I am Re Reviewing it now that I have solved a serious Lock up problem and I have played the game for hours now.
User Rating: 10 | Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas PC
First off I play VEGAS now everyday if I can and I play it longer than I would normally another game. I am single player FPS guy now. So that is what I am reviewing. UBI may be doing themselves wrong by saying they recommend a 3.5 ghz processor. I almost didn't buy it for that reason but I felt for sure I could get it to work with the system I just built of really nice gear. It turns out that most likely due to the number crunching involved, hence the 3.5, I finally figured out a problem that I and MANY others are having with the game just Locking up out of no where. You can just be standing there with no action and turn and it would lock up. So after hours and hours of wracking my brain from thinking its the just going to be that way because it is a port, I thought the swap file may have had something to do with it. I tried varying my mouse speed. Playing with the settings extensively and getting no where it just kept happening now matter what change UNTIL I remembered that the game Painkiller did the same thing to me on another computer. I had over clocked my CPU just a little to much. Thats all it took. The thing was is that I ran 3dmark06 over and over and over and it never locked on my final stable setting of my Intel Duo Core E6700 @ 3.28ghz. I manually clocked it and my memory and FSB to get my system running very nicely. So I thought well maybe if I go back to using a different auto over clock method by Asus to give me just 3.2ghz. Sure enough that is all it took. So again just backing off on my CPU over clock a small amount enabled the game to not lock up at all. I did notice though a significant change in FPS. So without a doubt this game is a great deal CPU dependent. So now I can run it at 1280x790 and all video settings on there highest amount and I don't need vertical sync on. Playing this game with no lockups is another world. I completely enjoy it. Its my first Rainbow Six title I have really gotten into playing. I guess then I am a total noob at this type of coop FPS play where you have 2 guys to take with you and order them to do dam near everything. I think UBI should make it clear to people that if you over clock your cpu too much you might get lock ups like this. Well I have enjoyed hours of playing so far and I am only playing this game now. I want to finish it before Vista is released. I really highly recommend the game. I think as long as you have a 3.2ghz processor and PCI-E system with a 7000 series card you are bound to really enjoy it. It is officially my current favorite game. 
