Prey Hardware Performance Guide - Features at GameSpot

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Prey makes great use of the glow effect. Every time you enter spirit mode, or even so much as look at flashing lights, you'll see this feature in action. In this image, the gold-colored computer hologram turns into a set of lines, and the red lasers become razors with the glow effect disabled.

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We highly recommend enabling High-Quality Particle Detail, as without it, the game looks almost sterile. Without it, you lose the steamy, rich look of the game. The effect also plays off the in-game lighting to add even more color and detail to the environment.

Shadows

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Any game that's this dark needs shadows to achieve the proper suspension of disbelief in the game player. As in Doom 3, playing without shadows means you're missing out on half of the game experience.

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rokkuman09
Posted Dec 23, 2007 12:10 pm GMT

Never-named, it won't run too well. It should be playable on low settings but don't take my word for it .
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squirrel275
Posted Oct 7, 2007 12:13 pm GMT

HEY the reason why the 6600gt beat the x800pro is because it is at a LOWER RESOLUTION. Read the data before you make claims. It runs perfect on my system at 1440*900 highest settings, not high, but highest. My system:
x2 5200+ am2 1mb, zalman 9500 cooling
1950pro power color w/ accelero x2 cooling
x-fi xtreme gamer
2gb patriot ddr2 800mhz antec 500w psu
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never-named
Posted Jun 20, 2007 2:28 pm GMT

I've got:
P4 2.4 GHz
512mb RAM
Radeon 9200 (128mb)

How will it run?
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tiberuim
Posted Apr 17, 2007 3:16 am GMT

My PC can handle this game... barely. 1.7GHz
512 MB RAM
GeForce 5500
Yeah, so, it ain't fast.
The framerate is the problem. Its way too slow.
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Trazac
Posted Apr 3, 2007 7:39 am GMT

Its locked because of the frame cap for the Doom 3 engine. Its not a hardware problem, its just a frame cap and and awesome video card which can play a game like this with no problem, staying at the cap the entier time it is played. There is a way to get around teh cap, just look for it yourslef and you might be happy with 100 FPS or so...
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domke13
Posted Mar 31, 2007 11:22 am GMT

My frames in prey are locked on 60 FPS on everythng maximum settings. It doesnt matter if i play it in 1024x768, or in 1280x1024 or in 1600x1200, i always get 60 FPS on geforce 8800 GTX. Do you have any idea why my framerate is locked on 60 FPS??
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zhonginator
Posted Feb 21, 2007 12:51 pm GMT

intel p4 3ghz, 2gb ddr2 ram, 256 mb ati radeon x1300, and it runs decently (2o to 30 fps) on 1024 x 768 medium settings
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sentenced83
Posted Nov 14, 2006 7:03 am GMT

4200+ x2 2.2 amd , 1 gig ram .. 7900 gto ,i play on maximum detail and 2x AA .. it runs flawlessly , amazingly fast
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heynownow
Posted Oct 23, 2006 4:55 am GMT

AThlon 2400XP
Asus A7V8X
1Gig PC-400 RAM
Asus 9600XT /w 128 mb

Kicks ass at 800 x 600 medium res. Helps that I retained my 15" monitor. Playable at 1024 x768 at low settings, but slows down to a crawl with increasing artifacts and cutscenes. Have noticed that the doom3 engine runs much better on nvidia than on ati cards. maybe it's something to do with the alleged leak of doom3 alpha by ATI that got ID pissed.
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heynownow
Posted Oct 23, 2006 4:49 am GMT

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someguy8892
Posted Sep 22, 2006 4:44 pm GMT

runs flawless on my system
7950gx2
4200@2.4
2g xms ram
ive ran this on a p4@3g with 768mb of ram and a 5700le on low so the game will run on just about anything. only got laggy when there was alot of action on screen.
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nategrantsharpe
Posted Aug 30, 2006 8:15 am GMT

Runs great on my system with settings max out 1024x768 but some slow downs at 1280x1024
pentium 4 CPU 2.50GHz
768MB of RAM
256MB GDDR3 Radeon X700 pro
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lobsterbushcrab
Posted Aug 30, 2006 6:06 am GMT

i dont sea how poeple say that the 6600GT is a low end graphics card. it holds up with the 6800 and the X800 and there classed mid range it makes me laugh cos the 6600GT beats the X800 in this game.
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DeadParrot145
Posted Aug 24, 2006 8:55 pm GMT

Intel P4 2.2ghz
1gb ddr 333mhz ram
Radeon 9250 PCI

works fine on the absolute lowest of the low setting with the exception of all the textures turned on, i think i could crank up the resolution up to 800x600 if i wanted as well
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skyline500
Posted Aug 21, 2006 10:56 am GMT

i have a hp a200n

Intel Celeron 2.4
728MB DDRPC 2100 RAM
ATI Radeon 9200 128MB
2 80GB Western Digital HD
Logitech Mouse

i put all my at medium with detail and exture high at 1024x728 at it ran at a steady frame per second onli on boas battle or big area that slow down occur i really hapen how my crappy computer play this but one thing i overclocked to graphic card to the near max so i think that why it play well idk
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funkyboy4ever
Posted Aug 20, 2006 9:52 pm GMT

my pc is

AMD AthlonXP 2000+(1.66ghz)CPU
1Gb DDR333 RAM
Radeon 9800 Pro 128mb GRAPHIC CARD
250GB 16mb Maxtor Sata Hard Disk
MX510 Logitech Mouse

I put all to max and it works fine with me...But before i play it ,it keep crashing..Then i go and update my ATI CATALYST and i can play the game without crashing it...

