Good non cpu taxing game

[Colin Donoghue]

I am looking for games that do not rely on a powerful cpu but rely on a good gpu I know tomb raider is one that does (I think)

[Tom is a Door]

Most Fps games or turn based games but depends on how sucky your cpu really is. 

what are your specs

[EvilNeo]

most games don't rely on powerful cpus so i think you should narrow down your search with what kind of games you'd like to play

[Damascus]

Crank up the resolution and the gpu is the only thing that matters.

[ARikozuM]

Rocket League (sport), LISA (TB-RPG), Final Fantasy 9 (ATB-RPG), Valkyria Chronicles (TB-RPG), Skyrim (RT-RPG), Amnesia: The Dark Descent (horror), and the list goes on. Need more? What genre?

[Colin Donoghue]

6 minutes ago, Tom is a Door said:

Most Fps games or turn based games but depends on how sucky your cpu really is. 

what are your specs

Fx 8300 

16gb ddr3 2400mHz

980 ti kingpin

I now the 980 is bottlenecked

 

[Colin Donoghue]

1 minute ago, ARikozuM said:

Rocket League (sport), LISA (TB-RPG), Final Fantasy 9 (ATB-RPG), Valkyria Chronicles (TB-RPG), Skyrim (RT-RPG), Amnesia: The Dark Descent (horror), and the list goes on. Need more? What genre?

Newer games like Overwatch if it is not cpu taxing

[Tom is a Door]

Just now, Colin Donoghue said:

Fx 8300 

16gb ddr3 2400mHz

980 ti kingpin

 

That is not at all as bad as of a cpu I initially thought, you can most games out there man, granted with a 980ti should get better cpu

[EvilNeo]

Just now, ARikozuM said:

Rocket League (sport), LISA (TB-RPG), Final Fantasy 9 (ATB-RPG), Valkyria Chronicles (TB-RPG), Skyrim (RT-RPG), Amnesia: The Dark Descent (horror), and the list goes on. Need more? What genre?

i think skyrim might be a bit cpu hungry if lots of mods were used especially the ones which adds more Scripts and extra units on screen

[ARikozuM]

1 minute ago, Colin Donoghue said:

Newer games like Overwatch if it is not cpu taxing

Why don't you play Overwatch? 

[Colin Donoghue]

Just now, Tom is a Door said:

That is not at all as bad as of a cpu I initially thought, you can most games out there man, granted with a 980ti should get better cpu

Had to upgrade from a shitty r7 240

[Tom is a Door]

2 minutes ago, EvilNeo said:

i think skyrim might be a bit cpu hungry if lots of mods were used especially the ones which adds more Scripts and extra units on screen

If you want openworld games with low cpu hunger try, mgs v its well optimized, Gta v is surprisingly well optimized as well, Lowered Distance scaling on witcher 3 would work too

[Colin Donoghue]

Just now, Tom is a Door said:

If you want openworld games with low cpu hunger try, mgs v its well optimized, Gta v is surprisingly well optimized as well, Distance scaling on witcher 3 would work too

I though GTA V was cpu intensive

[ARikozuM]

1 minute ago, EvilNeo said:

i think skyrim might be a bit cpu hungry if lots of mods were used especially the ones which adds more Scripts and extra units on screen

Assuming that no mods are used, some mods might hurt the CPU and others might not, and giving a diverse range of games for the RPG genre.

[Tom is a Door]

Just now, Colin Donoghue said:

I though GTA V was cpu intensive

It is but it can use most of your cores wisely, and over patches and patches it can run on my shitty athlon x4 860k at around 60 fps

[Tom is a Door]

If you get good cooler u can oc it a bit but ur fine dw you can run most games, but beware those chips run really hot

[SteveGrabowski0]

14 hours ago, Colin Donoghue said:

Fx 8300 

16gb ddr3 2400mHz

980 ti kingpin

I now the 980 is bottlenecked

 

Reading the initial post in the thread I thought you were talking a total crap cpu like a Pentium G3258, Core 2 Duo, or some weak AMD apu. You can play pretty much anything on that setup. Just drop a couple of the most cpu taxing settings like draw distance and shadows. And with a 980 Ti might as well use Nvidia DSR to 1440p if you're on a 1080p panel.

[SteveGrabowski0]

14 hours ago, Colin Donoghue said:

I though GTA V was cpu intensive

GTA V can run well on an i3, so your FX 8300 will probably have no problems hitting a steady 60 fps. Just don't turn up the advanced settings (they're cpu killers no matter what cpu you have) and run grass at high or very high instead of ultra and I'd be surprised if you're not getting 60 fps.

[ivan134]

Borderlands 2 is surprisingly easy to run on potatoes