What ambient light? It's underground and there are no other light sources in that particular area. A shadow from one focused light source will appear pitch black - ever play with shadow puppets as a child? Again if you distrust the accuracy of that shadow please stand in a dark room and hold up a lamp close behind your head and observe the real life results.
I was running it, completely playable at 1024x768, w/ 4xAA and 8xAF. Graphics all on high, CPU all on maximum. Soft Shadows was turned off.
It looked awesome, and played smoothly.. very well. EXCEPT for, the loading pauses. Which are an annoyance, but I've had a poke about the net and there was something about defragging to improve this, so when I've backed up all the crap off my array, I shall be doing this and seeing what a difference it makes.
I know the Duron isn't helping. Benching to the equivellent of a 2200+, or thereabouts. Not exactly the best I could be using, and that's probably attributing to the loading pauses too. But, I'm still very impressed with the performance from a slightly sub-standard 6800GT, and an overclocked Duron.
As for the game itself though. That giggle, that stare.. that 'appearing' at the top of the stairs.
I. Nearly. Died. Such a good game, and I will definitely be buying a copy when my next student loan comes through! :D
Man, this is bad when games are getting so RAM hungry that even a gig isn't enough. Anyone have a release date for the full game? Also, what's this I hear about a multiplayer demo?
Originally Posted by kiljoi Man, this is bad when games are getting so RAM hungry that even a gig isn't enough. Anyone have a release date for the full game? Also, what's this I hear about a multiplayer demo?
The multiplayer demo was in an open beta which is closed now.
Originally Posted by Hamish not enough ram, defragging helps because it makes paging faster but the best way is more ram :p
I suspect in the case of FEAR it's just not precaching enough. If I play through the demo once, stop before the end (so memory isn't cleared out), then reload a save fromt he beginning, it's totally smooth except for when the game autosaves (for which I would expect a pause given it's writing to the disk).
Presumably they can work that out in the full game, which is still month away.
I would like to point out that, at least for me, FEARs stuttering is WAY less prounounced than Half-Life 2's when it was released.
Originally Posted by Stevedroid I suspect in the case of FEAR it's just not precaching enough. If I play through the demo once, stop before the end (so memory isn't cleared out), then reload a save fromt he beginning, it's totally smooth except for when the game autosaves (for which I would expect a pause given it's writing to the disk).
Presumably they can work that out in the full game, which is still month away.
I would like to point out that, at least for me, FEARs stuttering is WAY less prounounced than Half-Life 2's when it was released.
One word, WOW! :D I can go into a dark movie theater or dark room and watch a scary movie and rarely has any movie startled me enough to jump in my seat, I just know when its going to happen or I just can't get into the movie. But with this game I mean, I was expecting creepy but it always seemed to just catch me off guard and I was in a fully lit room with a person sitting a foot away from me watching me play and another watching a blaring loud TV behind me.
I have an:
N force 2 MB
AMD xp 3200+
Radeon X800pro
1 GB 400 ddr Ram
SB Audigy 2zs
Disregarding the fact that my MoBo and Gfx card don't seem to like each other I let the game automatically set up its self for my system and when I Glanced at the settings I just noted it said Custom on everything. Game ran smooth until right near the end when you have the psychotic episode in the hallway. I thought I would like the shadows at first but they are just flat out annoying on my Gfx card, I obviously didn't have soft shadows on because they had very hard edges and it just seemed to make the game to dark. I couldn't see anything until I jacked the gamma sky high and then the area with the shadows in the beginning where your outside where still pitch black. Now, I do have similar problems with GTA SA when I save or pause the game and come back and I have to reset the gamma because it suddenly gets dark on me. (I still think its a MoBo and Gfx card compatibility issue) But I figure when I upgrade my computer to an A64, Nforce 4+ MoBo, and 7800GTX at the first of the year it will run like a champ and the shadow problems will work themselves out.
