Anyone got a fallout 3 performance preview for PC.

[sheepdogexpress]

I can't find this anywhere. I kind of saw something related to notebooks but no hard numbers.

I want to see because I heard that the PC version blows the ps3 and xbox 360 versions out of the water and I am just wondering what the FPS are when they are doing this.

Does anyone have this game for pc? If so, what are the settings, fps + specs of your computer?

[coldpower27]

I can't find this anywhere. I kind of saw something related to notebooks but no hard numbers.

I want to see because I heard that the PC version blows the ps3 and xbox 360 versions out of the water and I am just wondering what the FPS are when they are doing this.

Does anyone have this game for pc? If so, what are the settings, fps + specs of your computer?

I am installing as I type this I will try to get you an idea of how this runs on my computer.

[BlueMax]

Looking forward to your report. :)

Hope it will look okay on a simpler video card... an 8500GS is about the best I can squeeze into this LP box.

[sheepdogexpress]

Playing with ultra settings with 8xaa and 15AF at 1900*1200.

But it seems to stutter and frames could be smoother when outdoors.

Running on a 4870x2 with a e8500@ 4.2ghz.

[mikeydavison]

I play at 1440x900 with everything on High but no AA/filtering. Framerate is really good at these settings. To be honest I can probably increase most settings a bit but Crysis and Warhead have me shook. Rig is as follows:

Vista Home Premium
Core 2 Duo e6750
2 GB RAM
xfx 8800gt (512 MB)

[Setz]

I play at 1440x900 with everything on High but no AA/filtering. Framerate is really good at these settings. To be honest I can probably increase most settings a bit but Crysis and Warhead have me shook. Rig is as follows:

Vista Home Premium
Core 2 Duo e6750
2 GB RAM
xfx 8800gt (512 MB)

I've got:

Core 2 Duo T7500 (2.2ghz)
2gb RAM
8600GT (256mb)

Will this be okay to run it on high at 1280x800? For comparison, I can run Crysis on medium at 1280x800 with about 40fps and Oblivion at maximum everything with either full AA or full HDR at 1280x800 and get constant 70fps.

[WontonTiger]

I just "tested" a copy online last night. It ran flawlessly on my pc at WSXGA+ (1680 x 1050).

My Rig.

Athlon 64 X2 6000+ (F3).
ATI Radeon 3850.
4gb crap (not sure frequency).

I played for about 20 mins, but there were no hickups, and it played smoother than Crysis did on the same cpu.

I don't think the concerns about speed are going to be warranted (however it may get more intense later in the game).

[Efx]

I just "tested" a copy online last night. It ran flawlessly on my pc at WSXGA+ (1680 x 1050).

My Rig.

Athlon 64 X2 6000+ (F3).
ATI Radeon 3850.
4gb crap (not sure frequency).

I played for about 20 mins, but there were no hickups, and it played smoother than Crysis did on the same cpu.

I don't think the concerns about speed are going to be warranted (however it may get more intense later in the game).

Game graphics settings would be nice to mention.

[WontonTiger]

Game graphics settings would be nice to mention.

It was on the 2nd highest level, HIGH I believe...

I'm not at the computer, I am at work. I don't have exact specs at the moment.

[CFRTim]

I can't find this anywhere. I kind of saw something related to notebooks but no hard numbers.

I want to see because I heard that the PC version blows the ps3 and xbox 360 versions out of the water and I am just wondering what the FPS are when they are doing this.

Does anyone have this game for pc? If so, what are the settings, fps + specs of your computer?

Most reviews agree that:

Fallout 3 is a tough nut to score because, on the one hand we think it’s utterly enthralling and breathtaking, but on the other we can see that it hasn’t been designed with the PC totally in mind and that really holds back the experience. The most noticeable is the interface, which feels very console-ish

[mikeydavison]

Will this be okay to run it on high at 1280x800? For comparison, I can run Crysis on medium at 1280x800 with about 40fps and Oblivion at maximum everything with either full AA or full HDR at 1280x800 and get constant 70fps.

