Found this site earlier which is very nice. It tests your computer to see if it'll run whatever game you've selected from the drop-down list. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion gave me these results:
Well I know I'm a 'Pass' on everything anyway, tried to do it for my Work PC for a laugh but the firewall wouldn't allow it, meh, probably best do some work instead...
According to the recommended tab, I just fall short because of my GFX card. Ho hum. It'll probably be my next thing to upgrade, but not for a long while yet. However, I come nearer the recommended settings for Oblivion than I do for Beef!
Dr. kitteny berk wrote:I think it's flirting with me
Congratulations, your system will Rock this product! Wish we had a system that hot you lucky dog.
Now I thought you were just making that up, a bit at least, but I tried it to see what it says for FEAR on my machine, and I got the same message. Bit of a hussy is that site, hitting on several people at once. *tsk*
Save your changes and play! When you press the PrtScr key, the game will save a copy of the screen as a bmp file starting with the name, ScreenShot0.bmp, into the Oblivion folder.
Bork wrote:
Open oblivion.ini with Notepad and find the line:
bAllowScreenShot=0
Change that line to read: bAllowScreenShot=1
Save your changes and play! When you press the PrtScr key, the game will save a copy of the screen as a bmp file starting with the name, ScreenShot0.bmp, into the Oblivion folder.
Graphics card lets it down as a gaming machine, as its designed for running graphics software really. The idea behind it was that this machine was for work, not games...*cough*
Heh - for me the idea of having a PC at all was for word processing. The 2 gig'o'ram, 64 bit processor and £100-odd quid graphics card just make it really good at processing them words!
Well before they started ripping features out of it I'd heard it needed at least 2 gigs'o'ram and a mid to high end graphics card to make all its little flashy gismos work properly. Think I'll wait a fair while before getting it after its out because it seems a little unnecessary just now.
I hope Fista fails badly. The interface looks horrible and it has way too much un-needed crap, i've disabled a lot of windows xp's features as it is. Classic windows ftw. Also i bet it'll mean lower fps in games because of all the resources it eats.