Fallout 3 PC system requirements released

[Bateluer]

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Minimum System Requirements:
# Windows XP/Vista
# 1GB System RAM (XP) / 2GB System RAM (Vista)
# 2.4 Ghz Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent processor
# Direct X 9.0c compliant videocard with 256MB RAM (NVIDIA 6800 or better / ATI X850 or better)

Recommended System Requirements:
# Intel Core 2 Duo processor
# 2 GB System RAM
# Direct X 9.0c compliant video card with 512MB RAM (NVIDIA 8800 series, ATI 3800 series)

* Supported Video Card Chipsets:
o NVIDIA GeForce 200 series
o NVIDIA GeForce 9800 series
o NVIDIA GeForce 9600 series
o NVIDIA GeForce 8800 series
o NVIDIA GeForce 8600 series
o NVIDIA GeForce 8500 series
o NVIDIA GeForce 8400 series
o NVIDIA GeForce 7900 series
o NVIDIA GeForce 7800 series
o NVIDIA GeForce 7600 series
o NVIDIA GeForce 7300 series
o NVIDIA GeForce 6800 series
o ATI HD 4800 series
o ATI HD 4600 series
o ATI HD 3800 series
o ATI HD 3600 series
o ATI HD 3400 series
o ATI HD 2900 series
o ATI HD 2600 series
o ATI HD 2400 series
o ATI X1900 series
o ATI X1800 series
o ATI X1600 series
o ATI X1300 series
o ATI X850 series

Fallout 3 Xbox 360 version compromised

 

[Cabages]

Not too bad. Hell, even my laptop will play that.

 

[zerocool84]

I need to upgrade so bad. My system is barely over the recommended specs.

 

[Eeezee]

Nice! October 28th is the release date, right? Here we go!!

 

[A5]

Sigh. My system's video card is well below the recommended...guess I'll be getting this one for the XBox.

 

[ibex333]

Well nobody asked Bethesda to give out review copies. If they'd hold out till the game is released, they'd probably sell more copies... Now a large number of people will be done with the game on Xbox long before it's released. Now I'm thinking.. Who was it that said PC gaming is dying because of piracy? Piracy that is a lot more harmful and prevalent on PCs than it is on consoles? Show of hands please!!! lol


I am amused.... Heck, at least I don't remember a single case on the PC when a game was leaked almost a funking month before it's release!!! A week, maybe.... A few days? Sure... But a month?! (ok maybe it happened once or twice, but it's certainly not a common thing)

And after all this crap Tom Clancy's End War makers are saying that they'll postpone their game for PC till February cause of piracy...

 

[potato28]

Originally posted by: A5
Sigh. My system's video card is well below the recommended...guess I'll be getting this one for the XBox.

That's not the game spirit I'm looking forward to this game, I just hope that the collectors edition doesn't sell out around here too quickly.

 

[dougp]

Originally posted by: ibex333
Well nobody asked Bethesda to give out review copies. If they'd hold out till the game is released, they'd probably sell more copies... Now a large number of people will be done with the game on Xbox long before it's released. Now I'm thinking.. Who was it that said PC gaming is dying because of piracy? Piracy that is a lot more harmful and prevalent on PCs than it is on consoles? Show of hands please!!! lol


I am amused.... Heck, at least I don't remember a single case on the PC when a game was leaked almost a funking month before it's release!!! A week, maybe.... A few days? Sure... But a month?! (ok maybe it happened once or twice, but it's certainly not a common thing)

And after all this crap Tom Clancy's End War makers are saying that they'll postpone their game for PC till February cause of piracy...

It's a lot harder to pirate on a console than you seem to be making it.

1) You'll need to overwrite the firmware on your DVD drive. This requires locating the walkthrough and then also complete the update.

2) Never connect this 360 to Live. Period. MS can detect the FW upgrade and will then ban out your system. You can't even use a Silver account for demos or anything.

3) Find the ISO for the game, and then properly burn it.

PC - much easier.

 

[Dumac]

Originally posted by: dreadpiratedoug
PC - much easier.

Yes, much much easier.

