So I want to get Fallout 3 for my PC, but obviously theres no demo, so I cant see if it will run well or not.

My PC has 4GB of ram, a 2.2 GHz dual core AMD processor, a ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4250 graphics card and I'm running 64bit Windows 7 and I'm planning on getting Fallout 3 off Steam if thats any relevance.

I want to know if I can run it well? I dont so much mind if the textures are crappy so long as the frame-rate is good. Not sure if its a good comparision or not but I can run Portal on medium settings with a bit of a jumpy frame-rate, how will Fallout compare?

Help appreciated! :biggrin:

Anyone?

The specs are a bit low, the min requirements are a 2.4 Ghz processor, and your's is only 2.2.

So will the framerate stutter and stuff like that?

I tried the "Can you run it" thing and all but two of them were checked for the minimum requirements, and most of them were over for the reccomended.

Actually no, I pass everything on minimum requirements according to "Can you run it", and for the reccomended it says my CPU and Video card arent good enough, I dont understand those though. For graphics card it says 512mb required, and I have 1.9gb, am I understanding it wrong?

And for CPU it says a Intel Core 2 Duo core processor is reccomended, and I have a AMD Athlon, now fair enough it might not be as good, but it still has two, it will work? Right?

I got it for my Asus G73JW for portability and it is real bad about freezing about every 20-30 minutes. Really svcks! I don`t even play it on PC anymore. My Playstation is better with GOTY Edition believe it or not.

I'm sure you don't have a 1.9 GB graphics card . It sounds like you're talking about the standard RAM, not the video RAM.

According to google those cards are shared memory up to 512MB, which means your video is eating into your ordinary RAM, but since you have 4GB of RAM that isn't as bad as it could be.

CYRI is not very good for this sort of thing, I believe it decides things based on the age of the card rather than any specific qualities of it, but in any case even though your GFX card ought to be able to at least run it, the strain is going to be on that processor.


As for your processor being AMD, that wouldn't stop it, no.

2.4GHz Pentium 4. You're making a apples-to-orange comparison with the OP's processor as it should be a more recent one considering there's a Radeon 4250 chipset paired with it. Frequency speeds only matter when comparing to the same architecture of CPUs...the OP's AMD chip likely surpasses that min requirement by quite a lot. The strain will be on the radeon 4250 integrated chipset.




I really don't like that site due to the many inaccuracies I've seen being reported. But it looks like it's correct here for once. You pass minimum, but fall far short of recommended. You do not have 1.9GB of dedicated VRAM for the radeon 4250 chipset...a lot of that is shared memory where the chipset leeches off your physical RAM to use as VRAM, which can really deteriorate performance.

Basically, I wouldn't expect much more than low settings with your setup.