While I haven't played too much of this I'd be shocked if you couldn't play on High at 1280x800. If you can handle Crysis at that resolution FO3 should be a breeze.

[sheepdogexpress]

I am surprised I cannot max this game out. My crysis frame rates actually feel smoother.

Aside from fraps, is there a timedemo in this game directory. I looked but couldn't find anything.

[coldpower27]

I am surprised I cannot max this game out. My crysis frame rates actually feel smoother.

Aside from fraps, is there a timedemo in this game directory. I looked but couldn't find anything.

It's the immense draw distance that is killing it.

[jling6]

Runs fairly well on my system with no real slowdowns - 1920 x 1200 with 2xAA 8xAF

E8400 4ghz
4GB RAM
8800GT 512MB

[BlueMax]

You think a Radeon 3650 will keep up?

[evanx]

Played on high quality, it's smooth.
Intel Core E6400 at 2.67Ghz
8800GT

[baz5]

I have:
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.40GHZ
4GB Ram
Nvidia 8500GT

I put it on max settings to see how it would be, and it was pretty smooth to me.

[Arcum]

Most reviews agree that:

Fallout 3 is a tough nut to score because, on the one hand we think it’s utterly enthralling and breathtaking, but on the other we can see that it hasn’t been designed with the PC totally in mind and that really holds back the experience. The most noticeable is the interface, which feels very console-ish

It was the same for Oblivion and mods easily took care of that. It's a shame though, that lazy developers have to gimp their games for the consoles and rely on 3rd party modders to make it good. And they wonder why their games are pirated so much...

[Efx]

It was the same for Oblivion and mods easily took care of that. It's a shame though, that lazy developers have to gimp their games for the consoles and rely on 3rd party modders to make it good. And they wonder why their games are pirated so much...

Actually one of the reasons i would buy moddable games is because i will be playing it over and over for some time.

[belowzeros]

fallout3 is going to take a long time for the mods to get going unfortuneately.

they have stated they will not be releasing the SDK and will not date it. very dumb.

[redzone]

Ive got a
C2D E7200 @ 3 ghz
4 gigs for ram
8800 GT
Vista

And fallout runs perfect at 1280x1024 Ultra settings, 4xaa 8xaf

[matkun]

E8400 at 3.8 Ghz, 4 GB of ram, Vista 64-bit Ultimate and a Viewsonic HD 4870 at default clocks.

Auto-detected and set it self to ulta-high quality. ie: maxed out settings. I set resolution to 1680x1050 and turned down AA to 2x and AF to 4x. Left everything else ultra high.

Plays perfectly fine. I did not check FPS, but I would estimate about 40-50. In scenic overlook scenes, ie: where I can see all the way to horizon (the draw distance in this game is pretty much infinity, as far as I can tell) it may be about 35-40.

Occasionally I also noticed a little bit of sort of 'drag' once or twice in the scenic overlook situation. The FPS didn't really go down, but the game seemed to slow down for a second or so, then resume, then slow down again for second or so ~20 seconds later. Then it stopped doing it, my guess it was loading up textures from the hard drive or something.

So yeah, perfectly playable at 1680x1050 on max settings and 2xAA and 4xAF.


Also my coolest moment so far:
Fighting a group of 3 guys, two with guns another with a knife. The knife guy starts running towards me while the other two guys start shooting. I see the knife guy pull a grenade. I trigger VATS and queue 3 shots at the grenade he's holding (38% chance to hit, I figure one of them might hit it). First shot misses, second shot misses, third shot hits grenade. It goes off in the guy's hand and blows him into chunks, damaging both of the other guys with guns too.

I have to agree VATS is definitely fun ,with a lot of 'OH ****, he gots owned!' moments. Even the first time I used it, batting a radroach with a bat, it was a ton of fun.