[Naughty not Nice]

I'm running a 1.8Ghz dual core, 2gigs of Ram and this.

So she's kind of a dragster, all go with no gas tank

similar to my machine/card. I ran FO3 in high quality, but at half resolution (ie 800x600 on my 1280x1024 monitor). Graphics/speed was better like that than running at full-rez with reduced quality graphics. Point is, try out various settings until you find your "sweet spot"

[oliver klosoff]

tomorrow O; * well not for me lol* gotta love amazon

[Euan]

Well I already know I'll be able to run it but do you guys know ways to speed up the frame-rate? Any suggestions would be much appreciated. I would like to have a good constant frame rate in ultra (or high) because the occasional little slow downs here and there can be annoying.

Do what I have just done, purchase 16gb of DDR3 1600 RAM and dump the whole game onto a RAMdisk. Nothing is faster for loading from, well except DDR3 2600 RAM but I ain't that well off.

[Andres Lechuga]

Windows XP
graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT - 512 mb
Processor: Intel® Xeon™ CPU 3.60
Memory: 2048MB RAM

Fallout 3 chugs sometimes. I'm debating whether to just get the Xbox 360 version, but I hate to give up mods.

is a dual core processor really required?

[suniti]

Will this be enough?

Intel? CoreTM i7 960 3.2 ghz
12GB2 Tri-Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1600Mhz
450GB WD VELOCIRAPTOR HD x2's
NVIDIA GTX480 GeForce
Windows? 7 Professional 64-Bit

[Isabella X]

Will this be enough?

Intel? CoreTM i7 960 3.2 ghz
12GB2 Tri-Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1600Mhz
450GB WD VELOCIRAPTOR HD x2's
NVIDIA GTX480 GeForce
Windows? 7 Professional 64-Bit

Lol, give people a nice rub don't you?
Kinda have the same rig as you.

i7 960 3,2 ghz.
6GB Corsair Dominator-GT 1600MHz triple
OCZ Vertex 2 120GB SSD
2x WDC Green 2TB
ATI Radeon 5970
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit

[Janette Segura]

Windows XP
graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT - 512 mb
Processor: Intel® Xeon™ CPU 3.60
Memory: 2048MB RAM

Fallout 3 chugs sometimes. I'm debating whether to just get the Xbox 360 version, but I hate to give up mods.

is a dual core processor really required?

I don't thinks so at all. It's "enhanced" for dual-core, but I don't find it to be a requirement.

Will this be enough?

Intel? CoreTM i7 960 3.2 ghz
12GB2 Tri-Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1600Mhz
450GB WD VELOCIRAPTOR HD x2's
NVIDIA GTX480 GeForce
Windows? 7 Professional 64-Bit

Uhhhh...yea...more than enough. C'mon now.

Lol, give people a nice rub don't you?
Kinda have the same rig as you.

i7 960 3,2 ghz.
6GB Corsair Dominator-GT 1600MHz triple
OCZ Vertex 2 120GB SSD
2x WDC Green 2TB
ATI Radeon 5970
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit

Yea.....you're more than fine too.

[Sheila Reyes]

I've noticed that the ram requirement has gone up from fo3. I've only got 1 gb and I'm on vista. I meet all the other minimum requirements. Will the game be playable on lowest settings?

[Lucie H]

I've noticed that the ram requirement has gone up from fo3. I've only got 1 gb and I'm on vista. I meet all the other minimum requirements. Will the game be playable on lowest settings?

You can run Vista on 1GB?

You would really benifit from some more RAM. You can probably run the game, but it would be much happier with 2 or 3 GB's of RAM in your system.

[kevin ball]

I've noticed that the ram requirement has gone up from fo3. I've only got 1 gb and I'm on vista. I meet all the other minimum requirements. Will the game be playable on lowest settings?

you probably wont enjoy it as much. when u enter big areas are theres a big battle ensuing your game may choke up. if you can try to add another GB of memory and maybe a better card if it is within your budget to do so then i think youll be fine.

[sam westover]

Lol, give people a nice rub don't you?
Kinda have the same rig as you.

i7 960 3,2 ghz.
6GB Corsair Dominator-GT 1600MHz triple
OCZ Vertex 2 120GB SSD
2x WDC Green 2TB
ATI Radeon 5970
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit

hahah (had to do it)

Sweet setup there!

[FLYBOYLEAK]

I've noticed that the ram requirement has gone up from fo3. I've only got 1 gb and I'm on vista. I meet all the other minimum requirements. Will the game be playable on lowest settings?

RAM is the cheapest way (hardware) to enhance your PC performance.

[Andrea Pratt]

Hardware wise I could theoretically run F3 on high settings but because I have an integrated intel processor it just froze ad naseum. I tried going into the .ini and limited it to 2 cores being used but that did nothing, so I gave up. Could anyone confirm that has been looked at or is the going to be the same?


