Heavy PC stuff

Applications or programs that may take up a lot of resources or that may require a powerful computer.
Apps like word and chrome will only become heavy when pushed (dozens of tabs, documents with lots of macros, searching within long documents)


Audio visual, software, games, and other content production:

laser projector software, Laser lighting display software, lasershow designer: laseros, pangolin quickshow, Modulaser, Maxwell Laser / VJ Synth, neon captain radiator, LaserShow Xpress

projection mapping software: resolume arena, MadMapper, HeavyM, Qlab, Troixatronix Isadora, FaƧadeSignage, ArKaos MediaMaster, GrandVJ, blender blam! add-on, VPT 6.0

 theatre light control software, ilda laser control software: HOG 4 PC, Neo pc, quickshow

camera raw file converters/processors: ARRIRAW Converter, dcraw, LibRaw, UFRaw, digiKam, darktable, Capture One, PixelShift2DNG, SonyPixelShift2DNG,  REDCINE-X PRO

photo editing:  adobe photoshop, gimp, affinity photo, paint.net, luminar

video editing and rendering, non linear video editing: adobe premiere pro, avid media composer, apple final cut pro x, vegas pro, lightworks, blackmagic design davinci resolve, kdenlive, edius, blender, hitfilm, videopad, sgo mistika boutique, VSDC Free Video Editor, cyberlink PowerDirector, OpenShot Video Editor, Shotcut, cinelerra, pitivi, aviutl, olive, flowblade, camtasia

Color correction: resolve, filmlight Baselight v5, digital vision nucoda, grass valley rio

audio editing and mixing, digital audio workstation, synthesizers, midi, vocoder, audio recording: adobe voco, wavenet, adobe audition, audacity, Acid Pro, Mixcraft, Magix Samplitude, Sound Forge, Pro Tools, Logic Pro, Ableton Live, Steinberg Cubase, virtualdj, autotune, synthesia, vocaloid 5, reason, reaper, lmms, ardour, cakewalk sonar, fl studio, tracktion, renoise, bitwig studio, wavelab, reaktor, izotope rx, Steinberg Nuendo, Digital Performer, MuLab, n-Track Studio, Guitar Rig, Tracktion, arturia analog lab, arturia pigments, Ardour, audiotool, Maschine, Harrison Mixbus, OpenMPT, Magix Sequoia, Studio One, yoshimi synthesizer, hydrogen drum machine, spectralayers, goldwave, beepbox

Text to speech: loquendo, nuance, SodelsCot

video encoding, transcoding and compression: adobe media encoder, ffmpeg, HandBrake, cyberlink mediaespresso, rohde&schwarz clipster, Colorfront - Transkoder 2018, Fraunhofer IIS - easyDCP 3.6, Marquise Technologies - MIST 4.9, MTI Film - Cortex v5 Enterprise Edition, OWNZONES - OWNZONES Connect™

video streaming, and recording, vision mixing: open broadcaster software, shadowplay, RECentral, twitch studio, xsplit

file and data compression: 7zip, winrar, mpq editor, QuickPar, MultiPar, wiiscrubber, wit, WiiBackUp Manager, Wii Ultimate Unscrubber

visual effects, camera motion tracking, compositing: foundry nuke, blender, sidefx Houdini, adobe after effects, apple motion, blackmagic design fusion, autodesk flame, natron, assimilate scratch, isotropix Clarisse, ebsynth, Golaem, speedtree, realflow, embergen, particle illusion, popcornfx

matchmoving, motion capture: pftrack, syntheyes, 3dequalizer, blender, rokoko Smartsuit Pro

Software used in VFX 

Rotoscopy: Mocha pro, silhouette

3d animation and rendering: blender, art of illusion, lightwave, cinema 4d, autodesk maya, autodesk 3dsmax, source filmmaker, Dragonframe, iClone, anim8or, mikumikudance, cascadeur, creature, k-3d


Jahshaka, flair for bolt camera robot

3d texturing: foundry mari, substance painter, substance designer, substance player, substance alchemist,  quixel mixer, xnormal, marmoset toolbag

