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yeah i would think so... I can set mine close to max also and still get 30fps

 

Fallout 3 is extremely well optimised for "outdoor" areas.


However, some indoor areas can have strange lag spikes in the PC version. I'm not sure why, considering that most of these indoor areas are very basic in design.


At least they concentrated on optimising the outdoors, that's the most important thing.

 

icon, you should be able to run Fallout 3 wonderfully -- just try different variations when you get it, since nobody can really tell you how your rig will run it at x settings; I'd certainly wager you'd have most stuff on high/max.

I can run it nicely on high settings + lower resolution, or my 1280x800 resolution on low/medium very nicely as well.

@Burning Balls,
I've noticed that too... outside I everything runs and looks beautifully -- and it would seem that it should be more strenuous on the hardware; but indoors performance is significantly worse on higher settings for me.

 

General rule:
If the game looks good on PS3 or 360 and you have a graphics card >= 7900GS, you should be able to run the game at near-max settings.

9800m GT is more powerful than 7950m GTX in SLI.
9800m GTS is nearly as powerful as a 9800m GT.

 

Yeah I know, it's like the opposite of Oblivion!


But I can't complain at all, since the "outdoors" is the whole point of fallout 3. I'm glad they decided to focus on optimising the outdoors, that's where the real meat of the game is!

 

hey guys
just ordered company of heroes gold edition and oblivion goty from amazon......just want to double check that my laptop(specs in sig) can handle those games and if so will i get to play them at medium settings and what fps could i expect?
thanks

 

Hi, I am just thinking about getting a new laptop as my old one was preety worn out..
I was thinkin of playing Football Manager 2009, COD4 and maybe crysis.. So can you tell me what settings can I play for each of the laptop below?? Thank you very much..

HP Pavillion dv4T
Intel centrino duo T9400(2.53Ghz)
4GB RAM
250gb HDD sata 5400 rpm
nVidia geForce 9200M GS 512MB or nVidia Geforce 9600
or
HP Pavilion dv5T
Intel Centrino duo T9600(2.8Ghz)
4GB DDR2
250gb HDD 5400rpm sata
nVidia Geforce 9600M GT 512MB

 

should set any AA's for smoother action or just leave it alone.

 

Make sure you get the 9600GT, the 9200 is very much inferior in comparison.

 

Your laptop should be able to handle those games with out any trouble, you will be able to have the settings pretty high too.

 

can i play these games with these cards?

The Games: Il2:1946, Grid.

8400m gs 128mb
9300m gs 512mb
Ati Hd 3450 256 mb
Ati 3200 intergrated
Ati Hd 3650 512mb

Thanks

 

Bump......

 

Ok.. So what settings can we play with the 9600GT and the 9200?? Thanks..

 

Well Football Manager will run fine on both. COD4 will easily max out on the 9600M and you will have to play at much lower settings and resolutions for the 9200M. For Crysis, the 9600M will be fine at medium settings and a lowish resolution, and Crysis on the 9200M will be like a 5fps slideshow unless you turn everything down.

IMHO: Get the DV5T.

 

Hey guys,

How will Fallout 3 and COD 5 run on:

Core 2 Duo P8400 2.26 GHz
4 GB DDR2
NVidia 9650M GT (DDR 2)

Thaaaaaaaaanks

 

Hey guys...im Lookin to get a 13inch Apple Macbook, the aluminum one...was wondering what can i do, as far as gaming and such with these specs (below)...is it capable of handling modern, current day games???


2.4GHzIntel Core 2 Duo

4GB 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM - 2x2GB

NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics

..thanks..

 

That sounds reasonable for 50 - 60 fps in the more demanding source games.
CS:S and DoD will probably max out at that res too.

Fallout 3: Doubtfull
Sins: Possibly on the bare minimum
Diablo 2: But of course
WOW: Low
LOTR: Low - Medium

Low, maybe some on medium.

Performance: HD 3200 < 8400m GS < 9300m GS < HD3450 << HD3650

You can play the grid on low - medium settings @ 1024 x 768 with the first 4 cards and on higher settings at a higher res with the 3650.
According to the system requirements for il2 1946 you'll be able to play on medium and up with the lower end cards.

