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Just bought FEAR

post #1 of 60
12/27/05 at 3:59am
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Not as impressed as I thought I was going to be. Game runs like crap on my 9300, 1.7, 1 gig ram, 256 6800 go. Very choppy. Ah well, we will see how it goes.
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post #2 of 60
12/27/05 at 4:08am
Just finished demo..
Not bad.

I like how your gun recoils...
I like how your head bobs up and down..more immersive exp..

But the small girl sequences are just kinda corny. And I wish the envs were more interactive.
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post #3 of 60
12/27/05 at 4:12am
What Settings and what FPS are you getting?
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post #4 of 60
12/27/05 at 4:13am
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Originally Posted by tooty007
Not as impressed as I thought I was going to be. Game runs like crap on my 9300, 1.7, 1 gig ram, 256 6800 go. Very choppy. Ah well, we will see how it goes.
What drivers are you using?
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post #5 of 60
12/27/05 at 10:09am
FEAR is a very demanding game. Not being impressed with playing it on a laptop is the real issue, the game itself when run on hardware than can deal with it in all of it's glory is visually amazing. The game is geared towards the highest level of hardware though, as Doom 3 was when it was released, so don't pick on the game just because our laptops choke a bit on it.

As for getting the most out of it on the hardware we have, there's always The FEAR Tweaking Guide, but from what I understand, the engine doesn't allow for much tweaking so you have to gain your performance by turning down the eye candy a bit. (Covered in the guide.)

While I haven't played the game yet, from what I've heard it's a lot of fun but can suffer at times from the same maladies as most FPS games when it comes to lack of variation in bad guys, etc. (But the AI is pretty good compared to others.) No biggie since we're all used to things like that, but from playing the demo it was clear that the graphics can be really nice on the right hardware.

-Doc
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post #6 of 60
12/27/05 at 10:40am
I thought it played pretty well. It does look better on my desktop though.
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post #7 of 60
12/27/05 at 10:46am
It's just the nature of the beast. Most new games, especially new engines, usually tax the hell out of the existing hardware, but play slicker than snot a few upgrades down the road.

-Doc
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post #8 of 60
12/27/05 at 10:58am
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Originally Posted by tooty007
Not as impressed as I thought I was going to be. Game runs like crap on my 9300, 1.7, 1 gig ram, 256 6800 go. Very choppy. Ah well, we will see how it goes.
It was real choppy for me too when I had 1 GB of RAM. It swaps out to disk alot making the game horrible. When I added another 512 MB of RAM to 1.5 GB it smoothes it out alot! Huge difference in gameplay. Going from 1.5 GB to 2.0 GB also helped, but no where near from 1 GB to 1.5 GB.

Bottom line, add more memory, 1 GB is not enough for this game. Do it now while DDR2 prices are rock bottom.
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post #9 of 60
12/27/05 at 11:17am
just turn off all shadows,volumetric lights and soft shadows. it'l run like a charm untill you get 2gb.
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post #10 of 60
12/27/05 at 11:35am
Soft shadows is a REAL killer. That's for sure.

-Doc
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post #11 of 60
12/27/05 at 11:37am
So is AA.
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post #12 of 60
12/27/05 at 11:53am
I never got all this hype about this game. Visually, it doesn't look to me a lot better that SWAT 4. And I have almost everything at maximum. And it has that terrible stutter for a few seconds everytime it saves. I really wanted to like this game, but it really disappointed me. You would think that one year after far cry and half life 2 was released games would have much better graphics.
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post #13 of 60
12/27/05 at 12:05pm
well, even their developers recommend that you play at lower resolutions. So if you are even trying to play at the 9300's native res with FEAR, you are going to have mass problems. My old Desktop (before my 9300) had all the goodies to play high end games...though FEAR at high resolutions would make it stutter here and there.
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post #14 of 60
12/27/05 at 12:35pm
ok, for the sake of comparison, I loaded the demo. It plays very nicely. I hope you are using different drivers than default. Also, vsync may be giving you problems--turn it off if it's on. I was suprisingly pleased how nicely it looked. Now to uninstall it since I don't play this game anymore since selling my last machine. Good Luck!
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post #15 of 60
12/27/05 at 1:27pm
I think the graphics are great, definetly a step above doom 3, and I can play it at pretty good framerates. Call of duty 2 though, I cant get to run respecfuly using directx 9...
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post #16 of 60
12/27/05 at 1:30pm
I just finished playing it on my 9300, very few issues aside from the 'pausing' during saves, the occational slow-down or stutter. I ran it fine with most everything at "Medium" with only 512mb of ram, and only slight overclocking on my 6800. Don't knock the game just because you don't have it configured to run smoothly on your computer.

Most people seem to forget that games arent all about graphics either, ESPECIALLY after HL2 and Far-Cry came out.
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post #17 of 60
12/27/05 at 1:33pm
Just for the record, FEAR's graphical engine as implemented in the game is far beyond HL2 or Doom 3. Some of the effects in the game are just awe-inspiring. And I like the physics engine much better than source's. Unfortunately, the graphics dont look that great if you cant crank them, the game definitely doesnt scale down as well as HL2 either. If you guys are having difficulty playing the game, here's what I did for a friend that had an X600. Made the game run at 640x400 (wide screen ratio) and then turned on LCD expansion. This looks alot better than pixe doubling, and allowed him to play on max settings but no AA and no AF because the card is so bad. The 6800Go should easily be able to handle 1280x800 with expansion on. I played through the whole game on my 6800Go @ 370/780, 1440x900, everything on max with 2xAF. True that it went down to 20FPS at times, but visually, it was amazing, and that's what I enjoy most about games. 7800GTX is a whole different kind of beast though . However, crank the settings and play at a lower resolution so that you can enjoy this amazing game.
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post #18 of 60
12/27/05 at 1:54pm
FEARs physics are not better then Source's
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post #19 of 60
12/27/05 at 2:08pm
That's kinda wierd. I watched my friend run that game on his pentium 4 HP laptop with 1 gig of RAM, and a 128mb videocard. The game looked awesome, no choppyness at all.

Kinda off topic, with 1gig ram, 100gig hard drive, and a 68000go, how well would Call of Duty 2 look on the 9300?
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post #20 of 60
12/27/05 at 2:24pm
I loved it. All settings maxed...I was playing it Christmas night and had to stop...kinda gave me the willies....scary game
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