FEAR Combat

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Aug 20 2006, 11:41 am (Edited on Aug 20 2006, 9:57 pm)
Keywords: fear

I tried to sign up for the CD-key(don't ask why you need a CD key for a free game...) at FEAR Combat. It kept looping me through step 1 and 2. The one time I did get it to send me the CD key it took over a day for it to reach me Email. Sierra is crap and they don't try to hide it!


Next after downloading the game and installing it won't even freaking start...so I decide to check my graphics drivers. Up to date, than I reinstall Directx 9.0c(august). It installs without complaining about a newer version. Strange. I reboot afterwords. No luck, so I decided to reinstall. Reboot again, no luck.


I than decided to redownload the entire thing from FilePlanet. Trust me when I say I hate FilePlanet. And now I have to uninstall and reinstall one more time. I honstly have no clue what is going on with this crap. I all ready wrote Sierra a complaint. They have yet to send one back(it's only been a day). I am really reconisdering buying any game from them again. This was a horrible experince. Also I am well aware that people have gotten it working. I have no idea what it could be because the I know for a fact their PC isn't as powerful as mine. The only thing is they are running Windows XP and I am running Win2k. And it shouldn't be having a problem with Win2k...


Sorry if I come off as complaining a lot, it's just I have been screwing around with this for the past 3 days.
Aug 20 2006, 11:53 am
win2k is for n00bs
Aug 20 2006, 11:54 am
n00bs and kunark which are seperate things
Aug 20 2006, 3:13 pm
Porch Monkey 4 Life G'!
Sep 7 2006, 10:44 pm
It also told me I didn't have a good enough graphics card, but I have a 128meg graphics card and I know damn well that is more than enough for this game. Odd.
Sep 8 2006, 4:49 am
I didn't have any problems at all. oO CD-key sent right off and the installing was slow but did work.

What're your PC's specs?
Sep 8 2006, 2:27 pm
http://members.byond.com/DarkShadowNinja/files/cpuz.htm
My video card is a Geforce 6600 lastest drivers.(91.47)
Sep 8 2006, 6:47 pm
"Next after downloading the game and installing it won't even freaking start"

Do you get any error messages at all? Or it just won't do anything?

Because your specs are good enough..
Sep 8 2006, 10:38 pm
No, it acts like it's going to run than just crashes and doesn't say anything. I never really checked the event viewer or anything.(It boots into a blackscreen and sometimes a blackscreen that is a smaller res and than crashes...this takes about 10-30 seconds.)
Sep 9 2006, 3:53 am
Evi of au said:
It also told me I didn't have a good enough graphics card, but I have a 128meg graphics card and I know damn well that is more than enough for this game. Odd.

Is it? How much megs of memory your graphics card has doesn't tell you how good your card is- mine has 256 megabytes of memory and it chugs along with FEAR, it can hardly manage it at all.
Sep 9 2006, 5:31 am
My specs. Are they good enough?

http://members.byond.com/Eviofau/files/cpuz.txt
Sep 9 2006, 5:48 am
? That reads like gibberish to me. I'm no hardware expert! =p
Sep 9 2006, 8:16 am (Edited on Sep 9 2006, 2:26 pm)
Well the black thing is usually your graphics card...Either you don't have enough memory to run it or your graphics card can't handle it(but from the specs you posted it should) and Evi, Wth is with all those dumps.

+Your memory is like borderline. You might wanna get more for future games.
II. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS AND SUPPORTED CHIPSETS
==============================================

In order to install and play F.E.A.R. Combat, your system must meet or exceed
the following minimum system requirements:

MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIRED

• Windows(R) XP, x64 or 2000 with latest service pack installed
• DirectX(R) 9.0c August Edition (Included) or higher
• Pentium(R) 4 1.7 GHz or equivalent processor
• 512MB RAM or more
• 64MB GeForce(TM) 4 Ti or Radeon(R) 9000 video card
• Monitor that can display in 4:3 aspect ratio
• 5.0 GB free hard drive space for installation
• Additional hard drive space for a swap file and saved game files • 4x CD-ROM drive (DVD-ROM drive for Director’s Edition)
• 16-bit DirectX(R) 9.0 compliant sound card with support for EAX(TM) 2.0
• Broadband or LAN connection for multiplayer games • Mouse
• Keyboard

In order to play the game at the recommended resolution, detail and performance levels, your computer should meet or exceed the following specifications:

• Pentium(R) 4 3.0 GHz or equivalent processor
• 1 GB RAM
• 256 MB Radeon(R) 9800 Pro, GeForce(TM) 6600 or equivalent DirectX(R) 9 compliant video card with hardware T&L and pixel shader 2.0 support
• Sound Blaster(R) X-Fi(TM) series sound card

SUPPORTED VIDEO CARD CHIPSETS WITH LATEST DRIVER VERSION INFO:

ATI(TM) Catalyst(TM) Drivers (Windows(R) 2000/XP): v6.1 Radeon(R) 9000 Series Radeon(R) 9500 Series Radeon(R) 9600 Series Radeon(R) 9700 Series Radeon(R) 9800 Series Radeon(R) X600 Series Radeon(R) X700 Series Radeon(R) X800 Series Radeon(R) X850 Series

NVIDIA(R) ForceWare(TM) Drivers (Windows(R) 2000/XP): v81.98 GeForce(TM) 4 Ti Series GeForce(TM) FX 5900 Series GeForce(TM) 6600 Series GeForce(TM) 6800 Series GeForce(TM) 7800 Series Please note that attempting to play the game using video hardware that is
not listed here may result in reduced performance, graphical anomalies,
or both.