Fallout 3 Poll: What's your PC specs?

On Nov 5, 2:20 pm, "Mr. Stabby" <dbate....DeleteThis@gmail.com> wrote:
> My specs:
>
> Athlon XP 64 3600+
> 2GB RAM
> Nvidia 8600 GT
> WinXP
>
> Fallout3 optimistically recommended High settings with high
> antialiasing and texture filtering settings.  Honestly my machine
> chugged a bit, even in the vault.  I lowered things down a bit, but
> I'm still not totally happy with the framerate and mouselook
> responsiveness.  I only spent 20 or 30 minutes outside before it got
> dark, I'll do more tweaking.  Too bad you have to leave the game to
> tweak a lot of the settings.

Oh, and I'm running at 1650x1080 on a Viewsonic 22" LCD. I like the
resolution and usually don't run AA, so I'll probably turn it off on
FO3 to see if that helps.
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On Nov 5, 2:23 pm, "Mr. Stabby" <dbate....RemoveThis@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 5, 2:20 pm, "Mr. Stabby" <dbate....RemoveThis@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > My specs:
>
> > Athlon XP 64 3600+
> > 2GB RAM
> > Nvidia 8600 GT
> > WinXP
>
> > Fallout3 optimistically recommended High settings with high
> > antialiasing and texture filtering settings.  Honestly my machine
> > chugged a bit, even in the vault.  I lowered things down a bit, but
> > I'm still not totally happy with the framerate and mouselook
> > responsiveness.  I only spent 20 or 30 minutes outside before it got
> > dark, I'll do more tweaking.  Too bad you have to leave the game to
> > tweak a lot of the settings.
>
>   Oh, and I'm running at 1650x1080 on a Viewsonic 22" LCD.  I like the
> resolution and usually don't run AA, so I'll probably turn it off on
> FO3 to see if that helps.

How do you like that Viewsonic?

I never understood wanting to use AA. I mean, I know it smoothens out
the jaggies, but having played all my games never having the latest
and greatest graphics card, and on resolutions no bigger than 1024x768
in days gone by, when finally being able to turn on AA, i never
thought it was that big of a deal. And not just saying that to justify
my lack or inability to use it or being a poor gamer. Just used to
playing without it for so long, that now playing at 1440x900 having no
AA is not that big of a deal and I can happily live without it. Of
course I'd play with it if I had a better card but just saying I
played with it on and it's not like WoW!
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On Nov 5, 2:35 pm, morvak <mor....DeleteThis@gmail.com> wrote:

> How do you like that Viewsonic?
>
> I never understood wanting to use AA. !

I love the Viewsonic. I like widescreen, and LCD is smaller and
easier on my eyes than CRTs.

Yeah I'm all for graphics but AA sucks up valuable rendering capacity
and frames per second.
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On Nov 5, 11:35 am, morvak <mor... RemoveThis @gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 5, 2:23 pm, "Mr. Stabby" <dbate... RemoveThis @gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Nov 5, 2:20 pm, "Mr. Stabby" <dbate... RemoveThis @gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > My specs:
>
> > > Athlon XP 64 3600+
> > > 2GB RAM
> > > Nvidia 8600 GT
> > > WinXP
>
> > > Fallout3 optimistically recommended High settings with high
> > > antialiasing and texture filtering settings.  Honestly my machine
> > > chugged a bit, even in the vault.  I lowered things down a bit, but
> > > I'm still not totally happy with the framerate and mouselook
> > > responsiveness.  I only spent 20 or 30 minutes outside before it got
> > > dark, I'll do more tweaking.  Too bad you have to leave the game to
> > > tweak a lot of the settings.
>
> >   Oh, and I'm running at 1650x1080 on a Viewsonic 22" LCD.  I like the
> > resolution and usually don't run AA, so I'll probably turn it off on
> > FO3 to see if that helps.
>
> How do you like that Viewsonic?
>
> I never understood wanting to use AA. I mean, I know it smoothens out
> the jaggies, but having played all my games never having the latest
> and greatest graphics card, and on resolutions no bigger than 1024x768
> in days gone by, when finally being able to turn on AA, i never
> thought it was that big of a deal. And not just saying that to justify
> my lack or inability to use it or being a poor gamer. Just used to
> playing without it for so long, that now playing at 1440x900 having no
> AA is not that big of a deal and I can happily live without it. Of
> course I'd play with it if I had a better card but just saying I
> played with it on and it's not like WoW!

I just turned off the antisctropic filtering or whatever and left AA
on, as someone suggested that as a possible fix for the VATS slowdown
bug (no none of the other fixes I've tried have worked in all
situations so far, other than turning the textures from high to medium
which I figured out on my own, but I don't like the medium textures).
It helps, but the game looks horribly worse.

