Run high spec games

Beautiful lighting, realistic car models, and incredible weather effects all make for one of the best-looking racing games you can find.

It also makes for a rather demanding PC title. And that's just for p resolution running at 60 FPS. Ubisoft's latest Assassin Creed game is, unsurprisingly, the most demanding of the series. This shouldn't come as a surprise given Valhalla's open-world nature, yet it's when you crank up the resolution that these requirements get extreme.

Related: Best Parkour Games: Ranked. Even then, expect a few frame dips during performance-heavy cutscenes. Now that everyone's favorite western adventure of has been released on PC as well, it's time to talk about its flaws. Despite being an amazing game on console, its PC port was far from stellar. The recommended requirements aren't anything to laugh about either. For Nvidia users, a GTX or above is absolutely crucial for a great experience. AMD users will need to opt for a Rzen 5 X or above to get such results.

Should you meet those requirements, you'll get to experience the most visually impressive Rockstar game to date. Even with those specs, Cyberpunk will struggle to maintain a consistent framerate at times. And if you want to play this game at 4K with 60 FPS, forget it. Even the best PC specs can't maintain that frame rate consistently.

Fortunately, Cyberpunk has quite a few settings you can tweak to maximize your performance. Digital Foundry has an excellent guide on how you can increase this game's performance with minimal visual impact. In we finally got to see Final Fantasy XV on our desktop monitors. But this port came with a price: utilizing top-notch graphics and some of the most stunning graphics and advanced physics GameWorks technology , the game will truly test your system's mettle.

We're still baffled by the required GB free space to play this game in 4K - that's right, you'll need GB of storage space to play this game at its highest settings. The sequel, Spelunky 2 , is even more of the classic goodness of the game, but may require a somewhat more modern system to get running smoothly.

The game runs smoothly and still holds up incredibly well. It's a title worth checking out, or just buying the sequel for those with devices that can smoothly run it. You're gonna want to see every frame of spectacular self-destruction. Celeste was regarded as the leading indie game in the year of its release. In , it received numerous awards for its phenomenal platforming. In Celeste, players control Madeline as she attempts to scale a mountain while avoiding obstacles. The artwork is gorgeous, and the gameplay is almost flawless.

Celeste requires an Intel HD video card or better to run smoothly. You'll only need MB of hard drive space to run this PC sensation.

Now that Team Fortress 2 is free-to-play on the Steam Store, there is no excuse for not playing this game. Even if you have a basic integrated graphics card like the Intel HD Graphics , you'll probably meet the minimum and recommended requirements.

Your dated Windows 7 PC will work with this game. Games like Overwatch might not exist if it weren't for TF2. Although it's aged since its release in , the gameplay holds up well. Indie game Terraria is like Minecraft in two-dimensions. The game's vibrant 2D pixel artwork blends well with its themes. You can dig and build almost anywhere you choose. You'll need megabytes of dedicated video RAM to meet the recommended requirements for Terraria, but you can get away with a low-end megabyte card.

If you want to play the original World of Warcraft in its vanilla state, World of Warcraft Classic is very appealing. Take a journey back to World of Warcraft when there weren't numerous expansions convoluting the plot and creating player imbalances.

Back in its heyday, World of Warcraft had lower PC requirements. Low-end desktop or laptop owners will love this game. With 4 gigabytes of RAM needed for this game, Warframe's requirements are higher than other games on this list.

However, it has relatively low requirements in comparison to other action role-playing games. The incentive to play Warframe is high since it is a free-to-play game without a pay-to-win formula. You can grow your character without falling into the game's microtransactions, yet it offers in-game currency for purchase to skip the grind. Many of the most popular video games have low PC requirements. It's not always about frame rate or graphics, which is why a game like Minecraft is widespread.

Unless you've been hiding under a rock for the past decade, you've probably heard of Minecraft's block-building phenomenon. Because it attempts to capture every grain of grass and luscious, flowing lock of boy band hair, Final Fantasy XV requires a respectable mid-range GPU just to manage 30 fps — a requirement that is entirely justified by the game's impressive fidelity.

Its incredible draw distance, shiny particle effects and general polygonal perfection cough, Cindy … or Noctis, take your pick all mean you'll need a PC that packs a punch.

Recommended specs for p 30fps : CPU: 3. Thanks to The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt's bevy of graphics options, this game can run as easily as you want it to — albeit, the further you dial the game down, the uglier it gets obviously. Should you choose to amp up The Witcher 3's settings, be ready to support those graphical ambitions with a powerful gaming rig.

If you want your Witcher beasts extra fuzzy and Geralt's tessellated hair to flow dynamically in the wind, you'll want HairWorks enabled. However, that feature is the bane of computer hardware something even Nvidia admits , so get ready to push your rig to the max in the pursuit of a good digital 'do. Batman: Arkham Knight will forever be one of the more taxing games someone can try to play on their rig, though the reasons for placing it on this list are only partially legitimate.

Arkham Knight is an absolutely stunning-looking game that requires a lot of horsepower. But it's still true that this game was — and is — a poorly optimized by-product of Warner Bros. Interactive's lack of concern for the PC platform. To this day, the game's requirements remain pretty darn high, and it still doesn't run buttery smooth, even after the game was taken off digital shelves for months in order to be fixed and optimized.

With that said, these days, Arkham Knight at least runs well enough to play, but you should never forget its status upon launch in Though this game is not all that graphically taxing, there's no denying that Star Wars Battlefront II is a gorgeous game.

From minute details like leaving footprints in the snowy plains of Hoth to the shining, shimmering armor of each and every clone trooper, this game's graphical fidelity is virtually unparalleled.

Its effects are incredible, its attention to detail is superb, and the overall package is, at least on a visual level, worthy of the Star Wars name. For these reasons, you'll need a pretty decent rig to get the most out of Star Wars Battlefront II — though nowhere near the beast you might need for some of the other entries on this list.

Laptop Mag. Assassin's Creed Odyssey. Shadow of the Tomb Raider. As a result, our rig achieved a We did notice the odd, occasional framerate hiccup, however, which is evident in our 16 FPS minimum.

Just Cause 3 is a big, wacky open-world game that features colorful environments that stretch to the horizon. Its Avalanche Engine also incorporates complex physics, which allow you to blow up and destroy the world around you.

This makes it a pretty computationally intensive game. As a result, Just Cause 3 is the first game on our list with an average frame rate that falls below 60 FPS. Still, at We played through the opening few minutes of the single-player campaign and the battlefield looked realistic running maxed out with explosions and fire effects going off all around us.

The Frostbite 3 engine allowed the game to run fairly consistent, and it never dipped below 42 FPS. The Witcher 3 is a beautiful game, thanks in part to its wonderful artistry and sophisticated REDengine 3 tech. The action RPG offers a bunch of graphical settings that allow you to enable advanced levels of Nvidia hair physics, ambient occlusion, and depth of field effects.

All of this beauty comes at a cost, however. While the game was able to muster an above 30 FPS average, which is the minimum of what we consider to be playable, it did occasionally stutter, and reached a low of 24 FPS. PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is far from the most visually impressive game on this list, but it is currently quite taxing on systems in its early access state.

One of the reasons why the Unreal Engine 4 game is so demanding is because it features a large 7x7 mile world and provides vast draw distances with up to simultaneous players. While our system managed to muster a