Painkiller PC Game

[tommy]

Anybody play this game and what system specs do you run it on , im running a celeron 1.70, radeon 9200, 640ram, it runs pretty well alittle choppy on full graphics , the medium setting seems to run the best.

I seemed to have better peformance running Doom 3 for some reason , isnt that odd.

What other pc game needs alot of power to run, name names.

[Daniel270]

Sims 2 runs choppy and lags unless you have an Radeon 7200 and up or the GeForce 2.....

otherwise...

800 MHz, 8x CD ROM and 3.5 GB on the HD...

[tommy]

I bought MVP Baseball 2004 and all the specs on the box looked fine for my system, but when i installed it... it wouldnt run because of my pci card.

Looking at the box it had my video card witch was exceptible , but it didnt specify pci or agp luckily for me the store took my word for it and exchanged it, i thought that was strange that it wouldnt work.

[Goz]

Anybody play this game and what system specs do you run it on , im running a celeron 1.70, radeon 9200, 640ram, it runs pretty well alittle choppy on full graphics , the medium setting seems to run the best.

I seemed to have better peformance running Doom 3 for some reason , isnt that odd.

What other pc game needs alot of power to run, name names.

Painkiller is a fun game, but is one buggy POS. Once you get it running it is fun though. Hit up the painkiller support board. There are specific patches that can be had and there are specific Radeon drivers that are supported with this game. You are not the only person having issues with poor performance even though your system is within spec.

Good Luck

-Goz

[tommy]

Its not really the game or a patch that can fix my problem, just a better video card probably would make it run better, like i said it runs fine just not at the high settings.

I should look into the driver though, i guess its possible it would help a bit.

[Goz]

What I was getting at is that despite it not mentioning it on the box, the game is designed to run with a NVIDIA video card and there are KNOWN issue with ATI RADEON driver versions.

There are a ton of posts like yours all over the internet.

-Goz

[Nocturnaloner]

Anybody play this game and what system specs do you run it on , im running a celeron 1.70, radeon 9200, 640ram, it runs pretty well alittle choppy on full graphics , the medium setting seems to run the best.

Waitaminute.  How much ram do you have?

[pointdablame]

Anybody play this game and what system specs do you run it on , im running a celeron 1.70, radeon 9200, 640ram, it runs pretty well alittle choppy on full graphics , the medium setting seems to run the best.

Waitaminute.  How much ram do you have?

It says 640 in his post.

I've run Painkiller and had the problems Gozur mentioned... it doesn't play nice with Radeon cards out of the box.  Set up properly, it ran great on my system.

As for other games that take a bit of horsepower to play with all the glitter turned on:

- Doom 3
- Half Life 2
- FarCry
- I've heard WoW take a beefy system for high quality (never played it myself)

Thats all I can think of for now.  My system is a Athlon64 3000+, gig of ram, 9800Pro

[Nocturnaloner]

Alright, I'm going to assume he means 640 MEGABYTES of ram, and we're not witnessing some kind of miracle of memory management 

It's got to be the Celeron 1.7, the 9200, and a driver set for it that's not optimal for the game.  You might gain a few frames here or there by poking around on 3d gaming forums like guru3d.com and experimenting with different ATI driver sets, but in the end, those system specs are just a little light for Painkiller, and way too light for the current 'big 3' of 3d shooters listed by PTB above.  I play all those games, but on a p3.2 Prescott with a geforce 6800gt, and that's a middle of the road setup for 3d gaming any more.

You gotta have the horsepower to run these games, plain and simple.  It ain't like Galaga.

[tommy]

Far Cry was a good game ran decent on this celeron,again medium was a good setting.

 I havent seen a game Yet that told my subpar system to piss off.


Theres just too many 1st and 3rd person war type shooters out.

Yes thats 640MB of RAM, excuse me for confusing you, you thought i meant the dodge truck. 

[Nocturnaloner]

 I havent seen a game Yet that told my subpar system to piss off.

Seriously?  You run Doom 3 on that?

I don't mean to offend.  I just think your expectations are unrealistic.  That setup is going to have trouble with modern 3d games, which Painkiller is.

[tommy]

Doom3 ran fine, not sure what frame rate i had i didnt really check as it was playing fine.

Doom was good but i got tired of all that darkness and ended up trading it away.

Im sure i will have trouble in the not so distant future with newer games.

[Lilwolf]

Great game.. but doesn't run as smooth as doom3 on my 2.4ghz 9700radeon system either.  Doom3 + HL2 (after a bunch of patches) runs smoother.

Part of it is I believe the other games do a better job on low end systems.  But a guess. 

I personally like the visuals in this game a LOT!  the last level was REALLY cool!

[Xelotath]

To date I only know 1 game I can't run on my pc at the highest settings if Need for Speed Underground 2. I can't even run it at medium setting but I have like 70fps or in doom at high quality and HL2 the same. I don't want to play it but it's weird.

[HagHore]

Battle For Middle Earth takes a beefy system.  I'm running it on a 2.8 HT P4 with an X700 Pro video card and it will stutter with larger battles.  Also tried it on a XP 2100+ with Radeon 9700 Pro and can't turn the settings all the way up, have to run it in low detail to play at a nice fps.

[Daniel270]

I'd LOVE to play Battle for Middle Earth... but that's what's kinda made me nervous about buying... my main PC unit is an HP Pavilion 1.5 GHz and with the exception of the USB 2.0 card (for my DVD burner), everything in it is original....

[papaschtroumpf]

Painkiller runs smooth as butter at 1600x1200 on my PC but I have an athlon XP3200+ with Radeon 9800XT (we're not talking about my cab). I had to lower the graphics quality for the Battle Out Of Hell expansion pack.
There are lots of settings both for sounds and video that you can tweak to make it run better, so play with the advanced settings.
By comparison I couldn't run DOOM3 smoothly at that same resolution, at least not without getting much lower graphic quality.

[tommy]

How is that ''battle out of hell pack'' i was thinking of getting that is it worth it, or would buying another game be a better choise.

[papaschtroumpf]

If you liked the original, I think BOOH is worth it. If you didn't finish the original, it updates the engine and adds new models, so if you're going to get it, might as well install it now, however always backup your savefiles first. PK has a bad habit of deleting savegames during upgrades.