Video games for each era (gen)of video cards?

[Angry]

Kinda of a vague question..
Was wondering if you guys knew of a list or could suggest games from each generation of video cards.

I.E.
Voodoo2 days
Red Faction
Voodoo3
Starseige
Geforce 256?


Geforce 2?


Geforce 3..etc... all the way up to the 6800 series?

(I dont know my ATi generations all that well or Id have referenced them as well).

[JonEapples]

I'd say that when the 6800 series came out, Doom 3 and Far Cry were the elite games to show off your video card.

[WonderingSoul]

I remember when the 7900GTX hit the market, F.E.A.R. was the video card crusher at the time. Soft shadows were a big deal.

Following that, the 8800GTX/Ultras I think Crysis was around by then.

I can't think of any games recently that are video card killers... Only one off the top of my head is Metro 2033? Bad Company 2?

[SteveLord]

Bad Company 2 is the latest video card killer. I'd say most are running it in DX 9, less in DX10. And the few that are running it in DX11 mode, are typically equipped with Core i7/ATI 58xx/59xx combos.

[lordkosc]

I remember getting a Voodoo 5500 AGP card to play Emperor Battle for Dune :) game was alright if I recall correctly.

[Dolk]

Oblivion IV for the 6 or the 7 series?

[EarthDog]

Bad Company 2 is the latest video card killer. I'd say most are running it in DX 9, less in DX10. And the few that are running it in DX11 mode, are typically equipped with Core i7/ATI 58xx/59xx combos.A single 285 runs BFBC2 with 8xCSAA @ 1920x1080 with 50+FPS (DX10)...I'll let you know how a 470 does in DX11 with the same settings... ;)

Metro 2033 seems to be the latest killer to me....

[WonderingSoul]

Oblivion IV for the 6 or the 7 series?

I knew I forgot a game in there.

I remember Oblivion and FEAR getting a lot of buzz.

[Hardin]

GeForce 4 for Morrowind. I had a 4600 and Morrowind looked fantastic. Maybe Far Cry for the 6 series. Doom 3 is a good one to. I can't think of anything for the 9700, 9800/fx era though hmm let me think.

[Dolk]

5 series was for Unreal II T 2004? Or again for the 6 series?

I don't remember a lot of buzz for the 5 series.

[WonderingSoul]

I remember the nvidia 5 series being around the time of the original Call of Duty and Doom 3 came just slightly after, as well as Half Life 2.

I remember because my brother's Dell had an FX 5200 and he was playing Call of Duty and Half Life 2 and Doom 3.

[Frogbones]

Lets see

Voodoo3: Star Wars Rebel Allience, Total annihilation, Warcraft I,II, Fallout II, Chaos Gate, Elder Scrolls II, Janes ATF Modern Aircombat.

Nvidia TI4600: NFS High Stakes, NFS Porshce Unleashed, Unreal T., COD, Medal of Honor, Homeworld European Air War.

Nvidia 5700Ultra: BF1942, Morrowind, COD2, expansions of the Medal of Honor, The SIMS.

Nvidia 6600Gt's in SLI...pretty much the same games as the 5700ultras: Crimson Skies, Echelon, FarCry, Soldner, Freelancer, Empire Total War, Black & WHite, GTA III, Modern AIr Combat.

7900GT's OC in SLI: S.T.A.L.K.E.R, Half Life II, BF2, BF2142, Homeworld II, Total WarII, Dawn of War, Just Cause, GTA VIce, and San Andreas.

8800GTS (g92) FarcryII, Crysis, SupremeCommander, Sins of a Solar Empire, STALKER Clear Skies, GTA IV, Flight Sim X.

[Hardin]

I think he was asking about games that came out around the same time as the video cards and really pushed them.

[killem2]

I've always found a good measurement is the 3dmark benchmarks vs the respective cards. basically if a game was made before 3Dmark 06, and X gfx card smashes 3dmark 06 then any of those games will be a breeze.

