Mainstream Processors

Your Athlon 64s and Pentium 4s

Notes

At first glance there’s not much to say about the performance of these processors in F.E.A.R. But in fact, that’s what is so amazing. At 1600x1200, no matter what chip you’re using---be it an Athlon 64 FX-57 or old school Pentium 4 530---frame rates are completely flat.

Switching it up to 1024x768 you at least see some variance, if only by a handful of frames. The message here is pretty simple: you merely need a respectable processor to run F.E.A.R. Everything else is up to your graphics card.

F.E.A.R. Performance 1024x768x32
CPU	Min FPS	Max FPS
Athlon 64 3800+	43	158
Athlon 64 3500+	41	157
Athlon 64 3200+	37	157
Athlon 64 3000+	35	155
Pentium 4 670 3.8GHz	42	155
Pentium 4 630 3.0GHz	36	151
Pentium 4 570 3.8GHz	42	153
Pentium 4 530 3.0GHz	33	149