Good enough for STALKER ?

[smartel7070]

For those who've played the game look at my sig and tell me if this system will run STALKER with decent frame rates.

THX !!!

 

[NamelessMC]

Not at fully maxed out settings.

You might get away with 1024x768 and medium settings, but Stalker is very poorly optimized.

Your CPU will slightly hold you back and the 7600GT will maybe get you away with the medium settings at 1280x1024 but, it'd be pushing it.

The system in my sig barely plays the game at medium-high settings @ 1280x1024 and my processor is dual core and my video-card is a 7900GS.

 

[smartel7070]

at what res do you play ?

I was thinking of an upgrade soon .... guess I'll play with this system for now and enjoy all the eye candy later loll

 

[warezme]

ooo, thats gonna be cutting it close but I think it will do ok and it depends on your resolution. I consider Stalker to be better optimized than Oblivion. So if you can run Oblivion you can run Stalker.

I am running it 1920x1080 which is full res on my Westy with everything maxed out 4FAA and HDR and it looks incredibly detailed. I have noticed not performance issues at all but considering 2 GTX's are doing the grunt work I didn't expect any.

Enjoy, let me know if you find any episode alleviating codes.....(cheats), I'm getting my butt kicked. 8O

 

[smartel7070]

Well I run Oblivion at 1280*1024 high settings and 2xAA and outdoors it never goes under 25fps. Keep in mind I oc my gfx card to 625/830 to do this.

As for the cheats be patient, in a couple of days we should have them.

 

[pongrules]

Holy smokes, how do you get that kind of an increase out of your GPU? Do you have aftermarket cooling on that thing?

 

[smartel7070]

Holy smokes, how do you get that kind of an increase out of your GPU? Do you have aftermarket cooling on that thing?

Yeah I do .... Zalman VF-700cu + 2 120mm fans blowing air on the card

 

[Eviltwin17]

you should be able to play stalker pretty well but not at max quality settings

its a huge graphics hog for some reason and requires at least a 7900gs to run max settings smoothly

 

[bruce555]

as far as I know stalker isn't optimised for dual core so his single shouldn't matter. When I play I never see my processor go over 52% and usually only sits at 50%

 

[smartel7070]

I'll go buy it as sson as I get off from work wich should be in 10 minutes now. I'll play tonite and give feedback here tomorrow for those interested.

 

[Hawkeye22]

Stalker is optimized for multi-core cpu's. Says so in the *README* file. It plays fine on my system at near max settings.

 

[Preecher]

warezme, what OS are you running? I have an 8800GTX running on 680i mobo with an E6600 OC'ed to 3.0Ghz... but I am running Vista Ultimate 64 bit and I cannot turn on dynamic lighting else all is see is clouds (i know.. wierd). Its a known bug in nvidia's vista drivers sadly.

I would love to play the game without static (DX8) lighting.

Just curious in case someone found a workaround for the bug. I have everything else maxed out and it plays just fine!

Cheers!

 

[warezme]

warezme, what OS are you running? I have an 8800GTX running on 680i mobo with an E6600 OC'ed to 3.0Ghz... but I am running Vista Ultimate 64 bit and I cannot turn on dynamic lighting else all is see is clouds (i know.. wierd). Its a known bug in nvidia's vista drivers sadly.

I would love to play the game without static (DX8) lighting.

Just curious in case someone found a workaround for the bug. I have everything else maxed out and it plays just fine!

Cheers!

nope, sorry, I'm running it in XP. I have Vista (32) dual boot but only peek at it from time to time. Have you thought of doing that, you know dual boot.

 

[bruce555]

allot of games say that but only a couple actually use both cores. I watch my cores on my G15 keyboard and that's where it sits. Both cores are used, one more than the other but average between the 2 are about 50%.

 

[Immigrant]

i bought the game yesterday and it plays "ok" on my pc.
i have an x1900xtx w/ AMD 4400+ oc to 2.6, and 2gb ram and i get 45fps avg. It drops down to 25 every one in a while but its runs "ok". I'm sure if i messed around with the settings some more i'd get a decent performance boost if i carnk some stuff down. I assumed it would run better on my setup since the game has been in the making for 6 years but that was not the case.

Gamewise, this is a great game ... really emersive and fun!

Happy hunting!

 

[Ralfo]

Friend tried stalker with e6600, 2gb ram, x1900xt, and it runs crummy, especially when the lightning renders.
Maybe the game has some sort of bug? STALKER runs worse than Oblivion on his computer.

