A game that ran surprisingly well on you pc

My desktop is my baby - no issues with any games there. :3

My potato of a laptop, on the other hand.. I was surprised it ran Bastion and Torchlight smoothly. We are, after all, talking about a laptop that lags horribly trying to scroll a few 'feet' across the map in Avadon.

Hitman Absolution on my average computer.

battlefield 4 on high

i3 @ 3.2ghz
8gb ram
gtx 650

Hard Reset. It ran on my 128MB video card......without problems. I even could crank it up higher. It was so weird and so great, since minimal requirements are 512MB :D

Half-Life 3.

Metro last light

Saints Row 2......just kidding it runs like shit, even on a high end PC

Max Payne 3. That game runs quite well in my old rig

Max Payne 3, because it was a rockstar port. In fact, it ran so well it actually angered rockstars upper-management so much (who actually have a very strict rule against making quality pc ports), that rockstar dissolved the development team responsible for it, as a warning to other dev teams not to make the same mistake in the future.

I have a good PC so, well, I expect them to run well. Can play Crysis 3 on Ultra settings at 1080p AND in 3D Vision without the framerate dropping lower than 40FPS (and that's when there is this scene Michael Bay would have an orgasm with).

What really grinds my gears is those games so poorly optimized they won't go beyond 30FPS without even using 3D, I'm looking at you, Saints Row IV. What the fuck.

Borderlands 2 runs surprisingly well on my 5 year old computer. Not 60FPS, but fast enough for me. Honestly, it runs better than first Borderlands. Same thing with BioShock Infinite. Also CS: GO (50-60 , I guess), and USFIV (solid 60 all the time).

Assassins Creed 4 Black Flag. My system is under the minimum, yet can handle it no problems. Go figure?

Now when it comes to Saints Row 4.. my system can handle max settings in small zone areas without issue. However I do get a little slow down when attempting to move in the larger, outside environment with any real speed.. ( so.. I kinda have to sorta have my video settings turned down on that one :P ) My system is old... I soo need to update it or get a new one soon. ( Its my processor when it comes to AC4. My video card is fine. Same with ram. Yes I monitor its heat when playing games as well as a few other things. Really shocked it can handle what I throw at it as well as it does. )

Revengeance. Most recently released games that I tried so far run at 20-30fps on 1920x1080 over here, even without AA and other resource intensive shiz. MGR, on the other hand, was silky smooth at that resolution (though also with AA turned off).

Poker Night 2.
After dealing with problems with the 1st one having to put settings on the lowest posible, i was prepared for the worst. And it worked. Very good, in fact. Heck, i could play in fullscreen, and it ran almost flawless.
Sadly, i don't play it anymore due to the impossible challenges to get TF2/Borderlands 2 items.

MAx Payne 3, Splintercell: Blacklist,BioShock Infinite etc.!

Mass Effect 3 and Crysis on my old laptop.
Ran them to the end without trouble.

Far Cry 3, for sure. I mean, 30 FPS for an acient GeForce 210 is just mad.

Until April every game, which ran on 800x600 or 1024x768 smoothly. Especially Alan Wake American Nightmare. The first ran between 10 and 20 fps, but AW:AN ran 30 fps smoothly. Now I have a better computer, so nothing surprises me. Except that GTX 660 couldn't handle High PhysX settings in Borderlands 2, but this is off topic :D

Prototype 2

I've usually updated my PC enough that I don't have problems with anything unless I put them on ultra so nothing really. I was always surprised at how source engine games could somehow be turned down enough to work on pretty much anything though.

Every game runs well if they don't have optimization issues that drops even the most monstrous machines on their knees for no good reason.

Almost any decent game. Borderlands 2 and Max Payne 3 ran really well on my laptop, as well as bioshock Infinite in my old ass pc.

Wolfenstein The New Order: 45 fps on medium. 30 fps on High.
Was expecting worse after RAGE.

Metro Last Light, especially compared to Metro 2033.