I think this game ranks right up there with doom3 and HL2. ;)
Hi e_fractal you have a very similiar system to me :)
However what graphics card are you running on? 64 MB, 128 MB, or the 256 MB graphics card? Because with my system i have the 128 MB graphics card and would like to know if that and my total system specs would be acceptable to run the game F.E.A.R.
only way i could get decent play was to turn everything off. but i was actually surprised i could run it with my alienware laptop, 2.8 P4, 5600go128, 1gb 2700, etc. soon to be upgraded!!!
only got a few min into it and died. pretty much awesome game, scaryiest game since RE4.
so those of you with 7800s are you getting good FPS? i read the few that posted, but i want to hear more! i am getting one soon hopefully, along with a new desktop lol. laptops suck for gaming.
i might only have 10 posts, but im not new.
id like to change that 'whats a dremel' as i have the full dremel kit, with the flex head?? lol
so you're interested in giving away a laptop... what a coincidence i'm interested in recieving one...............................please
Originally Posted by quinicat Hi e_fractal you have a very similiar system to me :)
However what graphics card are you running on? 64 MB, 128 MB, or the 256 MB graphics card? Because with my system i have the 128 MB graphics card and would like to know if that and my total system specs would be acceptable to run the game F.E.A.R.
You'll find out for sure very soon mate - keep an eye on the site :D
However, I suspect you're going to struggle - depending on exactly what your graphics card is, the rest of your system is awfully close to the Minimum Spec.
Make no mistakes - the game is AWESOME, but if you can't play it with certain options turned on, the atmosphere is just ruined. Keep your money in your pocket until you see our review.
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Exactly... plus.. you can always turn it off.
Abit NF7-S v2.0,
Duron 1.6 @ 200*10, 1.5v,
Leadtek 6800GT AGP (400/900),
Corsair TwinX-3200XL 1GB (2-2-2-5),
Pair of 36GB WD Raptors in RAID 0.
I was running it, completely playable at 1024x768, w/ 4xAA and 8xAF. Graphics all on high, CPU all on maximum. Soft Shadows was turned off.
It looked awesome, and played smoothly.. very well. EXCEPT for, the loading pauses. Which are an annoyance, but I've had a poke about the net and there was something about defragging to improve this, so when I've backed up all the crap off my array, I shall be doing this and seeing what a difference it makes.
I know the Duron isn't helping. Benching to the equivellent of a 2200+, or thereabouts. Not exactly the best I could be using, and that's probably attributing to the loading pauses too. But, I'm still very impressed with the performance from a slightly sub-standard 6800GT, and an overclocked Duron.
As for the game itself though. That giggle, that stare.. that 'appearing' at the top of the stairs.
I. Nearly. Died. Such a good game, and I will definitely be buying a copy when my next student loan comes through! :D
The multiplayer demo was in an open beta which is closed now.
Presumably they can work that out in the full game, which is still month away.
I would like to point out that, at least for me, FEARs stuttering is WAY less prounounced than Half-Life 2's when it was released.
What is your system specs?
I have an:
N force 2 MB
AMD xp 3200+
Radeon X800pro
1 GB 400 ddr Ram
SB Audigy 2zs
Disregarding the fact that my MoBo and Gfx card don't seem to like each other I let the game automatically set up its self for my system and when I Glanced at the settings I just noted it said Custom on everything. Game ran smooth until right near the end when you have the psychotic episode in the hallway. I thought I would like the shadows at first but they are just flat out annoying on my Gfx card, I obviously didn't have soft shadows on because they had very hard edges and it just seemed to make the game to dark. I couldn't see anything until I jacked the gamma sky high and then the area with the shadows in the beginning where your outside where still pitch black. Now, I do have similar problems with GTA SA when I save or pause the game and come back and I have to reset the gamma because it suddenly gets dark on me. (I still think its a MoBo and Gfx card compatibility issue) But I figure when I upgrade my computer to an A64, Nforce 4+ MoBo, and 7800GTX at the first of the year it will run like a champ and the shadow problems will work themselves out.
I think this game ranks right up there with doom3 and HL2. ;)
However what graphics card are you running on? 64 MB, 128 MB, or the 256 MB graphics card? Because with my system i have the 128 MB graphics card and would like to know if that and my total system specs would be acceptable to run the game F.E.A.R.
Here are my system Specs:
1.73 ghz speed,
128 MB graphics card,
512 MB DDR ram,
60 GB Hard drive
is this good enough to run F.E.A.R. ?
:)
so you're interested in giving away a laptop... what a coincidence i'm interested in recieving one...............................please
You'll find out for sure very soon mate - keep an eye on the site :D
However, I suspect you're going to struggle - depending on exactly what your graphics card is, the rest of your system is awfully close to the Minimum Spec.
Make no mistakes - the game is AWESOME, but if you can't play it with certain options turned on, the atmosphere is just ruined. Keep your money in your pocket until you see our review.