Rainbow Six Vegas

i really gotta start playin fps again i miss them and this looks great.

 

It's coming out for the PC around mid December.

 

I've got it for the Xbox 360, it's pretty good stuff.

 

from what i have heard release date is Dec 13th not 100%. But I am def getting the game when i come home from school. I was very disappointed with lockdown but this looks like promising.

 

Looks like it was just released on direct2drive for pc

 

Downloaded...and unzipping now!

 

Pretty fun game. Graphics will beat your computer to crap if it's even mildly out of date. With a 3.2 GHz processor, 2 gigs ram, and a GeForce 6800 GT I can barely play it at 800x600 and most options turned off/low. Other than that it's pretty fun. There's a pretty big learning curve involved and it is very punishing to those who don't know the art of firing from cover. Multiplayer Co-Op is really fun, and though we are pretty casual about tactics while playing, you can really get into tactics such as two fire teams of two people each go separate ways to clear side rooms and both teams meet up in a larger center room from different sides providing a quick victory against the flanked terrorists. Coupled with some colorful and funny comments shouted by the terrorists during firefights such as one terrorist saying "Cover me!" followed by his partner saying "F*** you man cover ME!" it makes for a pretty fun gaming experience.

I just can't wait to upgrade my graphics card so I can experience a prettier game.

 

Yea. That's pretty crappy seeing as I just upgraded a year ago. They have a checklist of minimum and required components.

I met all the required except one and that was the processor. (2.2 GHz I believe)

When booting up the logo sends my 'puter into a pixel stuttering nightmare. First indicator I was in trouble.

I started up the singleplayer mode and everything seemed fine. I propelled down a helicopter line and landed in a street...the sky was black...not like black as in night but in black as in "there are no graphics here". I escaped out and put my settings on low. I crashed out of the game. Jumped back in. Set my settings low, everything looked good, I was moving shooting...and the game locked up.

I rebooted the computer with fingers crossed.

Jumped in multiplayer and I was a victim of the crash to desk top until I read a forum that gave some insight in "narrowing down the details". Finally got to a multiplayer game and the sky was black again. Narrowed down the details and jumped back in. Played 1 game and I didn't get shot or kill anything. Then I went to bed.

For that rough start the game looks cool, I will have to learn how to actually play smart instead of running and gunning.

I'm thinking I might upgrade my processor. If I am running into issues now, I will definitely be having problems with Huxley and Quake Wars.



Any suggestions on a processor upgrade? Can I get up to the 3+ range with my current set-up?


Current set-up:

Case
1 >CASE ANTEC|SONATAII BLK RT - Retail

Mobo
1 MB ASUS A8N-SLI NF4SLI 939 - Retail

Video Card
1 VGA XFX|7800GT 256M PVT70GUDE7 - Retail

Processor
1 CPU AMD 64 |3700+ ATHLON 64 939P RT - Retail

Ram
1 MEM 1Gx2|CORSAIR Twinx2048-3200c2 R - Retail

Hard Drive
1 HD 250GB|WD 7200 WD2500JS SATA2% - OEM
Item #: N82E16822144417 Price $103.00


EDIT
These are the recommended system specs:
Rainbow Six Recommended requirements:
PC hardware recommended requirements ========================

Supported OS : Windows XP (only)
Processor : 3500 MHz Pentium IV/AMD or better
RAM : 1GB RAM
Video Card : 256MB DirectX9-compliant video card (see supported list*)
Sound Card : DirectX 9.0-compliant sound card
DVD : 4x DVD-ROM or faster
Hard Drive Space : 10.0 GB

* Supported Video Cards at Time of Release

ATI RADEON X1600/X1800/X1900

NVIDIA GeForce 6600GT/6800/7300/7600/7800/7900

 

To get a real noticable CPU speed increase you would have to get a FX-57 2.8ghz and those are going for $320 right now. Stuff in the 4400-4800 range would be a small help but not alot.

Since it mostly seems like its killing your video card, I'd say try to find a deal on another 7800GT and go SLi or go for something DX10. A 8800GTS or GTX will play it like butter. I'm waiting on the R600 myself.

I wouldn't be to discouraged also, from OC Forums:

---Rainbow 6 Las Vegas---
Guys call me crazy but I have an E6700 Conroe @ 4.22 GHz on phase change and a EVGA 7900GTX GPU.. Even at 1024 X 768 resolution this game is choppy and the framerate is terrible. At my monitors native res of 1600 X 1200, it feels like the old Pentium III-800mhz days again with AGP gpu's.....

 

I'm running on my C2Duo 6300 OC'd to 2.1ghz and a 7900GS w/2GB mem at 1024x768 (It doesn't support 1280x1024).
Everything set to Medium/High and the annoying "Special FX to make it look pretty on the XBOX" set to off, and it runs fine on my system.

 

Very fun game...most fun i've had with a FPS in a long time. Vast array of weapons to choose from. Realism mode is the best to play it (die in about 2 shots or 1 ) and you can make your own dude to which is pretty cool to.

 

For those that are thinking of getting the game but want to upgrade first:

http://promotions.newegg.com/misc/rainbow6/index.html

 

Does it feel as consoleish as the Lockdown port did?

 

This is leaps and bounds faster than BD's though. Remember even the low end C2D's were performing at the highest end AMD FX's levels. You still need to crank that 2.1 up, it should be at 2.4-2.6 with no voltage increase and barely any temp increase all day.

Plus the 7900GS is more equivilant to the 7800GTX, a good bit faster than the 7800GT.

BD - Your MB's an excellent OC'er so if you got stock cooling invest $50 on a good cooler and crank it. If it fries you were probably gonna replace it anyway.

 

Update:

Slapped in a Geforce 8800 GTS and I can now run the game at 1024x768 with roughly 85% of the graphics at full (motion blur off/shadows medium) and it runs fine. Now I just need the 680i nforce chipset and a core 2 duo processor and I'll be set for the future titles.

 

1.02 patch is here. Downloading now.