What makes a game "unoptimized"

[CrackerJack]

Sims 2 runs flawless on both of my systems(Vista x86 & Win7 x64) Never had problem with anything

Battlefield 2 yeah that's a different story, that game will crash just about all the time. I've tried different OS, GPU and CPU's. And still does it. Hell half the time it would crash just start and exiting the game

 

[DrPepper]

What I can say is about what makes a computer game 'optimized'.

Assassin's creed runs fine on any system I test it on.

Well what have you got to say about optimized games ?

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Earth-3 engine (used for Earth 2150 titles) has to be the most optimized I've ever seen. It has run flawless on every computer I tried it on from 700 MHz AMD Athlons to Core i7. It even has a lot of features that, to this date, are rare (like weather patterns, ability to tunnel underground, and modular units).


Freelancer runs great on a wide range of hardware too. It was also (still is) quite innovative in most regards.

 

[Dippyskoodlez]

Try world of warcraft in a 40 man raid on a city with anything over 800x600 and low detail

ANY computer will cry xD (Infact, blizzards servers cant even handle wintergrasp anymore.)

And original halo plays like poo.

 

[CDdude55]

Hitman: Blood Money: Loads of glitches but still an awesome game.

 

[CrackerJack]

Try world of warcraft in a 40 man raid on a city with anything over 800x600 and low detail

ANY computer will cry xD (Infact, blizzards servers cant even handle wintergrasp anymore.)

And original halo plays like poo.

Yeah, Dalaran is terrible. I'm only getting around 30fps

specs on the side
1366x768
Max or Ultra settings

 

[olithereal]

Yeah, Dalaran is terrible. I'm only getting around 30fps

specs on the side
1366x768
Max or Ultra settings

Yeah Dalaran is just retarded.

 

[Havoxx]

I've played my good share of games, WoW included, it does lag like hell, however, not that bad, 800x600? Cmon, I run my raids at 1920x1080, I do have to shut down a lot of addons though, as those are what cause the lag I think...


I think the most unoptimized game I've played this far, has to be Cryostasis, it's a complete waste of time, you can't get it to run well even at the lowest possible settings. Crysis, I think the main problem was all the foliage, the excessive amount of trees to cover up the fact it wasn't that pretty.

I know of one game that I played Anarchy Online, 2 years ago, that game was unoptimized, and now it's taken a complete turnaround, back then at 1600x1200 I'd lag all over the place, now at 1920x1080, not even a hiccup. Everquest 2 is pretty unoptimized, it doesn't look that great, but it's impossible to get 60FPS, at least for my card at extreme detail.

Finally, I'd have to add, I think the BEST optimized game I've played, is Prototype, that thing just does NOT lag, no matter your settings. I think the whole unoptimized thing is as someone said though, it's more of a problem of crappy ports from console.

*fanboy inc* Anything ported by Microsoft, usually works perfectly.

 

[ArmoredCavalry]

Finally, I'd have to add, I think the BEST optimized game I've played, is Prototype, that thing just does NOT lag, no matter your settings. I think the whole unoptimized thing is as someone said though, it's more of a problem of crappy ports from console.

Yeah, you are right about no lag, but personally I think the graphics on Prototype aren't that great.

Also, welcome to Tech Power Up.

 

[Mussels]

prototype lags nicely on my housemates machine on his 8800GT. the game seems to drop details to try and keep you at 30FPS - but thats lagging, IMO.

 

[BababooeyHTJ]

Usually I don't AA at 1920 x 1080 only if I have spare fps. Really though I was reading through forums and kept seeing cryostasis was unoptimised and I figured if we could get a list of games that are genuinely broken we'd be able to see if there was anyway to fix them. Most people on the internet don't know their system well so thats another reason why I made this thread.

I have a 25" 1920x1080 monitor and 4x MSAA is manditory for me. Thats why I can't stand GTA4, A game made in 2008 that dosen't support AA. What kind of crap is that?

Fallout 3. It's audio engine is a nightmare. 99% of all crashes are audio related. You have to piss around with codecs, exclusions etc. etc. etc.

I love the game, but it crashes so much...

What makes a game "unoptimized" is a game that has massive amounts of problems on a wide variety of hardware. IE memory leaks, audio problems, graphical issues across the board.

This I agree with this but "unoptimized" has become a buzz word much like "microstuttering" that is just used way too often and most of the time in the wrong circumstance and I can't stand hearing either one most of the time.