 

[sourthings]

Originally posted by: dreadpiratedoug

Originally posted by: ibex333
Well nobody asked Bethesda to give out review copies. If they'd hold out till the game is released, they'd probably sell more copies... Now a large number of people will be done with the game on Xbox long before it's released. Now I'm thinking.. Who was it that said PC gaming is dying because of piracy? Piracy that is a lot more harmful and prevalent on PCs than it is on consoles? Show of hands please!!! lol


I am amused.... Heck, at least I don't remember a single case on the PC when a game was leaked almost a funking month before it's release!!! A week, maybe.... A few days? Sure... But a month?! (ok maybe it happened once or twice, but it's certainly not a common thing)

And after all this crap Tom Clancy's End War makers are saying that they'll postpone their game for PC till February cause of piracy...

It's a lot harder to pirate on a console than you seem to be making it.

1) You'll need to overwrite the firmware on your DVD drive. This requires locating the walkthrough and then also complete the update.

2) Never connect this 360 to Live. Period. MS can detect the FW upgrade and will then ban out your system. You can't even use a Silver account for demos or anything.

3) Find the ISO for the game, and then properly burn it.

PC - much easier.

It would be nice if that were true, but the dominant firmware used to flash 360s is xbox live safe. You do have to open your console, then all that is done is you attach the hard drive to your motherboard in your pc, and run a program to flash the firmware.

After that you just burn the games and play, and you can play on live. The only thing that gets people banned is playing games on their console before their street release date, or playing a backup that was made from an image that improperly dumped the security sector of the original disc.

This is why I don't get the whole it's hard to pirate 360 games, after you've flashed it, it's no different than what pc pirates do.

 

[MTDEW]

Originally posted by: sourthings

Originally posted by: dreadpiratedoug

Originally posted by: ibex333
Well nobody asked Bethesda to give out review copies. If they'd hold out till the game is released, they'd probably sell more copies... Now a large number of people will be done with the game on Xbox long before it's released. Now I'm thinking.. Who was it that said PC gaming is dying because of piracy? Piracy that is a lot more harmful and prevalent on PCs than it is on consoles? Show of hands please!!! lol


I am amused.... Heck, at least I don't remember a single case on the PC when a game was leaked almost a funking month before it's release!!! A week, maybe.... A few days? Sure... But a month?! (ok maybe it happened once or twice, but it's certainly not a common thing)

And after all this crap Tom Clancy's End War makers are saying that they'll postpone their game for PC till February cause of piracy...

It's a lot harder to pirate on a console than you seem to be making it.

1) You'll need to overwrite the firmware on your DVD drive. This requires locating the walkthrough and then also complete the update.

2) Never connect this 360 to Live. Period. MS can detect the FW upgrade and will then ban out your system. You can't even use a Silver account for demos or anything.

3) Find the ISO for the game, and then properly burn it.

PC - much easier.

It would be nice if that were true, but the dominant firmware used to flash 360s is xbox live safe. You do have to open your console, then all that is done is you attach the hard drive to your motherboard in your pc, and run a program to flash the firmware.

After that you just burn the games and play, and you can play on live. The only thing that gets people banned is playing games on their console before their street release date, or playing a backup that was made from an image that improperly dumped the security sector of the original disc.

This is why I don't get the whole it's hard to pirate 360 games, after you've flashed it, it's no different than what pc pirates do.

Actually after you've flashed a 360 , its way easier than a pc, because you just burn the games and play.
Where with pc games you've gotta jump through hoops for each game individually depending on its protection.

Anyway, im sure game companies dont care as much about console piracy because the MAJORITY of the the console community arent tech savvy enough to mod their console, so it is as simple as console games = more sales.
And who can blame them, it is a BUSINESS after all.

Back on topic:
I hope this does turn out to be great, because so far Crysis Warhead and Stalker Clear sky both feel like "more of the same stuff we paid for last year" to me.
Not that they are bad games, they just dont have that "something new" feel to me.

 

[Bateluer]

Originally posted by: A5
Sigh. My system's video card is well below the recommended...guess I'll be getting this one for the XBox.

You're serious? You card is that old?

Just drop 60-70 bucks on a 4670 and call it a day.

 

[ConstipatedVigilante]

Originally posted by: Bateluer

Originally posted by: A5
Sigh. My system's video card is well below the recommended...guess I'll be getting this one for the XBox.

