mercury_in_flames Posted June 3, 2006 Report Share Posted June 3, 2006 Well I'm enjoying far cry at the moment, but was thinking of either getting Battlefield 2 or F.E.A.R when im done. I can play far cry with all settings set to the max, but i was wondering what I'd get with these two games. Ive got a gainward 7900GT, 2gb ram and a AMD 3500+ venice CPU. I can just imagine me getting F.E.A.R later on and wanting to upgrade something just to play it at its full capacity. hmm. Any words of wisdom? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atrain Posted June 4, 2006 Report Share Posted June 4, 2006 sapphire x800gtamd64 32002gig ram Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pata2001 Posted June 4, 2006 Report Share Posted June 4, 2006 (edited) Well I'm enjoying far cry at the moment, but was thinking of either getting Battlefield 2 or F.E.A.R when im done. I can play far cry with all settings set to the max, but i was wondering what I'd get with these two games. Ive got a gainward 7900GT, 2gb ram and a AMD 3500+ venice CPU. I can just imagine me getting F.E.A.R later on and wanting to upgrade something just to play it at its full capacity. hmm. Any words of wisdom?The 7900GT is capable enough to run any current games at acceptable frame-rate at 1024x768 with everything turned on. If you're experiencing slowdown, make sure you have the latest driver. Not many people can afford $400-$500 just for a video card. I would start learning how to optimize/tweak your windows environment, driver settings, and game settings to mazimize your performance instead of wasting money to replace your 7900GT. Also note that F.E.A.R and BF2 are not the GPU killer anymore. your 7900GT will run them just fine. The current GPU killer is Oblivion.I myself just upgraded from radeon 9800pro to X850 pro. CPU is AMD64 3800+. I would have stick with the 9800pro if not for Doom3 and Quake4. Edited June 4, 2006 by pata2001 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danielbb90 Posted June 4, 2006 Report Share Posted June 4, 2006 2gb ramRam is just getting silly now! Really, My laptop has 256mb (64 for the grafix - so inother words 192mb)it works just fine for me, well I don't play high powered games - sim city, the settlers III that kinda game... but 2gb what do you need that for? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mercury_in_flames Posted June 4, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 4, 2006 I was reading somewhere that some games i cant remember if it was FEAR, oblivion, or battlefield 2, but there will be games that just run smoother with more ram. I also like to photoshop once in a while, nothing professional, just retouching etc, and then ram helps. Yes the truth is I would've been fine with 1gb ram, but i thought what the hell, i might as well have two if it will makie my computer that tiny bit faster. So basicly the answer to 'what games?' is 'for the games that can use it'. Yeah computers will run with a very low amount of ram, but you unlock alot of potential when you add more ram. I noticed the laptop I had got quite a bit faster when it went from 512mb ram to 1gb, 128mb of which was used for graphics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tekdroid Posted June 5, 2006 Report Share Posted June 5, 2006 All the best games run off a Hi-MD. Did you expect a better answer on an MD board? Probably better to ask on BF2 forums and so on. But for me personally, 1GB RAM is the bare minimum for BF2. It's a great game. Your system looks juuuustttt fiiiiine. So don't hestitate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pata2001 Posted June 5, 2006 Report Share Posted June 5, 2006 Unless you're using Vista, 1GB is still the sweet spot. Going from 256MB to 512MB, and 512MB to 1GB will show significant improvement in performance. However, there are plenty of benchmarks, inlcuding gaming, that show diminishing return or negligible increase in performance going from 1GB to 2GB. Yes, photoshop does require a lot of memory to run, but there are plenty of freeware simple applications (like Picasa) that will do just fine for simple "touch ups" and doesn't require as much as memory like photoshop.Simple windows tweaks will reduce your memory requirement in the first place. Using windows classic visual, not using wallpaper, disable animations and visual effects, stop programs from loading in the start-up folder and registry, etc will give you free performance boost.Now, Windows Vista is another story. To be able to use Aero glass, you might want to start with 2GB in addition to a DX9 video card with at least 128MB video memory. 