Best Regards,
Jeff......
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fuzzy901
Posted Aug 20, 2006 9:44 pm GMT

gigabz666:

I have an old Dell Dimension 2400, and it actually ran Prey alright (read: playable, and nothing else) with it's dinosauric FX 5500. Maybe you have another issue with an even older piece of hardware?
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AnubanUT2
Posted Aug 20, 2006 3:16 pm GMT

Oh look another thread where immature people get to brag about their rigs ... meh.
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Weskerrich
Posted Aug 20, 2006 11:41 am GMT

athlon 64 3200+, 768ram, 80gb hd, geforce 6600. Everything just beautiful in mediun detail with everything activated, just left behind the antialliasing and vertical sync. I donÂ´t know what people complain of their cards. Some have a 6600gt, others x1600 pro and me, with my "pitifull" 6600 play every game in high and mediun detail.
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stardog229
Posted Aug 19, 2006 9:30 pm GMT

x2 3800 @ 2.55GHz
7900Gt @ 640/1672MHz
2 X 1GB DDR @ 454MHz

Runs the game on near max settings (sans full AA - everything else full-blown) at 60 FPS. Beautiful.
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mercypoo
Posted Aug 19, 2006 7:09 pm GMT

Radeon X700 card
Pentium 4 3.4 ghz
1 gb ddr2 ram
160 gb master hard drive

played the game on high detail, 1024X768 with considerable slowdown. changed to 800X600, ran pretty smooth with occasional frame rate dips around 15 fps.
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gigabz666
Posted Aug 19, 2006 9:59 am GMT

Downloaded the demo and it does not like my system, probably cause I have a GeForce FX 5500. My system runs Half Life 2 pretty well but not on the max settings. So I'm gonna have to upgrade my graphics card. But if I get a PCI-E card, I would need a new motherboard, and also a new processor. So kind of expensive!
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Nemmox
Posted Aug 19, 2006 6:59 am GMT

Pentium 4 1.70ghz
768 Mb in Ram
60 Gb Hard Drive Master
40 Gb Hard Drive Slave
Radeon 9600 with 128 Mb
600x400

but i do occassionaly freeze for a few sec, then back to smooth FPS.
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iilxixiil
Posted Aug 18, 2006 6:35 pm GMT

1.2ghz Intel Celeron
512mb ram
Geforce MX750 256mb
Onboard Sound
1152x864

haven't played the game yet.... but my guess is that it won't run well.
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d4rkt1m3
Posted Aug 18, 2006 10:22 am GMT

I have a AMD64 3500+ 2.2GHz

1GB RAM DDR400

Single 7800GTX

I play 1280X1024 All maximum!
I Love My Geforce 7series
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SecretWasianMan
Posted Aug 16, 2006 11:55 am GMT

(Insert Fake PC specs here)
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hunapu
Posted Aug 16, 2006 9:23 am GMT

EDIT: Given what I've read on other forae, it seems this freezing issue is a known problem with doom engine games and oc'ed comps.

Lian Li PC-7B Plus II, Conroe E6700 @ 3.6, TT Big Typhoon, 2x1gb G.Skill PC6400ZX, Asus P5W DH Deluxe (0701), Gigabyte Radeon X1900XTX, OCZ GameXSteam 600W, Seagate 7200 320GB, Samsung 244T

PREY plays almost perfectly maxed out at 1920x1200 for me, but i do occassionaly freeze for a sec, then back to smooth FPS. ANyone have any ideas what might be causing this freeze?
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tommorgan88
Posted Aug 16, 2006 9:20 am GMT

Core Duo 2Ghz 1Gb RAM, X1800 mobility radeon 256Mb 1400x900, 8xAA, 16xAF runs 40FPS+ constant
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g_man95
Posted Aug 15, 2006 12:18 pm GMT

sempron 2.800, 1Gb dual chanel, 6600gt oc 570-1150...1024x768, 2xAA, and rest at max(35-48 fps)
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drew829
Posted Aug 12, 2006 9:53 pm GMT

I got an AMD Athlon 3700+ 2.2 GHz rated at 3.7 GHz, Radeon x1900XT and 2 Gb of RAM.
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esir
Posted Aug 12, 2006 6:00 am GMT

Ä± heve athlon 3500,1n gig ram,7800 gt
Ä± am playin 1280x1024 4x aa 8x af all settings high and everything great for me!
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Atwixtor
Posted Aug 11, 2006 6:33 am GMT