3d modelling only: poser, daz studio, makehuman, 3d coat, Pixologic zbrush, sculptris, CrazyTalk, autodesk mudbox, vroid studio, foundry modo, character creator, dust3d, wings 3d, sculptron, reallusion, marvelous designer

3d rendering and ray tracing only: autodesk arnold, vray, pixar renderman, povray, yafaray, adobe dimension, OctaneRender, redshift, corona renderer, 3delight, dimension 5 D5 render, pixie, sunflow, luxcorerender, keyshot

2d animation: Toonz Premium, Toon Boom Harmony, Moho Professional, TVPaint, Stykz, Synfig, pencil2D, opentoonz, pivot animator, CLIP STUDIO PAINT (formerly RETAS PRO, RETAS Studio, RETAS Studio PRO HD, etc), spine, adobe animate, Live2D, blender, krita  use in anime, too

cd, dvd, blu ray ripping, writing, iso file handling: nero, powerdvd, vlc, anydvd, makemkv, libdvdcss, adobe encore

video game design and programming, video game engines: unity engine, unreal engine, vulkan, opengl, opencl, Direct3D, Microsoft XNA, godot, bullet physics engine, cryengine, Cairo, cuda, clickteam engine, rpg maker, gamemaker, construct, gamesalad, buildbox, stencyl, monogame, unigine, luxmark, clickteam fusion, stride, voxel plugin

Programming IDE, software SDK: Android Studio, Microsoft Visual C++, Python, Eclipse, Eclipse IDE, Kotlin, IntelliJ IDEA, SystemVerilog, google flutter, installshield, Nullsoft Scriptable Install System, Microsoft Visual Studio, NetBeans, Rider, embarcadero delphi

Touchdesigner, pure data (music), supercollider (audio), csound (audio), chuck (audio), kyma (audio), jfugue (music), nyquist (sound), openmusic, faust programming language

Debbugers and decompilers: GNU Debugger, Arm DDT, WinDbg, Nodeclipse, x64dbg, ollydbg, ida pro, ghidra, ilspy, Unpacker Magic Studio (Pro), dotPeek

Compilers: GNU Compiler Collection, sharpmake, cmake, premake, llvm, clang, intel compiler (icc)

user interface design, user experience design: Qt, gtk, Adobe XD, wxwidgets

Deepfake software: fakeapp, deepfacelab, faceswap, myfakeapp

Web Design and Development: Adobe Dreamweaver

Text editors: Notepad++, sublime text 3, visual studio code, atom

hex editor

graphic design: adobe illustrator, krita, inkscape, microsoft office visio, paint tool SAI, microsoft excel michelangelo and raytracing, microsoft powerpoint, CLIP STUDIO PAINT, CorelDRAW, pinta project, MyPaint, medibang paint pro, affinity designer, paintshop pro, corel painter, opencanvas

Desktop publishing and office suite and Productivity software: adobe indesign, quarkxpress, scribus, adobe acrobat pro dc, microsoft office word, microsoft office publisher, libreoffice, foxit reader, affinity publisher

Optical character recognition: nitro pro, foxit, readiris, Nuix

Topaz gigapixel ai, ganbreeder, dain-app, (waifu2x), deoldify, esrgan

Consumption:

Web servers: NGINX, Apache, Microsoft IIS, LiteSpeed Web Server, freenas, micro_httpd, mini_httpd, dd/sh webserver, thttpd

content management systems: Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, Node.js, phpbb, vbulletin, atlassian jira, Bugzilla, Mantis Bug Tracker, Trac, Phabricator, mediawiki

Web browsers: Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox


Gaming, esports: 


RPG: The Bard's Tale Trilogy, cyberpunk 2077

first-person shooters with offline and online modes: dota 2, far cry, battlefield v, call of duty, doom, halo, Rainbow Six Siege, Metro Exodus, half life alyx, pavlov vr, crysis

Online first person shooters: Warface, freefire, fortnite, overwatch, playerunknown's battlegrounds, super mecha champions, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

