Our New Vegas rig was a 3.33GHz overclocked i7 working in combination with the awesome might of an NVIDIA GTX480 and utilising 3GB RAM. Two years ago, we played Fallout 3 on a 2.4GHz Q6600 quad-core system with 2GB RAM and a 512MB NVIDIA 8800GT. However, if you do buy the PC game, you should expect to find yourself consulting enthusiast sites to get the game running decently on your setup. A dual-core CPU along with something along the lines of a 9800GT should serve you well.
Here's a comparison of the 360 and PC versions, along with a mirror version where PS3 goes head-to-head with the computer game.Īs the technology that powers the game is basically so ancient, you won't need a particularly powerful PC to run it. You also get to enjoy the benefits of each of the console games - high levels of MSAA combined with art that looks identical to the PS3 version's textures. Assuming your PC hardware isn't from Neolithic times, the combination of more memory and a faster desktop hard drive makes the stuttering of the background streaming far less of an issue than it is in the console games. VATS becomes less essential because aiming with the mouse is so much accurate. As we pointed out in the original Fallout 3 Face-Off, the ability to use mouse and keys transforms combat. In places, it just looks so much better than the console releases even when the core art is essentially exactly the same as the PlayStation 3 version.
Chances are that Digital Foundry will produce a Fallout: New Vegas time-lapse video, and when we do you'll get some idea of how the additional visual refinements can transform the game. The landscapes though are in a class of their own.
However, even here, there are some pretty dodgy textures on the towns, cities and interiors. The ability to scale up to extreme resolutions and enjoy higher, tear-free frame-rates plus longer draw distances puts it into a class of its own.
As you might expect bearing in mind the PC roots of the engine, it's the computer version of Fallout 3 that is the most technically advanced.
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