F.E.A.R. Single Player Demo!!

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ViperXtreme

Discussion Starter · Aug 3, 2005

WHOA! the final System requirements is now released!!! and a single player public demo is coming this week!!! (Friday)
www.whatisfear.com

Final System requirements:

MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIRED
· Windows® XP or 2000 with latest service pack installed
· DirectX® 9.0c (April Edition) (included)
· Pentium® 4 1.7 GHz or equivalent processor
· 512 MB of RAM
· 64 MB GeForce™ 4 Ti or ATI® Radeon® 9600 or equivalent with hardware T&L and pixel shader support
· 5.0 GB free Hard Drive Space for installation
· 4x CD-ROM drive (for Director's Edition, this will have to be DVD-ROM)
· 16-bit DirectX® 9.0 compliant sound card with support for EAX™ 2.0
· Internet Connection Required
· Mouse
· Keyboard

RECOMMENDED HARDWARE
·Pentium® 4 3.0 GHz or equivalent processor
·1 GB RAM
·A 256 MB Radeon® 9800 Pro or equivalent DirectX® 9 compliant video car with hardware T&L and pixel shader 2.0 support

SUPPORTED CHIPSETS
Nvidia GeForce™ 4Ti, GeForce™ FX 5900, FX 5900 Ultra, 6800, 6800 GT, 6800 Ultra
ATI® Radeon® 9600, 9600 Pro, 9600 XT, 9700, 9700 Pro, 9800 Pro, x700 XT, x800 XT, x850 XT

the demo requirements didnt changed much from the beta...ugh kinda hefty...also where the f*** is my 6600GT in the list

5GB HD space1?! damn...(at least there's still Cd-rom support

one thing that bothers me is that the requirements stated that

"Internet Connection required"

is the HL2/Steam horror comin back!?!

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n_w95482

· #2 · Aug 3, 2005

You don't have to worry about your video card not being on the list; if it runs on DX 8.1 hardware, it'll run on your card

. That was just an oversight on their part. It's nice that there's a DVD version of the game, I'm sick of having to deal with 4-5 CDs with recent games.

ViperXtreme

Discussion Starter · #3 · Aug 3, 2005

heheh, i was just joking

, i know it would be okay since the Multiplayer beta worked fine on me, also, the GeForce 4 Ti is just a DX8 card isnt it? (it lacks PS 1.4)

Player-X

· #4 · Aug 3, 2005

I wonder what is scarier, the game or the internet activation?

caipirinha

· #5 · Aug 3, 2005

scary is playing this one 640x480 with pixel doubling on a fx 5200 .

Metalmurphy

· #6 · Aug 3, 2005

Im still hoping i get picked for the second MP beta xD http://learn.whatisfear.com/

Zer0Soul

· #7 · Aug 3, 2005

F.E.A.R looks interesting. Considering, the lack of new single-player FPS the past few months this summer. HL-2 and Doom3 hit and it's like we hit a slump. The graphics do look great and very Ringu meets Silent Hill series. I just fear for it's gameplay.

I played the original MP beta. Now, Beta and MP should never be a good way to measure gameplay, yet I was disappointed. At the time the weapons were rough around the edges. There seemed to be a strange hit detection in place.

I'm hoping that things were tweaked more for the release and 2nd mp beta. I just don't want this to become another mindless FPS.

cooliscool

· #8 · Aug 3, 2005

Can't wait.

deamonhunter

· #9 · Aug 3, 2005

wow r the requirments high or what , the highest i've ever seen
thank god i bought an 9600 so i can play the game though i hope the game
doesnt scare me like doom3 cuz i really wanna finish it

ViperXtreme

Discussion Starter · #10 · Aug 4, 2005

i was able to get invited in the 2nd MP beta, however, during installation, there's a feature error occured, happens too to others...

Guyver2K6

· #11 · Aug 4, 2005

hopefully i can run that beast of a game :hdbash:

n_w95482

· #12 · Aug 4, 2005

ViperXtreme said:
also, the GeForce 4 Ti is just a DX8 card isnt it? (it lacks PS 1.4)

I believe the GeForce 3 and Radeon 8500 are DX8 parts while the 4 Ti is DX8.1, although I'm not 100% certain.

VRiD

· #13 · Aug 4, 2005

Damn scary requirements.
What do ppl with a 3 year old pc do ?
I mean it'l run but i guess look like cr*p so only good gameplay will save this case.
And does anybody know about the online requirement? Activation isn't fun =\

p.s
n_w95482 i love your high end secondary PC
such great cpu power and ram with such a GFX card. damn beautiful :]

cheers
-VRiD

n_w95482

· #14 · Aug 4, 2005

I only put it in there for testing

. So far I've run 3DMark 2001 and Halo on it and I'll be attempting to run Far Cry on it in a few minutes

.

If I have a decent amount of free time this week, I may try out the demo

.

ViperXtreme

Discussion Starter · #15 · Aug 4, 2005

n_w95482 said:
I believe the GeForce 3 and Radeon 8500 are DX8 parts while the 4 Ti is DX8.1, although I'm not 100% certain.

just re confirmed, the GeForce 3 and GeForce 4Ti series are just DX8 cards, the GF4Ti only had added features and power in it, but its still DX8(PS 1.1/1.3), the radeon 8500 on the other hand is full DX8.1 compliant(PS 1.1-1.4)...
http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20020206/geforce4-03.html
http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20010814/radeon8500-02.html

deamonhunter

· #16 · Aug 4, 2005

if a geforce 4 ti can run the game why cant a fx 5700,5800 or radeon 9550 run it ??i mean the features r there t&l and shaders up to 2.0 could it be the memor core clock that counts????? if so over cloacking can save the day right??

Kirby

· #17 · Aug 4, 2005

deamonhunter said:
wow r the requirments high or what , the highest i've ever seen
thank god i bought an 9600 so i can play the game though i hope the game
doesnt scare me like doom3 cuz i really wanna finish it

scare???? *snicker*

I would of gave you a good deal on my Radeon 9600....I was going to sell it in a month anyways....but oh well ^^

ViperXtreme

Discussion Starter · #18 · Aug 5, 2005

actually, all Radeon 95xx series and above/FX 5200 and above can run it, just dont expect the FX series to run it on DX9 mode, since it will be dog slow (FX cards are weak in PS2.0), might wanna also run it on 320x240 mode via pixel dobling

ive tested the MP beta on a radeon 9600 256MB and 128MB and they ran fine on low-medium settings @ 800x600 DX9 mode with no pixel doubling, the FX5700LE run okay on the lowest settings DX8 mode and pixel doubling on (320x240).
but then again thats the MP beta, dubbo what optimisation they did in the upcomin demo...

Metalmurphy

· #19 · Aug 5, 2005

oO the demo was suposed to be available by now but theres nothing there

http://www.vugames.com/file_list.do?gamePlatformId=1833

D.D.

· #20 · Aug 5, 2005

deamonhunter said:
though i hope the game
doesnt scare me like doom3 cuz i really wanna finish it

true true. i know exactly what u mean. :nod: i had the same problem with doom3 pc and thot it wud be better for me on the xbox....but nope.

and kirby dont be mean !

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