How well could i run BF2 with these upgrades?

[Beef Taco]

Hey everyone. Here are my specs:

Emachine T3265
FIC AU31 Motherboard
AMD Athlon XP 3200+
512 PC2700(i wouldnt have this if i got that new memory)
64 MB Onboard Graphics(It REALLY sucks...)
160Gig Hard Drive

If i get this memory and this graphics card would there be a lot of lag online if i was to put almost all of the settings on high?

 

[Sqube]

What resolution are you playing with?

 

[Cheezeit]

You might be okay becasue of 1.5 gigs of ram is good, but that vidoe card only has 128mb, whis is probably not enough to put everyhting on high and have good resolution.

 

[Beef Taco]

I would either play at 800*600 or 1024*768. And i wouldnt be getting/have 1.5gb, only 1gb.

 

[Beef Taco]

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[Sqube]

At 1024x768, I imagine you could post most of your settings at high and be alright; I would expect some hiccups and framerate drops though.

 

[Beef Taco]

Ok cool thanks.

 

[BadAcid]

Hey, I suggest you skim through this:
http://www.tweakguides.com/BF2_1.html
This guy tests games and gives a description of what each setting in game does.
Some settings may eat your frames per second, without providing much benefit in the end (mostly between medium and high settings). Take a look, I pushed 3 of my settings to medium (Terrain, Texture, Lighting), and I can't tell the difference from when I had them all high, but it will help smooth gameplay. Sometimes sacrifices to some settings allow you to up other settings. Lowering details may smooth framerates enough that you can raise your resolution or anti-aliasing or anisotrophic filtering.
Back on topic:
That RAM is good, especially great at the price.
The video card is also good, however, I suggest
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications...CODE=PRICEGRABBER&CMP=OTC-PRICEGRABBER
Connect3D X800 Pro AGP
~230$ shipped. It'd be faster in other games like Half-Life 2, but if you play other games like Doom III, the GF 6800 would be better suited.

 

[Sforsyth]

have you looked at the X800XL 256 MB 256 Bit 16 pipes card prices ? they are supose to be close to 6800GT's ! and alot cheaper here in Canada.

 

[Noobtastic]

You wont be able to run it.

The game wont even open unless you have a 128mb Videocard.

I have a craptastic 64mb interagted videocard and I downloaded the demo and it wouldn't even open due to my videocard.


If you short on cash, I heard newegg is selling a chaintech 6600-116$

That will run BF2 at medium settings..

 

[Concillian]

It will be fine if you make those upgrades. You may want to run textures and/or dynamic lighting at medium.

 

[Concillian]

Originally posted by: Noobtastic
You wont be able to run it.

The game wont even open unless you have a 128mb Videocard.

Read his entire post. I think you missed something.

 

[RollWave]

Wait until you can get 2gigs of ram. Save up and do it or your experience online wont be a very great one.

 

[Bona Fide]

Good choice with that 6800 card. You might get lucky and be able to softmod it to a 6800GT. 🙂

 

[Beef Taco]

Originally posted by: BadAcid
Hey, I suggest you skim through this:
http://www.tweakguides.com/BF2_1.html
This guy tests games and gives a description of what each setting in game does.
Some settings may eat your frames per second, without providing much benefit in the end (mostly between medium and high settings). Take a look, I pushed 3 of my settings to medium (Terrain, Texture, Lighting), and I can't tell the difference from when I had them all high, but it will help smooth gameplay. Sometimes sacrifices to some settings allow you to up other settings. Lowering details may smooth framerates enough that you can raise your resolution or anti-aliasing or anisotrophic filtering.
Back on topic:
That RAM is good, especially great at the price.
The video card is also good, however, I suggest
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications...CODE=PRICEGRABBER&CMP=OTC-PRICEGRABBER
Connect3D X800 Pro AGP
~230$ shipped. It'd be faster in other games like Half-Life 2, but if you play other games like Doom III, the GF 6800 would be better suited.

I was thinking about getting either that or the x800XL but i was told that my processor would be too much of a bottleneck for the price of that card, so i settled for the 6800. Do you think they were wrong??

 

[Concillian]

Processor is not a big limitation for BF2, but it will likely limit you some. All in all, I still think you would get benefit from a better card than a 6800.

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=23973
Scroll down to the CPU/memory (near the bottom) an AXP3200+ is probably around 1.4-1.6GHz range on these charts, so you can see it wouldn't be a huge limitation for an x800XL/pro level card. It will limit max framerates in some places, but that is not terribly noticeable.

To the person suggesting waiting for 2GB RAM, I wouldn't, you can set options to be reasonable with 1GB and it's really not a HUGE benefit going to 2GB. Setting textures and dynamic lighting and shadows to medium reduces the requirements for smooth gameplay quite a bit. SUre if you have the money for 2GB, but I wouldn't call it a requirement.

 

[Beef Taco]

Originally posted by: Concillian
Processor is not a big limitation for BF2, but it will likely limit you some. All in all, I still think you would get benefit from a better card than a 6800.

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=23973
Scroll down to the CPU/memory (near the bottom) an AXP3200+ is probably around 1.4-1.6GHz range on these charts, so you can see it wouldn't be a huge limitation for an x800XL/pro level card. It will limit max framerates in some places, but that is not terribly noticeable.

To the person suggesting waiting for 2GB RAM, I wouldn't, you can set options to be reasonable with 1GB and it's really not a HUGE benefit going to 2GB. Setting textures and dynamic lighting and shadows to medium reduces the requirements for smooth gameplay quite a bit. SUre if you have the money for 2GB, but I wouldn't call it a requirement.

So do you think i should get the X800 pro or the X800 xl?

 

[Beef Taco]

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[Beef Taco]

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[CraigRT]

will be fine.
I run 1GB of RAM, and on a 6800GT, 1280x960 all settings on high and it's basically fully smooth at all times.
you'll be OK at 1024 I think!

 

[erorr404]

X800XL > X800 Pro. X800XL has 16 pipes, X800Pro has 12.
if you can't afford an X800XL, then get a 6800 and hope you can flash it to a 6800GT.
plus, i would recommend 1.5 GB of RAM. i might be the only one, but 1 GB has so many stutters for me it's almost unplayable. 1.5 GB is totally smooth for me. so try plugging in the old 512MB PC2700 stick you have with your new 2x512MB Corsair and see if there's a difference between 1 GB and 1.5 GB for you.

 

[Beef Taco]

Originally posted by: erorr404
X800XL > X800 Pro. X800XL has 16 pipes, X800Pro has 12.
if you can't afford an X800XL, then get a 6800 and hope you can flash it to a 6800GT.
plus, i would recommend 1.5 GB of RAM. i might be the only one, but 1 GB has so many stutters for me it's almost unplayable. 1.5 GB is totally smooth for me. so try plugging in the old 512MB PC2700 stick you have with your new 2x512MB Corsair and see if there's a difference between 1 GB and 1.5 GB for you.

I would do that with the momory but i only have 2 ram slots on my mobo.

 

[suicidalpigeon]

you'll get a pretty good performance increase and you should be fine with it on medium and a few high settings, but i could be wrong, emachines are built to crap out.