If there's one thing I love, it's post-apocalytpic games with amazing atmosphere. I was looking at 2 of the games, shadows of chenyobal and clear skies. I was a bit more interested in Clear Skies (I think that's it) due to the weapon custimization and the faction wars and stuff but I know it's regarded as the worst of the 3.

Here's my question. I have a 5-6 year Acer Laptop with an AMD graphics card. Nothing special, bought it for school. My question is, can I run any of the STALKER games well? I can run Fallout: New Vegas on medium graphics pretty well as a frame of reference.

Thanks :P

If you can run NV then they shouldn't be a problem. But yes they tend to very intensive in certain locations and optimization overall isn't great.

what are the specs?


STALKER SOC worked perfectly fine on my old desktop: AMD 3200+ 7600GT 1gb of ram on low to med settings.
when i upgraded to 4850 it run at pretty much high to max settings.

It also depends if you mod it, seeing as all the big mods contain much higher res textures

They should run just fine, but be prepared for long loading times, and low fps spikes ( at least for the first stalker, I hope they fixed it but the first time I played it ,many years ago, it was a mess!). It's a great game btw :)

Well, I actually initially played the game on a Radeon 9800, a card that was high-end in 2003 or something. That ancient thing was already capable of running Stalker at playable framerates with low-medium settings, later I got a GeForce 8600 GS and that one already did a pretty great job at higher settings. Would be good to know the exact model of your GPU but as others already said, if your machine is capable of running New Vegas then Stalker shouldn't be an issue at all.