That's some massive over-clockage right there.

Used to run 4.5ghz but its getting old and isn't perfectly stable at that rate now days.

Hopefully next year brings out something worth upgrading to.

Hope my intel 9300 quad core & 2 gig Gtx 650 ti can handle fo4.

That's pretty close to the rig I played FO3 on (Core2 Quad @ 2.67GHz and 8800 GTX). I finally built a new system at the end of last year: i7 6 core 5820 overclocked to 4GHz, 16 GB of DDR4 RAM, superclocked GTX980, and 1TB SSD. It's nice not to have to worry about system requirements for a while.

I see no reason you need to upgrade with a chip as OCed as that. Hell, my stock 2500K plows through everything with no issues. Only bottleneck I have is my card.

I hear that the older model chips such as the Sandys are able to be OCed better and higher than newer cards for whatever reason. No idea how true that is.

We actually have upgrades ordered. They're scheduled to arrive in the mail in about two weeks. We're getting new processors, 16 gigs of RAM and video cards with 2 gigs of VRAM. My Significant Other and I have identical computers, so we buy two of everything and build/upgrade our rigs together. She handles our hardware issues and I handle the software issues.

Our current rigs handle Slyrim pretty well. I generally run about 50 mods without many problems. However, I don't use any graphics mods (aside from lightweights things like Imaginator). But look out!...when I finish playing Fallout 4 I plan to try out some ENBs in Skyrim for the first time!

Care to give a little teaser with approximately how much drive space a current build of the game takes up?

*Can't blame a guy for trying *

There's a guy at your local Power company that thinks you need a 1500W power supply.....maybe 2 of them.

No gaming rig needs 32GB of memory (16GB is overkill).

In fairness, I'd love to have that much RAM for doing audio work. One of my teachers, as a guideline for building an audio workstation, recommends building a mondo gaming rig... and then never gaming on it. He also has four monitors at 4k, and about 24 Terabytes of storage space across I think a half-dozen hard drives.

That's pretty late though, fixing up budget, buying, preparing etc in 20 days is very short notice. I pre-ordered the game yet I have no idea if I should upgrade or not still.

What do you have now?

Intel i5-2500K

AMD Radeon 6950 1GB

8GB RAM

I'm aware it wouldn't put me in high settings but if it'll require low settings which generally are muddy textures who look like decade-old games oftentimes, (had a very nasty experience in Atilla Total War earlier this year, Rome 1 graphics for 37FPS) I wouldn't want to play like that.

I would think the only thing you might want to upgrade would be the video card. A GTX970 is pretty cheap and would probably get you up to high or ultra settings.

If the 970 is too much money, even a 960 would give you a nice boost.

Indeed, I was thinking about buying a GTX 960 or Radeon 380 but couldn't make up my mind due to Bethesda not even giving a broad idea. I hope it won't a bad time for deals by the time they reveal specs.

I have the other 2 fallout games for ps3 but I'm thinking of getting this one for PC. Because of this I want to know if the game will run smoothly on the PC with elevated graphics. My PC is an ASUS ROG G751JY. The specs are:

PC: Intel Core i7-4860HQ

CPU: 2.40GHz

GPU: GeForce GTX 980M

RAM. 32GB

Not sure if this is the best place to have posted this thread, but hopefully this will help. Oh, and welcome to the forum

As long as you're allowing your CPU to run in turbo mode, it should operate at 3.6GHz, which would prevent bottlenecking between the CPU and GPU. Depending on the configuration of the laptop, there may be an option to run the fans in stealth/silent mode, which would restrict cooling to the CPU, and would effectively block the higher clock speed, and so make sure that any such option is switched either to 'off' or 'auto'. With 4GB of video ram, you have higher than what would be considered average, and so this will go a long way to keeping up with increased traffic in terms of higher resolution textures and advanced effects. And with the 980M sitting somewhere between a desktop 770 and 780, I don't think you'll have too much to worry about. Compared to other fairly recent titles, and depending of course on how well FO4 will be optimised, I would expect your system to be able to manage a steady 60fps with most settings on high or even ultra (with the possible exception of AF and MSAA, which usually have the highest performance hit).

Also, you may want to consider running your operating system from an SSD drive if that's an option for you. Even with a mid range card (such as the EVO 850), you should see a massive reduction in load times when gaming, and start-up times for both the operating system and any applications you are running. In addition to this, upgrading to Windows 10 would give you access to DX12, which would more than likely be an option in FO4 either from day one, or at least from a subsequent update. DX12 would increase your FPS considerably, especially with a quad-core CPU. As for your RAM, some people consider 32GB as 'overkill', but this will ensure that you never run out if you're running other apps in the background, or recording video using software such as Shadowplay.

Sweet Lord, OP, if Fallout 4 won't play on your PC at highest graphics then BGS wouldn't have much of a PC market.

i know right lol i7 with a 980 hahahhaha man u can play most game full graphics right now

I normally read these threads to make myself feel better about my own build...

You need a gtx1245 to play fallout 4 on low, sorry. You have a terrible pc, better send it to me.

How come these threads are never started by someone with a PC that might actually struggle with the game?

Nope. Your be lucky to run fallout 1&2 with that terrible rig.

I see. The series has started with Fallout 3, right?

Anyway, you probably will be able to run it, but probably not at maximum details though.

Mate, it's a laptop.

Edit: Oh my, I wasn't replying to the OP. Never mind!

He wrote "I have the other 2 fallout games for ps3." So he might have meant "I have the other two games that were released for PS3."

True. Could be an elaborate bait I fell for, but I doubt that, heh. Just ambiguous.