Intel i3 btw

[Benito Martinez]

What "theory" do you think you know that disputes the fact that a real, actual, discrete video graphics CARD is absolutely the single most important part of a game- capable PC?

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Graphics-Media-Accelerator-4500MHD-GMA-X4500MHD.9883.0.html

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130552

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102856

While the only officially sanctioned system requirements are a bad joke on graphics once again, there still is the limitation to the only two companies with a real interest in games, the experience, and the wherewithal, that is recognized, omitting anything for video from Intel.

[Matt Gammond]

What "theory" do you think you know that disputes the fact that a real, actual, discrete video graphics CARD is absolutely the single most important part of a game- capable PC?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102856

See how well that runs on a Pentium D with 1gb of RAM and Vista. Hows that for a theory?

[carla]

You don't seriously think that you are contributing to the information level and quality in the thread? It isn't a debate. It is a long-confirmed fact.

[Jade Barnes-Mackey]

You don't seriously think that you are contributing to the information level and quality in the thread? It isn't a debate. It is a long-confirmed fact.

By whom?
A PC is the sum of it's parts and not just one, the amount of times I have seen someone think they can just chuck in a ￡500 GFX card into a [censored] PC and expect it to be spectacular is unreal. You need the other hardware to accompany it for the best results and in today's current climate of [censored] ports it tends to favour good CPUs over GFX cards as well.

[i grind hard]

Guys, discussing what makes for a gaming PC is not a topic for this thread. Stop it.

Let's leave this thread for folks asking about their specific rigs and Fallout New Vegas.

Want to have another discussion, open a thread in CD for that.

[sara OMAR]

True. True. But I didn't think that the "Laptops vs. anything else" aspect had been touched yet. What I had in mind was onboard video vs. the real thing, Intel most specifically, sorry. And I still say that the typical usage of "Series" that has become common is far different from the way that it appears in the only official anything on the system requirements so far.

[Beulah Bell]

quite strange, it says my CPU speed is 2.26 GHz and the minimum requirement is 2.0 GHz, and it nonetheless says "FAIL", maybe it's cause it requries a dual core 2.0 gHz and I have a single core 2.4 gHz...

[Katey Meyer]

You can run Vista on 1GB?

You would really benifit from some more RAM. You can probably run the game, but it would be much happier with 2 or 3 GB's of RAM in your system.

Yeah but its pretty slow. I bought this laptop a few years ago when I knew nothing about computers. I blame toshiba for manufacturing ridiculous computers. Guess I'll finally be doing an upgrade.

[phil walsh]

quite strange, it says my CPU speed is 2.26 GHz and the minimum requirement is 2.0 GHz, and it nonetheless says "FAIL", maybe it's cause it requries a dual core 2.0 gHz and I have a single core 2.4 gHz...

I hope that's an Athlon 64 chip...if so, I'm thinking you'll probably be fine. Again, I don't buy the "dual-core" requirement if this game is only marginally more strenuous than FO3 because that game ran on plenty single core chips. To be safe though, wait it out a bit and see what other single core users say about running the game.

[Manuel rivera]

The X800GTO is going to be the questionable area. It's the lower end video card amongst the X800 series back in the day and is only a Shader Model 2.0b card as well. If SM 2.0b video cards are still allowed to run this game, then the X800GTO could probably pull some low-medium settings. In your case, I'd actually wait before getting the game to see if the Pentium 4 and that video card may pose any potential problems. I don't think it should, but never know.

well i preordered it, so shall i just wait and check the system requirements on "can i run it?" then pick it up? or should i wait and just get the xbox version? but like i said i REALLY would want it on the pc, i think its better and yes, i already play on low settings, (yay.....) so should it be ok? and wat shall be my best course of action?

[D IV]

Windows 7
i5-450m at 2.4ghz
4gb ddr3 RAM
plenty of HDD space
GeForce 310m 512mb gddr5 with optimus (can share some memory)

My laptop that swings all over the place performance wise, it runs mass effect 2 and far cry 2 fine but chugs on L4D2 and Civ5 (dx10/11 version, not dx9 version). It meets all the requirements but I'm worried about the mobile graphics card because i only know about full size GPU's. I'm fairly certain I can run it, but guesses at what settings for a 1366 x 768 resolution would be helpful.

[Rachie Stout]

Windows 7
i5-450m at 2.4ghz
4gb ddr3 RAM
plenty of HDD space
GeForce 310m 512mb gddr5 with optimus (can share some memory)

My laptop that swings all over the place performance wise, it runs mass effect 2 and far cry 2 fine but chugs on L4D2 and Civ5 (dx10/11 version, not dx9 version). It meets all the requirements but I'm worried about the mobile graphics card because i only know about full size GPU's. I'm fairly certain I can run it, but guesses at what settings for a 1366 x 768 resolution would be helpful.

I think the difference between those games is LFD and Civ have alot more independently moving objects, which tend to hog ram...if your vid card had 1gb of ram it would probably not choke up.