Open world: heavily modded minecraft, gta v, goat simulator, google tilt brush, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, roblox, terraria

Action: Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Assassin's Creed, Final Fantasy XV, mortal kombat, red dead redemption 2, street fighter

Racing: gran turismo, asphalt 9, forza, need for speed

Other: diablo iii, Civilization VI, Divinity Original Sin II, Dragon Quest XI, five nights at freddys, borderlands, apex legends, resident evil, undertale, fallout, destiny 2, legends of runeterra, heroes of the storm, Heavy Rain, yandere simulator, watashi no mono, horizon zero dawn, Watch Dogs, age of empires, the elder scrolls, quake, kerbal space program, vrchat, farcry, just cause, rocket league, s.t.a.l.k.e.r., osu!, no man's sky, getting over it, wolfenstein, X-Plane, microsoft flight simulator, death stranding, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, metal gear




other:
Pc benchmarking: 3dmark, pcmark, futuremark, passmark, cinebench, geekbench, furmark, prime95, aida64, wprime, linx, sisoft sandra

Video game console emulator: ppsspp, epsxe, snes9x, cemu, dolphin, project64, MAME, Xenia, Citra, Yuzu, Ryujinx, pcsx2, rpcs3, Multi Emulator Super System, orbital, gpcs4

Bluestacks, bliss, genymotion, xamarin, nox, koplayer, memu

steam? Origin? Sound of sorting, gfxbench, antutu


Product and building design, construction and manufacturing:

buildings:

3d cad design-engineering, architecture, interior design: autodesk autocad, autocad toolsets, tinkercad

Cad for architecture and 3d printing: rhinoceros, sketchup, draftsight, megacad, vectorworks

BIM (Building Information Modeling), construction simulation: autodesk revit, civil 360, Tekla Civil, Tekla Structures

Geographic information system: arcgis, google earth

Electronics: 

Cad for electronics only, eda tools: kicad, FreePCB, EasyEDA, CircuitMaker, autodesk eagle, altium designer, coventor semiconductor, (snapeda, gedasymbols.org, SamacSys), mentor xpedition, diptrace, gEDA PCB (gEDA), Design Spark pcb, pulsonix pcb, Cadence orcad, Cadence Allegro PCB Designer,  Proteus Design Suite,  TinyCAD (gerbv), XCircuit(schematics only), CADSTAR, CircuitStudio, Zuken CR-5000 , Zuken CR-8000 ,  Easy-PC Version 22 , PADS Logic/PADS Layout, xDX Designer/PADS Layout, TARGET 3001!, (Library Loader)

electronics circuit simulators: Electric VLSI Design System, Oregano, SPICE (see also), CPU Sim, KTechLab, Logisim, Logic Friday GNU Circuit Analysis Package (Gnucap), Ngspice, XSPICE, Quite Universal Circuit Simulator (Qucs), Xyce, LTspice, Micro-Cap, PLECS, SapWin, DesignSoft TINA, mentor PADS,  Proteus Design Suite, Icarus Verilog, GTKWave

FPGA and HDL Simulators: Mentor ModelSim, Verilator, GHDL, Xilinx ISE, Cadence Incisive Enterprise Simulator, Synopsys VCS

Electronic circuit schematic capture: Allegro Design Entry Capture/Capture CIS, mentor PADS, XCircuit, gschem

Netlisting: gnetlist

Products:
Cad for engineering, industrial design and product design only: dassault systemes catia, dassault systemes solidworks, ptc creo parametric, siemens nx, siemens solid edge, autodesk inventor, openscad, cae linux, freecad, turbocad, onshape, librecad, ironcad, topsolid, qcad, archicad, draftsight, bricscad, microstation,  autodesk fusion 360

3d modelling for cnc mills and 3d printers: autodesk 123d design, cubify invent, sculptris, cadspan, microsoft 3d builder, selfcad, Materialise Magics, autodesk netfabb
Lego Digital Designer

