Hi guys, I recently bought the Fallout GOTY edition for my PC and was wondering what graphics cards can run it. I don't want to spend much as I am not a PC gamer as I just wish to play Fallout on it. What would be my cheapest option?

Thanks.

Hm, the game is not heavy at all. With 2 gb. RAM and some two core processor i you shall play it on high settings. Of course just put some good video card with at least 512 vram. As for the cheap option. Maybe 1 gb RAM,,256 vram and 1.8 processor.

Nice one dude, my computer at the moment is fine I have enough RAM and system power already it's just the GPU I only have the built in Intel Express Chipsets but I'll definitely look at some cards with those specs.

Well i hope it run well but my advice is to play it on good system. Is not the same when you play such rich world on minimum settings. Just put some good video and you are ready : )

Minimum:
Operating system: Windows XP/Vista

Processor: 2.4 Ghz Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent processor
Memory: 1 GB (XP)/ 2 GB (Vista)
Hard disk space: 7 GB
Video: Direct X 9.0c compliant video card with 256MB RAM (NVIDIA 6800 or better/ATI X850 or better)
Sound: DirectX?: 9.0c
Controller support: Xbox 360 controller
Other Requirements: Online play requires log-in to Games For Windows - Live

Supported Video Card Chipsets:
NVIDIA GeForce 200 series, Geforce 9800 series, Geforce 9600 series, Geforce 8800 series, Geforce 8600 series, Geforce 8500 series, Geforce 8400 series, Geforce 7900 series, Geforce 7800 series, Geforce 7600 series,

Geforce 7300 series, GeForce 6800 series

ATI HD 4800 series, HD 4600 series, HD 3800 series, HD 3600 series, HD 3400 series, HD 2900 series, HD 2600 series, HD 2400 series, X1900 series, X1800 series, X1600 series, X1300 series, X850 series

Recommended:
Operating system: Windows XP/Vista

Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo processor
Memory: 2 GB System RAM
Hard disk space: 7 GB
Video: Direct X 9.0c compliant video card with 512MB RAM (NVIDIA 8800 series, ATI 3800 series)
Sound: DirectX?: 9.0c
Controller support: Xbox 360 controller

On the incredibly low end? I ran Fallout 3, originally, on a computer with a Radeon 2600, with 256mb of RAM. And not on all-low settings, either.

So, pretty much anything you can get for $50-100 nowadays, should run it. Oh, http://www.overclock.net/t/502403/graphics-card-ranking-5th-time-and-last-updated-daily, ranked in order. It can help figure out if something is actually stronger, when you can't translate all those different model numbers. My original FO3 card is waaaaaaaay down at #189.

edit: searching NewEgg....

$50-75 range, http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007709%204026&IsNodeId=1&bop=And&Order=RATING&PageSize=20 (118 on the list)

75-100 range, http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007709%204027&IsNodeId=1&name=%2475%20-%20%24100 (67 on the list)

One important thing to remember is your power supply, though. As the cards get bigger/stronger, they take more power. And also need power leads connected directly to them from the power supply. Those 6570's don't look like they'd be any problem, but the 7770 does look like it needs a dedicated power cable from your PSU.

Nice list...thanks !!!!!

Get a geforce 460 or 560.

Thanks for that, big help!

Yea the 7770 is really nice. I upgraded from a 5770 which also did a great job with FALLOUT 3. Just found out yesterday I can actually run SKYRIM on high and ultra with shadows set to medium thanks to the Radeon 7770.

If you do, DO NOT get the latest 320 drivers, download 314.22 instead.

Also, don't select a video card based on the amount of video memory (VRAM) it has. A lot of card manufacturers make cards with a lot more VRAM than the GPU can use specifically to fool people into thinking they're getting a better card than they actually are. The most important aspect of a video card is the GPU. The card will not have less VRAM on it than the GPU needs to be effective, so my advice would be to ignore VRAM completely and make sure to get a card with a good GPU.

I have a GT520 that cost fifty bucks and it does fine on Skyrim, so it should do fine on Fallout.

