I'm just installing Fear now and gonna patch it up to date before i play it.
Of course I'm not pulling a sickie I'd be too scared you seen what they do to you when you call in sick these days! lol I'm off today cos I'm going to Amsterdam tomorrow so want to get things sorted for that.
I hope your not playing on the internet at work! I'm not good enough to be givin internet access!
I have noticed while downloading that the speeds are faster, I used to hardly ever d/l that made full use of my 10mb connection now its like all the websites are giving a good 1MB/s.
Lateralus wrote:Haha, touché! I'm, um, on my lunch break. Thats it - lunch break.
Have fun on your travels mate.
hehe I'm sure I will!
Just tried out FEAR i ran a performance test with everything maxed out. Before Fista I'd get about 32fps av and now with Fista I get 45fps av! So thats a canny increase!
I'm finding it hard to fine a free AntiVirus though none of them support the x64 Fista!
redrum217uk wrote:
Just tried out FEAR i ran a performance test with everything maxed out. Before Fista I'd get about 32fps av and now with Fista I get 45fps av! So thats a canny increase!
Good god! How healthy was your xp when you tried fear with it though? Fairly old and running like a mule? If not then go Fista
Well it sounds good, but I must say I'm doubtful. Theres a News Reader thread where someone tested 25 games on XP and Fista and found Fista a little bit slower, but mostly due to driver issues.
My main gripe is that tests are always done on PCs more like Chicken's than like mine, and I think I'd have some serious doubts about my PC's ability to run Fista and games prettily and at the same time.
So the only obvious solution is for people to give me all their great bits of kit! Anyone got a spare GFX card better than a 6600GT, or a large SATA hard drive, an AMD64 cpu above 3000, or a sound card, that they want to give me?
Lateralus wrote:Anyone got a spare GFX card better than a 6600GT, or a large SATA hard drive, an AMD64 cpu above 3000, or a sound card, that they want to give me?
Lateralus wrote:Well it sounds good, but I must say I'm doubtful. Theres a News Reader thread where someone tested 25 games on XP and Fista and found Fista a little bit slower, but mostly due to driver issues.
What do you actually have spare though. I'd even go so far as to consider buying something, if it wasn't going to be for much. Student-poverty has this horrible way of lingering.
Were you running 64bit XP? Because the move up on that could increase the speed of the game, I wouldn't expect it would give you that large an increase, especially as FEAR was made for DX9. How odd. A nice oddity though I'm sure!
You mentioned not being able to find a free antivirus. What with the fact you've just bought a microsoft operating system, it might be worth paying for one.
So far the things I have found that don't work on Fista at all are
Call of Duty 2 The screen turns grey and I have to reboot.
DivX Player same as call of duty however they are working on drivers.
Anti Virus! Nothing works I even downloaded a few "90 day free ones" but the dont work with x64 even microsofts doesn't work!
I have a few problems with Prey but I think thats the game itself, as loads of other peeps have similar probs. Its working fine now though.
I can't access my works webmail!!??? strange but it works on my other PC
Creative "Auto update" won't work keeps saying the server is busy yet it works on my other PC. I have the drivers (beta) for my sound card but I can't fiddle with the settings because I can't get the software! Creative say proper drivers will be out in March.
