Fallout: New Vegas PC specs revealed

By Wesley Yin-Poole Published 4 October, 2010

Has gone gold.

Bethesda's announced the required specs for the PC version of post-apocalyptic role-playing game Fallout: New Vegas.

You'll need: Windows XP/Vista/7; 2Gb RAM, 10Gb free hard drive space; Dual Core 2.0 GHz and NVIDIA GeForce 6 series, ATi 1300XT series minimum. The game's enhanced for multi-core.

New Vegas, created by Alpha Protocol developer Obsidian, has gone gold and is out on 22nd October. Tom went hands-on in August.

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  • cianchristopher #1 2 years ago

    It's Obsidian guys, if there's anything less than a large number of crippling bugs and game-breaking performance, coupled with major memory leaks and insane graphical glitches.... I'll be severely disappointed.

  • Fightclubber #2 2 years ago

    But it looks so poo. It should run on DOS

  • tachometer #3 2 years ago

    I'll never forgive them for KOTOR2

  • bad09 #4 2 years ago

    Still mulling this one over TBH. Didn't really get on with FO3 on 360 found it ugly and a little boring, it got traded for something better quite quickly.

    In fairness though I didn't get that far in so do keep debating whether to get a dirt cheap PC version to give the game another chance. It's like 12 quid now but I'll see what the Steam Christmas sales brings first.

  • DreadedWalrus #5 2 years ago

    cianchristopher: At least they'll actually release patches for it this time, unlike Alpha Protocol...

  • Xardan #6 2 years ago

    I have no interest in this really. Lets be honest its just a very big expansion set in Vegas. Its a game well aimed and marketed for an american audience.

    Christ whats with the negs? Fine fine eat it all up see if i care. Bloody fools.
    Edited by Xardan at 04/10/10 @ 12:52

  • Markitron #7 2 years ago

    If it's this or no new fallout until after elder scrolls V, I'll gladly have this. The hard technical work has already been done by Bethesda, all Obsidian have to do is give us more of the same. And I blame lucasarts for the Kotor 2 fiasco, they only gave them about 16 months to get the game done.
    Edited by Markitron at 04/10/10 @ 12:18

  • BigJonno #8 2 years ago

    @Xardan

    It's more for people who were particularly fond of the New Reno section in Fallout 2. Which is just about everyone who played Fallout 2.

  • spekkeh #9 2 years ago

    @bad09:

    yeah it really is a game that needs to grow on you. My girlfriend hated the game in the beginning, I really had to urge her to keep playing. Later on I really had to urge her to stop playing because watching the same game for seventy hours (after I finished it myself) was very much getting on my nerves.
    Edited by spekkeh at 04/10/10 @ 12:22

  • telboy007 #10 2 years ago

    Wow, some serious grumpy poops this morning. :)

  • Kanjin #11 2 years ago

    Mutter mutter mutter they don't make games like they did in my DAY now Lucas Studios Interactive are ruining my childhood and/or memories

    Case of the Mondays? least you lot aren't unemployed :(

  • darkmorgado #12 2 years ago

    10GB!!!!

    I remember the times when 10mb was considered large.

    Oh, the good old days of shooting wireframe spaceships and approaching 2d planet sprites.

    /reminiscence

  • neems #13 2 years ago

    @bad09 - get the Fallout 3 GOTY edition on PC, it's got all the DLC (some are better than others to be fair), it's dirt cheap, and you can go nuts with mods.

  • BigJonno #14 2 years ago

    @darkmorgado

    You're sounding like a young'un. I remember being able to buy games on cassette from my local newsagents.

  • comissars_handgun #15 2 years ago

    Really can't wait for this. The writing was the weakest link in Fallout 3, and Obsidian have great writers and the Black Isle connection. It should fix Fallout 3's problems and feel a lot more like Fallout 1 and 2.

    Sure it will be riddled with bugs like every Obsidian game, but I can live with that.

  • darkmorgado #16 2 years ago

    @darkmorgado

    You're sounding like a young'un. I remember being able to buy games on cassette from my local newsagents.

    Well my friends all had a C64 or spectrum. I had to wait until I was a bit older and my family bought me an old Acorn 3000 before I could play games at home (fond memories of 4th Dimension devs - they put out some awesome games). Then I was given a CD:i ("because it has educational games" - pfft. L'Il Devil FTW!) while my father enjoyed a Mega Drive that I wasn't allowed to use ("it's bad for your development";). We used to have a video rental store with a SNES on freeplay. Every saturday I'd cycle down there on my bike and spend all afternoon playing Super Mario world. I finally got the family to cave in when the PSX came out, and then after that I was working so I was able to buy them all myself (fond memories of picking up PS2 on launch day, and the same with Xbox and GC).
    My first PC had a 300mhz Cyrix(Ha!) processor and 16mb ram.
    I'm 28, btw.
    Edited by darkmorgado at 04/10/10 @ 13:39

  • CaptainQuint #17 2 years ago

    Same engine as the last one isn't it? Looked dated back then, so I doubt I'll like the look of this one either.

