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General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: Solo on March 24, 2007, 09:06:26 PM

Title: Anyone else playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R.?
Post by: Solo on March 24, 2007, 09:06:26 PM: Its rocking my socks off. Any other 'Borers playing?
Title: Re: Anyone else playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R.?
Post by: Madrun Badrun on March 24, 2007, 09:06:51 PM: Cloud is.
Title: Re: Anyone else playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R.?
Post by: Van Cruncheon on March 24, 2007, 09:21:54 PM: TVC seems to really dig it. I'm gonna check it out next paycheck.
Title: Re: Anyone else playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R.?
Post by: Solo on March 25, 2007, 07:29:20 AM: Definately do. As a Deux Ex/Fallout/Oblivion/HL2 fan, this game has my shooting in my pants frequently.
Title: Re: Anyone else playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R.?
Post by: Madrun Badrun on March 25, 2007, 06:36:25 PM: Quote from: Solo on March 25, 2007, 07:29:20 AM
Definately do. As a Deux Ex/Fallout/Oblivion/HL2 fan, this game has my shooting in my pants frequently.

wait what is this game? is it for consoles too?
Title: Re: Anyone else playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R.?
Post by: TakingBackSunday on March 25, 2007, 07:04:16 PM: Quote from: Father_Mike on March 25, 2007, 06:36:25 PM
Quote from: Solo on March 25, 2007, 07:29:20 AM
Definately do. As a Deux Ex/Fallout/Oblivion/HL2 fan, this game has my shooting in my pants frequently.

wait what is this game? is it for consoles too?

It was like first announced...I don't know, 2001? :lol It's changed many many times, but it's a very adventure-driven FPS. Haven't read too much about it, but it seems really rad.
Title: Re: Anyone else playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R.?
Post by: cloudwalking on March 26, 2007, 05:11:10 AM: Quote from: Father_Mike on March 24, 2007, 09:06:51 PM
Cloud is.

i'm not playing
Title: Re: Anyone else playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R.?
Post by: Vizzys on March 26, 2007, 05:22:07 AM: ive been waiting for a good evilbore review before looking into it. I hear it rocks peoples video cards hard though
Title: Re: Anyone else playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R.?
Post by: Melissa on March 29, 2007, 02:11:49 PM: After Cooking Mama Wii left me high and dry...I think this is my next game.

Athlon 64 3200+ @ 2GHz | 2GB ram | Radeon 9800XT = too slow? Amazon lists Intel and Geforce specs, I don't know how it all compares.

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STALKER System Requirements:

Windows ME, 2000, XP, 98
1.5 GB Pentium III processor
512 MB RAM
DX 9.1 included; DX 8.1 compatible
GF3 64 MB video
DX 8.1-compatible sound card
Title: Re: Anyone else playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R.?
Post by: MrAngryFace on March 29, 2007, 02:14:48 PM: Thats pretty much my computer with a slightly slower graphics card, and my computer runs everything great so far.
Title: Re: Anyone else playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R.?
Post by: Solo on March 29, 2007, 02:21:53 PM: You should be alright. Basically my system specs, but I have a better video card.
Title: Re: Anyone else playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R.?
Post by: Melissa on March 29, 2007, 02:32:58 PM: Thanks! I will go get it today.
Title: Re: Anyone else playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R.?
Post by: Melissa on March 30, 2007, 01:34:58 AM: After the game froze a second time, I had my boyfriend look at it - the BIOS said my CPU temp was 89 degrees. STALKER is overheating the computer :( All fans are on and working, not much I can do about it.

Oh well, game seemed interesting too.
Title: Re: Anyone else playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R.?
Post by: BlueTsunami on March 30, 2007, 01:50:34 AM: Wait, what? Its more like an adventure FPS? I didn't have my eye on this game at all but after I finish Puzzle Quest..this will probably be the next thing I jump on.
Title: Re: Anyone else playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R.?
Post by: Van Cruncheon on March 30, 2007, 01:56:39 AM: the 9800XT's pretty slow. ditch it and nab a GeForce 7600GS or a Radeon X1600XT.
Title: Re: Anyone else playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R.?
Post by: MrAngryFace on March 30, 2007, 04:47:42 PM: I picked up STALKER, good job you jerks.
Title: Re: Anyone else playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R.?
Post by: Vizzys on March 30, 2007, 05:02:31 PM: impressions good sir
Title: Re: Anyone else playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R.?
Post by: MrAngryFace on March 30, 2007, 05:04:05 PM: Once I get home from WORK good sir.
Title: Re: Anyone else playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R.?
Post by: G The Resurrected on March 30, 2007, 11:59:38 PM: I'm gonna go try and play it on my grandparents computer. Along with C&C3, hope I didnt waste money. But stalker was cheap and so was C&C3 this week.
Title: Re: Anyone else playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R.?
Post by: Melissa on March 31, 2007, 12:51:48 AM: Thanks to S.T.A.L.K.E.R. overheating my computer, I decided to go buy a new one tonight. My boy is building it for me now!!! :) :)

