After a few hours of figuring out why* I was experiencing a slideshow after booting up the game for the first time...I was graced with the incredible game experience that is STALKER. I have known about this game for a while, and being a Fallout fan and Quake 2 veteran, I figured this would be the ultimate for me. Quite hillarious how long I waited and don't want to think about how many times I googled "STALKER" over the pas, but it was all forgivable. Seeing a game from the Ukranian GSC become an international sensation is very very inspiring for a russian. They took fantastic sci fi writers, real conspiracy, and a very strong 3D engine to the top! Finally I have to say it resembles Oblivion in gameplay approach, but it is much more appealing to a reality lover. Very big thank you to GSC! Let's give them support and let them relax, they will definetly give us improvements to this already concrete game!
*my cpu is a 2.2ghz AMD, 1gig RAM, the bareminimum, but graphics card is pcie x850XT running 7.2 Catalyst center (display driver 6.14). The game runs well on maximum 1280x1024 but with "Dynamic Lighting -Objects only." Poor performance on this setting was due to old drivers 7.1 catalyst I think, the display driver was 6.10. And also my CPU, which I believe is largely utilized for the Dynamic Lights. A very worthy game for an upgrade however...You have got to see world Dynamic Lights, revolutionary.
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