You're serious? You card is that old?

Just drop 60-70 bucks on a 4670 and call it a day.

My card is at the recommended - thinking about ebaying it at some point along with an old one to pay for a 4850...

 

[Piuc2020]

If piracy was a problem, exclusives would be migrating to the PS3 and not the other way around

 

[Raduque]

Well, I'm going to need more ram.

 

[zinfamous]

iirc, my X800 XL is better than the X850, no?

 

[HannibalX]

This is the only game I have been looking forward to since HL2 in 2004. I can't wait!

 

[Slew Foot]

I just built myself a new computer specifically to play this game (and to do work and stuff, but all that is secondary).

c2d E8400
4 gb ram
radeon 4870

Cant wait

 

[lupi]

Originally posted by: A5
Sigh. My system's video card is well below the recommended...guess I'll be getting this one for the XBox.

If you're vid card is well below these specs, fell free to spend about the same amount as the game cost for a new vid card, many games will appreciate it.

 

[XMan]

Sweet. I've got C2Q @ 3GHz, 4GB RAM, and 9600GT SLI.

Bring on the PipBoy!

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: A5
Sigh. My system's video card is well below the recommended...guess I'll be getting this one for the XBox.

As mentioned...I don't think there's ever been a time where you could get more bang for the dollar on a video card upgrade. There's some good options around the $100 mark, but even if you want to spend less than that there's some good ones.

 

[Slappy00]

wondering if my 939 opteron duel core 1.8Ghz is good enough for this when paired with a bfg 8800GTS 512 (1280x1024)?

 

[Eeezee]

Originally posted by: ibex333
Well nobody asked Bethesda to give out review copies. If they'd hold out till the game is released, they'd probably sell more copies... Now a large number of people will be done with the game on Xbox long before it's released. Now I'm thinking.. Who was it that said PC gaming is dying because of piracy? Piracy that is a lot more harmful and prevalent on PCs than it is on consoles? Show of hands please!!! lol


I am amused.... Heck, at least I don't remember a single case on the PC when a game was leaked almost a funking month before it's release!!! A week, maybe.... A few days? Sure... But a month?! (ok maybe it happened once or twice, but it's certainly not a common thing)

And after all this crap Tom Clancy's End War makers are saying that they'll postpone their game for PC till February cause of piracy...

Tom Clancy games universally suck. I'll be okay if they never release it on PC :thumbsup:

 

[Eeezee]

Originally posted by: Piuc2020
If piracy was a problem, exclusives would be migrating to the PS3 and not the other way around

That's the problem I have with people suggesting that developers will stop making games for the PC due to piracy. It makes no sense, and game publishes know this.

At worst, we'll see a rise in PC + console crossovers.

Money is the bottom line for every business. Even if 80% of PC gamers pirate the game (the number is much lower than this, actually does anyone even know what the number is?), they're still making a nice profit. It costs relatively little money to take a console game and release it on PC. Relative to creating a second console game from scratch, that is. In other words, the time investment of releasing a console game on the PC as well is much more worthwhile than only concentrating on console releases. Developers make much more money this way, and that's why it's so common to see Xbox and PS3 games on the PC.

This is why PC gaming is so great. Even if piracy is as rampant as the speculators say, there's still tons of money to be had and that's what matters.

 

[shortylickens]

Originally posted by: PingSpike

Originally posted by: A5
Sigh. My system's video card is well below the recommended...guess I'll be getting this one for the XBox.

As mentioned...I don't think there's ever been a time where you could get more bang for the dollar on a video card upgrade. There's some good options around the $100 mark, but even if you want to spend less than that there's some good ones.

Exactly, and considering console games are significantly more expensive, it makes sense to invest in cheap upgrades for your computer right now.

Also, for all those folks who think the minimum requirements will actually make the game playable: I am afraid you will be sadly dissapointed. 5 frames per second really wont provide the experience you are looking for.

EDIT:
If you really dont want to spend much money, get a X1650 pro for 30 bucks.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...?Item=N82E16814131068R

Its still better than what many people are currently gaming with.

Better yet, spend some real money and get an excellent card:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16814102752

I'd say thats about the best bang for the buck right now.

Actually, this is good too.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16814161252