Can my pc run new vegas? : Fallout: New Vegas

» Thu Sep 02, 2010 12:16 am

CCNA Edit I have decided to make this thread the Official one for figuring out if your PC will run the game.

To make this easy, if you can run Fallout 3, you can run New Vegas.

Here are the Reccomended Requirements. As you can see, the hardware needed is not bleeding edge, so most modern gaming PCs will have no issues running this game.

http://bethblog.com/index.php/2010/10/01/new-vegas-news-its-done-plus-pc-reqs-and-cake/

As usual, on board graphics (no seperate video card) will not run this game. If you have that, you will have to investigate adding a video card to your current system. There may be some integrated graphics solutions coming that can run modern games, but for now, they are not up to the rendering needed.

If you have any doubts, please post what you have here and we will make a educated guess based on what we know about how Fallout 3 runs. However, this educated guess will be pretty accurate.

All other Hardware Threads will be closed and directed to this one.

Here is the Link to the Hardware Requirements Lab that can help you determine if you can run the game. Thanks to Trekkie107 for providing this.

http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri/

The original first post in this thread follows.

The only thing im concerned with is the video card, the pc hasnt come in yet and im not sure what its capable of, the video card is the ATI radeon HD 4550 1gb

i got a duel core 650 intel i5 2.66 ghz i think

and 4 gigs of ram,
1 tb harddrive

think that will do good? or do i need a better video card... im not really good at the whole videocard judging all i know is that its not a "gaming" video card

» Wed Sep 01, 2010 5:24 pm

Can you run FO3?
Then yes, you can.

» Thu Sep 02, 2010 12:11 am

Can you run FO3?
Then yes, you can.

i didnt get the pc yet

» Wed Sep 01, 2010 9:10 pm

*Nevermind*

» Wed Sep 01, 2010 9:54 am

Can you run FO3?
Then yes, you can.

He/She said the PC hasn't come in yet.

@ OP: Those are oddly enough the same specs my comp has. I can run Fallout 3 with full graphics and mods with no problems so I'm sure New Vegas will run fine for us both.

» Wed Sep 01, 2010 4:58 pm

He/She said the PC hasn't come in yet.

@ OP: Those are oddly enough the same specs my comp has. I can run Fallout 3 with full graphics and mods with no problems so I'm sure New Vegas will run fine for us both.

well thats defiantly good to know... shall i pre order the pc version too

» Wed Sep 01, 2010 10:36 am

Judging from the official requirements, you are way above the specs necessary to play it.

» Wed Sep 01, 2010 5:21 pm

Judging from the official requirements, you are way above the specs necessary to play it.

Yeah i heard about it... ill go do a real quick vid card comparison... TOO GOOGLE

» Wed Sep 01, 2010 10:06 pm

found this http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/ati-radeon-hd4550_12.html

might need to over clock it

» Wed Sep 01, 2010 6:06 pm

Not really im actually trying to figure out if i should put another 70 dollars into newvegas because from what im seeing, playing on the pc is going to be where the party's at, well i guess it has always been.

Any way, why u hating

Ok well i found my solution

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbGVL2VJUEI hopes this helps any one else curious about a 4550

» Wed Sep 01, 2010 11:35 pm

Yesteday the F:NV system requirements we're revealed and I read: a dual-core 2.0GHz minimum. I'm worried this will become just like Mass Effect 2, optimized for dual-core and ONLY PLAYABLE on dual-core! I have a fast single-core and I really want to enjoy F:NV. BTW I can play Fallout 3 at max settings with little to no stuttering.

» Wed Sep 01, 2010 3:05 pm

Does your CPU support hyperthreading? It's not a true 2nd core, but it allows the CPU to handle 2 threads at the same time. If you look in the task manager and you see two CPU graphs, or run dxdiag.exe and on the Processor line and see (2 CPUs) you might be OK. A single core CPU with hyperthreading will make the system thinks it has two CPUs to work with.

» Wed Sep 01, 2010 10:52 am

My question is does NV only run on dual-core (a question for the developers!)

