My son wants to buy a game (Fallout NEW Vegas) that needs a Core 2 Duo processor to work. Won't an AMD athlon do the job?You need at LEAST an Intel Pentium Dual Core E5200 2.5GHz or an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5800+.

The minimum system requirements are here:
http://www.game-debate.com/games/index.php?g_id=589&game=Fallout:%20New%20Vegas

But I advise that you don't play games on minimum system requirements.Fallout new Vegas system requirements:

http://www.game-debate.com/games/index.php?g_id=589&game=Fallout:%20New%20Vegas


EDIT: beaten to the punch I was... same link too, heh.

as Ironman said; it's BEST not to try to play games using the minimum requirements. Also the graphics card is at least as important as the CPU
Thank you both for your input. I thought the AMD was better than the 2Core Duo but I guess it matters on the version as well. He can't keep up!!Actually, the requirements listed on that page are not minimum, they're "based on recommended system requirements ".

Here are the actual minimum requirements. Again, these are the minimum requirements to run the game, but the player will get a mediocre experience playing this way, but the game will run on its lowest graphic settings.

OS: Windows XP/Vista/7
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz / AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000+
RAM: 2 GB
Hard Drive: 10 GB free space
Video Memory: 128 MB
Video Card: nVidia GeForce 6600 / ATI Radeon X1300
Sound Card: DirectX CompatibleConsidering I need to close almost every single program I'm running in order to get either FO3 or New Vegas to run for more then 10 minutes without CRASHING and even then I still occasionally get jerky animation at times, and my system is way past the recommended requirements, I'm going to say that YMMV with regards to requirements on any game whatsoever. It depends who choses the requirements, I guess. Some may define "minimum" as the lowest possible specification for the executable to run at all, with no regards to the actual playability (say hello to 640x480 on the lowest detail settings in some scenarios with that one). Truth be told, I NEVER bother with system requirements at all. I've had games whose minimum requirements almost double my PCs requirements run full speed with no problems with detail turned up, and I've had games whose recommended requirements are essentially half what I have in every respect run as slow as molasses. My method is to install the game and try to play it. too slow? reduce resolution/detail extra graphics and other effects as necessary until it does. Of course my machine can usually run even the very newest games just fine, so perhaps I'm more jaded against requirements since I never have to look at them.

Quote from: LAM168 on November 04, 2010, 01:27:00 PM

Thank you both for your input. I thought the AMD was better than the 2Core Duo but I guess it matters on the version as well. He can't keep up!!