1Gb is still the recommended spec for Vista Premium Ready PCs, but you know how Microsoft goes. Who thought 640KB should be enough for anybody... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob F1UK Posted June 5, 2006 Report Share Posted June 5, 2006 Greg,To answer your second post - F.E.A.R is actually optimised for 2GB of RAM, and after playing it on my system with 1GB and then going to 2GB, it did make a difference. Mostly in terms of removing the slight "stutter" associated in running it at high resolutions with the quality settings up high. In other words, F.E.A.R likes 2GB of RAM for textures and the splash effects. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danielbb90 Posted June 5, 2006 Report Share Posted June 5, 2006 I was reading somewhere that some games i cant remember if it was FEAR, oblivion, or battlefield 2, but there will be games that just run smoother with more ram. I also like to photoshop once in a while, nothing professional, just retouching etc, and then ram helps. Yes the truth is I would've been fine with 1gb ram, but i thought what the hell, i might as well have two if it will makie my computer that tiny bit faster. So basicly the answer to 'what games?' is 'for the games that can use it'. Yeah computers will run with a very low amount of ram, but you unlock alot of potential when you add more ram. I noticed the laptop I had got quite a bit faster when it went from 512mb ram to 1gb, 128mb of which was used for graphics.Thanks for the answer, I'll keep that in mind if I ever upgrade the ram on my laptop! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage Posted June 5, 2006 Report Share Posted June 5, 2006 Fear the graphics powerhouse that is my Computer:Athlon XP 2500+Radeon 9800 Pro 256MBand the 1GB of Uber RAM POWER!1!Hey, as so long as it can run the CPU Hog that is the Windows, I'm happy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pata2001 Posted June 6, 2006 Report Share Posted June 6, 2006 I still have a celeron 1GHz, Radeon 32MB (the original Radeon), 448MB RAM, runing win2k for 1 to 2 days non-stop running Bittorrent, and it's perfectly usable and stable. My main music PC is an AthlonXP 1700+, 768MB RAM, Radeon 9000pro 64MB, and I don't see any problems with it, except for winXP itself that will hiccup sometime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mercury_in_flames Posted June 6, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2006 just been checking out 3Dmark06. Mine scored 3901. This benchmarking prog loves dual core processors.Computers with say an AMD Athlon X2 3800, were getting around 7000 to 8000. Hey rob what spec u running? Take the benchmarking test? Anyone else?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob F1UK Posted June 6, 2006 Report Share Posted June 6, 2006 (edited) Greg,My current spec...CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3400+ 512K Newcastle 2.4GHz CPU: Cooling Thermalright SLK-948U w/ Enermax 92mm w/ AS5 Motherboard: MSI K8N Neo Platinum Memory: OCZ Platinum EL 2GB PC3200 (2-3-2-5 T1) Video: Leadtek A400 GT TDH OEM (nVidia FX6800GT 256MB) Storage 1: Seagate Barracuda V 7200.7rpm 120GB SATA Raid 0 Storage 2: Seagate Barracuda V 7200.7rpm 120GB SATA Raid 0 Optical: NEC ND-3500A Black Case: Coolermaster Praetorian Black Case Cooling: Standard Coolermaster Praetorian Case Cooling Power/PSU: Antec NeoPower 480w O/S: Windows XP Professional SP2 w/all current updates Edited June 6, 2006 by Rob F1UK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mercury_in_flames Posted June 6, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2006 cheers. Just spent the afternoon tinkering with the overclocking feature with the utility that came with the gfx card. Ended up with a 4011 score on 3dmark06. pretty sweet, although wish i had a second 7900gt and an X2 4600 cpu to smoke that benchmark lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mercury_in_flames Posted June 8, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 8, 2006 I need some serious help here, i can either get a load of games off steam including far cry, counter strike etc, the full deal of games for 80 dollars or just get battlefield 2 for 40 dollars? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenmachine Posted June 8, 2006 Report Share Posted June 8, 2006 I like (emulated) 'retro' console games like nes, snes, master system, genesis, but i'm propably of no big help here, lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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