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  • Re: Fallout 3 Poll: What's your PC specs?

    From Thunderchief@dnb@thunderchief1.freeserve.co.uk to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg,alt.games.fallout,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.war-historical on Monday, January 05, 2009 14:44:34
    From Newsgroup: alt.games.fallout

    Mark Morrison wrote:
    On Tue, 4 Nov 2008 10:44:19 -0800 (PST), morvak <morvak@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    I haven't experienced the game during the day yet, I left the Vault
    at night. So I don't know if my system can handle max graphics
    during the day with HDR and all that. So I'm trying to gauge who's
    playinig with what settings and on what kind of system.

    My specs:
    E6420 CPU (2.x ghz)
    2gb's ram
    Evga 7600GT
    Vista 32 bit

    I will probably need to upgrade my video card to play this game with
    everything maxed but I'll find out soon enough once the sun rises.

    3Ghz AMD 64bit Cpu
    2 GB ram
    Nvidia 7600 graphics card.

    Runs Fine on medium setting, but I have the draw distance for
    buildings, people and items set to max.

    Plays fine, with an occasiona pause when entering VATS, while it
    workds out the % I assume.

    I'm promised myself that if I get my credit down to a certain amount
    by Fab next year, I'll treat myself to a new PC (barebones - mobo, cpu
    and ram). By then, the lower end quad core systems will be cheap
    enough.

    Pretty much the same as my rig, 'cept I have an x1650 (512meg) in the
    graphics slot. The games runs great!

    I've had the rig for about 3 years now, and it can still just about run the new stuff - Blacksite:Area 51 had some issues, mind. I think when I go multi-core, I'll likely be sticking with the AMD/ATI combination. It just seems to work for me :-)

    TC


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  • From Darin Johnson@darin@usa.net to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg,alt.games.fallout,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.war-historical on Monday, January 05, 2009 11:27:21
    From Newsgroup: alt.games.fallout

    It's thead necromancy, but...

    Installed FO3 last week. Have Nvidia 8600 GTS(?).
    It chose high settings for me. Everything looked and
    played great, except for one thing - VATS. It slowed
    to a crawl in VATS. I thought maybe this was a
    feature at first, giving you a long time to see the nice
    outline around the enemy before you could click on
    anything. Then I saw a video on youtube with near
    instant selection of body parts.

    Dropped the anti-aliasing to 0 before I could get
    decent performance there. Also figured I should
    drop anisotropic filtering as well, as I'm not sure
    if that does anything if AA is off. Lowering this
    also makes my mouse a little more responsive
    in dialogues.

    Rumor is a patch is coming and that this is a known
    problem.
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  • From Thunderchief@thunderchief1@gmail.com to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg,alt.games.fallout,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.war-historical on Monday, January 05, 2009 21:09:53
    From Newsgroup: alt.games.fallout

    "Darin Johnson" <darin@usa.net> wrote in message news:c34c0506-cddf-4c97-8a9e-815f04aba969@a12g2000yqm.googlegroups.com
    It's thead necromancy, but...

    Installed FO3 last week. Have Nvidia 8600 GTS(?).
    It chose high settings for me. Everything looked and
    played great, except for one thing - VATS. It slowed
    to a crawl in VATS. I thought maybe this was a
    feature at first, giving you a long time to see the nice
    outline around the enemy before you could click on
    anything. Then I saw a video on youtube with near
    instant selection of body parts.

    Dropped the anti-aliasing to 0 before I could get
    decent performance there. Also figured I should
    drop anisotropic filtering as well, as I'm not sure
    if that does anything if AA is off. Lowering this
    also makes my mouse a little more responsive
    in dialogues.

    Rumor is a patch is coming and that this is a known
    problem.


    I'm not running at full anything, but it still looks pretty good, but even
    on my rig I'm not seeing any lag in VATS. I wonder if its just an Nvidia thing?

    TC


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  • From JT@JT@mail.com to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg,alt.games.fallout,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.war-historical on Monday, January 05, 2009 17:47:19
    From Newsgroup: alt.games.fallout

    Thunderchief wrote:
    "Darin Johnson" <darin@usa.net> wrote in message news:c34c0506-cddf-4c97-8a9e-815f04aba969@a12g2000yqm.googlegroups.com
    It's thead necromancy, but...

    Installed FO3 last week. Have Nvidia 8600 GTS(?).
    It chose high settings for me. Everything looked and
    played great, except for one thing - VATS. It slowed
    to a crawl in VATS. I thought maybe this was a
    feature at first, giving you a long time to see the nice
    outline around the enemy before you could click on
    anything. Then I saw a video on youtube with near
    instant selection of body parts.

