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[Borys]

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[FatalT]

I downloaded this and it's pretty awesome compared to the console versions. The PhysX physics definitely rock but they rape your graphics card. I was running it at the highest settings with 4xAA at 1440x900 and the game started freezing on me on the 3rd chapter (the big underground treatment plant facility). I alt+tabbed out and saw that my graphics card was at 69 degrees Celsius and almost shat myself. I even had an error message saying my GPU drivers had just recovered from an error.

I guess from now on when I play it I need to put my fan at 100% speed instead of 50% speed. Game is amazing looking though. Crysis didn't even do this to my graphics card but it's more than likely the PhysX processing that's making it run so hard.

Edit: Holy shit after looking at my gpu temp history it was all the way up to 80 degrees Celsius.

[brawndolicious]

The tearing curtains and breaking glass looks pretty but this is the type of game that doesn't actually need a physics engine as far as I know.  It's definitely pretty, but this is like the last game that would really need deformable environments.

[FatalT]

FatalT do you think it would run well on a low end system? With some crazy shit turned off that is.

I don't see why not. It uses the UE3 engine which can scale fairly well. I've heard people having lots of problems with ATI cards though, so if the low end system is nvidia it should be good to go. I'll turn everything to low tomorrow and see how it runs compared to everything at max, although I've heard that the UE3 engine caps at 62 FPS.