Your Mom's Computer Can Run Fallout: New Vegas

[HentMas]

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?

The '6 series' is the 6100, 6200, etc. As I recall, the higher 'thousand' number, the better card you have, until you get to 9999 at which point they wrap around to just 'hundreds' instead with the 200, 300 series etc.

So yeah, your 9800 GT should be far more than enough.

Oh! thank you!, i had no idea how they where "numbering" the cards, so it sounds i have enough

Thanks again!!

 

[Jumplion]

Sadly, it doesn't appear that Three Dog will turn up to offer warnings about the importance of keeping one's weapons in good working order.

Don't feed the Yao Guai!

I'm probably going to get New Vegas, though most likely on my PS3 since I feel it's more of a "console-y" kind of game, and I'm always nervous when tinkering around with my computer so mods and stuff are rarely dabbled in for me.. We'll see though

EDIT: wait, I have an ATI Radeon HD 5700, would that be enough to play it? If not;

FFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-

 

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

Can we atleast have a customizable radio station this time round?

Who wants to bet how many freezes and CTDs you experience in the first day?

 

[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.

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

You, sir, are the winner of this thread.

Yay! What do I win?

 

[Kingjackl]

Well the Oblivion/Fallout 3 engine is garbage anyway, so it makes sense for the specs to be low. But, my computer graphics card is pretty dated anyway so I'm all for it.

 

[Rack]

Lol such low requirements. My old PC from the year 2001 will be able to play this.

You had a dual core 3 years before they made the very first one? And why did you get 2 gig when you could run a lot of games on 64mb?

These requirements are actually very high when you consider they are the minimum, you'll need a high end PC no more than a couple of years old or a very very very high spec machine from no more than 4 years ago to comfortably exceed these.

 

[Ze_Reaper_Of_Zeath]

Yes.

Win.

I can play this on my Laptop.

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

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

But I have a 220 GT. So I can't play it?

And I don't think my Mom's PC could play this. It uses Windows 2000.

Mine will, and now I have a good enough PC I won't have to get the PS3 version. Mods!

The 200/400 series are after the XXXX series. You're all good.

 

[Xyphon]

THAT'S low-spec? Well, I must be much farther behind with my 256MB RAM computer than I thought.

 

[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.

You mean Steam achievements?

Nah, I don't care about steam achievements. I meant PS3 trophies. You have bronze, silver, gold, platinum and leveling up.

MMORPG. See?

 

[demoman_chaos]

ATI 1300, I think my laptop has an ATI Mobilty 23 or 2600.
I will be able to play this afterall, very nice.

 

[Charli]

Clearly you have never seen my Mothers Computer.

 

[Rack]

Lol such low requirements. My old PC from the year 2001 will be able to play this.

You had a dual core 3 years before they made the very first one? And why did you get 2 gig when you could run a lot of games on 64mb?

These requirements are actually very high when you consider they are the minimum, you'll need a high end PC no more than a couple of years old or a very very very high spec machine from no more than 4 years ago to comfortably exceed these.

I had 1,5 gigs of Ram back in 2001.
I had an (at the time ) awesome proccesor. it wasnt dual core but was strong. It is also clocked.
Now... It was able play crysis at ultra low with medium phisics. It was able to play Metro 2033 (best looking game, better than crysis) on ultra low too. Fallout 3 ran smoothely at low too.

Just saying......

That was a beast of a machine, but only Metro 2033 has requirements approaching these so that will be your benchmark for how well this will work. At that end of the scale it's really anyone's guess what kind of framerate you can expect on minimum.

 

[Mr Jack]

Why is it impossible for me to ever get a dedicated graphics card? All I ever seem to buy is fucking integrated. Ahhhhh!!!! I might just buy a computer that's actually fucking good when I get the money. Alas, no money at the moment.

You could explore the option of an external laptop graphics card.

Expensive for what you get, but perhaps cheaper than buying a whole new system?

http://optimitza.cat/news/2009/07/01/vidock-2-are-external-graphics-cards-finally-here/

 

[Souplex]

My computer doesn't even meet those requirements.

 

[Red Right Hand]

Why is it impossible for me to ever get a dedicated graphics card? All I ever seem to buy is fucking integrated. Ahhhhh!!!! I might just buy a computer that's actually fucking good when I get the money. Alas, no money at the moment.

You could explore the option of an external laptop graphics card.

Expensive for what you get, but perhaps cheaper than buying a whole new system?

http://optimitza.cat/news/2009/07/01/vidock-2-are-external-graphics-cards-finally-here/

Will this work for any laptop though? I have a Dell Inspiron 15 and I was lead to believe that the video card could not be updated?

 

[Svenparty]

Shouldnt there be a review by now???

I only really trust The Escapist and Yahtzee for game reviews

 

[temporalcrux]

Nope.... sadly, neither my computer nor my mom's can run this. I'm not amused by your assumptions, sir.

 

[Hashime]

My mom's computer is 8 years old. It has an ATI Rage card in it, a AMD Atahlon running at 1.6 GHz, and a 30gb HDD. It runs windows xp, and she, though we bought her a new computer 2 months ago still has not switched.

 

[MercurySteam]

Shouldnt there be a review by now???

I only really trust......Yahtzee for game reviews

Wow, that's a bit sad. You don't actually take Zero Punctuation seriously?

Do you?