  • kangarootoo #18 2 years ago

    I started gaming on a ZX81, lightweights ;)

    First console was a Sega Mastersystem, for the record :)

    Oh hang on, no it wasn't. That was MY first console. First family console was an Atari 2600 (original fake teak finish).
    Edited by kangarootoo at 04/10/10 @ 14:01

  • Sunyavadin #19 2 years ago

    I'll get the complete PC edition with all the expansions after getting all the achievements on the 360 version *sigh* I dislike switching platforms to keep my achievement list for a game series consistent.

  • StooMonster #20 2 years ago

    @bad09

    When I first bought FO3, I played it for a couple of hours or so and thought ... bugger, it's rubbish. Then so many of my friends were raving about it, and the reviews online were so glowing, that I gave it a descent second go and it turned out to be one of my favourite games ever (I even ended up buying all the DLC, albeit cheaply).

    12 quid includes all the DLC packs too, that's such a bargain.

  • bad09 #21 2 years ago

    Cheers for the tips guys, I was in two minds but you have confirmed that niggling feeling I had that FO3 is one of those games that does deserve a second chance.

    GOTY edition it is, although it may be smart to wait for a GOTY edition on New Vegas to if I do gel with 3 this time. Bloody DLC....

  • thewool #22 2 years ago

    Sunyavadin - don't thtink this is going to have dlc due to the story arc ending at the beginning of this game.

    I was going to buy the ltd edition but it doesn't look anything special TBH. £22.50 for the standard PC version and I'm happy.

  • StooMonster #23 2 years ago

    @kangarootoo

    Binatone Colour TV game, followed by Atari VCS at Christmas 1979. VCS carts were so expensive it took me ages to save up for them; £30 - £40 then which is approximately £113 - £150 in todays money (using Retail Price Index), and people think games are expensive now!

  • darkmorgado #24 2 years ago

    I ploughed over 250 hours into FO3 (according to my save file - so maybe add another 20-30 hours to take into account deaths and restarts). Sure the DLC was hit-and-miss (looking at you, mothership Zeta) but on the whole it was some of the best 250 hours of my life. Such an engrossing setting, stalking the lonely wasteland with that ancient 50s music (or even better, Agatha's sorrowful violing playing) coming from the radio, following power lines into the distance just to see what was at the end of the line.

  • Guv #25 2 years ago

    If the loading screen doesn't say PRESS PLAY ON TAPE, I don't want it

  • Zaiz #26 2 years ago

    Oh shit, Obsidian optimized something? I was actually going to wait until this one dropped in price a bit(I picked Fable III over it for preorder)

  • thewool #27 2 years ago

    @Guv - is it also coming out on floppy disk?

  • darkmorgado #28 2 years ago

    Has anyone else seen that vid of what Red Dead Redemption would look like if it had been made for the Spectrum? That was awesome (slightly off topic, but there is a retro vibe developing here).

  • Nephirion #29 2 years ago

    * Remembers NWN2 peformance issues * shudders

  • mooseti #30 2 years ago

    2.0 gigabytes!!!Tom, how am I gonna generate that kind of power? It can't be done, it can't! â

  • Kerome #31 2 years ago

    In two minds, I enjoyed Fallout 3 but I'm wondering if there is enough in here that's different to make it worth buying. That, and it's poorly timed with respect to a bunch of other major releases - still have Reach, Fable III and Red Dead Redemption on my must-play list.

  • Lin #32 2 years ago

    @Nephirion

    when they made nwn2, obsidian (who had only ever developed 2d isometric games prior to that point) were asked to make a game that could compete graphically with oblivion in the space of less than two years. to work with they had the nwn1 aurora engine which was so ugly when it was released that the fanbase called for a a return to 2d. and they had to develop a toolset. a multiplayer, and every other feature nwn1 had and more.

    i think they did a damn good job. moreover, in terms of allround graphics, gameplay, writing and character customization, after two expansions and over 25 patches, nwn2 is now one of the best western rpgs ever made, and it's a damn shame that no one remembers this now.
    Edited by Lin at 06/10/10 @ 00:31