Your Mom's Computer Can Run Fallout: New Vegas

[Wolfram23]

Hey, my mom's PC actually could run it... well... that is, if I didn't kill the video card while it was my PC.

Anyway, can't wait for this game! I hope it lives up to all my dreams... actually, I just hope it's a slight improvement on Fallout 3, then I'll be pretty happy.

 

[MasAcERd]

Of course there would be no three dog! he's dead silly

 

[theaceplaya]

Remember kids, ghouls are people too.

 

[Ekonk]

HAH!

MY MOM'S COMPUTER!

You're a funny man, Andy. My mom's computer can hardly run Windows XP as it is.

 

[SomebodyNowhere]

considering fallout 3 had my computer chugging from time to time I would have to say that saying new vegas requires a decent gaming PC would be a given

 

[flaming_squirrel]

Not bothered about the absolute minimum specs, want to find out how well optimised it is..

 

[shaboinkin]

It wouldn't work on the "mom's" pc , the average moms PC has 4 antivirus programs running at once, 50 startup programs, desktop cluttered with shit eating up ram, and is running on intels integrated graphics.

 

[Socken]

My mom's PC is a laptop with 1.5 GHz, 512 MB of RAM and an SiS integrated gfx chip with 64 MB.
It chucks when someone throws a smoke grenade in CS 1.6.

Seriously though, I like how they kept the requirements rather low, many PC developers should take a few pointers from that. I'm not against having good graphics, but make it accessible to people who don't have the cash to shell out for a new PC (or to upgrade it) every year too.

 

[Lord_Gremlin]

Wow, my PC is significantly more powerful than this. Still, I'm used to PS3 so give me good PS3 version or I won't buy it until it dirt-cheap on steam sale.

Just use your PS3 controler with the computer...

Trophies, man. Trophy collecting is a kind of MMORPG.

 

[Susan Arendt]

It wouldn't work on the "mom's" pc , the average moms PC has 4 antivirus programs running at once, 50 startup programs, desktop cluttered with shit eating up ram, and is running on intels integrated graphics.

...Wow. That is depressingly and startlingly accurate.

You, sir, are the winner of this thread.

 

[vxicepickxv]

I should hope it could. We did design her computer to run Windows Vista and Photoshop at the same time.

 

[vxicepickxv]

Wow, my PC is significantly more powerful than this. Still, I'm used to PS3 so give me good PS3 version or I won't buy it until it dirt-cheap on steam sale.

Just use your PS3 controler with the computer...

Trophies, man. Trophy collecting is a kind of MMORPG.

You could do it the way I'm doing with Fallout 3. I already have all the achievements for the PC version, and I'm playing throught the 360 version right now, to get all the achievements again, plus more laughs.

 

[Sigmund Av Volsung]

0_0
Are you kidding me? Fallout 3 had higher req. than this!

P.S. I suspect GOG have been bribing them...

 

[TimeCruiserMike]

you guys are dirty dirty liars. there is no way my mom could run this on her computer.

 

[mjc0961]

ok... i am not an expert on computing gaming, i surpass most of those specs

but i dont know about the graphix card, i have a 9800 GT

is that higher or lower than the "6 series"?

i really dont know! anyone care to enlighten me?

Logics! 9800 is 9th series and since 9>6 its newer so you are safe to go.

I had the same question comparing mine to this. Seems I should be able to run this game fine on a PC... Maybe I can get it for that? Hurray for mods and stuff, and hopefully no constant freezing/locking up like the PS3 version of Fallout 3 had the more you played.

Wow, my PC is significantly more powerful than this. Still, I'm used to PS3 so give me good PS3 version or I won't buy it until it dirt-cheap on steam sale.

Just use your PS3 controler with the computer...

Trophies, man. Trophy collecting is a kind of MMORPG.

No trophies are worth suffering through that mess again. I almost had to start a new playthrough just to finish the content in the Point Lookout and Mothership Zeta DLC packs: After the main game and other 3 DLCs, the game barely ran. Never again, I say! Doing my research first and getting the version that runs the best.

 

[obisean]

Wooo a new game that my crappy video card can play

I hate you nVidia 9400 D:

I know not everyone has a bunch of money to throw around (myself included), but the GTS 450 is only $130 and easily over-clockable, so don't worry about buying the "premium" editions. When I was researching it, one of the websites even did a (cost)/(frames per second) ratio and this card won out damn near every single time. Found it!:

http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=416&Itemid=72&limit=1&limitstart=10

That's just a random test, but it shows the cost/frame on the bottom of all.

I just bought one Saturday, and I have to admit that it even puts my 9800GTX to shame. I plan to buy a second one soon and SLI them, which is supposedly greater than or equal to buying a GTX470/480, and cheaper even with the combined cost.

Like I said, I know money isn't something everyone has to throw around, but at $130, this is a really really good card.

 

[IronCladNinja]

Hope the game scales up quite a bit, Starcraft 2 also had comparatively low reqs, but it still looked great with the graphics cranked.

 

[SaintWaldo]

MAN QUIT TALKING ABOUT MY MOM'S...computer.

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

My Ma's PC could run this, no problem. Played Fallout 3 on it last time I was house-sitting for them, come to think of it. All settings on High.

No only is it a good rig but every couple of months she has me come around and run a brutal purge of all the shit the grandkids and my step-Da have loaded into the system.

My ma might not be the most computer savvy woman around but she certainly understood "far more capable system for the same price and therefore same tax write off" when we discussed getting her a custom rig built instead of some off-the-shelf job.

 

[Byere]

"Blue Moon"
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