G code (for cnc mill/machine) generation software, computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) software, computer assisted engineering (CAE) software, laser cutting software: powermill, hypermill 5 axis, solidcam, FeatureCAM (Autodesk), Siemens NX Cam, Esprit (DP technology), hsmworks, CAMplete Truepath Turnmill, dmg mori virtual machine, VERICUT by CGTech,  autodesk fusion 360, autodesk inventor, mastercam, coroplus toolpath primeturning,  coroplus toolpath spirogrooving coroplus toolpath invomilling, partmaker, rdworks, epilog,

3d printing slicing software, g code (for 3d printer) generator: cetus3d, simplify3d, cura, prusaslicer, prusacontrol, ChiTu Box, Slic3r, KISSlicer, IdeaMaker, Repetier-Host, OctoPrint, IceSL

Photogrammetry: autodesk recap, agisoft photoscan, colmap, meshlab, autodesk meshmixer, autodesk 123d catch, alicevision, meshroom, metshape

Plm software: ptc windchill, teamcenter

Industrial automation: LabVIEW



Computer simulations:

computer simulations: Computational fluid dynamics, Structural analysis, finite element analysis, system simulation, process simulation: SIMULIA Structural Simulation Engineer, nastran, femap, Autodesk CFD, ptc creo simulate, Autodesk Helius Composite, Autodesk Robot Structural Analysis (Autodesk Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection), Siemens Simcenter Amesim, DWSIM, OpenFOAM, Calculix, ANSYS PowerArtist, Tekla Structural Designer, bentley OpenFlows WaterCAD, ANSYS CFX, ANSYS SeaScape, simflow, COMSOL

other:

artificial intelligence: google tensorflow ai framework, nvidia tensor architecture, pytorch

cryptocurrency and bitcoin mining asics, bitmain, canaan

encryption: openpgp, pgp, GNU Privacy Guard

databases: sap hana, mysql, microsoft access, postgresql

Operating systems: windows, macosx, linux and linux distros, android, ios, google fuchsia

anti virus, anti ransomware: Microsoft, Kaspersky, Bitdefender, Malwarebytes

Penetration testing (white hat hacker), DDoS simulation, software reverse engineering: Low Orbit Ion Cannon, Apache JMeter,  Metasploit Framework, Kali linux, flare vm, Regshot, Wireshark

Virtual Machines: Docker, VMware ESXi, Xen, Microsoft Hyper-V, VirtualBox, VMware Workstation, QEMU, Wine compatibility layer, DOSBox, valve Proton, microsoft virtual pc, parallels, vmware fusion

Big data analytics

Distributed computing: Folding@home, BOINC, cryptocurrency mining

IESviewer

Pepakura designer

MATLAB, gromacs, gnu octave

Kalles Fraktaler


Pfsense, tor router, i2p router, vpn router, proxy server

WinSCP

ZFS

fspy








the last of us, uncharted, assasins creed
deus ex mankind divided
red dead redemption
cyberpunk 2077
metro exodus
danganronpa, persona, final fantasy, resident evil, death stranding



















Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X (macOS), Linux distros, illumos distros, freeBSD, NetBSD, darwin, openbsd, trueos (discontinued)

tiny core linux, bodhi linux, peppermint os, damn small linux (dormant)

absolute linux, lubuntu, slitaz, tiny slitaz, slax, puppy linux, knoppix, xubuntu, kubuntu, void linux, vectorlinux, porteus, Linux lite, trisquel mini, antix, intel clear linux

manjaro, ubuntu, linux mint, mx linux, arch linux, slackware, debian, gentoo linux, red hat, suse, fedora, pop os

reactos, visopsys, symbos, kolibrios, menuetos, minix, gnu

haiku, aros research operating system

android, android go, symbian, ios, windows phone, kaios, firefoxos, ubuntu phone, chromeos, fuchsia

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2020/02/06/intels-clear-linux-just-outperformed-ubuntu-2004--on-an-amd-laptop/amp/

https://openbenchmarking.org/result/2002054-VE-MOTILE14703&obr_sgm=y&obr_swl=y&obr_sor=y&obr_rro=y

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