F.E.A.R. Demo Thread


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B) No matter how BAD the performance is on ATI cards (it seems nVidia cards do a bit better, maybe not...)

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No, you're right -- Monolith screwed ATI users over, because it runs like crap on every ATI system I've played it on or my friends.

That girl in the red dress appearing and then disintergrating as you go down the ladder... that scared the **** out of me  :ninja:

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Yeah that bit made jump!

So the next time i played the demo i jumped over the railings so i wouldnt have to go through that again.... :unsure:

AMD x2 4400+ @ 2.4

7800GTX OC'd @ 470mhz/1.32ghz

2gig ram

1024x768 everything at max, runs fine, slight slowdown in places although that could just be the game design, maybe should run it with fraps on

be nice if it had a built in benchmarker

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What you on? You say it goes slow in places when you have that spec? If it goes slow, then I doubt your PC is that powerful then. No way would it lag on that spec lol.

I loved the demo, and I think it ran pretty fine for a system like mine: (posting this makes me feel so obsolete, everyone and their topnotch systems :p) AMD XP 2500+ Barton + 512mb ram + 9800 Pro 128mb). The settings I played at were aumatically detected + a few manual options (soft shadows enabled, detailed chars, etc). The resolution was 800x600 if I recall correctly.

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you dont have to feel too obsolete, i'm still running a barton 2500+...of course, i have mine OC'ed to 2.4ghz so it's more like a 3700+ or 3800+ or something like that....with a gig of ram and a 256 meg radeon 9800 pro, it ran quite smoothly for me on 800x600. I thought about trying 1024x768, but after playing through it once, i didnt feel the need to play it again. it sure was fun, but it was a hell of a big download for about 5 minutes of gameplay :rolleyes:

As a Sierra game I'm quite surprised they didn't use the Source engine which I think would have provided superior results.  That is one thing I have to hand to Valve, they kept the feel of the original and thats as good as it gets IMO.

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Sierra its just the publisher. The game its made my Monolith and its powered by their inhouse engine called Lithtech

1) FEAR is a PC game, post it then in PC gamer section

Does it really matter?

2) There is a main thread for FEAR

Never saw it, cheers.

https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?show...view=getnewpost post it there

3) you don't need .net framework for fear

You did with the ati drivers.

4) you haven't mentioned what video/sound cards you have

9800 pro.

5) demo specifically asks for directx 9c (june)

April, i can take a screenshot if you wish.

What you on? You say it goes slow in places when you have that spec? If it goes slow, then I doubt your PC is that powerful then. No way would it lag on that spec lol.

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well, i'm guessing that the game was slow for him in similar places that it was slow for me...there are a couple times when it has to render something or do something that is a little more graphic and/or processor intensive than the rest of the game...so it makes sense that it would lag a tiny bit, even on that system...

plus, he said that he was running fraps and i dunno what experience you have with fraps, but whenever i run it when i'm playing a game, it slows me down quite significantly

My specs:

P4 3.0ghz HT

1GB RAM

6800GT

Ran the game maxed out at 1024 and very smooth. Looks like it was meant for nVidia cards. They don't seem to be making many compromises with those that own ATI cards though... :no:

Overall: Sweet game. I'll be buying. :yes:

I can totally believe this game will lag on the best systems. There is definately something wrong :p 6800 GT/X800 XL cards and up should be able to at least do 1280x1024, not a lowly 1024 just to be playable. By maxed out (you people with nVidia cards), do you mean full AA/AF as well or just everything on max quality settings?

definatly had more elements in this game than doom 3's comparison on being scary, plus the water effects are amazing too bad my system is ou, tdated and doesnt play this game well. first time i was loaded into the interactive level after the intro i was instantly noclipped fell threw thew ground.

That's just... awesome!

Yeah I seem to have lots of problems with games crashing early, I had exactly the same problem with GTA:SA :s Dammit, I really want to play this game >.<

btw, specs are

AMD 1800+

Geforce 4 MX440

265MB RAM

I know it's crap, but it still should run dammit :pinch:

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thats just disgraceful system, burn it asap and buy a new one.

Deal, as soon as you give me money to buy a new one :rolleyes:

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best bet; complain to the manufacturers that their hardware isn't fast enough - if they ask which product you have be sure to quickly reply " but it was suposed to run games, i hate you"

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