F.E.A.R. !!!

[MuGen]

Ok well I just purchased a 3.0GHz 2.5GB RAM ATI Radeon 256MB X600 desktop PC after having gone through many years with my crap laptop. The first game I had to try was F.E.A.R.

Does anyone have this game, ever played it?

I just bought it about 2 days ago and I'm psychologically f'd up at this point. The game is so thrilling and enthralling that I can't go more than one mission without stopping and taking a deep breathe. The lighting and visuals in the game are none short of amazing and the ambient sounds/soundtrack scares the crap out of me. The atmosphere is so..... horrific...

If you've played this, how was your experience? I can tell you, after being a seasoned veteran of RE, Silent Hill and Siren... switching to a first person shooter with basically the same mechanics and concepts of fear... I totally have a brand new perspective. Not being able to see around you all the time is really freaky, with the 7.1 surround sound I got with the new PC every inch of me feels like someone is around/behind me or even waiting to jump out and scare me.

So back to the initial question, how was everyone elses' experience with F.E.A.R. ?

[Null]

played it. it was decent. cant say it really scared me or anything, but was definently better at that than doom3 was.

[Teuthida]

The demo ran like crap on my comp so really didn't get to "experience" it. Not really one for horror games though. Seems like one of those games that will keep your heart rate up and leave you dead after 54 consecutive hours of gameplay.

[MuGen]

hahahaha

[Neo]

I bought it but have yet to install it.

I'm amazed that my P4 3.2 GHz system with a radeon 9800 is still top of the line even though I bought it a long time ago. Technology doesn't seem to be advancing as fast as it has been the past several years.

[MuGen]

9800 Pro is still top notch it isn't top of the line... the top of the line would be X1800 from ATI. Although the differences aren't significant.....

I have an X600...

How much memory does your system have? When I saw FEAR Minimum of 512MB required and Recommended 1GB.. I figured it's going to get a lot heavier now so I ordered 2.5GB ram with my system.

[Jason1]

I played the demo. It ran acceptably. I have also been somewhat suprised how well my system has held up. Im runnig a 2.6Ghz Pentium 4 with an ATI Radeon 9500 pro. I mean, its been 2 and a half years since I got my computer, and what is the fastest processor you can get now, 3.4 or 3.6 ghz? Not that much of a difference, at least not compared to how fast things advanced in the late 90s/early 2000s.

[Null]

3.8 is the highest i've seen going in that same rating scale.

however with the shift to 64bit processors, they dont use the same mhz, they're quite a bit more powerful tho.

[Krypton]

A buddy of mine has it, and i've watched him play it, and have played it myself, and this game is true beauty, definitely a "buy or die" kind of game.

[KillerGremlin]

AMD Athlon 3000
1 Gig of Ram (Corsair Value Select)
Nvidia 6800 AGP


F.E.A.R. runs fine and dandy on my PC. The settings aren't all the way jacked up, but it has yet to stutter or lag. I noticed that the Demo requires a considerable more amount of juice to run than the actual game. The game was stuttering at Fry's on their dual 6600s, I believe.

Minus the fact that the game only has 3 levels and is insanely repetitive, it's a lot of fun. It's much much better than Doom 3. In fact....Doom 3 is pretty much the most boring game ever. EVER.

[MrCoffee]

I was going to buy it today...but then decided that Battlefield 2 and Need For Speed: Most Wanted were better choice, thoughs games alone mounted up to $136 CND :baby:

[Krypton]

I was going to buy it today...but then decided that Battlefield 2 and Need For Speed: Most Wanted were better choice, thoughs games alone mounted up to $136 CND :baby:

wowzers. I bought BF2, believing that my computer would stand up to it's massive sweetness, but later to find out, I got it installed, easily, and come to find out, it didn't ****ing work.

[Null]

thats why they have requirments on the box. hehehe :p

[MrCoffee]

i got a uber pc for xmas so im set for all gaming experiances!

[Fox 6]

thats why they have requirments on the box. hehehe :p
You just got logic'd! BAM!

[KillerGremlin]

Regardless of how awesome your PC is, Battlefield 2 runs pretty subpar on every PC. The game just wasn't built to optimize any computers hardware. I give companies like Valve a lot of credit for making games that can run on 4 year old machines.

[Krypton]

thats why they have requirments on the box. hehehe :p

well duh.

now I will look at that when I buy something now, wont I?

[MuGen]

Regardless of how awesome your PC is, Battlefield 2 runs pretty subpar on every PC. The game just wasn't built to optimize any computers hardware. I give companies like Valve a lot of credit for making games that can run on 4 year old machines.

Uhmm Battlefield 2 runs marvelously on my 3GHz, 4GB RAM, X600 Radeon PC. And I only say this since I just installed 2 more GB of RAM, but it still ran smoothly on my 2GB RAM system configuration.

the thing that matters the most is you need at least 2.5GHz to run these modern games... AT LEAST. Now Battlefield 2 has a lot going on, on screen so that would be video memory. If your running at least 1GB RAM you should be fine with BF2, but if you want ease in your Framerate, you need at least 2GB.