[SteveLord]

STB Velocity 128 - BattleZone

Voodoo Banshee - Quake 3

ATI 9700 - Battlefield 1942

ATI 9800 Pro - Battlefield 2

ATI 1900XT - Guild Wars

GF 8800GT - Crysis

[Enablingwolf]

Voodoo3: Star Wars Rebel Allience, Total annihilation, Warcraft I,II, Fallout II, Chaos Gate, Elder Scrolls II, Janes ATF Modern Aircombat.



Warcraft (1) is a much older game than all the other games for that particular list. I happen to have a Warcraft (1) Orcs and Humans disc. It is a DoS game. :cool: It wanted CPU more than video. I also have Fallout 1-3. Plus some of the Jane games. All fun games IMO.
Just the [original] Warcraft didn't need that much card and was out much much earlier than the rest in your list. Now I would think Warcraft ii and iii is more on top of it.

[>HyperlogiK<]

Kinda of a vague question..
Was wondering if you guys knew of a list or could suggest games from each generation of video cards.

I.E.
Voodoo2 days
Red Faction
Voodoo3
Starseige
Geforce 256?


Geforce 2?


Geforce 3..etc... all the way up to the 6800 series?

(I dont know my ATi generations all that well or Id have referenced them as well).

I'm pretty sure that Red Faction would kill a Voodoo 2, it came out more than 3 years later and it was D3D!

[Angry]

I think he was asking about games that came out around the same time as the video cards and really pushed them.

Exactly, but all of these have been great suggestions. Amazon.com is gonna LOVE me...just played and beat Red Faction, starting on number 2.
Before that it was....


Actually working on building a rig based on older hardware, (hence the want to buy in the classifieds)...to play these games the way they were meant to be played. Been scooping up older video cards as well, starting with a GefoceFX 5900 Ultra. Need to grab some 3dfx cards, the voodoo3 I was given is dead.

[Frogbones]

Warcraft (1) is a much older game than all the other games for that particular list. I happen to have a Warcraft (1) Orcs and Humans disc. It is a DoS game. :cool: It wanted CPU more than video. I also have Fallout 1-3. Plus some of the Jane games. All fun games IMO.
Just the [original] Warcraft didn't need that much card and was out much much earlier than the rest in your list. Now I would think Warcraft ii and iii is more on top of it.

Ahh...yeah, memory is kinda blurred before the voodoo (I think I had a Turtle Beach Vid card before the voodoo) I think it would be the same about the Chaos Gate game also, was along the Warcraft I timeline.......Though I do remeber that the games I mentioned were good stressers for the cards of that time.

[Angry]

Anybody remember the game that came bundled with Windows 98 machines back in the day?
It was under Microsoft I belive, and it was a stragey futuristic based game where you had to build these little blue tanks and errect towers. And defend against some weird enemies i think....been way too long.
Alot of the game was blue...and kinda out there. I have been looking for it forever and cant seem to find anything close.

[Enablingwolf]

Ahh...yeah, memory is kinda blurred before the voodoo (I think I had a Turtle Beach Vid card before the voodoo) I think it would be the same about the Chaos Gate game also, was along the Warcraft I timeline.......Though I do remeber that the games I mentioned were good stressers for the cards of that time.

In that same vein of games you listed, in the one I quoted. You forgot the Dungeon Keeper games.

:cool:Also shame on you for not including any MechWarrior (i and ii) games. :sly:
I had to turn to wire frame. To play it right, during hard and fast action. It simply made it easier to not have the slideshow effect. Even if it is primitive by today's standards. It was a tough game on the video cards of the time. When it was in it's prime release era.. And very fun to play. If you had the flight controller stick. Why I also had the flying sim games. Made it really fun for the era of games and cards.

[Frogbones]

Ughh ur right....just so many that stressed these cards back then. MW I and II were awesome that's when I had the Microsoft Sidwinder stick. I believe I had played all of the Janes combat sims that were realesed on the turtle beach and voodoo ...memory lane.

