Originally posted by: Frackal
Originally posted by: TheSnowman
See, addinator is one of those people the maximum settings are there for, if you have less of a system than that then you can turn things down and live with what you have or upgrade.
What is it with you? Acting like all games are somehow designed with equal efficiency and its simply a matter of hardware?
Note, anyone with a system similar to mine, A64 ~FX-55 speeds, 2gigs ram, 7800GTX can play the game at max settings with 'playable' framerates at 1600x1200. I'm not sure whether that is 30 or what, but I'll take Xbit's benchmarks of 54fps at 1024x768 with no anti-aliasing as accurate. Again, and stated numerous times before; that is flat pathetic.
I will even state that Half Life 2 with all settings turned to highest, 4xAA, 16AF, transparency super-sampling at 1680x1050 gets around 140fps for me and, overall ***HAS BETTER GRAPHICS AND WAY BETTER AND MORE COMPLEX PHYSICS***.
This is especially true with the high-def character models patch from Valve. (Highly recommended.)
The only thing FEAR might have left graphically after the model patch that is better are the particle effects, and in some cases better looking character models which isn't much considering the 300% drop in performance.
I encourage anyone with the right setup to compare:
HL2 1680x1050 (make sure digital vibrance is on and applied globally) w/ all settings High, 4AA,16AF, character models patch applied
to
FEAR, all options high, highest AA/AF.
HL2 is the winner IMO. Look at HL2's textures on its walls. Never a solid circa 1998 blue monochrome like 1/2 the walls in FEAR.
Oh, and again, it runs roughly 3-400% faster than FEAR.
Anyone snowman your argument is such a joke because its implied premise is that FEAR isnt a poorly designed and coded game, its just that people have inadaquate hardware, which is bullsh|T.