Can you even play Battlefiled 1942 with 256MB of ram?

[JackBurton]

Damn, I'm running XP Pro with 256MB (PC133) of ram and BF1942 is eating it up like candy!! When I get to the beginning screen, XP reports 533MB being used!!! This is crazy! At idle I'm using about 120MB, but when I run the game, it jumps to over 530MB. Anyone else here tried playing this game with 256MB of ram? I'd say 512MB is BARE MINIMUM to play this!

 

[scottrico]

Most gamers have a min of 512 mb ram in their rigs anyway.

I have learned through my own experience that windows xp needs a min of 256 mb of ram to run smoothly on its own.

 

[TheOmegaCode]

I play Battlefield 1942 w/ 256MB of DDR and a Geforce 2 gts-v and it runs ok. A friend of mine also has 256MB of DDR but a Geforce 4 ti4200 128MB and the game runs very nice in XP Pro...

I'm going to upgrade my vid card before I upgrade my RAM...

 

[JackBurton]

I was thinking of getting a single 512MB stick of DDR333, but now I think I'll pick up two! Here is my whole system set up:

XP 1600+
K7S5A
256MB PC133
Radeon 8500 LE (250/275)

I don't like hd thrashing so I NEVER like to see memory usage above my physical memory. Like they say, you can never have enough memory. 🙂

P.S. I still have my P4 rig but I just use my XP rig more (I'm not home very often to use my P4 rig).