Battlefield 2: 2GB > 1GB

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iwearnosox

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Did a clean install of XP and newest 77.72 drivers for my rig. Played for a few hours then swapped in 2gb ram. The difference is tremendous- faster load times, no stuttering or swapping. 2gb made a huge difference to me. Thinking about taking it to 4gb just for the hell of it.


A8N-SLI
AMD Venice 3500+ (Stock)
2 x 6800 Ultras 400/1100 SLI (Gopher cooled)
2GB corsair
M-audio Revolution 7.1
74gb raptor
1TB Raid - Promise SX4000 256mb cache
Exos gopher bath for warm gopher bubble baths
Some funky dvd drive
Lian Li PCV-1000 w/ crystalfontz 634 blue LCD

BF2: 1920x1200. No AA yet.
 
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iwearnosox

Lifer
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Originally posted by: yankeesfan
:eek: Nice computer ya got there! :shocked:
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Wait a month, everyone will have one. Technology is relentless. I got lucky on the 6800's because the Dell 6800GTO's are misbranded 3400 quadras, they even say so on the shim. I've got the ultra bios on them working great- one of them even clocks to 460/1240 :Q without a problem. Anyhoo when I go to flip them I'll throw the quadro bios on them and make a lot more $ than the $250 a piece I paid for them. :)

Anyhoo I built this monster specifically for BF2. Now that it's here I'm making sweet monkey love to it.
 
Zenoth

Zenoth

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I also heard so, that 2 GB does help in specific combination of hardware.

But, honestly, and as surprising as it may seem, it play smooth on my system.

My video settings are as follows:

Terrain - High
Effects - High
Geometry - High
Texture - High
Lighting - High
Dynamic Shadows - Low
Dynamic Light - Low
Anti-Aliasing - Off
Texture Filtering - Low
View Distance Scale - 100%

And that's on 1024 x 768 x 32, at 100 Hz.

Also, my Texture and Mip-Map is set at best quality, in my GPU's control panel.

I'm also running ATi Tray Tools, combined with Rage 3DTweak, helping my beloved 9800 Pro to deal with texturing and filtering better than by default, without over-clocking needed.

I will upgrade soon, though.

I'm waiting for S.T.A.L.K.E.R and Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. And I want to play those babies at 1280 x 1204 (at least).

I'll get a 3700+ San Diego, over-clock it by 300 or 400 Mhz, better memory (Corsair, probably, at 2-2-2-5), a better Motherboard (my actual VIA Chipset just doesn't cut it at times), probably ASUS A8N-E (nForce), and surely a new GPU. Either a 6800 GT or X800 XL. Next month or the one after. Can't wait for that upgrade.

But, as of right now, I'm surprised, and pleased to see I can play Battlefield 2 smoothly. No need (in my case anyway) for 2 GB of memory.

 
Jeff7181

Jeff7181

Lifer
Aug 21, 2002
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I know this thread is almost a month old, but could you do a benchmark that shows if there's any advantage as far as frames per second? I understand the time it takes to switch between maps will be faster, but I'm wondering if there's any different in frames per second.
 
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XBoxLPU

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otispunkmeyer

Lifer
Jun 14, 2003
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Originally posted by: iwearnosox
Did a clean install of XP and newest 77.72 drivers for my rig. Played for a few hours then swapped in 2gb ram. The difference is tremendous- faster load times, no stuttering or swapping. 2gb made a huge difference to me. Thinking about taking it to 4gb just for the hell of it.


A8N-SLI
AMD Venice 3500+ (Stock)
2 x 6800 Ultras 400/1100 SLI (Gopher cooled)
2GB corsair
M-audio Revolution 7.1
74gb raptor
1TB Raid - Promise SX4000 256mb cache
Exos gopher bath for warm gopher bubble baths
Some funky dvd drive
Lian Li PCV-1000 w/ crystalfontz 634 blue LCD

BF2: 1920x1200. No AA yet.
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whats that M-Audio card like, i know they're sh1t hot at sound but is it a good gaming card too?
 
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otispunkmeyer

Lifer
Jun 14, 2003
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Originally posted by: Zenoth
I also heard so, that 2 GB does help in specific combination of hardware.

But, honestly, and as surprising as it may seem, it play smooth on my system.

My video settings are as follows:

Terrain - High
Effects - High
Geometry - High
Texture - High
Lighting - High
Dynamic Shadows - Low
Dynamic Light - Low
Anti-Aliasing - Off
Texture Filtering - Low
View Distance Scale - 100%

And that's on 1024 x 768 x 32, at 100 Hz.

Also, my Texture and Mip-Map is set at best quality, in my GPU's control panel.

I'm also running ATi Tray Tools, combined with Rage 3DTweak, helping my beloved 9800 Pro to deal with texturing and filtering better than by default, without over-clocking needed.

