F.E.A.R. Demo Thread

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quick

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:angry: WTF? This game is constantly causing my Virtual Memory to run low. Really screwing up the experience. Here are my specs:

Intel 875PBZ w/ 3ghz CPU

1Gb Corsair TwinX 3200LLPT

Ati X800XT 256DDR AIW

I checked my page file settings, and it is set to 512mb on my secondary drive.

Other than that, I am not sure I like the gun sounds so much. I have a pretty decent stereo setup, and the guns dont have that much bass. At first I thought I had lowered it, but it was maxed out. When I used the slow motion, my room basically shook while I was entering and exiting that mode.

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LOL yes 512mb is a bad setting.... Your pagefile should be at least 1.5 x your ram

ie. 1gb ram = 1.5gb page file

Oh and the game is great, loved it. I just need widescreen support, sucks to have to use svideo on a HDTV :( This should be a standard thing nowadays, people who play these kind of games generally have some fancy hardware/displays.. why wouldn't that be supported?? Come on people...

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One part I did get the chills over was at a part when I went to climb down a ladder and as soon as the camera faced in the direction of the ladder, I saw a sillouette of that small girl walking towards me.

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hah, yeah thats about the part where i decided i don't want a heart attack this early in the day and quit.

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i think it plays better on nvidia. most of the settings were on medium/high with my 6600 gt but it was only 1024x768

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D1g1talMan

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Those of you experience performance issues at 640x480, some questions:

-Do you have a P4 with hyperthreading on and Folding@Home or some other distributed client running? If so, turn the client off.

-For some reason, (I suspect compatability) game makers like to set sound to "Software" by default. This kills the CPU. If you have any sort of hardware accellerated sound (Audigy, Audigy 2, Live!, etc.), make sure this is set.

Those seem to be the two biggiest killers of performance when all of the obvious is covered. Hope it works for some of you...

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AMD64 3200@3500, 6800GT @ Ultra, 2 gigs of PC3200, game runs fine and dandy here (it better) much better than the MP beta actually.

And you guys can't tell me, those segements of the game after you go into the building and you get "Incoming transmission - Unknown origin" and hear weird sound and even time seems to slow down for a moment you didn't get a chill??? And that one part where you walk near that health thingie near the ladder and the screen really slows down and you see the little girl pass in front of you and she giggles, omg awesome stuff!

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I can't believe the performance is so bad... it hasn't improved much since the MP Beta. The gameplay is nice, much nicer than the MP Beta, and is also very challenging. Graphics look quite good too, but I can't believe how crappy it runs! It is 10x worse than Doom 3 in terms of performance, and I have a X800XTPE and can only run at bare medium settings at 1024x768 to have it run smooth but not even smooth enough to make it 100% great in the more intense parts! C'mon, learn to make a decent game engine... I can't believe how these people think. Not everyone can shell out half a grand or more for a graphics card upgrade every couple months! Even with a 7800GTX you wouldn't be near close to being able to max this thing out. Doom 3 was OK... you could play that on most systems and have it look good, and max it out with the right hardware, but this is horrid.

Let's hope we get some good driver updates and some game patches to get this thing running up to standards.

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post-74594-1123356008_thumb.jpgso beleave  t or  not the  demo runs  on my  P3/650mhz system with 392megs ram and a  GeForce FX  5600  card with  most everything on medium i think.i get between  21 and  37FPS  and i t runs in DX8 mode sahders  it does run evan better.

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Are you joking me? That looks better than on my computer! Faster FPS, too... and I have nice rig!

Edit: Can you post all the settings (or a config file) for what you used?

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AMD64 3200@3500, 6800GT @ Ultra, 2 gigs of PC3200, game runs fine and dandy here (it better) much better than the MP beta actually.

And you guys can't tell me, those segements of the game after you go into the building and you get "Incoming transmission - Unknown origin" and hear weird sound and even time seems to slow down for a moment you didn't get a chill??? And that one part where you walk near that health thingie near the ladder and the screen really slows down and you see the little girl pass in front of you and she giggles, omg awesome stuff!

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I agree the incoming transmission thing was a little creepy.. but it didn't really do much other than display that msg. but it did scare me at first.

made me turn my sound down.. :blush:

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For the people wiht LCD's that can't get 1280x1024 heres how to set it http://forums.vugames.com/thread.jspa?threadID=865&tstart=0

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Thanks, will keep this for when the game is released.. too bad i didn't find this earlier already finished the demo, i was looking for WS res...

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I was truely astonished by the demo. - I found it quite challenging too. But what struck me (as it struck others) was it's major performances issues.

1 thing they've done right is release a demo BEFORE they release the game. Wise move.

My system specs are as follows:

AMD Athlon 64 3200+

1GB GeiL 3200 RAM

X850XT PE

and it runs rather laggish in certain areas.

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Quickstrike

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That AI was awesome.. I love the particle fx when you are shooting enemies and objects in slow motion.

The graphics were good.. the particle fx and destruction were awesome... but for environments and character models, I think Source engine is still best.

Ran a little slow for me too in certain areas.. but I ran everything maxed @ 1600x1200 res.

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notuptome2004

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Are you joking me? That looks better than on my computer! Faster FPS, too... and I have nice rig!

Edit: Can you post all the settings (or a config file) for what you used?

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well i dont knwo if the ris a config file it makes based on are settings but all look and i know it sounds unbleavable but remeber that game devlopers only test on what is commonly known as mimimal hardware of the time of testing so the fact is i run the game same with Halflife 2 demo i run it as well also

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