Battlefield 2 specs & Preview

Sgtshaft

The minimum requirements for Battlefield 2 are:

1.5 GHz CPU
512mb RAM
1.4 shader model videocard being ATI Radeon 8500 or above
NVIDIA Geforce FX or above (Geforce 4 series will not work) :eek: .

The recommended requirements for Battlefield 2 are:

2.5 GHz CPU
1 Gigabyte of RAM
Radeon X800 or higher
Geforce 6800 or higher.

Better get upgrading.

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BloodBath

Damn that's some high recomended specs. Good job I got an upgrade


BloodBath

bizmark

2.5 GHz CPU
1 Gigabyte of RAM
Radeon X800 or higher
Geforce 6800 or higher.

Other than haveing a 9800pro i meet those recommended specs \o/

bus77

I have to get Ram, graphics card, winXP and a dvd drive

The Real B-man

just lack the 6800 but i suppose 6600gt will suffice

Big Nelly

Excalibur Radeon 9800PRO 128Megs DDR RAM
Asus A7n8x Delus athlon XP motherboard
Athlon XP 2800+ with sharkoon silent cooling fan
1GB PC3200 DDR-DIMM
SoundStorm™ / Dolby® Digital Audio
120GB SATA disk
80GB Maxtor IDE HDD(backup)
Windows XP Prof

hopefully that will run it?

petes

Im fooked

The_Bullman

I'm screwed too. My old ti4600 just won't do the job these days

It's suffering in bf:v and poe as it is

Nietzschean

6800gt oc'd sweetness ere

petes

The_Bullman wrote:

I'm screwed too. My old ti4600 just won't do the job these days

It's suffering in bf:v and poe as it is

Have ti 4600 on desktop

now gaming on laptop

i needs more money but to do that have to stop boozing at the weekend...hmmm...tough decision

SoBe

amd64 3200
1.5 gigs of pc3200 ddr400 ram
saphire radion x800xt pe

think im good to go

:eek: oh no wait i donated that rig to my mom,

i have to build a new one now

po0k

Venice/SD A64 ~3500/3700
2x 512 PC3200++
x800XL
should do me for a while

This is one sweet-looking game.

Big Nelly

fli wrote:

amd64 3200
1.5 gigs of pc3200 ddr400 ram
saphire radion x800xt pe

think im good to go

:eek: oh no wait i donated that rig to my mom,

i have to build a new one now

Build your new one and you can donate to the new charity foundation......"Big Nelly Computer Care!"

Deadwing

1gb pc3200 ram
AMD 64 3000
X800 pro 256mb

Just. bring. it.

Nietzschean

Deadwing wrote:

1gb pc3200 ram
AMD 64 3000
X800 pro 256mb

Just. bring. it.

i dunno i don't like just hitting the recommended...its usually not enough to get full proformance out of a game at max res..

Deadwing

i only play at 1024 x 768 so im not pushed about getting anything higher tbh

bizmark

Think my pc willl only manage 1024 x 768 medium detail tbh as we all know dice cant code a game to save their life

RAAAAAAAAAR ctd bug xtream!!!

edboswell

6800 gt oc
1gig pc 4000
3500+ oc

no probs

Nietzschean

you registered to just post that ?? i was expecting impressive specs if it was the point u registered... i was let down...

Anima

Chill out mate.

Nietzschean

Anima wrote:

Chill out mate.

probally should, but caffine this early has me a lil wired. And in fairness, that was like the most pointless reason ever to create an acc....

Anima

Dcully

And in fairness, that was like the most pointless reason ever to create an acc....

Did you stop to think that maybe he had just registered ,saw this interesting thread and replied.
Do you really think the account was made purely for one post? :rolleyes:

Nietzschean

Dcully wrote:

Did you stop to think that maybe he had just registered ,saw this interesting thread and replied.
Do you really think the account was made purely for one post? :rolleyes:

Considering he's on one post, yeah i do. People usually create an account when they want to post first as you don't need one to browse the site, suggesting he created the account to make the post :rolleyes:

bizmark

Fight Fight Fight!!!

Gilgamesh

tbh think it is total Bollocks that the GF 4 cards won't work, they used Smartshader 1.4 too and were MUCH faster the the 8500 ATIs

dregin

Hopefully there'll be a work around of some sort. Ordering another HDD but I just donh't got the cash for a new GFX

Zyox

If it's a physical hardware requirement I doubt you can work around it. It wouldn't even start and your card would just go "argh pfftt ouch" and spew errors.

Serious pity, my ti4600 runs everything ffs, first time I've seen a game do this.

Big Nelly

According to Gamespot they had no probs running on a 9800pro but the big thing is memory....they had 1GB which I have at the moment and the load times took a life time....so its seems memory is the thing to upgrade before anything!!