I run BF2 at a constant 60 fps, Raven shield at 80 fps, and FEAR at 70fps. I do however crave an alienware with 8GB RAM, 3.28GHz Dualcore.... *drules*

I plan on upgrading my motherboard soon so I can cram 8GB into it...

[Null]

battlefield 2 runs perfectly on my 2.8ghz, 1gb ram, geforce 6600gt oc.

my friend has it running smooth as silk on a 3ghz with 512mb ram, and a ati 9600se.

battlefield 2 runs fine on many systems. it has its share of problems, but not being able to run good isnt really one of them.

Btw kyuzo... i know ram is cheap and all... but your games arent even gunna use the full 2gb of ram.. let alone even touch 4gb.. makes the system sound cool. but i highly doubt theres anything your doing that will notice a difference from 2gb to 4gb. but i guess the days of caring about that are over with how cheap ram is now.. heh. oh well. cram away :)

[MuGen]

battlefield 2 runs perfectly on my 2.8ghz, 1gb ram, geforce 6600gt oc.

my friend has it running smooth as silk on a 3ghz with 512mb ram, and a ati 9600se.

battlefield 2 runs fine on many systems. it has its share of problems, but not being able to run good isnt really one of them.

Btw kyuzo... i know ram is cheap and all... but your games arent even gunna use the full 2gb of ram.. let alone even touch 4gb.. makes the system sound cool. but i highly doubt theres anything your doing that will notice a difference from 2gb to 4gb. but i guess the days of caring about that are over with how cheap ram is now.. heh. oh well. cram away :)

hehe I never said i was cramming RAM into my system for games :p
I like to be prepared for whatever. I like to know that my setup will get me through PC games well past a generation from now.

What I like to use the RAM for is my Photoshop. I design poster prints for my room all the time, and they are huge... usually I'm designing i a 1280x1024 resolution and viewing the canvas at 33% so I don't want any type of slowness when I'm designing. A lot of times I also don't close Photoshop/Flash... I leave them running. In all I have about 6 design programs open at once all the time I'm on the computer.

Games also have recommended setups and not just minimums... for example FEAR will run smooth on a 512, 2.5GHz setup but the recommendations are 3GHz, and 1GB RAM. Maybe not much of a difference, but it's always fun to listen to recommended items.

[Null]

well like i said, with how cheap it is now it doesnt matter how much you put it in. Just saying, its overkill. even for photoshop. :p

[MuGen]

ehhh Overkill.........I can't think of that word when upgrading my PC :D

it is my 2nd in Command to my soon to be PS3.

[Null]

my ps3 and pc will soon be 1. :) got a widescreen LCD for christmas, (got it for myself for christmas actually. lol) but it wants me to run every game in 1440x900 resolution now. which actually i see a increase in FPS from games i used to run in 1024x768... i thought i'd see a lower frame rate going to a higher res. odd i think. amazing how amazing games look in this resolution on a LCD tho.

been tryin out Quake 3, UT2004, HL2/CSS, (and somewhat battlefield 2 since it doesnt fully support wide) and just soooo much detail in them without adjusting any graphic settings other then resolution.

cant wait to plug my PS3 into it and play thoes games on it too. :)

[MuGen]

my ps3 and pc will soon be 1. :) got a widescreen LCD for christmas, (got it for myself for christmas actually. lol) but it wants me to run every game in 1440x900 resolution now. which actually i see a increase in FPS from games i used to run in 1024x768... i thought i'd see a lower frame rate going to a higher res. odd i think. amazing how amazing games look in this resolution on a LCD tho.

been tryin out Quake 3, UT2004, HL2/CSS, (and somewhat battlefield 2 since it doesnt fully support wide) and just soooo much detail in them without adjusting any graphic settings other then resolution.

cant wait to plug my PS3 into it and play thoes games on it too. :)

call this overkill but I'm planning to get an HP F2105 which is a 21" HD Monitor... lol

[Null]

all computer monitors are technically HD. :p im assuming tho you mean HD TV / PC montor in 1. where it has the plugs for DVD players, games, Cable TV and such.

Which is nice. i like having the option to use it as a HDTV or a PC montor.
mine has a TV card i put in the PC that i can get HDTV on. it works while its by the computer, but a HDTV/monitor can be taken away from the pc and still used.


my friend went out and bought himself a 42inch Plasma HDTV, im gunna show him how to hook his PC into that so he can play some games on it. :)

[MuGen]

*gasps for air*...... FEAR on a 42" plasma hdtv.......................................................

[Jason1]

Ive got the game sitting right in front of me, but im waiting for Kingston to send my back my 512 stick of RAM that I sent them a few days ago. It was making my computer crash and it has a lifetime warranty. I really dont think I should try to play it with 512mb's of RAM.

[Jason1]

Well, I got my RAM back (props to Kingstons Lifetime warranty), and Ive started playing the game a little. The damn thing defaulted to 640x480 resolution, which is simply unaccaptable. I of course upped it to 800x600, and it sets everything else out to either medium or high, and the game runs pretty good. Not great, but good enough. Its probably about time I upgrade my graphics card though...

[MuGen]

Did ya get scared? or get the chills? The game provides a sustainance of high tension.

[Jason1]

Yea, it is pretty freaky. I still havent played it much though.