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08-01-2005, 07:36 AM
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How would my system play this game...?
How would my p4 2.24GHz, 512MB pc3200@266, R9700pro, play games like battlefield 2, or splinter cell's pandora tomorrow?
I'm planning to buy them... Are they considered to be "heavy games" that should be played in medium/low settings for such an average system of mine? Thx |
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08-01-2005, 10:59 AM
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You should be able to play Splinter cell just fine. But Battlefield 2 would be kind of a problem on 512mb of ram and a 9700 pro. It could be pretty choppy, you might be able to do alright with all graphics and effects at low. But my suggestion is to just not mess with BF2 until you get more ram. There would be alot of caching which means lots of slow downs.
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08-01-2005, 11:04 AM
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For BF2 a gig if pretty much the minimum amount of ram you can have. 512 may work but you wouldn't enjoy it too much.
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08-01-2005, 10:14 PM
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you can play BF2 at low with 512. 1gig nets you medium textures
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08-01-2005, 10:17 PM
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08-01-2005, 11:57 PM
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Psh, I'm having spotty performance with my gig and 6800 GT with everything on high and lighting on medium. It works brilliantly one day, then it's back to chugging along the next.
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08-02-2005, 06:51 AM
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P4 1.7 with 768mb and 9600 played BF2 fine on low-medium quality. A bit choppy at times but I'd say your rig could do it if you're not worried about textures.
However, just got my new P4 3.4, 1gb ram and X800 running on new 19" tft last night and it rocks with almost everything on high, what a difference. Sorry, couldn't resist I know it's not an amazing rig but compared to the 1.7... Hope that doesn't cotradict my first thought - you really should be able to play BF2 and enjoy it on your PC! |
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08-02-2005, 07:46 AM
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I have no idea what systems you guys are running. I'm assuming i have a very similar build to yours and i can crank everything except textures to high and textures on medium and it works fine. How much pagefiling are you using and is it dynamic or static? 512 should be able to play on low. Anyways, a ram upgrade might improve BF2 performance dramatically
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08-02-2005, 09:30 AM
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Wow, it's that bad... So it's using the ram intensively...
Anyway, I set my pagefile fixed at 768MB. Would pagefile enlargement increases performance for the game? I can't believe if it does... If it is the situation maybe the most priority would be the splintercell for this time. Thx guys 
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08-03-2005, 07:30 AM
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I've been tweaking my system and now with everything on medium at 1280 x 1024 I'm keeping a solid 60-90 fps. This game is incredibly ram intensive, but depending on what you turn down visually you should be able to play. What's weird though is that the high and medium settings are very similar. The difference is almost unseeable unless you look very closely; your big visual drop comes between low and medium. Try this out, it gives a very nice explanation of which options do what and how to set it for optimal performance. It is also very up to date for it was written for the current patch.
http://www.tweakguides.com/BF2_1.html Hope this helps. On that site there is also a Windows XP tweak guide along with two other tweak guides for nvidia and ati cards. You can actually significantly boost performance by just tweaking your current system. It's amazing the stuff found in Windows that runs in the background and bogs down a gaming rig. |
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08-03-2005, 09:33 AM
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I have tweaked my windows especially in the services section. Most unvital services I know are all disabled or set to manual. I didn't do anything to the pagefile except fixing it to 1.5x of my system ram. Tweaking my windows is almost to its maximum. Every application or game is set to "disable visual themes" and "disable indexing service", Windows' desktop is set to "classic", no anti virus (don't try this at home...!
). I didn't do tweaking on my hardware except optimizing BIOS settings for the memory. Tweaking my P4 is impossible, no options for OC or other optimization. The only H/w tweak is OCing my 9700pro. No significant performance boost. But the funny thing is, my 9700pro often runs better and faster at 1024x768 than below, especially at 800x600, even with 4xAA (and even sometimes 6xAA) & medium-high AF enabled (I like playing NFSU2, they look so great and play better in the settings I named above  ).
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08-03-2005, 05:23 PM
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Do you find a gaming performance increase by running your windows in classic instead of the default themed setting?
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08-05-2005, 05:03 AM
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Actually, I don't get any significant performance gain in that classic mode. What I'm trying to do is gaining more free memory. Right now, the free memory is around 330MB. My gain is around 30MB by disabling all unvital services and setting the classic mode. That should help even a little
 Anyway, some time ago, I found that by disabling visual themes and advanced text service (in the compatibility tab of app's properties) can increase performance or removing some troubles that happened to the apps, especially in some games. So right now I don't really care whether it has a performance gain or trouble fix, I'd put them all in that same setting
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