 

[pintojl3]

I'd have to agree that it does not appear to be as optimized as other games, but it does run fairly well on my system - of course I can't enable the better shadow options.

1024x768 is smooth - will have to test frame rate later. I have run it at 1280x1024 but it can get jerky in a fight.

If I enable the better shadow options, it's a slideshow.

P4 3.4 ghz HT Northwood
1.5 GB DDR 400
X850XT/PE
Audigy2
2x160 GB Seagate 7200.9 RAID 0
200 GB Maxtor

 

[dmacfour]

is there a demo out?

 

[nowise]

Yeah, I'm sorry but on my PC, Oblivion runs great and this game runs rather bad. Lots of stuttering and choppiness running at 1280x1024. Probably need more RAM, but Sup Com, OB, FEAR, everything else runs great. Hoping the patch released will help but, dang, it invalidates saved games! No fun!

Running:
e6300 @ 2.5
1gb DDR2 @ 710
74gb Raptor
7900GS PCI-E

 

[pseudopeon]

Graphically, it doesn't seem that impressive but guzzles system resources anyway - hoping for some optimisation!

 

[vonhell]

well... I finished stalker on sunday and can say that it is VERY POORLY optimized... the game can use one of 3 different renderers. first is static lightning, second is object dynamic lightning and the third is full dynamic lightning. my laptop (I don't have a desktop and use laptop for everything) is T5500 (1.66 GHz), 2 GB RAM 667 (dual channel), ATI mobility X1600 so I thought the object dynamic lightning + medium detail is the way to go. result ? 10-14 fps... ok, so I set all the details to minimum and... 14-20 fps and a game looking crappy as hell. I was on the verge of trashing the game but tried the last thing to do - changed lightning to static. and with static lightning and eveything MAXED out (view distance >500m...) the game stayed above 40 fps as long as there was no rain/water on the screen. friend of mine with a better setup and x1950 PRO also had to run static lightning, in his case dynamic lightning caused the game to crash right away. however, I saw the game on 6800 GT + E6400 running dynamic lightning with no problem. so something in the game is really, really screwed and probly causes ATI cards to generally suck with dynamic lightning (my guess is that shadows are working similarly to doom 3 which greatly favored nVidia arch). yet I must say that the game really looks sweet even with static lightning, and you really don't need a good PC to run it that way

 

[pauldh]

Well I run Oblivion at 1280*1024 high settings and 2xAA and outdoors it never goes under 25fps. Keep in mind I oc my gfx card to 625/830 to do this.

12x10 high settings and never goes below 25 fps? Hmm....

Everyone has their own idea of high settings I guess. And a 7600GT isn't going to stay above 25 fps in what I call high settings. Shoot, my 7800GT tanked at 1024x768 high settings, paired with 2GB ram and an A64 4000+. And If you go by what review sites call high settings, at 1280x1024 the 7600GT would be doing single digits at times.

Notice in Anand's Gate test the 7900GTX averages 29 fps and drops below 20 fps, and the 7600GT does about 50% of those framerates.: http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2746&p=4

Firingsquads high settings, the 7800GT averages less than 15 fps with 4xAA. http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/oblivion_high-end_performance/page6.asp
and a tad less with HDR instead: http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/oblivion_high-end_performance/page5.asp

And the 7600GT averages 20 fps running 2xaa at their medium settings in the mainstream test: http://firingsquad.com/hardware/oblivion_mainstream_performance/page8.asp

Anyway, according to firingsquads testing, the 7600GT is a 10x7 medium detail card in Oblivion.

As far as stalker, the 7600GT looks to do a decent job, unlike the 7600GS: http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/stalker_mainstream_3d_performance/page7.asp

 

[elcold]

Just wondering if the huge performance caused by dynamic lighting is worth it. I have seen screen shots, and it doesn't seem that much better, but screen shots aren't the best judge. Just wanted to know .

 

[pseudopeon]

What's the A.I. like, I heard it was supposed to be wicked awesome?
Is there an increased CPU overhead for that, hence better performance with a dual core?

 

[Scooby2]

Just wondering if the huge performance caused by dynamic lighting is worth it. I have seen screen shots, and it doesn't seem that much better, but screen shots aren't the best judge. Just wanted to know

Yes it looks nicer, as the name suggests it looks best when stuff is in motion.

The A.I is pretty good despite a few bugs here and there. Much better than the run straight at you style of doom.