See how Green Hill runs on your system
Not to get too preachy here (though it is SOPA protest day), but I’ve held the belief that one of the easiest ways to help curb videogame piracy on the PC is for companies to release trial versions of more games. With the way gaming on the PC works nowadays, there’s almost no telling how well any given game will run on one’s system, and releasing a demo version answers that question as clearly as possible. Otherwise, you risk buying a game you simply can’t play and can’t refund. It’s not difficult to see how piracy might factor in to that kind of situation.
It may be over three months after launch, but for those of you wondering how Sonic Generations would run on your PC, wonder no more, as a free demo has been published on Steam for you to try out. Even if you don’t meet the system requirements, it may be worth your time to try the demo out regardless – it’s quite a good port, and isolated reports would suggest that it can run acceptably on lesser hardware. And if you do actually meet the system requirements, enjoy a taste at what might actually be the ideal version of Sonic Generations – in addition to running at higher resolutions, the PC version of Sonic Generations also can also run at a much smoother framerate, which does all sorts of fun things like make the controls a bit more responsive, and so on.
Running at twice the framerate of the console version, the PC port of Sonic Generations is a sight to behold.
Now Sega just needs to figure out what happened to the Casino Night Zone DLC and the PC release of Sonic CD.
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Seeing Sonic Generations at full 1080p, with anti-aliasing, at a buttery-smooth 60fps is definitely a sight to behold. It’s games like this that make PC gaming worth it.
I’ll try it out just to see.
Thanks for the info!
ok i dont have steam is it safe to create an account is there anything i should know?
@Wesall1: Yeah! Of course it’s safe to create an account there. Steam is the leading online marketplace for videogames. It was created by Valve, the developer responsible for Half-Life, Team Fortress, Counter-Strike, Left4Dead and Portal. It has millions of registered users.
Just wondering, can the downloadable copy of this game be hacked like the physical copy of this game of SADX?
Still no Mac support for Sonic Generations though, is there?
Ah, had they only released a demo before I paid $30 for a game that refused even to *run* because it had never heard of my graphics card before. That would have been the proper order of events.
I downloaded the demo and gave it a run. For a laptop that supposedly cannot handle the graphics of the full game, the demo worked just fine (I can confirm that the demo, then performs well with “lesser hardware”). There is a slight slag, but this may be because my computer was running multiple programs. Some things (ex. grass) were low res, but nonetheless fine with me.
Everything looked fine and processed well, I’m just not used to playing 3D Sonic on the laptop since Adventure (the cd which I have now lost)!
I greatly recommend the demo and I am actually thinking about buying the full PC version, confident in knowing that the beautiful graphics actually works on this system!
And for any people who have doubts/don’t know too much about Steam, I greatly recommend it. It is a fantastic service that serves its customers well, and it has a forum with many knowledgeable gamers who can help if you have Q’s. Instead of trusting the service with my credit card, I instead buy those VISA “gift cards” for the online purchases (Just a suggestion if you are scared of online purchasing)
Let’s try this on a 2004 Windows XP Service Pack 2.
Good thing I didn’t buy the full version before the demo came out. It doesn’t recognize my graphics card. *rolls eyes*
If I can run the demo, can I run the full game?
Might give it a shot.
@Ranger I’d presume so!