I will upgrade soon, though.

I'm waiting for S.T.A.L.K.E.R and Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. And I want to play those babies at 1280 x 1204 (at least).

I'll get a 3700+ San Diego, over-clock it by 300 or 400 Mhz, better memory (Corsair, probably, at 2-2-2-5), a better Motherboard (my actual VIA Chipset just doesn't cut it at times), probably ASUS A8N-E (nForce), and surely a new GPU. Either a 6800 GT or X800 XL. Next month or the one after. Can't wait for that upgrade.

But, as of right now, I'm surprised, and pleased to see I can play Battlefield 2 smoothly. No need (in my case anyway) for 2 GB of memory.
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same here, though i run 12x10 with 2xaa and 8xaf (in drivers)

everything is on high, except the lighting, dynamic lighting and shadows, doesnt detract much from the overall look and it loads faster, and FPS is usually around 50fps

of course theres hitching at the start, and then sporadic hitching during the game sometimes, nothing major

2Gb is my next upgrade me thinks
 
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joshw10

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Here's my PC config:

Athlon 64 3000+ Venice
1GB RAM
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB
Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 250GB

Should I expect to be able to play BF2?

Can I set it to run widescreen?
 
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dnuggett

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Sep 13, 2003
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Originally posted by: joshw10
Here's my PC config:

Athlon 64 3000+ Venice
1GB RAM
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB
Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 250GB

Should I expect to be able to play BF2?

Can I set it to run widescreen?
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Sure you could play BF2. It's all in the settings.
 
Jeff7181

Jeff7181

Lifer
Aug 21, 2002
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Originally posted by: dnuggett
Originally posted by: joshw10
Here's my PC config:

Athlon 64 3000+ Venice
1GB RAM
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB
Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 250GB

Should I expect to be able to play BF2?

Can I set it to run widescreen?
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Sure you could play BF2. It's all in the settings.
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Yeah, my brother was playing the demo on an XP2000 with 512 MB of RAM and a GeForce3 Ti200. Of course it was without AA and without AF and didn't look as good as it does on my rig, but it can be played on almost anything from within the past 3-4 years as long as you turn down the detail settings.
 
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CVSiN

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Jul 19, 2004
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2 gigs fixed me up pretty good...

A64 3200, 2 gigs kingston, 6800 GT, A2 ZS on an Asus K8N-E
 
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ahurtt

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Feb 1, 2001
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Originally posted by: Zenoth
I also heard so, that 2 GB does help in specific combination of hardware.

But, honestly, and as surprising as it may seem, it play smooth on my system.

My video settings are as follows:

Terrain - High
Effects - High
Geometry - High
Texture - High
Lighting - High
Dynamic Shadows - Low
Dynamic Light - Low
Anti-Aliasing - Off
Texture Filtering - Low
View Distance Scale - 100%

And that's on 1024 x 768 x 32, at 100 Hz.

Also, my Texture and Mip-Map is set at best quality, in my GPU's control panel.
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How are you playing @ 100Hz? That option is not available in the settings for me. In fact, the highest resolution available to me in the settings is 1280x960, but my LCD monitors native resolution is 1280x1024. I could swear I've seen people with high end systems saying they could play at 1280x1024 so why is that option not available for me to choose?

Right now I'm having this really annoying problem where I can play at 1280x960 with most settings on medium pretty well. . .but after a while I get the message my video card is clocking itself down because of power problems. Doesn't happen on any other games. If I lower the res to 1024x768 and reboot and start to play again (to reset the video card clock), that problem doesn't come up but the performance actually seems poorer than when I was at 1280x960. I actually get more stutter this way it seems. . .or maybe it was just internet lag, I dunno. . .

System specs:
Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe
A64 Winchester 3200+ @ 2.3GHz.
2 x BFG 6600GT OC in SLI mode
1 Gig Corsair PC 3200
1 Maxtor DiamondMax 10 SATA 250GB
OEM DVD ROM/CD RW combo drive and floppy drive

[edit] oops left out an important part, PSU = OCZ ModStream 450 (so plenty of juice).
 
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dnuggett

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Sep 13, 2003
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Originally posted by: ahurtt
Originally posted by: Zenoth
I also heard so, that 2 GB does help in specific combination of hardware.

But, honestly, and as surprising as it may seem, it play smooth on my system.

My video settings are as follows:

Terrain - High
Effects - High
Geometry - High
Texture - High
Lighting - High
Dynamic Shadows - Low
Dynamic Light - Low
Anti-Aliasing - Off
Texture Filtering - Low
View Distance Scale - 100%

And that's on 1024 x 768 x 32, at 100 Hz.

