How will BF2 Play on this PC?

[Cook1]

Pentium M Dothan 1.86GHz
2x512MB DDR2 PC2-4200
Nvidia go 6600 128MB OC'd to 300/575
80GB 5400RPM HD

Will be upgrading to 2x1GB DDR PC2-4200 @ 4-4-4-8, so keep that in mind.

So, how will that system play BF2?

 

[ND40oz]

I would think you'd be fine depending on what resolution your playing at. 1024x768 should get good results, 1280x1024 might have to turn down the eye candy to a minimum.

 

[Cruise51]

Should be fine at 1024x768, high detail.

 

[grimdeath]

i play on this:
amd64 2800
ati radeon 9800 pro
1gb ocz platinum ram
and a 80gb 7200rpm hd

it runs perfectly fine, not the highest settings but it still looks pretty enough for what it is lol. just spend some time playing with settings and see what you can turn up and what you need to turn down so you get your best avaible quality.

 

[orangat]

I think the weak point is the Nvidia 6600.

 

[Cook1]

Thanks for the replies all

 

[spiritwalker2223]

Ya you might be able to play it at 1024 x 768 with settings at min. I'd replace the video card before the ram, well if gaming is what your rig is mostly for.

 

[Cook1]

Notebook, notice the Nvidia go 6600.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Is this a laptop?

I don't know how the 6600 mobile compares to desktop cards...

EDIT: yep

 

[Cook1]

Well Asus is known to underclock their 6600's, which is why I OC'd mine a tad. It can go higher but being a notebook cooling does become an issue. I can get just under 15k in 3DMark2001 SE with it, haven't gotten to DL any other futuremark products yet...

 

[Fizznizzlenuck]

with your system, yes a new video card would be a good upgrade, however with your harddrive being as slow as it is, in order to run BF2 without having to swap info to and from the HD in the middle of a match you would need to upgrade the memory. So its kind of a tossup. You upgrade your video card and you get better graphics but still lag behind while swapping info to and from the memory and HD. If you upgrade your memory you should not have the game chop up on you as much while loading new sections of map while driving however you will still remain the same as far as your graphics are concerned. When I upgraded from 1gig to 2 gigs it made a huge difference on my system.

 

[aatf510]

Honestly, if you don't go too high on settings in BF2. You don't need to have 2GB of ram.

 

[crypticlogin]

download the demo and try it out.

 

[w00t]

waylay uses a x300 till he gets his 7800gtx