Just loaded/played FEAR on my new rig...

[racolvin]

I ordered the collection edition of FEAR from Amazon and loaded it last nite on the following rig:

Shuttle SX38P2-Pro
Intel Q6600 2.4, OC'd to 2.99 for now (Arctic Silver 5 for the thermal grease)
8GB RAM
Lite-On DVD burner w/Lightscribe (SATA connected)
WD 160GB (SATAII) for the C:\ drive
WD 500GB (SATAII) for the D:\ drive
VisionTek Radeon 4850 card with a Zalman VF1000 cooler retrofitted to it
Vista Ultimate 64-bit

Got it all installed just dandy, cranked up all the settings to max and let it fly @ 1920x1200 . Never a stutter and frame rates never get below 40 even in a big firefight

Next up is CoD4

Edited for monitor resolution

 

[gorcorps]

Without knowing what res you run at this post doesn't mean much. And FEAR is too old to be a decent measure of PC muscle these days. CoD4 will push it more, and you really should just try crysis for laughs as it has a demo.

 

[racolvin]

I wasn't really meaning for it to be a measure of (e-peen) muscle other than it's improvement over my old rig. I've never been a bleeding-edge sort of guy so running the older game flawlessly is much more impressive for me than to watch a rig stutter and cough over Crysis

 

[VashHT]

Yeah its always fun to go back with a new rig and max out some older intensive games. I did it with Far Cry and I wanna do it now with Bioshock and some other games.

 

[racolvin]

Yea, that was sort of my thing here. My old rig would have played FEAR but it would have done so very poorly, so I never bought it and tried. To build a rig that'll play something like Crysis at max settings would cost more than I'm willing to spend, so going back to a game that was a struggle for the prior generation of hardware and being able to play it the way it was meant to be seen now is perfectly fine by me

 

[idiotekniQues]

when i got my 4870 i did that with bioshock at 1920x1200 maxed out everything in dx9 and was not impressed

 

[shortylickens]

I remember when I got FEAR running on my X800 Pro and it was a miserable experience.

I didnt go back until I got a 8800GTX! :Q

 

[BFG10K]

Originally posted by: gorcorps

And FEAR is too old to be a decent measure of PC muscle these days.

I disagree; it's still quite demanding on the highest settings, especially for a three year old game.

 

[MichaelD]

This thread inspired me to load the game up again tonight. I noticed that they have a 1.08 patch out very recently...nice to see they are still updating the game. :thumbsup:

And I agree that FEAR is still a very demanding game, especially at 16x12 resolution or higher.

 

[jjones]

I tried to play this game but never got more than about 30 minutes into it. Just didn't hold my interest.

 

[ArchAngel777]

Originally posted by: BFG10K

Originally posted by: gorcorps

And FEAR is too old to be a decent measure of PC muscle these days.

I disagree; it's still quite demanding on the highest settings, especially for a three year old game.

True, but the game doesn't look all that great, in my opinion. It seems the object geometry in the game is messed up along with the brick and mortor walls looking like plastic lego blocks. I noticed this in all Monolithic engines (NOLF 1 & 2 for example) that the geometry and aliasing is horrendous!

The game is a lot of fun though, and the actual models for the humans/mosters are pretty well done, the rest of it is second rate to games before it's time. I enjoyed F.E.A.R a lot.