
• Max Payne 3
• GTA IV
• Assassins Creed 3
• Dark Souls (I can't really blame them for that)

 

Max Payne 3?

With my old 560Ti, I could have that game at almost max settings with 300 FPS ._. 

[Coombzy]

 

• Watch_Dogs
• Max Payne 3
• GTA IV
• Assassins Creed 3
• Dark Souls (I can't really blame them for that)

 

Why Max Payne? it even runs fairly well on my 570 rig.

[Volbet]

Max Payne 3?

With my old 560Ti, I could have that game at almost max settings with 300 FPS ._. 

 

Why Max Payne? it even runs fairly well on my 570 rig.

It became playable after some time, but in the beginning it couldn't run on anything. And if you enabled AA the game just broke down.

 

Another badly optimized game was Batman: Arkham City, although that became playable with time aswell. 

[F2K8]

Grand Theft Auto IV, Dark Souls and Need for Speed Rivals.

 

Of course, forgot about NFS Rivals, such a badly optimized game! The fact that they tried to lock it at 60fps proves it! 

 

EDIT: 30fps*

[JuztBe]

Saints row 2

[Mateyyy]

GTA IV (runs bad even with my 290)

Watch Dogs

Call of Duty: Ghosts

Metro 2033

Arma II (DayZ too)

Minesweeper

Saints Row 2

Adventures of Slickenia: The Incredible Linus (running on the Pickle engine)

[KamiKatze]

Saints row 2

 

that game is just fucked up. The controls and the engine are terrible, absolueley unplayable. But it ran fine if i recall correctly.

[F2K8]

Seeing Watch Dogs a lot, I was actually going to buy it when it became cheaper haha, may steer away from it now. 

[Simmytu]

Command and Conquer Generals, the SAGE engine has one of the worst path findings when it comes to RTS games. It's so inefficient that causes high end systems to "clog" like 7 fps after an hour of playtime.

[JuztBe]

that game is just fucked up. The controls and the engine are terrible, absolueley unplayable. But it ran fine if i recall correctly.

It did not. At least with my 3Ghz dual core amd couldn't handle it at lowest settings 30fps at least. Minimum is 2ghz amd .GPU did not bottlenecked btw. Tho I really liked this game, it offered and still offers one of the most fun co-op experience.

[Humbug]

in my experience watchdogs and amazing spiderman.

This thread could actually be made sticky and used a reference for people to know which games to avoid. Also we should discourage people from using lines such as 'it pushes hardware to the limits' as an excuse for bad optimization. Poor performance is nothing to be celebrated, Although some pc fans think it is. In reality we should boycott these games.

[NUFCThomas]

Black & White. Runs just as well on a Pentium II + Voodoo 3 as it does on a 4770k + 290X.

that is because it was optimised for that generation, it came out over 13 years ago, amazing game though 

[Solkia]

Guild Wars 2 is supposedly obnoxiously CPU heavy and needs a top of the line CPU to play WvW on max settings.

[gilm0re3]

Minecraft, actually.

[ivhyn]

Of course, forgot about NFS Rivals, such a badly optimized game! The fact that they tried to lock it at 60fps proves it!

They locked it to 30FPS

[cluelessgenius]

Command and Conquer Generals, the SAGE engine has one of the worst path findings when it comes to RTS games. It's so inefficient that causes high end systems to "clog" like 7 fps after an hour of playtime.

oh come on i used to play that with a buddy of mine for hours like literally the hole night back in high school and i always blamed my bad internet connection for the stutter and now youre telling me the engine is fucked up ?