Prepare to enter the exciting world of game making, as you create entire worlds from your imagination and populate them with anything you want. Add in your very own squad to fight by your side or go it alone. Make fun games with stories unique to you and features never before seen in a computer game, from pick-ups that give you a million lives to an opponent who can fill a room with boiling acid - and why not, it's your game, your rules! FPS Creator X10 is the world's first DirectX 10 game creator for Windows Vista! for the first time ever you can control the powerful features on your graphics card. Visually stunning effects including parallax relief mapping, bloom, reflection, refraction, volume soft shadows and soft particle shader effects are all under your control. Learn skills you can take with you into the games industry, a jump start into designing games for a living, or just have a great time designing and creating games. "It does a better job at showing off the pluses of DX10 than Crysis ever managed to do". PC Gamer, March 2008. Features * Advanced AI Character Behaviours: Both hostile or friendly * Takes advantage of Dual Core and Quad Core CPU technology * Create Multiplayer Arena games you can play with your friends * Script your own Game Logic with the built-in programming language * Huge library of models, textures and sounds - with new model packs being released all the time * Share your creations as stand-alone executables freely * Active community of FPS Creator users, ready to share ideas * Game action above and below water. Players can run, leap, swim, dive and even affect the water level System Requirements FPS Creator X10 only works on Windows Vista with the NVIDIA GeForce 8 series of DirectX10 video cards. We strongly recommend the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 range. We do not recommend any video card with less than 320MB RAM. CPU: 2GHz minimum. 2.66GHz Dual Core recommended. Memory: 1GB minimum. 2GB recommended. Misc: 2GB Hard Drive Space. DVD Drive. Printer to output user guide. Can you run FPSC X10 - Find out here !! This is the official list of specs needed for FPS Creator X10 it will be added into all future readmes. So a bit about this thread.Looking at the forums, i have seen 9 "Can i run it" threads on the first page alone so im here to tell you all once and for all what you need to be able to run FPSC X10 to sort out all the repeated and frankly irritating questions. There is also a full list of all the graphics cards that will work with FPSC X10 i have put a lot of time and effort into this thread finding out for you all. I am human so if you find i missed something let me know and don't have a big go at me. So here you go then... Min Specs- Will run but very slow with all enabled Aprox Framerate: 20-40 (can run at 40-60 with screen res change) Graphics Card: GeForce 8400 GS 215MB, ATI Radeon 2900 XT - Catalyst 7.8 & 7.9 Memory: 1GB Hard Drive: 2GB CPU: 2.0GHz Dual Core Mid Specs- Will run might lag a little with all enabled Aprox Framerate: 50-70 Graphics Cards: GeForce 8600 GTX 320MB, ATI Radeon HD 3600 Series Memory: 1.5GB Hard Drive: 3GB to allow for addons/updates CPU: 2.60GHz Dual Core High Specs- Will run with no lag Aprox Framerate: 70-100 Graphics Cards: GeForce 8800 GTX 1GB, ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series - 100% Compatible Memory: 2GB Hard Drive: 4GB+ to allow for addons/updates/models CPU: 3.0GHz Dual Core Extreme Gamer Specs- No lag at all on my rig i got an Aprox Framerate of: 120 (large level with more enemies) Graphics Cards: GeForce 9600 GT 1GB SLI or higher,ATI CARDS NOT RECOMMENDED Memory: 4GB SLI Hard Drive: 4GB+ to allow for addons/updates/models CPU: 3.0GHz Quad Core Other: MOTHERBOARD SLI READY Approx Framerate based on all features enabled and 1 character with gun. Unless stated otherwise. Compatible Cards: Nvidia Mobility GeForce 8800M - 100% Compatible GeForce 8700M - 100% Compatible GeForce 8600M - 100% Compatible GeForce 8400M - slow but works just fine GeForce Go 7 Series - NOT DIRECTX 10 COMPATIBLE GForce 8400GT - Compatible but very slow Not a recommended card 8500GT - Slow but works just fine 8600GT - Medium Performance 8600GTS - Medium Performance 8800GS - 100% Compatible 8800GT - 100% Compatible 8800GTS - 100% Compatible 8800GTX - 100% Compatible 8800 ULTRA - 100% Compatible 9500GT - 100% Compatible 9600GSO - 100% Compatible 9600GT - 100% Compatible 9800GT - 100% Compatible 9800GTX - 100% Compatible 9800GTX+ - 100% Compatible 9800GX2 - 100% Compatible ATI Radeon Lower than ATI Radeon HD 2600 Series - NOT COMPATIBLE ATI Radeon HD 2600 Series - Compatible but with big lags ATI Radeon HD 2900 Series - Known issues NOT RECOMMENDED ATI Radeon HD 3400 Series - Compatible but slight lags found ATI Radeon HD 3600 Series - 100% Compatible ATI Radeon HD 3800 Series - 100% Compatible ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series - 100% Compatible Radeon Mobility ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3400 Series - Slow Not Recommended ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3600 Series - NOT YET TESTED ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3800 Series - 100% Compatible Reported Cards: Nvidia 8400GT 512MB Reported as not compatible by a few people will check up on this for the moment i dont recommend you buy. ATI Radeon HD 2600 Series (and lower) are not compatible they crash the test game. ATI Radeon HD 2900 Series has known issues with the test game not recommended at all NOTES - All Nvidia Graphics Card Will need ForceWare 163 at least for the above to be correct for the card. - YOU MUST HAVE DIRECTX 10 INSTALLED, DIRECTX 9 WONT WORK. - VISTA IS WHAT YOU NEED DIRECTX 10 DOES NOT WORK IN XP FULLSTOP.