just to let you guys know, you cant play FEAR with 512mb ram

[theMan]

I tryed to play the fear demo with my old 2x256mb sticks. i had to turn every setting to low yes, thats 640x480 to get it to play smoothly, and there were still little hickups. the graphics were so bad i couldnt even see anything that was going on. when i put in my 2x512mb sticks, i went up to 1024x768 all settings medium or high.

just dont have any friends to talk to so i decided to post this.

 

[Beef Taco]

What are you talking about? I have 512mb and i have it at 1024*768 with almost all medium. It looks great and i get nice FPS with some occasional hitches here and there.

 

[jiffylube1024]

I have a sneaking suspicion that your AGP aperture may be too high. With 512MB of RAM, you should be keeping it low - 128MB at maximum, but don't be afraid to try 64MB or even 32MB. When you're using AGP texture memory you're dead in the water anyways, so better to free up some of that otherwise wasted RAM for the game to use.

Edit: also your rig says you have a 6600GT, while BeefTaco's got an X800XL.

Sorry to break it to you, but the 6600GT is going to have a heart attack trying to play some of the newest games at high settings. Unlike the TV show, 8 is not enough . Pipelines, that is.

 

[Hacp]

Originally posted by: jiffylube1024
I have a sneaking suspicion that your AGP aperture may be too high. With 512MB of RAM, you should be keeping it low - 128MB at maximum, but don't be afraid to try 64MB or even 32MB. When you're using AGP texture memory you're dead in the water anyways, so better to free up some of that otherwise wasted RAM for the game to use.

Edit: also your rig says you have a 6600GT, while BeefTaco's got an X800XL.

Sorry to break it to you, but the 6600GT is going to have a heart attack trying to play some of the newest games at high settings. Unlike the TV show, 8 is not enough . Pipelines, that is.

You sound like my old math teacher with the heart attack quote

 

[theMan]

Originally posted by: jiffylube1024
I have a sneaking suspicion that your AGP aperture may be too high. With 512MB of RAM, you should be keeping it low - 128MB at maximum, but don't be afraid to try 64MB or even 32MB. When you're using AGP texture memory you're dead in the water anyways, so better to free up some of that otherwise wasted RAM for the game to use.

Edit: also your rig says you have a 6600GT, while BeefTaco's got an X800XL.

Sorry to break it to you, but the 6600GT is going to have a heart attack trying to play some of the newest games at high settings. Unlike the TV show, 8 is not enough . Pipelines, that is.

yes, but it improved so much when i stuck in my 2x512 sticks. and my agp aperature was at 64mb.

 

[KeepItRed]

I have 1 single 512MB Kingston RAM, no problems at all.

 

[hans030390]

i get some hitching. but it's really not that bad, and the full game has improvements/tweaks over the demo.

 

[Bateluer]

Why do people still run with less than 1GB? Its so cheap.

 

[Beef Taco]

Originally posted by: Bateluer
Why do people still run with less than 1GB? Its so cheap.

Why? Probably because we are just too lazy or too cheap to buy more RAM. I don't really know.

 

[Powermoloch]

Originally posted by: Beef Taco

Originally posted by: Bateluer
Why do people still run with less than 1GB? Its so cheap.

Why? Probably because we are just too lazy or too cheap to buy more RAM. I don't really know.

:Q !!!!!

 

[Megatomic]

Originally posted by: Beef Taco

Originally posted by: Bateluer
Why do people still run with less than 1GB? Its so cheap.

Why? Probably because we are just too lazy or too cheap to buy more RAM. I don't really know.

If cheap is the reason: an expensive graphics card is within your budget yet a $50 memory stick is too much?

 

[Powermoloch]

Originally posted by: Megatomic

Originally posted by: Beef Taco

Originally posted by: Bateluer
Why do people still run with less than 1GB? Its so cheap.

Why? Probably because we are just too lazy or too cheap to buy more RAM. I don't really know.

If cheap is the reason: an expensive graphics card is within your budget yet a $50 memory stick is too much?

lol !

 

[Keysplayr]

Originally posted by: theman

Originally posted by: jiffylube1024
I have a sneaking suspicion that your AGP aperture may be too high. With 512MB of RAM, you should be keeping it low - 128MB at maximum, but don't be afraid to try 64MB or even 32MB. When you're using AGP texture memory you're dead in the water anyways, so better to free up some of that otherwise wasted RAM for the game to use.

Edit: also your rig says you have a 6600GT, while BeefTaco's got an X800XL.

Sorry to break it to you, but the 6600GT is going to have a heart attack trying to play some of the newest games at high settings. Unlike the TV show, 8 is not enough . Pipelines, that is.

yes, but it improved so much when i stuck in my 2x512 sticks. and my agp aperature was at 64mb.

You may eliminate some disk thrashing with the extra 512 without a doubt.

 

[jiffylube1024]

Originally posted by: Hacp

Originally posted by: jiffylube1024
A truly brilliant and transcendental post that changed the course of human history. Huzzah!

You sound like my old math teacher with the heart attack quote

Your old math teacher had a 6600GT? No seriously, what did he talk about people having heart attacks or something?

 

[Budarow]

FYI...went to Canton, MI Meijer and they had FEAR and Serious Sam 2 on the shelf. NO Quake IV though.

 

[anandtechrocks]

Just so you know, I've been reading around the official FEAR forums and the moderators are saying that the real game will run much better than the demo.

 

[Fallengod]

Ya I was just about to say what anandtechrocks said. That is a BETA demo. The final retail will be completely different. I wouldnt worry about problems on it. 512mb should be fine.

 

[anandtechrocks]

Right on the money modempower, speaking of money I'm really excited for October 18. FEAR, Quake 4, and AOE 3! I'm getting all three. (~$120 in software in one day!)

 

[theMan]

yeah, thats what i was thinking. it seemed like the game was way more taxing than it should have been.

 

[JRW]

I still get a fair amount of hitching / pausing when entering new areas in FEAR with 1 GB ram , I have another 1GB on the way next week so we'll see if it helps.

 

[kurt454]

I got the game to play on a backup rig with 512 of ram. You have to set the textures to minimum to keep it under 500 megs of ram usage. Looks like a 1999 era game then.