BF Vietnam

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Originally posted by: Excelsior
Originally posted by: aircooled
I hope my 9700 AIW PRO can hang .......

You are worried about your 9700 Pro? Come on!

The 9700 Pro is just amazing - it has to be the vid card with the longest viable lifespan since the advent of 3D acceleration. It was just SO far ahead of its time that by all appearances it will still be a perfectly respectable card, and faster than many mainstream, midrange cards two years after its introduction. What a brilliant card!
 

Chaotic42

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Jun 15, 2001
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Originally posted by: Shanti


Recommended for optimum performance:
2.0 Ghz CPU
Directx 9.0b
Geforce 4 128 MB (Not MX) or equivalent DirectX9 compatible videocard
512 Megabytes of RAM
2 GB free hard drive space
(additional space required for Windows swap-file and
DirectX 9.0b installation)
16x CD-ROM drive
Directx 9.0b Compatible Sound Card
MS compatible mouse
Keyboard

I can hang with all of that except the 2GHz CPU. I'm at 1533MHz.

Ah, well.
 

CubicZirconia

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Originally posted by: Chaotic42
Originally posted by: Shanti


Recommended for optimum performance:
2.0 Ghz CPU
Directx 9.0b
Geforce 4 128 MB (Not MX) or equivalent DirectX9 compatible videocard
512 Megabytes of RAM
2 GB free hard drive space
(additional space required for Windows swap-file and
DirectX 9.0b installation)
16x CD-ROM drive
Directx 9.0b Compatible Sound Card
MS compatible mouse
Keyboard

I can hang with all of that except the 2GHz CPU. I'm at 1533MHz.

Ah, well.

Same here. Running an 1800+?
 

AnMig

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is this a stand alone game or do you need original BF1942 cd to play online?

 

Chaotic42

Lifer
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Originally posted by: CubicZirconia
Same here. Running an 1800+?
Yeah, I would be running dual, but my motherboard messed up, so I'm down to one proc.

:disgust:
 

Ausm

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Oct 9, 1999
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Originally posted by: AnMig
is this a stand alone game or do you need original BF1942 cd to play online?

Standalone rewritten graphics engine also.


Sysadmin
 

Ausm

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Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
SO TEMPTING!

(But my Radeon 9600XT is only 3 months old!)


I scored a 9800 Non-pro from Dell Flashed the bios on the video card been running 9800 pro speeds ever since :D


Sysadmin
 

aircooled

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I like playing BF1942 but I'm not real good at it, so I get creamed most of the time. Seems like everyone on the public servers knows it inside out, therefore they kick my butt.
I'll pick up Vietnam and stick with the newbie servers... :)
 

Kaiser__Sose

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Oct 14, 1999
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Originally posted by: aircooled
I like playing BF1942 but I'm not real good at it, so I get creamed most of the time. Seems like everyone on the public servers knows it inside out, therefore they kick my butt.
I'll pick up Vietnam and stick with the newbie servers... :)

same here
 

BD2003

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Originally posted by: Don_Vito
Originally posted by: Excelsior
Originally posted by: aircooled
I hope my 9700 AIW PRO can hang .......

You are worried about your 9700 Pro? Come on!

The 9700 Pro is just amazing - it has to be the vid card with the longest viable lifespan since the advent of 3D acceleration. It was just SO far ahead of its time that by all appearances it will still be a perfectly respectable card, and faster than many mainstream, midrange cards two years after its introduction. What a brilliant card!

This isnt so much cause the 9700 was amazing, but because change has been sooooo slow since it came out.
 

DT4K

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Jan 21, 2002
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Originally posted by: BD2003
Originally posted by: Don_Vito
Originally posted by: Excelsior
Originally posted by: aircooled
I hope my 9700 AIW PRO can hang .......

You are worried about your 9700 Pro? Come on!

The 9700 Pro is just amazing - it has to be the vid card with the longest viable lifespan since the advent of 3D acceleration. It was just SO far ahead of its time that by all appearances it will still be a perfectly respectable card, and faster than many mainstream, midrange cards two years after its introduction. What a brilliant card!

This isnt so much cause the 9700 was amazing, but because change has been sooooo slow since it came out.
I would disagree. The 9700 was a huge leap. Especially for AA and AF performance. It's not that often that you have a video card release that doubles or triples the performance of the previous generations.
 

kuk

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Well, just to make you all jealous:

I bought Battlefield:Vietnam today! :)

We had an early release here in Brazil, since (apparently) all CDs are manufactured here.
Had hard lockups until I changed soundcards (from SB128 to C-Media onboard) and lowered video settings.

But the game looks great! :)

Kuk
 

iwearnosox

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Oct 26, 2000
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Originally posted by: kuk
Well, just to make you all jealous:

I bought Battlefield:Vietnam today! :)

We had an early release here in Brazil, since (apparently) all CDs are manufactured here.
Had hard lockups until I changed soundcards (from SB128 to C-Media onboard) and lowered video settings.

But the game looks great! :)

Kuk
Does it have punkbuster installed?

 

kuk

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Jul 20, 2000
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Originally posted by: Sifl
Originally posted by: kuk
Well, just to make you all jealous:

I bought Battlefield:Vietnam today! :)

We had an early release here in Brazil, since (apparently) all CDs are manufactured here.
Had hard lockups until I changed soundcards (from SB128 to C-Media onboard) and lowered video settings.

But the game looks great! :)

Kuk
Does it have punkbuster installed?

Yes, sir.

But it lacks the GUI vote implementation of BF42 1.6.
The M16 with scope is a killer sniper, I tell ya!
 

BD2003

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Im gonna get this game just for the soundtrack. I had my issues with BF1942, but if I can machine gun the VC from a chopper while Surfin Bird plays, Im sold. Get some!

And of course ride of the valkyries, war (what is it good for!?), and jefferson airplane is just the icing on the cake.