battlefield 2 video card 128mb VS 256

[ciproxr]

I have a radeon x800 128mb and i do get some stuters in the begining of games and have to lower the settings significanly to make the game playable cause i only have 1gb ram...

I was wondering if i had a x800 256 mb instead would that make a huge difference ?

 

[0roo0roo]

2gb
and buying an identical gpu is a waste of money. its obsolete anyways.

 

[ciproxr]

well i wasent going to buy it i was just wondering how the two would compare

 

[Boobs McGee]

I agree with 0roo0roo. 2GB of memory would help your system out quite a bit. Yes BF2 is very GPU intensive, you may notice some difference going from a 128meg card to a 256. I don't think you would see a huge difference though sticking with the same x800 though. Of course pretty much all of the new mid to high end cards have at least 256 on them. So if you got a newer more powerful card you would notice an improvement.

 

[JBT]

Pretty much the only difference between a 128MB card and a 256MB card with BF2 is that the High texture settings would open up but since your not upgrading the GPU just the memory it won't help speed out at all.

Basically don't go to a X800 with 256MB of RAM it will give you more options but they won't be playable.

 

[zerocool84]

putting in just an extra 512 in my system helped a lot and i only have 1.5GB's ram

 

[SEAL62505]

I had been playing a lot of BF2 on -
Old PC
1gb mem & 128mb 6800 agp card
2gb mem & 128mb 6800 agp card
New PC
1gb mem & 256mb 7600gt pcix card
2gb mem & 256mb 7600gt pcix card

By far my experience has been the best with the last config. I have the settings cranked up running at 1280x1024. It seems the 2gb helps out a lot with allowing higher graphics settings, more clean exits to Windows (with 1gb it took for EVER for BF2 to quit when I was done playing), better initial 30 seconds of each round (with settings up on 1gb, sometimes the first 30 seconds or so would be brutally choppy...)