P4 3.2Ghz, 1GB RAM, ATI X800 XT PE (256MB)

I can't get ANY antialising to work! I selected both 2x and 4x, and even though it reports they are enabled, I know that it is not working. AF works, but no AA. Any suggestions?
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endlsswing
Posted Aug 9, 2006 10:09 pm GMT

amd 4600 oc'd rated at 6.9 ghz
2 7800gt's in sli oc'd with arctic cooling
2gb ram
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SpartanSlayer97
Posted Aug 7, 2006 2:57 am GMT

My PC:
CPU: Pentium D CPU 3.0 GHz
CPU Speed: 2.99 GHz Performance Rated at 4.99 GHz
RAM: 1 GB
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS (256 MB)
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igorcepro
Posted Aug 7, 2006 1:39 am GMT

I have Athlon XP 2000+(overclocked to 166x11=1833MHz), 512 MB PC400 Kingston CL2.5(Single channel), R9600Pro EZ 400/400 128bit 256MB, Audigy 4, Maxtor SATA2 300GB 16MB Cache(SATA1 set) on Epox 8RDA3+.
When I started game default video settings was all to max and AF to 8x and resolution to 1024x768 because of my monitor. Game works ok, not perfect but it can be played ok. Sure, when I lower AF to 2x then it's better
Anyway, sound card Audigy 4 boost most of games with hardware sound support, trust me folks, all games works fine on my machine.
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nubianpking
Posted Aug 3, 2006 4:25 pm GMT

All I did was turn down the brightness and then turn the gamma
up a little bit, by nubianpking.
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nubianpking
Posted Aug 3, 2006 4:25 pm GMT

All I did was turn down the brightness and then turn the gamma
up a little bit, by nubianpking.
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brainiac24
Posted Aug 3, 2006 9:25 am GMT

rofl its funny how they run these tests on ubercomputers, then expect us to find the performance guides useful. i mean...Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800...Nvidia GeForce 7900 GTX 512MB...give us a break!
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00Rambol00
Posted Jul 31, 2006 5:58 pm GMT

I should be gettin my new PC soon, it will pwn
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airguitargiles
Posted Jul 31, 2006 6:05 am GMT

3.00ghz P4 with Hyperthreading.
1gb RAM.
Geforce 6600LE 256mb AGP

with those the game runs like a charm at 1024x768. Tried at 1152x864 runs just slightly slower.

Cobhamar:
"Well-apparently my graphics card cant run this game. But if I installed this game and did these settings would it work? Imnew to the PC scene so I really don't know too much about this stuff."

If it doesn't work with your graphics card then changing the settings wont do anything. You need to buy graphics card that is supported by the game.
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coviechieif62
Posted Jul 29, 2006 7:21 am GMT

check this out!
1.4 ghz processor, ati radeon x850 pro 256mb AGP, and 768 mb of RDRAM, yes that's RDRAM and it runs 30 fps on 1280x1024 w/ max settings on!
(don't ask!)
(God was on my side!)
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relset
Posted Jul 28, 2006 2:03 pm GMT

yess it runs well on my 6600
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Sexy_Pirate
Posted Jul 27, 2006 2:03 am GMT

Would this game do good on a 7600GT?
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Death_Masta187
Posted Jul 26, 2006 9:40 pm GMT

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nhlkoho
Posted Jul 25, 2006 8:46 am GMT

P4 3.0 ghz, 1 GB ram, 6800gt oc vid card, all settings maxed, 1024 x 768 resolution. Everything looks fine for me and didn't stutter once.
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maawal
Posted Jul 25, 2006 12:18 am GMT

Athlon 2200+,768 MB RAM ,128 MB GeForce FX-5200 (8X)

The game sucks with the lowest(yeah,even the resolution) settings.But I played DOOM 3 and F.E.A.R. quite nicely, I mean I could play them well.
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zam90
Posted Jul 24, 2006 7:34 pm GMT

I run it fine with 2gig ram and a 6600 gt 512, dual core amd
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grouser22001
Posted Jul 24, 2006 6:00 pm GMT

amd 4000 at 3.0

2 gig ram

2 7800gts sli x16

i play it at 1280x1024 4aa 8af everything else maxed
i get 30-50 fps like butter.
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spawn611
Posted Jul 24, 2006 12:50 pm GMT

The demo runs great on my PC i have 3.2 Anthlon 64 , 1gb ram and Nvidia Geforce 6800xt 256mb. I also have Doom3 and Quake 4 there pretty mucho the same but doesnt stop me from having fun online. The fact is they look great. My sis has a Emachine 3.4 Semptron, 1GB ram minus 128mb for the intergrated Nvidia 6100 video card. The demo runs pretty nice on this pc a little lag sometimes.
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Don_Shadio
Posted Jul 24, 2006 2:20 am GMT

I wonder why, you see, Doom3, Quake4 and now PREY, all on the same engine and yet none of these have got a good score at GS. I think the reason is they are more than just similar games. We don't get to see something REALLY new.
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