[LIST] The Most CPU-Intensive Games

[Blyss Sarania]

Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus

Always loved that title.

Definitely believable, that they are demanding.

[Nobbs66]

Midnight Club 3 DUB Edition is another demanding game.

[Blyss Sarania]

Midnight Club 3 DUB Edition is another demanding game.

I have that on my GPU list as well, there is definitely a lot of overlap between our lists. I guess if you are gonna push the EE hard, might as well push the GS hard too lol.

[Nobbs66]

I have that on my GPU list as well, there is definitely a lot of overlap between our lists. I guess if you are gonna push the EE hard, might as well push the GS hard too lol.

Yeah I've started to notice this when comparing both of your threads. Guess it's because it would partially be a waste of resources if you were to offload all of the work to on component but it might because the EE has to keep up with the GS in order to keep a stable frame rate though I could be wrong.

[NarooN]

List updated again.

The Sly engine possibly shared some code with the Jak engine and Ratchet engine. I know that Naughty Dog and Insomniac were sharing tech and cooperating, so it's possible that the Sly devs were as well. Heavy engines despite the relatively cartooney visuals.

Some games on this simply had weird/bad coding. GTA Liberty City Stories is one such game that simply suffered from garbage/sloppy code. Didn't help that it was a PSP-to-PS2 port and it performed badly even on the actual PS2 hardware. The Koei Warriors games suffer the same fate (bad coding). I haven't tried the Samurai Warriors games personally, so if someone can verify that they're heavy like the other DW games, I'll add those too.

[shinra358]

GhostHunter
FFXII

[Nobbs66]

GhostHunter
FFXII

How is FFXII demanding? I thought that game had average requirements like KH2.

[shinra358]

Choppy-ness when going into a new area. Basche's 3rd limit break slows down the game (I've seen a better PC/laptop do this without any slowdown). On Ghosthunter, same problem happens when capturing ghosts and is non-existent when using a more powerful machine. Tested on 1920x1080p resolution.

[Blyss Sarania]

GhostHunter
FFXII

Choppy-ness when going into a new area. Basche's 3rd limit break slows down the game (I've seen a better PC/laptop do this without any slowdown). On Ghosthunter, same problem happens when capturing ghosts and is non-existent when using a more powerful machine. Tested on 1920x1080p resolution.

FFXII is not demanding on decent hardware in my opinion. Also for the quickenings:

...First of all in case you didn't knew it yet about FFXII quickenings you can actually disable some background heat wave effect by either using AgressiveCRC or setting skipdraw=1 in GSdx hw hacks, which will make them way lighter...

From here.

[shinra358]

I don't think that's the point. None of these games would be on the list then considering there are work arounds to get them working without problems and that 'decent' hardware will get rid of 'the problem'. SoTC is on the list when it has fixes of that nature too. Subtracting elements from the game to make it work does not count when talking about if the game is intensive or not. Using these fixes solidify the concept of them being intensive.