Fallout 3 - Megaton Countdown

[Squeetard]

Prolly run like poop.

Sorry Larry.

[Thund3rball]

If you are near a staples buy one of these:

Hewlett Packard Pavilion dv5-1157ca Entertainment Notebook PC
$1155

• 2.00GHz Intel® Centrino® 2 Processor Technology featuring Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor P7350
• 4GB DDR2 System Memory
• 320GB (5400RPM) Hard Drive (SATA)
• LightScribe SuperMulti 8X DVD±R/RW with Double Layer Support
• NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT with up to 2302MB Total Available Graphics Memory with 512MB dedicated
• 15.4” Diagonal WXGA High-Definition (8) HP Brightview Infinity Display (1280 x 800)

Or this one

Toshiba A300-07G Notebook PC
$1005

• 2.00GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T5750
• 4GB DDR2 System Memory
• 320GB 5400 RPM HDD SATA Hard Drive
• Built-in DVD Super Multi Double Layer Drive 24x CD-ROM, 8x DVD-ROM, 24x CD-R, 4x CD-RW, 8x DVD-R, 4x DVD+RW, 5x DVD-RAM
• ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650 with up to 512MB dedicated VRAM and up to 1279MB graphic memory
• 15.4" Wide XGA TFT with TruBrite (1280 x 800) LCD

[misterlarry]

Thanks for the input. Actually, I'm thinking maybe this one.

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Just one up on the HP dv5. Hopefully this will do it. It says out of stock on line, but I'm gonna phone the stores right now. There's two here in Red Deer.

[encorp]

Originally Posted by Thund3rball

Good video review here.

IGN Video: Fallout 3 PC Games Review - Video Review

I think I am going to skip FC2. Fallout 3 is shaping up to be the game of 2008.

Edit:

yes encorp I am interested to see single 8800 performance. thx :)

I'll try it out in the next day or so and let you know.

Originally Posted by Squeetard

Far cry 2 maxes out all 4 of my cores too. I remember getting shit on a scant few months ago by the e8400 owners that quad core was overkill and useless.

Who is laughing now?

Me and encorp, that's who.

I wonder if when I disable a few cores how much of a difference in performance I'll notice; the games specs are DEFINITELY CPU heavy; because the video card requirements are actually quite low while the cpu state 2.4ghz as MINIMUM.

Originally Posted by misterlarry

Went to Walmart and bought their last copy at lunch time. Now I must feign near death sickness so that I can go home early before Thursday. Just joking, lol.



But I may have to buy a laptop tonight. Would a laptop with a T5800 cpu, an Nvidia 512mb 9500GS, 4 GB of ram, and Vista 64 cut it? I just don't really know how the laptop cpu stacks up against desktop.

Well that CPU isn't bad and 4gb of Ram would be great; my only issue is how well any of the mobile cards will work - that being said the game dosn't seem to be really that GPU heavy as it is CPU heavy; it's fairly well optimized so far - you can definitely play it on that; you might miss out on some serious Eye Candy but it won't be -that- bad.

[misterlarry]

Both Red Deer stores are out of stock. Keep looking I guess.

[Thund3rball]

The 8600M/9600M GT is a great mobile card. I can play Assassin's Creed on my XPS M1530 with Shadows 1/3, Everything else 3/4 and it runs awesome at 1280x800.

Boo sorry to hear the stores are out of stock :(

[Squeetard]

It may well run F3 decently too:

Good News From Wisconsin For low End PCs ! - Bethesda Game Studios Forums

[misterlarry]

That is pretty good news Squeetard. I finally found a place in Calgary that has the Acer Aspire 8930-6555 in stock for about $80 less than everyone else. So I think that is what I'm going to go with. I suppose that I'll need two copies of the game to play on home rig and on the road at the same time.

Acer Aspire 8930-6555 w/ Core 2 Duo P8400, 4GB, 320GB, Blu-ray, 18.4in WUXGA+ GeForce 9600M GT, Vista Home Premium 64-bit at Memory Express Computers

[Thund3rball]

You'll definitely need to play below 1920x1080 but otherwise that's a good price on a Blu-Ray machine with mid-range graphics. But 18.4" whoa!?! I'd call that a borderline "mobile" computer. ;)

[Iamcanadian7]

Installing now, can't wait to play

I watched the special edition features disc about how they made the game it it looks very entertaining. The creators look like they had alot of fun with the game and I really like some of the ideas they incorperated into that story.