So is this game using the same basic game engine as FO3?

[Dasim4]

My computer is a bit old but I ran FO3 just fine on high to medium settings. The requirements for this game, as listed, seem fairly low. I was just wondering if it was the same basic game engine and how it seems to run on people's systems compared to FO3?

[RayneMercury]

I believe it was mentioned somewhere that it does indeed use the same engine, although obviously modified to fit the new features of New Vegas.

 

As for whether it will run the same on your system, well... I don't know if I'm qualified to answer that, as my laptop is considerably overpowered for both games, but I can take an educated guess and say that it will. Seeing as how you ran Fallout 3 on medium-high settings.

 

One thing to remember, though, is that Fallout 3 ran best with mods designed to improve performance. Don't expect the same performance from New Vegas out of the box (or the "steam") as you had with modded Fallout 3. I can say this from experience, as I get ready to lower some unnecessary graphical settings to try and improve my framerate.

[Tendril]

I never had a problem running FO3 at max settings. When I started FO:NV for the first time it said that the autodetect decided I needed low settings. I switched it to High (haven't tried low) and have had *zero* skip-ups. It seems to run the same as Fallout 3 on my system. There's an "Ultra-High" setting I haven't played with yet, I'm curious if 1gb vram is enough

[RayneMercury]

Tendril, that makes me wonder why I experience slowdowns occasionally. Because Fallout 3, aside from the stuttering issue fixed by the mod, ran extremely well on high and reasonably on ultra high.

 

UPDATE: I still need to do further, extensive testing, but just now I restarted the game, setting graphics to ultra-high. Somehow, my performance seems to have gotten BETTER!

 

My current theory is that my slowdowns were caused by having my "fade" settings (draw distances) at varying levels, which meant things had to load constantly. Having them all at the same level and as high as can be might actually help that.

 

I'll report back with more details as they emerge.

 

(I'm talking about New Vegas here, by the way.)

[Dasim4]

So has anyone with an older computer given this a try yet? Maybe something where you had to run FO3 at Medium to high settings? Just wanting to get some idea as to whether it runs the same or worse.

[bilekna]

My computer is fairly old too. When Fallout 3 came out i got this computer and ran it on high settings. Im running New Vegas on this PC on high also, so yeah it is the same i gues. :thumbsup:

[revelationjp]

my older compaq ran FO3 at medium very well and high ok. I'm running NV right now on medium with only the occasional hiccup. My guess is taht if you could run FO3, you can run NV.

[throttlekitty]

On average, they tend to toss more enemies at you than F3 did. So combat may get choppy now and again, I know it does for me.

[Dasim4]

Ok sounds good. Should be safe for me then. The only time I every had issues was when I loaded up mods with a lot of high res textures or something like MMM with extra respawns because that would put way too many enemies on the map and make the game chug. Without any mods I never had issues so hopefully this will run ok. I'm gonna wait at least until the first patch though because everything I'm reading says the game has a lot of issues atm.

[Sinalix]

does anybody know how to get the the folder i put mods into because a lot of people wont seems to help