How big of a difference on BF2?

[Beef Taco]

How big of a difference in BF2 is there in going from 1gb to 1.5gb with an x800xl on an amd athlon XP3200+??

 

[wasserkool]

hmm u get more memory to load the textures on so you can probly choose high for texture setting w/o experiencing slowdown

 

[Beef Taco]

Do you run BF2 on that rig??

 

[Beef Taco]

Anyone else have any input?

 

[deathwalker]

I would say the difference would be marginal.

 

[mwmorph]

medium textures on 1gb, high textures on 1.5gb.

 

[Beef Taco]

does the textures look good at medium?

and could i have like 4xAA on with 1gb??

 

[suicidalpigeon]

it's going to stutter with 4xaa on a gig w/ medium settings. picture quality on all medium isnt bad at all.

 

[mOeeOm]

Originally posted by: Beef Taco
How big of a difference in BF2 is there in going from 1gb to 1.5gb with an x800xl on an amd athlon XP3200+??

Well on my rig, when I play on all high and max resolution it eats up 750mb-800mb of my memory...so thats a lot of lag considering the 1GB. On Medium/low it eats up 450mb-500mb. Ordering 2GB(2 x 1GB) ram soon so I can always run it on high. On high I can run it for maybe an hour then I have to restart BF2.

And yes, the testures still look awesome on medium, I highly suggest you get 2GB if you wanna get the 4xAA working and high.

 

[mOeeOm]

Err I shudn't have said a lot of lag, it runs lagless just after an hour the stuttering starts being noticable.

 

[Beef Taco]

Ok, if i bought this ram and this ram, to have 1.5gb, would that be enough to run it all on high with maybe 4xAA? And is that good ram?

 

[mOeeOm]

Originally posted by: Beef Taco
Ok, if i bought this ram and this ram, to have 1.5gb, would that be enough to run it all on high with maybe 4xAA? And is that good ram?

Well..does your mobo support dual channel? If so it would be much better to get 2 x 1GB ram. But yes, with 1.5GB you will run it on all high, as for resolution, most likely 1024 x 768....I tried at the max resolution, I got 45-60FPS...but really, it looks the same to me so I don't mind. I rather playing on high and 1024 x 768 and getting 80-90 FPS.

 

[Beef Taco]

Yes, my mobo has dual channel, so how about this ram?

 

[StrangerGuy]

Originally posted by: Beef Taco
does the textures look good at medium?

and could i have like 4xAA on with 1gb??

Medium looks as good as high to me, and there is far less stuttering with medium with 1GB RAM.

 

[Jotho]

Originally posted by: StrangerGuy
Medium looks as good as high to me, and there is far less stuttering with medium with 1GB RAM.

Agreed! I play on my machine with all on high except textures and a lighting setting I believe. Basically, I choose the high quality setting from the drop-down and leave it as is. That seems to work best in my case.

 

[Beef Taco]

So how much lag is there with 1gb online with all settings on high except textures on medium and lighting on medium?

 

[Beef Taco]

And with only 512mb of pc2700, would i have to put everything on low and even still get lag?

 

[Beef Taco]

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[SonicIce]

arent the textures loaded into video memory? how does ram have any effect?

 

[Beef Taco]

no, textures are loaded into main memory

 

[Beef Taco]

So how much lag is there with 1gb online with all settings on high except textures on medium and lighting on medium?

And with only 512mb of pc2700, would i have to put everything on low and even still get lag?

(bump)

 

[mOeeOm]

Hmm will getting quality 2GB ram increase my frames per second? I just compared my 3 settings, high, medium and low, 6x AA and 1280x resolution. This is what it looks like, I wanna play on high but I'm getting 45-55 FPS so kinda laggy after a while. I play on all medium and max resolution and 6xAA...getting 70-85 FPS.

High

Medium

Low

Just need to keep working and afford that 7800GTX with 2GB ram I guess .