BF Vietnam on a slower system?

[duragezic]

I have a 1.33ghz Athlon, 512mb PC133, and an original Radeon 64. I've had BF1942 since it came out but just recently installed it and got back into playing it. DC really kicks ass.

BF Vietnam looks AWESOME. I would buy it but I'm thinking my system is too slow... Anyone with a similar system play it? Or, does anyone know how it compares to BF 1942 as far as system reqs? I play 1942/DC at 800x600x32 ~mid details. Runs good enough for me. I don't think I could handle a game at 640x480 though, I would probably just not buy it till I have a faster comp.

 

[Rottie]

512MB PC!33? You must be lucky I could not get Battlefield 1942 and Vietnam load up. I have 512MB PC2100 so might have to try 1GB PC2100 later.

 

[Kinesis]

Well that is interesting. I run BF Vietnam on my P3 933 Mhz, 768MB PC133 Ram, and a Nvidia Ti4200 128MB card, with no overclocking on anything....just fine. Only Medium to Low detail in certain areas, but it looks pretty stellar even at that. I enjoy playing...even on my old Putt...Putt System!

 

[duragezic]

Yeah it takes pretty damn long to load, probably like 2 minutes from the time I click the server until I'm actually in the game. But once loaded, it is very playable.

Originally posted by: Kinesis
Well that is interesting. I run BF Vietnam on my P3 933 Mhz, 768MB PC133 Ram, and a Nvidia Ti4200 128MB card, with no overclocking on anything....just fine. Only Medium to Low detail in certain areas, but it looks pretty stellar even at that. I enjoy playing...even on my old Putt...Putt System!

Your rig is a bit faster than mine overall, but that offers some hope still. What resolution are you running? I normally keep my details low for things I don't care about a whole lot and just keep like draw distance and texture quality up.

 

[duragezic]

to hell with double posts!

 

[DT4K]

I'm running an
Athlon XP 1700+
GeForce 3 Ti200
512MB PC2100
SB Live.

In BF1942 and DC, I can run at 1024x768 with medium details and the game runs nice and smooth.

I get nice smooth frame rates in BFV when I'm running at 800x600 at low details.
It actually still looks pretty decent at those settings.
I can run at 1024x768 with medium details, but it's pretty choppy and not really what I would call playable.

It definitely runs slower than 1942 and DC.

 

[PanzerIV]

Eagle I have both and although my system is way more powerful than yours my graphics card stunk. I was, however, able to play BF1942 with everything set to max at 1024x768 with no problems on my Geforce MX 440. BUT, when I played BF:V on the same system even with everything set to medium I think it was, although I could get away with playing it the game looked like crap. So, I bought a Radeon 9600 and it looks great now with everything set to high.
Summary is I think you're graphics card is going to really be a problem for you.

 

[0roo0roo]

i question some of your definitions of smooth. silkly smooth? or just sorta ok. to get silky smooth on those systems you really need to run at 16bit and lowest settings, not medium.

u can run vietnam that way i'm pretty sure.

 

[Kinesis]

I run with Medium Settings in the game and Anti-ansiotrophic (spelling?) at 2xQ (Nvidia TM). and it looks fun and runs great.