F.E.A.R. badly optimized

[Josh_K]

k after beating the game 2 times and then being able to play doom 3 on high (i was suprised) i have realized this:

the only part i hated about the game is its SO horribly optimized omfg

i am able to play doom 3 on my integrated geforce 6100 (with the ram clocked to 240) on high with AA on at 800x600 quite smoothly.

in fear i can only play on custom settings at 640x480 without shadows, all lighting effects on minimum, the glossyness and slowmo effects are crazy so i have to keep them maxed. but AA is at 2x but in rooms with lots of lights for some reason my framerate drops.

so the settings **i'm** (beautiful if maxed out) on gives me a descent framerate but doesen't look as good as doom 3. they seriously need to optimize this game BADLY. hell, counterstrike looks about the same but i can run it on 800x600 with AA on and AS on max settings AND HDR (rather play on 800x600 with AA than 1024x768 with jaggies)]

they're next patch better make me be able to play at higher settings or AT LEAST a higher rez like 1024x768 because with my settings it actually looks really nice on a higher rez (but at like 5 fps) :bang head

[Rattle]

k after beating the game 2 times and then being able to play doom 3 on high (i was suprised) i have realized this:

the only part i hated about the game is its SO horribly optimized omfg

i am able to play doom 3 on my integrated geforce 6100 (with the ram clocked to 240) on high with AA on at 800x600 quite smoothly.

in fear i can only play on custom settings at 640x480 without shadows, all lighting effects on minimum, the glossyness and slowmo effects are crazy so i have to keep them maxed. but AA is at 2x but in rooms with lots of lights for some reason my framerate drops.

so the settings **i'm** (beautiful if maxed out) on gives me a descent framerate but doesen't look as good as doom 3. they seriously need to optimize this game BADLY. hell, counterstrike looks about the same but i can run it on 800x600 with AA on and AS on max settings AND HDR (rather play on 800x600 with AA than 1024x768 with jaggies)]

they're next patch better make me be able to play at higher settings or AT LEAST a higher rez like 1024x768 because with my settings it actually looks really nice on a higher rez (but at like 5 fps) :bang head


Its not badly optimized its just has alot of requirments, doom3 is openGL which nvidia is good at and is also 2 years old

[ziggo0]

Its not badly optimized its just has alot of requirments, doom3 is openGL which nvidia is good at and is also 2 years old

Bingo.

[JEmlay]

I play Doom 3 with everything turned on at 1600. I can only play FEAR at 1280 with everything turned on. But then again, look at the two games. Doom 3 is crap compared to FEAR.

I started playing Quake 4. Then I quit playing it to play FEAR. I went back to Quake 4 after finishing FEAR and now I'm completly bored with it. It to, is crap compared to FEAR.

[Blackmage]

yes, for what it looks like and is required i think is stupid.

[>HyperlogiK<]

While FEAR is badly optimised compared with say the source engine, but think how long valve took to make that. Considering that it looks so good, FEAR isn't badly optimised, it isn't well optimised, it's about what I'd expect.

[night8jim]

U say its badly optimized but name one other game that has the features that FEAR has, cus to be honest i cant think of any, it a new game introducing new technology u cant expect it to be perfect or play it on a system like that.

[>HyperlogiK<]

U say its badly optimized but name one other game that has the features that FEAR has, cus to be honest i cant think of any, it a new game introducing new technology u cant expect it to be perfect or play it on a system like that.

I can think of lots of games with an unconvincing story and lots of repetetive corridor levels set in some industrial area ;)

[Falcon-K]

I can think of lots of games with an unconvincing story and lots of repetetive corridor levels set in some industrial area ;)


He said new technology, not new storyline or gameplay :p

[night8jim]

Yeah i agree with the story line but u dont need SLI GTX's to run a game with gd story line lol

[veryhumid]

doom3 can run on really basic systems. I meant it runs on the original xbox, which has a pentium III! fear has much more technology in it. plus doom3 is all hallways and darkness, which doesn't need so much juice.

[night8jim]

yeah ok it can run on very basic systems, but the idea of these games are to give the ultimate eye candy to the gamer, and putting in so much effort into the grapics the gamplay is never going to be as gd.

And DOOM3 is 2 years old, i brought that game when it first came out and i had a top system then and i still found it hard to run at the time.

My point is playing FEAR at the lowest quality compared to the highest quality, makes then two completely differant games, I am sure the designers of FEAR were not thinking about running it on 6100's, and more mid range cards and higher.

I cant see why anyone would want to play a game like FEAR on low quality, the story line aint the best in the world, and if the graphics were bad it wouldn't be worth playing.

[dyetube]

I agree with the previous post. Without the good graphics, fear would not be that great of a game. There were a lot of times when I just thought the level builders were to lazy to make new levels because some of the levels were the same! the gameplay and the graphics are what make this game great!

[dfonda]

I can think of lots of games with an unconvincing story and lots of repetitive corridor levels set in some industrial area LOL :p
Thats Funny!

FEAR ran smooth as butter on a 6600GT. Seemed to be optimized allright for this card. It would have been much less fun on anything less. So I could see it disappointing folks on lower systems Looking forward to running it on even higher settings.

[dyetube]

I forgot to mention, I play steam with all settings on high, including 4x aa and 16x af and a screen res of 1280 x 1024 on a bfg 7800 gtx(check my sig) and when I benchmark I get average fps's of about 30. When I play, it is smooth 95% of the time but I occaisionally get lag during heavy fighting.