Recommend me some PC Demos

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I'm looking for some new demoscene productions to interest me.

I've just watched some of the most recently released productions, demos and 4k releases listed on Pouet, and not many inspired me much.

Some of the Farbrausch ones were OK, but not on par with their best from previous years. Quite disappointed with fr-063: Magellan, as it was hyped as being so CPU and GPU intensive it needed a Quad core CPU and at least an ATI 4xxx series GPU... ok the liquid particle effects were good, but it was hardly CPU intensive as mine never went over 50% on any core. Their last great one for me was probably fr-041: debris. Still watch that from time to time.

Basis by Defame was also a fairly interesting 4K release...

So, any recent releases you could recommend? Anything amazing in the small 1K-64K releases? Or any large productions to really push current high end systems?
 
Biggies:
ASD - Happiness is around the bend
Fairlight & CNCD - Agenda Circling Forth

Small:
Portal Process - Hotel Bar Heroes

An oldie but Zoom3 is a good 64k demo.
 
Thanks for the recommendations.

I've seen ASD - Happiness is around the bend a while back. That is a very nice demo from 2010. Loved a lot of the light and reflection effects in it, especially the glowing hot text, and the morphing vehicle was great.

I had downloaded Agenda Circling Forth earlier this evening, but it locked up after the Insert Disk 2010 scene and was playing the music but stick on the first frame of the first scene. Tried it again just now with a lower resolution and it ran, so it can't have liked the high settings. Very nice production.

Hotel Bar Heroes was really nice and quite a lot of content for a 64K.

And it has been quite some time since I had seen Zoom 3. Dated really well considering it is 9-10 years old and still looks quite impressive, although the lack of more recent GPU effects are obvious (depth of field, dynamic light and shadow, particle lighting etc) but still looks good. One thing for old demos is how smoothly they run on current hardware. I enabled the FPS on this one and it was averaging 270-420FPS :lol: I think back when I first ran it on an Athlon 2000+ with a 9800 Pro it was more like 30FPS.

I think out of those 4, the ASD one was my favourite. Definitely shows some nice new GFX effects and ideas mixed in with more traditional demo regulars like the snaking cables and growing shapes.
 
UKONX - Mushdrum
 
A few golden oldies I have on my pc:

fr-025 - The Popular Demo
ASD LifeForce

And for 4k, Coder Porn by Archee (<-- kinda reminds me of the Amiga juggling man!)
 
fr-25 is also one of my favourites. Still looks great, even after all this time, and with some great music.

I will check the others out later. Thanks.
 
@Justin. Some nice looking effects in that one. Downloading now. :)
 
Didn't get chance to watch Spin (real version rather than video) until now and it really impressed me. The particle effects are amazing. Definitely need quite a powerful PC to run it well. My new PC build had no trouble. :)

Still now quite sure about vocals in demos though. Very Kraftwerk alike though.
 
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Didn't get chance to watch Spin (real version rather than video) until now and it really impressed me. The particle effects are amazing. Definitely need quite a powerful PC to run it well. My new PC build had no trouble. :)

Still now quite sure about vocals in demos though. Very Kraftwerk alike though.
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Which GFX card and driver version are you using? I tried it on my 460gtx, and all the vectors were wrongly shaped - the running man was more of a blob. The particle effects ran well though. Tried the latest drivers(285.62) and the latest betas (295.51) same results.

:Doh:
 
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Didn't get chance to watch Spin (real version rather than video) until now and it really impressed me. The particle effects are amazing. Definitely need quite a powerful PC to run it well. My new PC build had no trouble. :)

Still now quite sure about vocals in demos though. Very Kraftwerk alike though.
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Yeah it is quite demanding on the GPU mine was sitting at 70% through most of that, only seemed to use one core though, I had one core sitting at around 50%. But wow what a demo was really impressed. Any demos that really push PC hardware apart from benchmarking demos? :)
 
I'm also after more demos that can really push the PC hardware. I think Spin was a good one for the GPU.

Which GFX card and driver version are you using?
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Probably a little unfair of me... but it was on my new i7 2600K with 16GB ram and an ATI Radeon HD 6950 2GB GPU. Drivers at the latest 12.1.

When I get time I will try running it on my older Q6600 with a 4870 and see how that copes.
 
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