Also, my Texture and Mip-Map is set at best quality, in my GPU's control panel.
Click to expand...

How are you playing @ 100Hz? That option is not available in the settings for me. In fact, the highest resolution available to me in the settings is 1280x960, but my LCD monitors native resolution is 1280x1024. I could swear I've seen people with high end systems saying they could play at 1280x1024 so why is that option not available for me to choose?

Right now I'm having this really annoying problem where I can play at 1280x960 with most settings on medium pretty well. . .but after a while I get the message my video card is clocking itself down because of power problems. Doesn't happen on any other games. If I lower the res to 1024x768 and reboot and start to play again (to reset the video card clock), that problem doesn't come up but the performance actually seems poorer than when I was at 1280x960. I actually get more stutter this way it seems. . .or maybe it was just internet lag, I dunno. . .

System specs:
Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe
A64 Winchester 3200+ @ 2.3GHz.
2 x BFG 6600GT OC in SLI mode
1 Gig Corsair PC 3200
1 Maxtor DiamondMax 10 SATA 250GB
OEM DVD ROM/CD RW combo drive and floppy drive

[edit] oops left out an important part, PSU = OCZ ModStream 450 (so plenty of juice).
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What PSU are you using?
 
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ahurtt

Diamond Member
Feb 1, 2001
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Originally posted by: dnuggett
Originally posted by: ahurtt
Originally posted by: Zenoth
I also heard so, that 2 GB does help in specific combination of hardware.

But, honestly, and as surprising as it may seem, it play smooth on my system.

My video settings are as follows:

Terrain - High
Effects - High
Geometry - High
Texture - High
Lighting - High
Dynamic Shadows - Low
Dynamic Light - Low
Anti-Aliasing - Off
Texture Filtering - Low
View Distance Scale - 100%

And that's on 1024 x 768 x 32, at 100 Hz.

Also, my Texture and Mip-Map is set at best quality, in my GPU's control panel.
Click to expand...

How are you playing @ 100Hz? That option is not available in the settings for me. In fact, the highest resolution available to me in the settings is 1280x960, but my LCD monitors native resolution is 1280x1024. I could swear I've seen people with high end systems saying they could play at 1280x1024 so why is that option not available for me to choose?

Right now I'm having this really annoying problem where I can play at 1280x960 with most settings on medium pretty well. . .but after a while I get the message my video card is clocking itself down because of power problems. Doesn't happen on any other games. If I lower the res to 1024x768 and reboot and start to play again (to reset the video card clock), that problem doesn't come up but the performance actually seems poorer than when I was at 1280x960. I actually get more stutter this way it seems. . .or maybe it was just internet lag, I dunno. . .

System specs:
Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe
A64 Winchester 3200+ @ 2.3GHz.
2 x BFG 6600GT OC in SLI mode
1 Gig Corsair PC 3200
1 Maxtor DiamondMax 10 SATA 250GB
OEM DVD ROM/CD RW combo drive and floppy drive

[edit] oops left out an important part, PSU = OCZ ModStream 450 (so plenty of juice).
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What PSU are you using?
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Sforsyth

Golden Member
Mar 3, 2005
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must be nice, I have 512 MB of RAM and a shietty Vcard and old CPU I have to run it on low settings, but it's still fun and runs good the only thing I wish is that I could see abit farer
 
lozina

lozina

Lifer
Sep 10, 2001
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I've been using 1 GB since release. I ordered 2Gb from crucial so I'll try to compare and let you know my results. Maybe the night I get the RAM I'll play a certain server for an hour, leave and install my new RAM then rejoin the same server. Could compare loading times, framerate and general feel.
 
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suklee

Diamond Member
Oct 9, 1999
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I got a 7800GTX and have all settings on high, but with 1.5GB it still stutters (or so it seems). Gonna get a 1GB stick to match my other Corsair, will post results of 2GB...
 
bucwylde23

bucwylde23

Diamond Member
Apr 21, 2005
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I just upgraded to 2GB from 1GB on friday. HUGE difference. Was experiencing "lag" when I first started rounds, or when I hit enter to see the kit/squad info, it lagged a bit.
Now, load times are dramatically reduced. There is no more lag or stutter. Basically the game runs smooth as hell now, at all the highest settings. Everything is on high, and the anti-aliasing is set at 4x.

My setup:
3.2 GHz P4
2 GB ram
256 MB 6800 GTO

My only problem now is the "there is a problem with your connection" message when I have a sub-20 ping.
Game is great though
 
jlee

jlee

Lifer
Sep 12, 2001
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My only problem now is the "there is a problem with your connection" message when I have a sub-20 ping.
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We were getting that with an 8player LAN game..

I was playing on a P4 2.4 / 512mb with a R9600, and it was smooth..in 640x480 low detail.. :p
 
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