Well, If you put it that way...then yes it should be OK. LOL

Yup, I second this recommendation. Those drivers have been frying people's cards with incorrect voltage settings (according to rumors on the internet).

Well in order to give a good recomendation, we'll need to know a few things first.

What price range are you looking at?

What resolution do you plan on playing at?

What CPU do you have? And how much RAM.

What Power Supply? Wattage and brand.

Might want check into an AMD card if you are on WIndows 7 64bit. I've been having crash to desktop crashes almost every other time I blow off an enemy's head, limb or whatever. The message that follows the crash points the fault to a "nvd3dum.dll" problem.

I still haven't found a solution yet and I've tried just about everything you can imagine.

You mean you bought Fallout 3 GOTY... Cause any graphics card can play http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Fallout

It's not a big deal at all, it's just one of my pet peeves and I have develped a compulsion to make the clarification.

Sorry, but i don't believe that. If it's rumors leave it that way.

I have experience, especially with graphics drivers, and that's nonsense, if someone say things like that then this is his fault.

I tried graphics drivers, WHQL or not particularly on Nvidia card's for about 20 years.

-----------------------------------Those are things that someone should care of....

If someone overclock his card, or has a faulty PSU, the fun is not working properly, wrong bios update, increasing voltages with overclock utilities, sudden increase in voltage - caused by a lightening strike for example.

In other cases software problems can overheat your graphic card and it might shut off completely giving you a permanent blank screen.

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The only culprit that i can thing of, to fry your graphic card is inappropriate re-encoding of the flash bios of the card, and that's has nothing to do with downloaded drivers from homepage (including beta ones).

As for the drivers i use the latest 331.65 and i can confirm those drivers are stable and the temperatures are within normal operating numbers. (Idle 37C and 68C-72C under load)

I tried those for a couple of days....no problem so far.

Totally anecdotal, but FWIW I have an nVidia GTX 670 and I'm experiencing no crash issues whatsoever on Windows 7 x64.

Is your system or video card overclocked ???

Like I said, just rumors. But to be more specific, it was concluded (though not verified by anything but posts by members on the nvidia forums which is no official verification) that the newer drivers were made for the Fermi+ nvidia GPUs that have drivers that modify voltages to auto-overclock your card. Nvidia dubbed this feature http://www.geforce.com/hardware/technology/gpu-boost-2, and was meant for GTX 600 and GTX 700 series of GPU's. The 'victims' (like I said before... not officially verified) were using GTX 500 series and older GPU's and were having their cards fry on them. I would consider the rumors frivolous, but there is about 5 dozen websites and blogs with the same complaints, same drivers (320 forceware), and same type of cards frying.

Sorry for being redundant. I just think it's better to be safe than sorry. Bad drivers that break cards have happened before. Once upon a time Nvidia released a driver that caused people with 8800 GT/GTS cards to fry their cards because the driver would disable the fan entirely.

No

Mind sharing your fallout.ini and other settings? If I lose anymore hair from trying to prevent the nvd3dum.dll crash I might have a toilet seat on my head soon.

EDIT: Also this http://www.gamesas.com/topic/980768-windows-7-nvidia-18171-driver-workaround-problem/?hl=nvidia was linked from the official pinned troubleshooting thread in the FO3 H&S Issues PC sub-forum. All it did was bring me back full circle to the still existing problem.

OP, if you are planning to play vanilla FO, then you don't need a high or even a medium graphic card, but if your thinking of modding the game, e.g., texture replacers, then you'll need at least a GTX 560 with 2GBvram.

> Once upon a time Nvidia released a driver that caused people with 8800 GT/GTS cards to fry their cards because the driver would disable the fan entirely. <

That's correct....i know that. My friend's store had three 8800 GTS cards out of order because of this !!!!!

I was lucky because i had a 8800GT but obviously, i can remember exactly, maybe i haven't updated the drivers, so my card was okay for the most....

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Gpu boost must be done carefully, and on the appropriate card's of course !!!!

I might have a toilet seat on my head soon. (priceless !!!!) +1

Sorry, i couldn't resist !!!!!!