Fallout system requirements revealed, gold confirmed

Expect major performance issues if you just hit minimum requirements. I have on old graphics card (7800GT) and Oblivion would go crazy whenever I'd walk into the forest. Horrible draw distances, too.
 
hmm, anyone here know if amd athlon 3500+ 2.21 GHz is the same/more/less than the pentium 2,4 GHz processor??
 
respatex said:
hmm, anyone here know if amd athlon 3500+ 2.21 GHz is the same/more/less than the pentium 2,4 GHz processor??
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it'll do well enough, don't worry.
 
taag said:
X850 is 4 years old card, surely you can afford at least radeon 3850 (which costs about 80 bucks) ?
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Unfortunately that's not an option. My only hope would be something like this

http://www.oldblivion.com/ :lol:
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Just bought a 9800gt ultimate, I will send you, or anyone, my old EVGA 7600gs for 35 bucks total if you think that will help. Works fine just got antsy and upgraded my card this week out of nervous anticipation. "Selling" stuff most likely against rules, but trying to help.

Pope Viper said:
Well, fine.

Mine:
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Wolfdale 3.0GHz
4Gb RAM
GeForce GTX280
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Pope yours and mine are pretty close though that graphics card is stick, but I think you got me beat that graphics card put you ahead (Pope's graphics card alone worth about 400-500 bucks)

Q6600 quad core 3.2 GHz
4Gb 800 speed ram
Asus EN9800GT Ultimate
 
Ha, since there are no mod tools, I can finally make myself do the right thing and get it on the Xbox. Oblivion runs like crap on my PC.
 
If you are even thinking FO3 will not run on your comp and you have other options such as xbox360 or ps3 get it on those system. If you think the game looks crappy on their lead system then it will look and play like complete shit on a iffy pc. Sorry :(.

I built a brand new comp for this game and You'll probably need at least a 500 dollar rig, if you build it piece by piece, to make this game look half way decent.
 
<rant>I wonder why do they need so much computing power, considering that e.g. low-mid range servers are way bellow minimum requirements :lol: Maybe it's the superb "stone-face character generation algorithm" used in dialogues?

OK, this just my rant - the graphics is getting better, which means that games modern games look like sh*t. We still don't have computers to make everything look cool (except for threes, grass, ...) so certain things just stand out (the same house in all F3 screenshots, all over again). Better AI? Not that intensive. Sound playback? Doesn't require many CPU cycles. So, it's graphics - and as you can't create realistic people, we need better computers just to see better explosions - but look at some games in 256 colours and what atmosphere you can achieve.</rant>
 
I'm on a Pentium 4 3.2 GHz cpu, 2 gb ram and an ATI X1950 Pro 512 mb gpu.

I can play Oblivion almost flawlessly. so I'm hoping to play this at pretty good quality without any problems. I can even handle Crysis on high settings with decent fps. so I should be fine, as long as they haven't fucked up the optimization.

I'm looking at buying a new rig though and if I can't play this, then I guess I'll get it a bit earlier than planned.
 
C2D 3ghz
2gigs RAM
ATi x1900xtx 512MB

This could run Oblivion fine, max details in 1152*864, although in a forest it was on 25-30fps mark (not very comfortable).

But if I turned the grass off, fps went up to about 60.

And guess what - Fallout 3 has neither forests, nor grass, plus it uses the same engine which will probaly be better optimized. So if am not gonna be able to run it with max details on at least 50 fps, I will be very surprised.
 
Paul_cz said:
it uses the same engine which will probaly be better optimized..
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Well I surely hope so.. My computer is just a little bit more powerful than recommended official requirements, but....

Oblivion's recommended system req :


AMD Athlon XP 3000+ / Intel Pentium 4 3000 MHz
Memory 1024 MB
Graphics Card 128MB DirectX 9c compatible card ATI Radeon X800SE / NVIDIA Geforce 6800LE

Anyone tried playing Oblivion on that kind of system? I'm pretty sure it would both run and look terrible. Shit, Morrowind ran terrible on machines that were WAY more powerful than it's official recommended requirements. And Oblivion still stutters on my PC (e8400 3.0Ghz, 4GB ddr2 800 RAM, 8800GTS 512) in open areas, even without graphics mods, actually it doesn't give a fuck if there is a mod like Qarl's Texture Pack (which makes most textures in game of 4 times bigger resolution) installed, it still provides exactly the same performance.
Bethesda just has a very bad history of their game optimisation, so if Fallout 3 will run smoothly on a PC that equals recommended requirements, I will be pleasantly surprised.
 
Looks like I'll be fine.

Intel Q6600 at 3.2Ghz
4 GB PC6400
ATI Radeon 4870 512MB


I think I might be able to force more AA and AF if the option is not available in game, like WAR.
 
yeah dude, that setup should be able to play pretty much anything out right now on max settings ^
 
Intel Pentium 4 at 3.20GHz
1GB RAM (XP)
RADEON X800 XT Platinum Edition

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Well? I'm just curious. I'm not planning on playing it, but would it work?
 
The best graphics card for your dollar IMO is the ATi Radeon 4850. It's the fastest of the mid-range graphics cards and only at 180$ at Best Buy. I know it sounds steep but your GFX card is the one accessory you shouldn't be cheap with. I have a 4870 which is not only 150$ cheaper than Nvidia's top card it also shows much higher performances in games. I run Crysis at max settings at 1280x1024 with an average of 80fps.

EDIT: Whatever you guys do, don't bother with Nvidia's 9800gtx. It is an absolutely garbage card but they're hyping it like it has so much power packed into it.
 
lol nvidia geforce 6150se, hooray for integrated graphics. I'm gonna pick up a new video card myself soon, but damnit, I have to buy a new PSU also, only got a 300 watt.
 
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