STALKER - Reviews

[LoSTBoY]

Ahem, enough about rigs, back on topic... Anyone played this yet? *Raises hand* My system is pretty weak now (1.45Ghz CPU, 512MB RAM, 9600 Radeon) but it's doing pretty well with high textures. I don't have everything turned on/up but it still looks good and runs fairly smooth. I'm not going to review it right now, I still need to play it a bit more. But for now I would like to say it's pretty good; reminds me of Fallout but in FPS.

[MinionZombie]

My system is pretty weak now (1.45Ghz CPU, 512MB RAM, 9600 Radeon) but it's doing pretty well with high textures. I don't have everything turned on/up but it still looks good and runs fairly smooth. That's good to know, I've got a 2.2ghz CPU, 1gig RAM and I can "SNAP!!!" you on the card. OH F*CK ME!!! WAITING FOR THIS GAME TO ARRIVE IS LIKE F*CKING A REALLY HOT CHICK WHO INSISTS YOU WAIT FOR THE END OF THE REALLY LONG SONG ON THE STEREO BEFORE YOU BUST A NUT, YET YOU WERE READY ABOUT EIGHT MINUTES AGO .... waaaaaaaaahhhhhh!!! If you could see me now, I'd look a bit like the kid you always see at a mall clutching his trousers and stamping his feet while busting for a whizz.

[Tricky]

But if it looks good on your old rigs,imagine how eye bleedingly jizz worthy it will look on a new one

[MinionZombie]

But if it looks good on your old rigs,imagine how eye bleedingly jizz worthy it will look on a new one Aye Sir, you've hit the chap on the bell-end right there. So, like I was saying before, when I eventually get a ball-achingly good gaming rig ...(when I actually rake in some proper, steady money - not that I'm dissing the bit I'm managing to make now, beats earning piss all! And, you know, experience and contacts)... then I'll buy up (by then, cheap) a whole back catalogue of PC games, and install my existing ones (like STALKER) to see how b-e-a-utiful they look, the screenshots certainly make it look LUSH. Aside from the odd rough edge here and there, it does look nut-sack-squeezing-at-the-final-moment great.

[Tricky]

Im looking forward to one of the epic battles on medieval 2 in all its glory on a new rig,i bet it looks amazing!looks decent on mine,but its only on medium settings & if beseiging a large city or having a battle in a forest with 10,000 men on screen,it gets a bit slow.Theres a back catalogue i want to play as well,not least FEAR at a good frame rate and company of heroes!

[MinionZombie]

Oh yeah I'd really like to play FEAR, but it never ran properly (if at all) on my rig, the engine of the game itself just wasn't good enough. It was improved with Condemned, but still not the quickest moving game sadly. In this day and age, scaleability is a really good thing, and there should be more of it, really give people a screed of options to tweak to get the best possible quality image, rather than relatively few options that you find in some games ... I was shocked at the lack of options True Crime: NYC provided, so I couldn't tweak it to make it run properly (even though it should have easily blasted with ease on my rig) ... hmmm ... perhaps it's something to do with download? I downloaded TC:NYC, it ran like ass. Lou downloaded STALKER and he's had some trouble... MinionHolmes solves another one! Watson ... get me my internet porn collection!

[LouCipherr]

Good news. Well, for me anyway. I found out what was causing some of my issues. Since I got this new rig & video card, I forgot to turn off the antialiasing when I set it up (I do that 'cause I don't care about rounded edges on objects, I want speed and efficiency). After doing that, kicking on the game back to it's default 'medium' settings, i'm seeing more of an improvement. It's not perfect yet - there's probably another stupid setting i'm forgetting to set correctly - but i'm getting closer. This isn't the first time i've had to do this with a game either. Sometimes, it takes some tweaking to get the best performance out of your rig. Not to mention this motherboard and cpu chip are still pretty new to me, so i'm sure even my bios isn't set to it's most efficient settings... yet. Still, this has some incredible eye candy, so it's definitely giving your video card a hell of a workout.

[DVW5150]

Alienware is , in my opinion , the best computer for gaming ... Check 'em out . They are arent half bad for recording either .

[capncnut]

MZ - remember, I had graphics on medium, but textures, shadows, and special fx cranked or damn close to it (that's the default for "medium" settings). Even though I backed those 3 settings off a bit and it ran smoother, it definitely brought my system to it's knees in certain intense parts before I lowered them. So much so I had to back off the graphics a bit to get smoother gameplay. I will say this: all I did was back off the texture quality a notch, turned off 'high quality shadows' (is that really a necessary option!?) and backed off the FX a bit. That's all. Once I did that it ran smoothly, but I full well expected my 7900GS to not even BLINK during this game. LOL, I think I'll wait for the console version thank you - just pop the game in and let rip. Jeez, people have the nerve to tell me that PC gaming is easier than a console.

[Neil]

Jeez, people have the nerve to tell me that PC gaming is easier than a console. PC gaming is easier than a console! Let's see you press N for "Night Vision"

[Tricky]

Alienware is , in my opinion , the best computer for gaming ... Check 'em out . They are arent half bad for recording either . Agree 100% there!however they start at about £1500 over here and thats pushing it a bit if all i did was game then i'd pay it,but i drive a car & have a very active social life which costs me a bomb,so alienware isnt on the cards

[Neil]

Agree 100% there!however they start at about £1500 over here and thats pushing it a bit if all i did was game then i'd pay it,but i drive a car & have a very active social life which costs me a bomb,so alienware isnt on the cards If you were to buy the components yourself and put togethor an identical machine, how much of a mark-up do they charge?

[capncnut]

PC gaming is easier than a console! Let's see you press N for "Night Vision" Why do I need to look down and find the N button when I can click my right anologue stick or press a shoulder button?

[Neil]

Why do I need to look down and find the N button when I can click my right anologue stick or press a shoulder button? And how many sticks and shoulder buttons have you got? 14?

[capncnut]

Nope, 4 shoulder buttons and 2 sticks. Better than a wimpy keyboard.