(http://www.kirbyenthusiasm.com/newcomp.jpg)

Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 - 2.4ghz - 1066 FSB - 4MB L2 Cache
2GB DDR2 PC6400 800Mhz
ATI Radeon X1950 XTX 512MB
...plus a new Asus board and tower.

I'll show that S.T.A.L.K.E.R. bitch who's boss tomorrow!
Title: Re: Anyone else playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R.?
Post by: G The Resurrected on March 31, 2007, 01:04:45 AM: How much Melissa? Thats a nice little setup. I wanna build another pc.
Title: Re: Anyone else playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R.?
Post by: MrAngryFace on March 31, 2007, 01:14:07 AM: Your boy? lol
Title: Re: Anyone else playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R.?
Post by: Melissa on March 31, 2007, 01:18:08 AM: Quote from: G on March 31, 2007, 01:04:45 AM
How much Melissa? Thats a nice little setup. I wanna build another pc.
Just under $1200 for this stuff.
Title: Re: Anyone else playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R.?
Post by: G The Resurrected on March 31, 2007, 02:23:23 AM: Frys? Thats not a bad deal. I wouldnt mind putting that much up for something like that. Processor was a good chunk of that probably.
Title: Re: Anyone else playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R.?
Post by: MrAngryFace on March 31, 2007, 02:25:12 AM: As TVC told me earlier today, the dynamic lighting as it exists, kills performance outright. It looks nice but god damn.

I also blame nvidia's bullshit drivers for vista.
Title: Re: Anyone else playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R.?
Post by: Solo on March 31, 2007, 07:02:29 AM: MAF: play with OBJECT dynamic lighting. Its the happy medium between the shitty static lighting and the fuckawesome-but-performance-killing FULL dynamic lighting. Thats how Im playing, and its looking great.
Title: Re: Anyone else playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R.?
Post by: brawndolicious on March 31, 2007, 12:02:13 PM: They talked about this on the 1up show. It sounded fucking awesome where they basically summarized it as "if you can figure out how to make a computer to run this and patch it than it shouldn't matter that it throws you into the game with very little of any tutorial" but I heard the glitches were pretty big. How well has it been running for you?
Title: Re: Anyone else playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R.?
Post by: MrAngryFace on March 31, 2007, 12:58:10 PM: Solo: The patch cleared a lot up. Pre-patch the game ran shit with object lighting even.
Title: Re: Anyone else playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R.?
Post by: Solo on March 31, 2007, 01:27:18 PM: I havent patched yet, and wont until I beat it - I dont wanna lose my progress.
Title: Re: Anyone else playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R.?
Post by: MrAngryFace on March 31, 2007, 01:51:35 PM: The patch fixed some performance issues, dunno what the cause was. Also, any tips for getting started. Games pretty challenging.
Title: Re: Anyone else playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R.?
Post by: Solo on March 31, 2007, 01:59:19 PM: Its hard at first. Until you get some decent gear, weapons and artifacts, you really have to pick your battles.

You can get a STALKER suit in the first village though, if youre interested. Climb up the ladder beside Wolf, immediately turn left or right and shimmy around onto the roof. Then run and jump onto the lower roof of the next building. Once on that roof, walk around to the far end and look in the tiny hole. Youll see a crate. Shoot it, and grab the suit. That should help you.
Title: Re: Anyone else playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R.?
Post by: MrAngryFace on March 31, 2007, 02:07:34 PM: nice thanks!
Title: Re: Anyone else playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R.?
Post by: Solo on March 31, 2007, 02:09:21 PM: No problemo.