Fallout 3: Med - High
COD5: Med - High
Both around 1280 x 800/1440 x 900 res.

It should run most games on the market with bootcamp of course

 

Hi guys,
I was wondering how would my Asus G1S run GTAIV with the latest patch (1.0.2 ? ).

Specs:

T7700 @ 2.4Ghz
2GB RAM
8600mGT 256MB

 

Doh! I meant Diablo III, not II. Sorry.

Thanks.

 

Willy, thanks man. That's good of you to reply to all of our questions

 

Hey guys, I was wondering what settings and resolution I could play World of Warcraft on with this setup:

Intel T9400 (2.53)
Nvidia 9200m GS - 256mb
4GB ram
250GB Hard Drive 5400RPM

Thanks alot!

 

Not sure but keep an eye on this thread. People will hopefully post some results with the new patch fairly soon

Possibly on the lowest settings if it scales well to lower end cards like alot of blizzards games.

No prob, it makes me feel better about playing way too many games

Low settings @ 1024 x 768. It's become alot harder to run since the wotlk expansion, otherwise you would have been running it on medium, maybe high @ 1280 x 800. Not sure if it'll look better or worse

 

Thanks man, maybe i'll try oc'ing my card (dunno if it will do me much good) and try running it on the pre-wotlk settings

 

So I am looking into a new laptop and I need to know which of these graphics card would be better to run Oblivion... either the NVIDIA GeForce 9200M GS or a ATI Radeon 3200. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you

 

I was wondering if my laptop would be able to handle Empire: Total War.

The minimum requirements for the game according to Sega are:
Operating System: Windows XP 32(service pack 2), Windows Vista 32 OS.
Processor: 2.4 GHz Single Core Intel or AMD equivalent processor.
System Memory: 1GB RAM (XP) 2GB RAM (Vista).
Graphics Card: 256MB DirectX 9.0c compatible video card (shader 2.0 or higher).
Sound Card: Directx9.0c compatible sound card.
Windows compatible mouse & keyboard.
15 GB free uncompressed hard drive space.

I have:
Core 2 Duo T7100 1.8ghz
2GB of ram
8400GT (128mb)

From the looks of things its the Nvidia 5 (FX) series that has shader 2.0 support, so the actual graphics card needed must be the 5700 or so (as it is with a lot of other games). Am I right in making that assumption (in which case I have enough power despite the lack in video memory?)
And what of the CPU, are my ghz a little on the low side? Or will I get away with it due to the likely support for 2 cores by the game?

 

The 9200m GS would probably be the better choice here as huge open world games such as oblivion usually consume alot of vram which the 3200 doesn't have much, if any, of.

I think you'll get by with 128 mb of ram, you'll have to keep texture related settings at a bare minimum at around 1024 x 768. Usually if a games requirements lists a single core processor in the req(with new games) it's referring to a pentium 4 which even a single core of your core 2 will out perform. If it's a well optimised game you should get very smooth gameplay at lower settings.

 

Hello,

I'm new to this and have no idea what I'm doing.

My son wants to get one of those Eee pc's or similar "netbook". They run with 1.6 GHz, 1GB ram & Intel(R) Graphics Media Accelerator 950. My question is, he likes playing World or Warcraft, Runescape, Pirates online and Penguins. Will this type of laptop play these games?

Thanks.

 

while the Eee being a great netbook, it wasn't really meant to run games. It could probably run simple online flash games and such. But with WoW and the new WoTLK performences update, it could be different. But there are videos on youtube with people playing WoW on their Eee's

 

The eee pc could run all of mrwilcox's mentioned games, except maybe WoW.

I think you would have to turn everything down and hope for the best.

 

hi
I just bought my 5920 with an 8600gs 256 , t7300 2,0ghz , 2gb ram
Will i be able to play gta 4 on this?
Thanks
Pololop

Ps how about red alert3? Far cry2?