- Justisaur
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Giftzwerg wrote:

> Intel Q6700 Quad
> 4GB RAM
> 4 750GB Seagate 10K drives / RAID5
> 2 ATI 512MB Radeon in SLI array
> Vista32

Very nice rig. Must have set up back a few pence. You should get Visa 64
though (Seeing as you already have the 32 bit version MS should post you a
DVD with it on for about £10 IIRC) A 32 Bit OS can't address all of your
RAM.
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In article <9WkQk.43653$D04.1745@newsfe25.ams2>, Nospam.RemoveThis@nospam.co.uk
says...

> > Intel Q6700 Quad
> > 4GB RAM
> > 4 750GB Seagate 10K drives / RAID5
> > 2 ATI 512MB Radeon in SLI array
> > Vista32
>
> Very nice rig. Must have set up back a few pence. You should get Visa 64
> though (Seeing as you already have the 32 bit version MS should post you a
> DVD with it on for about £10 IIRC) A 32 Bit OS can't address all of your
> RAM.

It wasn't too bad, money-wise. I built it myself, sorta piece-by-piece
(IE, I didn't go to the RAID5 setup until this summer...) and managed to
leverage piles of stuff (power supply, case, DVD burners, etc...) from
the previous incarnation of the system. Because of this, it's tough to
come to a total cost, but it was probably a third of the $$$ of high-end
Apple systems and it blows away comparable PC brand systems.

--
Giftzwerg
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On Wed, 5 Nov 2008 07:28:38 -0500, Giftzwerg
<giftzwerg999.TakeThisOut@NOSPAMS.hotmail.com> wrote:

>In article <6ndgv1Fl1ok1U1.TakeThisOut@mid.individual.net>, cjmnews04.TakeThisOut@example.com
>says...
>
>> > 2 ATI 512MB Radeon in SLI array
>>
>> A Radeon X1900Pro, a Radeon 4870X2 or something in between?
>>
>> <pedantic nitpicking>
>> If they are Radeons, they will be using Crossfire
>> </pedantic nitpicking>
>>
>> Nice to see the Nvidia marketing machine has been so effective! Just like
>> many people call vacuum cleaners 'Hoovers'.
>
>These are x1950 XTXs.

I sold a pair of them for £160 on eBay 6 months ago! Nice cards although I
hated the way Crossfire worked. No way near as much control as Nvidia's setup.
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On Wed, 5 Nov 2008 12:19:08 -0000, "CJM" <cjmnews04.TakeThisOut@example.com>
wrote:

>Q6600 @ 2.8GHz
>8GB PC2-6400 @733MHz, 4-4-4-12 timings.
>8800GTS/512 @stock - in DX10 mode.
>Vista x64
>
>I can't remember the exact settings but it recommended High, but my fos was
>too high so I moved up to Ultra High. That knocked me down to 15-25fps
>average, so I've knocked a few settings back (eg. Anistropic sampling at
>12x) and I'm back to 45-50fps on average.

I'm looking forward to getting a new PC, and reinstalling a few games
from the last year or so, to see them in all their glory, and running
silky smooth...
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morvak ha scritto:
> On Nov 5, 11:26 am, Funex <fu... DeleteThis @funex.arg> wrote:
>> On Tue, 4 Nov 2008 10:44:19 -0800 (PST), morvak <mor... DeleteThis @gmail.com>
>> wrote:

> How is that 22" lcd? I have a 19" 1440x900 by Samsung and thinking
> about upgrading.

I have buyed a samsung syncmaster 2232bw 22'' lcd. This monitor rules!
This monitor is my best buy!
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"Mark Morrison" <blank DeleteThis @aol.com> wrote in message
> I'm looking forward to getting a new PC, and reinstalling a few games
> from the last year or so, to see them in all their glory, and running
> silky smooth...

My changes are continual and gradual, but when you do revisit a demanding
game, it's cool to see your upgraded PC eat the game and provide the
experience the devs intended. )
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"Fabiano" <fabfake.DeleteThis@infinito.it> wrote in message
news:tfg9u5-h84.ln1@pigrigw.tana.net...

>
>> How is that 22" lcd? I have a 19" 1440x900 by Samsung and thinking
>> about upgrading.
>
> I have buyed a samsung syncmaster 2232bw 22'' lcd. This monitor rules!
> This monitor is my best buy!

I have a 22" Viewsonic (£115 delivered 8mths ago) at home but have had a
succession of Samsung monitors at work and they are really good.
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Everyone, does this game utilises quad core ? Or duo core is most what
you need ?
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First, I play Morrowind & Oblivion, by Beth.

Fallout 3 runs on the same Game Engine as Oblivion, and I have no
trouble with either starting Medium settings then customizing them
(example, turning Shadows down).

WinXP Pro SP3
P4 3GHz Hyper Threading
2gb RAM
nVida GeForce 7300GT 512 (very latest drivers)

760gb total hard drive capacity
(only 80gb with OS/Apps, reminder games)

Recommend consulting TweakGuides site (bookmark their home page)
http://www.tweakguides.com/

They even have tweaks for specific games, in addition to there 2
general Tweak Guides.

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