STALKER

Jonesey · Post by **Jonesey** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 12:48 pm 0

Anyone playing it? What with this and Crysis at the end of the month I was just wondering if they'll run on my lowly rig (Radeon 9800XT AGP, Athlon XP 3000+, 1 Gig DDR

)
If anyone's running it on a comparable system let me know how it flies and I may or may not buy the bugger.

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 12:49 pm 0

It's not out until Friday. I'll let you know then if Play.com actually manage to ship something on time.

teamonkey · Post by **teamonkey** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 1:13 pm 0

If you can't wait until Friday to find out if it works there's a Multiplayer Beta kicking around. stk-mp-setup.exe through the usual channels.

Pot Noodle Pirate · Post by **Pot Noodle Pirate** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 2:52 pm 0

Got mine ordered Jonesey so I can pop it over at the weekend and let you try it out on your rig if you like.

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 2:54 pm 0

Play.com are processing mine now. Looks like I'll have it for Friday.

Gah. PS3 and Stalker on the same day.

Pot Noodle Pirate · Post by **Pot Noodle Pirate** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 3:21 pm 0

HGFB wrote:Play.com are processing mine now. Looks like I'll have it for Friday.

Gah. PS3 and Stalker on the same day.

You have only yourself to blame for the abundance of joy and pleasure you will experience this weekend

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 3:26 pm 0

I suppose I can play Stalker while the PS3 is struggling to download a firmware update from an overloaded network.

Jonesey · Post by **Jonesey** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 3:39 pm 0

Sweet

Jonesey · Post by **Jonesey** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 4:39 pm 0

Decided to order one anyway - if it's unplayable or (let's hope not!) crap then I can always sell it on, eh?

ddraig · Post by **ddraig** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 6:02 am 0

Bought it this evening and played it for 20 minutes just taking in the environment and playing with my settings. I have a similar rig, except it's a 3Ghz P4 & a 6800GT. Dynamic lightning kills the performance for me, so you will probably end up playing with static lighting like me, though Im hoping to tweak it some more by lowering other settings. The game runs very well like this as 1024x768, but there are some occasional slow downs due to virtual memory usage Im guessing (its a beast) , so I will probably be buying an extra gig of RAM and doing a defrag too.
W.O. dynamic lightning the game still looks great and from what I've played the atmosphere/feel is something very special, the attention to detail and the sounds (wind noises & blowing plants & trees) reminded me of taking a walk thru the brecon beacons or something, except with nutters, anomalies & mutants lurking around. I can see what people are saying that it is like Half Life meets Oblivion.
I have this, Crackdown & Geist to get through now, as well as Crysis & EDF2017 coming up, cant complain though!

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 6:55 am 0

If you want to leave dynamic lighting on try turning grass density and the shadow detail down quite a bit. That helped a lot on my rig.

Anders · Post by **Anders** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 9:25 am 0

I'll see if I can pick up a copy today. Hopefully I'll be able to fight through the hordes buying PS3's.

grue · Post by **grue** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 9:38 am 0

Anders wrote:Hopefully I'll be able to fight through the hordes buying PS3's.

You are an evil man Anders

ShadowTail · Post by **ShadowTail** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 12:45 pm 0

Played this for maybe an hour so far - first impressions are a bit meh.

My main complaint is the AI - the bad guys seems woefully stupid - sometimes they seem completely unaware of me at all! Can someone tell me that I'm mistaken or that it's just the first couple of missions that do this?

ddraig · Post by **ddraig** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 2:02 pm 0

HGFB wrote:If you want to leave dynamic lighting on try turning grass density and the shadow detail down quite a bit. That helped a lot on my rig.

Cheers, I'll try that, though I love that grass!

Haven't played it enough to comment on the AI yet.