    Dropped the anti-aliasing to 0 before I could get
    decent performance there. Also figured I should
    drop anisotropic filtering as well, as I'm not sure
    if that does anything if AA is off. Lowering this
    also makes my mouse a little more responsive
    in dialogues.

    Rumor is a patch is coming and that this is a known
    problem.


    I'm not running at full anything, but it still looks pretty good, but even on my rig I'm not seeing any lag in VATS. I wonder if its just an Nvidia thing?

    TC



    I have a an E8400 running at 3.6G with 4 gig of ram and an ATI 4850 VC
    and I have the lag in VATS as well at times. Was running it on max
    settings at 1600 x 1200, but the VATS issue made me drop it to 1280 x
    960. Still have some lag in VATS, but not as much. It actually doensn't
    happen all the time, but on a couple occasions it was like a slideshow.
    Seems to be a bug in the game, and I hope the patch fixes it.
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  • From Thunderchief@dnb@thunderchief1.freeserve.co.uk to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg,alt.games.fallout,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.war-historical on Tuesday, January 06, 2009 09:26:51
    From Newsgroup: alt.games.fallout

    JT wrote:
    Thunderchief wrote:
    "Darin Johnson" <darin@usa.net> wrote in message
    news:c34c0506-cddf-4c97-8a9e-815f04aba969@a12g2000yqm.googlegroups.com
    It's thead necromancy, but...

    Installed FO3 last week. Have Nvidia 8600 GTS(?).
    It chose high settings for me. Everything looked and
    played great, except for one thing - VATS. It slowed
    to a crawl in VATS. I thought maybe this was a
    feature at first, giving you a long time to see the nice
    outline around the enemy before you could click on
    anything. Then I saw a video on youtube with near
    instant selection of body parts.

    Dropped the anti-aliasing to 0 before I could get
    decent performance there. Also figured I should
    drop anisotropic filtering as well, as I'm not sure
    if that does anything if AA is off. Lowering this
    also makes my mouse a little more responsive
    in dialogues.

    Rumor is a patch is coming and that this is a known
    problem.


    I'm not running at full anything, but it still looks pretty good,
    but even on my rig I'm not seeing any lag in VATS. I wonder if its
    just an Nvidia thing?

    TC



    I have a an E8400 running at 3.6G with 4 gig of ram and an ATI 4850
    VC and I have the lag in VATS as well at times. Was running it on max settings at 1600 x 1200, but the VATS issue made me drop it to 1280 x
    960. Still have some lag in VATS, but not as much. It actually
    doensn't happen all the time, but on a couple occasions it was like a slideshow. Seems to be a bug in the game, and I hope the patch fixes
    it.

    Yep. Fingers crossed!

    TC


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  • From JLC@jlc@invalid.invalid to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg,alt.games.fallout on Tuesday, January 06, 2009 22:06:18
    From Newsgroup: alt.games.fallout

    JT wrote:
    Thunderchief wrote:
    "Darin Johnson" <darin@usa.net> wrote in message
    news:c34c0506-cddf-4c97-8a9e-815f04aba969@a12g2000yqm.googlegroups.com
    It's thead necromancy, but...

    Installed FO3 last week. Have Nvidia 8600 GTS(?).
    It chose high settings for me. Everything looked and
    played great, except for one thing - VATS. It slowed
    to a crawl in VATS. I thought maybe this was a
    feature at first, giving you a long time to see the nice
    outline around the enemy before you could click on
    anything. Then I saw a video on youtube with near
    instant selection of body parts.

    Dropped the anti-aliasing to 0 before I could get
    decent performance there. Also figured I should
    drop anisotropic filtering as well, as I'm not sure
    if that does anything if AA is off. Lowering this
    also makes my mouse a little more responsive
    in dialogues.

    Rumor is a patch is coming and that this is a known
    problem.


    I'm not running at full anything, but it still looks pretty good, but
    even on my rig I'm not seeing any lag in VATS. I wonder if its just an
    Nvidia thing?

    TC


    I have a an E8400 running at 3.6G with 4 gig of ram and an ATI 4850 VC
    and I have the lag in VATS as well at times. Was running it on max
    settings at 1600 x 1200, but the VATS issue made me drop it to 1280 x
    960. Still have some lag in VATS, but not as much. It actually doensn't happen all the time, but on a couple occasions it was like a slideshow. Seems to be a bug in the game, and I hope the patch fixes it.

    I have the E6850 and a 1GB 4870, and if anything VATS is to sensitive. I
    have a hard time picking where to shoot because the curer jumps around
    to fast. I have a MS Sidewinder mouse, but I have it running at only
    800dpi. When moving around the game world the mouse speed is just right
    for my taste. I think I increased the mouse sensitivity in the games
    control panel because I like fast mouse look,so maybe that's why VATS is
    mess up for me. Wonder what's it's like on a 360 using it's game pad.
    JLC
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