 

gta4- low settings
ra3 and fc2- low to med

 

Really think GTA4 will be playable with a 2.0GHz core 2?
(i put off buying it today:\)

 

Can this play TF2 and L4D at 1440x900?

P8600 2.40ghz (Or T9400 2.53ghz)
ATI Radeon 3470 256mb
1440x900

It's a Lenovo T400.

 

^yes, probably even med-medium high if you bump the res to 1280x800 (or you could just stay at 1440x900)

But yes, you can run it.

 

ZJ13 I play l4d on everything high at 1280 by 800 except for shadows on med with 30 fps on my ati mobility radeon 3450. TF2 I max out everything and no lag.
WILL my computer run GTA iV the new one
ATI MOBILITY RADEON hd 3450
INtel core 2 duo (centrino version) t5800 running at a whopping 2.0ghz.

I really want the game but i dont want to waste money and not be able to run it.

 

^your not going to run GTA IV, unless you want about 10 fps...

As for L4D, you could possibly max with lower shadows

 

haha, for some reason your title cracked me up

 

hey guys will toshiba satellite be able to play red alert 3? how about cod waw?the specs are as follows:

C2D 2.26gb or 2.4gb
ATI 3650 (512 ded)
15.4" WXGA
4gb ram

thanks heaps

 

Finding it really hard to get numbers on 9800m GS (in the MSI GT627). The rig is P8600, 4 gig, Vista32.

Wondering if 1680x1050 with medium-ish settings will be playable in current rpgs like Mass Effect, Oblivion, and Fallout3.

My worry though is Dragon Age Origins and Diablo 3. If my pc can't do D3, then that's like not having a pc at all.

 

I'm thinking of getting a "Compaq Presario CQ60-118TX 15.6" Notebook "
Intel® Pentium DualCore Mobile Processor
2.0 GHz Processor
667 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 9200M GE
2GB RAM

Will it run something like Sims 2 and its expansions? If not, what will it run?

 

Cooldude88,
Definitally without a doubt. It might play codwaw are medium.

 

Indeed. You'll also notice that i've done quite a bit of spamming while the sun was on our side. You've got some catching up to do

RA3: Medium - High(processor dependant so turn physics related settings down first if you have to)
COD: Med - High
Both at native res

Oblivion should run on maxed settings at that res(maybe not full AA)
Fallout3: High(less the AA)
Mass effect: Medium - High(textures high, shadows medium for bthe best look/performance)
You'll be able to handle the other two aswell but they havn't been released yet so it's impossible to say at what settings:\

The sims 2 should run on mostly high settings at 1024 x 768 with 30+ fps
What else would you like to play on you laptop?

 

Maybe Sims 3? Battlefield 2 (Or 1942 if BF2 is too much), Sam and Max. Highest graphics wise would be Sims 3 I reckon. I'm not too much of a hardcore gamer.
I know The Sims 2 should be fine but it seems to be that the expansions won't run on lots of laptops

 

The sims 3 should run on low settings at least, BF2 on High @ 1024 x 768, Never heard of sam and max(if you can find the requirements post them here )

You're definatly underestimating this laptop, you can play new games with it on low settings. Older games should run well on medium to higher settings.

 

That's good to hear, thanks for your help
Sam and Max will work fine, it's not high demanding (It's a point and click comedy adventure game )

 

No prob, happy gaming!

 

I feel you man, I am hoping that my current laptop will play Diablo 3 on at least medium.

 

Crysis
GTA IV
Left 4 dead
WoW
CoD4
Oblivion

what settings will my laptop be able to play when i receive it?

Sager NP8660

Intel P8600 'motevina core' 2 core duo 2.4ghz 1066fsb
Nvidia 9800M GTS 512 DD3
4Gb DDR3 1066fsb ram
2x Bluray 8x dvdrw
250gb 7200rpm
vista 64

 

will the following specs run sims 3??low/med/high?

2.26 or 2.4gb
ati 3650 (512 ded)
4gb ddr2 ram
15.4" WXGA

thanks

 

medium at least I imagine...