tomster785

I have an Nvidia 9400 GT and a 7100 GS they're both great in my opinion but can they run Fallout 3 on the highest settings? I have the reccommended settings for the rest, but not the graphics card.

Mcninjaguy

a 9400GT will be able to run Fall out 3 on the lowest settings

tomster785

Only the lowest settings? Because according to System Requirerments lab I pass the reccommended settings.

Mcninjaguy

the recommended setting on "can you run it" website only states which shader versions you have.

they don't account for a lot of things in your graphics card

-amount of cores
-Core clock speed
-Shader clock speed
-Memory clock speed

architecture of the card 64bit, 128bit, 256bit, etc

this is what really matters when looking at your video card specs

A 8800GTS(320mb) is quite a bit better than the 9400GT (my old card) and I could only run the game on medium settings.

with my current GTX 260 I can run it on full settings, but I haven't checked the fps. I think its most likely 30-60fps

Hazmat

You should be able to run on medium settings if you pass the recommended settings, at least that's how it was for me with other games.

Mcninjaguy

again like I said it depends on your graphics card actual specs

tomster785

I can overclock my graphics card, would that help at all?

Mcninjaguy

I doubt it can overclock that much, I don't know if it can run fallout 3

if you have Oblivion and can run that game you should be able to run Fallout 3, since they both have the same engine

tomster785

Oh I can definately run it. It can overclock quite a bit aswell. I can run Oblivion on my laptop so yeah I can on my PC.

Mcninjaguy

yep sounds good, because yes I notice adifference when my settings are up all the way but really the only difference in graphics is view distance pretty much

tomster785

I have it on high with those specs, I have no lag at all, on ultra high I have some lag, but only a bit (but it's very noticable).

Zombeast

i run fallout 3 on lowest just fine, and system requirments labs says i could play it on high
i have an nvida 8600 gt the 256 mb ddr3 version

Mcninjaguy

nobody has been reading the posts have they?

it all depends on the actual core speeds of a card

Fallout uses and improved engine of Oblivion so yes you can get about the same graphics on fallout 3 compared to Oblivion

tomster785

Are you talking to me? I have the game, I play it while it's on Ultra High settings. I get virtually no lag, I haven't even overclocked my card like I said I would. I personally think that this card is very underated. I have all of my games on the highest settings on Steam and get no lag...

Zombeast

lol, i guess the question was answered

Mcninjaguy

you know what I really think the drivers for my GTX 260 are really terrible I wish they would make some better ones