» Wed Sep 01, 2010 8:48 pm

My question is does NV only run on dual-core (a question for the developers!)

The requirements shouldnt be more then FO3, so if you ran FO3 fine, you should run this game fine. FO3 didnt take too much advantage with PCs with more then 1-2 cores anyway.

» Wed Sep 01, 2010 1:07 pm

*Facepalm*
Dual Core optimized means that it works as well as it did on single cores, but now gamers get more advantage from dual cores, because the game uses them more efficiently
EDIT:Also, if you seriously have only one core on your PC, then you REALLY should upgrade, as no games will run for you nowadays

» Wed Sep 01, 2010 2:24 pm

The game will not ONLY be playable on dual core, that would be ridiculous. It will be possible to play it on a single core if the speed is decent. The performance wont be up to scratch though.

» Wed Sep 01, 2010 9:31 am

I have a really fast machine (for a single core) an ATI Radeon HD 3850, 2GB RAM and a 2GHz AMD Athlon 64 3000+ and i can run Fallout 3 with 20-30 fps. I can also play Crysis with 20 fps and Mass Effect 2 with 60 fps

» Wed Sep 01, 2010 8:23 am

its just like Windows Vista and 7 are optimized for multicore .
it just means that all the cores will be put to use efficiently instead of being just for show .

» Wed Sep 01, 2010 12:34 pm

*Facepalm*
Dual Core optimized means that it works as well as it did on single cores, but now gamers get more advantage from dual cores, because the game uses them more efficiently
EDIT:Also, if you seriously have only one core on your PC, then you REALLY should upgrade, as no games will run for you nowadays

The OP is referring to the system requirements that were posted yesterday on the Bethesda Blog. It does say under requirements, Dual Core 2.0GHz. I don't see how NV would require a dual core, so that has to be a mistake. From what I've seen, it looks like they're using better textures than F3, but that would only push the GPU requirement up, not the CPU.

» Wed Sep 01, 2010 3:16 pm

Ok well i found my solution

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbGVL2VJUEI hopes this helps any one else curious about a 4550

Told you. It runs Fallout 3 just fine.

» Wed Sep 01, 2010 6:04 pm

Ok well i found my solution

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbGVL2VJUEI hopes this helps any one else curious about a 4550

I don't buy that video.

1: He didn't show the settings.
2: It did stutter a little.
3: It was indoors only.

I'd would want, as the budget could allow, a GTS 250 1GB, GTS 450 1GB, HD5770 1GB or GTX 460 768MB/1GB.

» Wed Sep 01, 2010 2:12 pm

The 4550 isn't actually an OMG Awesome card. The 512mb version is just below my sorta svcky card on http://www.overclock.net/graphics-cards-general/502403-graphics-card-ranking-5th-time-last.html list.

The good news is that my card (Radeon HD2600XT / 256mb. mobile. underclocked. It's an old iMac. /shrug) ran FO3 fine at mid-low settings at 1680x1050.

Yeah, you won't be turning everything on (I mean, come on.... that one test page linked had it running 4xAA, 16xAF?!? Of course it ran slowly), but it'll work, and the game'll still be pretty enough.

» Wed Sep 01, 2010 9:54 pm

www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri/
When you get the PC.

» Wed Sep 01, 2010 5:42 pm

Multi-threaded applications will run just fine on a single-core processor, though obviously you'll need a significantly faster single core than you would two cores.
A 2GHz Athalon 64 3000 isn't really particularly fast, either, so I'm not surprised you're running up against issues. It's not that the games were designed for only dual core (It doesn't work like that, your OS' resource management takes care off all of the messy low level details for you), it's that your processor simply isn't fast enough to keep up.

» Wed Sep 01, 2010 7:51 pm

With ATI, the x550 cards are at the lower end of gaming cards. It will run this game, but with some eye candy turned down and not at too high a resolution. However what I would do is get the game, play it for a while, then hit the parental units (or significant other) up for a video card for Christmas/Hanuka/Kwanzaa