Make sure you dim the lights and use headphones to drown out background noises...you wouldn't want any sounds to spook you!
I've installed the F.E.A.R DEMO yesterday evening and I must say, this game ROCKS!!! The graphics is awesome, and the game itself is frightening as well. Liked it very much. Too bad the DEMO is too short, finished it already . Hopefully the game will be released soon. Anybody knows the exact release date, if any?
Oh 10x, didn't notice you posted it already. Ah, and BTW, I forgot to mention that it seems that this gave needs really heavy resources. I have a feeling that I'll have to upgrade very soon from 512MB to at least 1GB, if I want to keep up with upcoming games (not mentioning Video Card upgrade, altough what I have now, XFX 6600GT AGP, is satisfactory at the moment).
I'm waiting for another game to arrive: Indigo Prophecy (Fahrenheit). Should be a great game! Have you heard about it? Anyway, its release date is planned to 6/Sep, so...we're almost there.
Would be enough time to do some upgrade, hardware-wise. ^^ I'd say RAM is still more important than raw gfx-power in that case, so go for 2GB and you'd be satisfied at all. ^^