[Falcon-K]

STB Velocity 128 - BattleZone

Voodoo Banshee - Quake 3

ATI 9700 - Battlefield 1942

ATI 9800 Pro - Battlefield 2

ATI 1900XT - Guild Wars

GF 8800GT - Crysis


I would have put BF2 more along the lines of the X800/X850 series of videocards...

Going with the BF series, I would put Battlefield: Vietnam around the 9800 Pro/XT era. Also around that late 2004 era would be HL2, WoW, EQ2.

[rumbl3]

Ahhh i remember buying my Asus radeon 9800 Xt card it was in dec. month before my son was born.

It came in a huge box and got voucher for a free copy of half life 2.

Man that was so awesome. First time and only time i ever got to buy a 400+ video card lol. Actually take that back i split in with my farther for a voodoo 2 card when it came out.

But If i remember right when i got my 9800xt unreal 2 was all the rage but old. Then i think doom 3 dropped and just killed all are computers.

btw run doom 3 on the voodoo sli lol.

[mbigna]

STB Velocity 128 - BattleZone

Voodoo Banshee - Quake 3

ATI 9700 - Battlefield 1942

ATI 9800 Pro - Battlefield 2

ATI 1900XT - Guild Wars

GF 8800GT - Crysis

Actually, the 3Dfx Voodoo2/Banshee cards were out when the original Unreal was released. Quake 3 didn't even show up until next year.

Unreal: May, 1998
Quake 3: December, 1999

3Dfx / Voodoo cards weren't around at the time to play Quake 2 when it was released in December of 1997.

[Niku-Sama]

Geforce 2 and Unreal Tournament were a match together.
i remember getting UT with my Geforce 2 GTS/Pro

you kinda have to remember, if you can and were arround back then, they didnt make games to max out cards like they do now, its more of a recent thing for that sort of practice

[rumbl3]

Geforce 2 and Unreal Tournament were a match together.
i remember getting UT with my Geforce 2 GTS/Pro

you kinda have to remember, if you can and were arround back then, they didnt make games to max out cards like they do now, its more of a recent thing for that sort of practice

I was starting to think that myself lol. Glad someone noticed. I always think back to old gaming days and thought man i could max out games so easy. Now its like mission impossible specially with a cheap machines like i build. Used to be able to pull off decent graphics on games back then with cheapo machines.

Least thats how i remember it. But my memory is not that good was thinking maybe i was just crazy lol.

[Careface]

I was starting to think that myself lol. Glad someone noticed. I always think back to old gaming days and thought man i could max out games so easy. Now its like mission impossible specially with a cheap machines like i build. Used to be able to pull off decent graphics on games back then with cheapo machines.

Least thats how i remember it. But my memory is not that good was thinking maybe i was just crazy lol.

Ahhh, nostalgia. I remember playing UT99 on my GeForce 2 MX200 64MB (!!), and having it crawl on CTF-Face when you went console -> summon warheadlaunder -> allammo -> playersonly and spammed up the top of the towers then turned playersonly off. Wasn't much better when I "upgraded" (more like side-graded) to a GF4MX4000, bit better FPS, but still crawled sometimes.

Then I upgraded to a GF4 TI4200.. :drool: It was like the difference between night and day when it came to image quality and FPS, especially when you forced OpenGL instead of DX.. Nom nom nom

[Angry]

Funny you speak of UT99, I just recently scooped up the GOTY edition. Had to dig for all the patches but it works in Windows 7 so far except for the sound, its a little scrambled or something and I havent been able to fix it. But it plays great on the built in Ati 3200 in D3d in the rig in my sig. Opengl acts weird...and sorta like a slide show.

[Niku-Sama]

the funky sound is something that happened alot of time time, i think it had something to do with how it was rendered or mabe the quality of it.

my geforce 2 GTS/Pro ripped the game pretty well, of course it was overclocked and over cooled at the same time