mothra on 29/10/2008 at 19:11
can you flee and talk your way out of everything ?
Ostriig on 29/10/2008 at 19:21
And how about some info on how it's performing on your PCs?
Sulphur on 29/10/2008 at 19:50
I'm a couple of hours into it, and it runs on my SPEED DEMON* of a rig at a manageable clip on mediumish settings.
I'd say if you've got a decent dual core processor and an 8800 GT or better (merry christmas, dethtoll! ;)), you're good to go.
*7600 GT and 2 GHz Athlon 64 3200+ and 1 (one!) GB of RAM on XP, overclocked a bit. Go speed racer, go!
Ostriig on 29/10/2008 at 20:21
Sweet, sounds good! Now if only I didn't have to wait 'till Friday to get the bloody thing...
Shadowjak on 30/10/2008 at 08:19
Quote Posted by sh0ck3r
How do you think the game will turn out? I guess in the next two weeks a bunch of reviews will appear, but right now there aren't many.
Personally, I think the game in terms of quality might compare to the old Fallout games in roughly the same way BioShock compares to SS2.
I suspect it will look fantastic and feature some pretty fun combat, yet will utterly fall short on the style and delightfully twisted nature of its predecessors. It will appear to be trying too hard. But it will get an E for effort.
What do you think?
I think your right.
I've been playing the game for a few hours now, and while it's amusing enough, it's no Fallout successor --- spiritual or otherwise. As others have said, it's pretty much Oblivion with guns.
That said, so far, I've found it more interesting than either Oblivion or BioShock --- but maybe that's just me, since I'm something of a fan of the whole post-apocalyptic survival genre.
Rogue Keeper on 30/10/2008 at 11:04
Quote Posted by Sulphur
I'd say if you've got a decent dual core processor and an 8800 GT or better (merry christmas, dethtoll! ;)), you're good to go.
*7600 GT and 2 GHz Athlon 64 3200+ and 1 (one!) GB of RAM on XP, overclocked a bit. Go speed racer, go!
I suspect F3 won't use a current dual/quad core + 8800GT up to it's full potential. One reviewer mentioned with AMD 1,8 GHz+6600GT said the game was "fluent" at 1280x960 and full details. He didn't mention exact framerate values though, "fluent" can seem to be anything above 20 FPS for some people. It seems to me a bit dubius, however many others report that the engine seems to be nicely optimized and then there are almost no dense trees/grass.
My rig is remotely similar to yours (AMD 3000, 2GB, recently bought 7950GT) and I guess I'll be fine.
Phatose on 30/10/2008 at 13:14
It's running pretty well for me. Overclocked Opteron @ 2500, 8800GTS, 2 Gig ram. Running at high, AA off, 1920x1200. Only seen rare choppiness.
Not perfectly stable though, but good. I've gotten 2 lockups with video corruption, and twice I've got a crash message on exit. Not really bad, considering.
Sulphur on 30/10/2008 at 16:38
Quote Posted by BR796164
I suspect F3 won't use a current dual/quad core + 8800GT up to it's full potential. One reviewer mentioned with AMD 1,8 GHz+6600GT said the game was "fluent" at 1280x960 and full details. He didn't mention exact framerate values though, "fluent" can seem to be anything above 20 FPS for some people. It seems to me a bit dubius, however many others report that the engine seems to be nicely optimized and then there are almost no dense trees/grass.
My rig is remotely similar to yours (AMD 3000, 2GB, recently bought 7950GT) and I guess I'll be fine.
I've played it on high. Interiors and places like Megaton sans much lighting / landscape detail are fine. The frame rate while traversing the wide open Wasteland was pretty good initially, but it started lagging during combat.
A 7950 GT should be able to do a fair bit better; perhaps not quite 60 FPS, but that's not really required here.
Rogue Keeper on 30/10/2008 at 16:55
Well, with VATS there is not a big concern about fluent high framerate during combat I guess?