Spear

Zyox wrote:

If it's a physical hardware requirement I doubt you can work around it. It wouldn't even start and your card would just go "argh pfftt ouch" and spew errors.

Serious pity, my ti4600 runs everything ffs, first time I've seen a game do this.

You're just gonna see more of this. Shaders are more and more important now, and the 4600 only has two v.1.1 pixel shaders. Compare that to a 6800GT with 6 v3.0 shaders instead. Switch up to just 6600GT or so and you'll really notice the difference.

SoBe

bizmark wrote:

Fight Fight Fight!!!

lol,made me laugh

dregin

Spear wrote:

You're just gonna see more of this. Shaders are more and more important now, and the 4600 only has two v.1.1 pixel shaders. Compare that to a 6800GT with 6 v3.0 shaders instead. Switch up to just 6600GT or so and you'll really notice the difference.

The 4600 is his old card. Upgraded to something madly crazy sexy cool. Dunno the model off hand.

/me shakes fist!!11

I have a gig of PC3200 RAM in my machine, that should be enough if it does indeed run.

yawn

can't wait for this

hope my rig can handle it

amd xp 2700+
2.2 ghz
768ram
radeon 9800pro but it can be well oc'd masssive heatsink and 2 cpu fans attached for cooling (300mhz overclocked to 532 :P )
200 gig hdd
80gig backup

freekhead

lol check my sig..............

ill have no worries

Nietzschean

how can a psu be SLI compliant?

freekhead

about of power required to run the two cards

2 x 6 pin PCI-Express VGA Connectors for SLi Compatibility

Winters

Darth Bobo wrote:

how can a psu be SLI compliant?

Its just another 'buzz' word made up by nVidia and used by PSU companies to make their PSU look better then others. Most top quality powerful PSU's would be able to handle SLI no problem, but that extra nvidia sli sticker gives them a extra bit of price and income

freekhead

Winters wrote:

Its just another 'buzz' word made up by nVidia and used by PSU companies to make their PSU look better then others. Most top quality powerful PSU's would be able to handle SLI no problem, but that extra nvidia sli sticker gives them a extra bit of price and income

so your 4 pin molex connector when magicly rubbed will transform into a 6 pin sli connector:)

Nietzschean

freekhead wrote:

so your 4 pin molex connector when magicly rubbed will transform into a 6 pin sli connector:)

It depends, are those extra 2 pin's carrying a different voltage?

Zyox

dregin wrote:

The 4600 is his old card. Upgraded to something madly crazy sexy cool. Dunno the model off hand.

/me shakes fist!!11

I have a gig of PC3200 RAM in my machine, that should be enough if it does indeed run.

6800 Ultra :P

JacoStanley

Can a Dell Dimension 4600 be upgraded from 512mb RAM to 1024mb? If so, any links as to where I can buy it??

po0k

Darth Bobo wrote:

It depends, are those extra 2 pin's carrying a different voltage?

No, it doesn't "depend.

The SLI power connector on the card can easily be fed from two standard 4-pin molex connectors, as long as your PSU can supply the required power.

Get a solid 550W ATX12V ver.2.0 PSU and you can run just about any sort of uni-processor SLI rig (not accounting for luxuries like 10-disk raid5 arrays etc.)

po0k

JacoStanley wrote:

Can a Dell Dimension 4600 be upgraded from 512mb RAM to 1024mb? If so, any links as to where I can buy it??

www.shop4memory.com - based in Celbridge, Co. Kildare.

Nietzschean

SyxPak wrote:

No, it doesn't "depend.

well it does(as diff voltage would make combination hard...), but irrelevent as same voltage.

The SLI power connector on the card can easily be fed from two standard 4-pin molex connectors, as long as your PSU can supply the required power.

So in actuality then ye could just supply it off one 4 pin molex ? This one of those things like the 6800 ultra having 2 power connectors on it?

po0k

Yeah, pretty much, though *ideally* you'd configure the 12V to balance the rails as much as possible (highly dependent on your PSU config).

Most adapters use two Molex into one SLI, gives you a bit of flexibility.

JacoStanley

SyxPak wrote:

www.shop4memory.com - based in Celbridge, Co. Kildare.

Cheers for that, quite reasonably priced. However, can I just buy another stick of 512mb to upgrade my existing 512 or will I have to buy a 1gb stick and remove what I have already?

Winters

Depends on your motherboard.

If you have slots free you can just buy more ram and add it in. You can mix and match 512 and 1gb sticks of ram.

po0k

Though having matched pairs is advisable in a P4 system to avail of dual-channel.

if you have one stick of 512Meg already, buy another stick of 512 at the same clock speed and timings.

JacoStanley

I just went and bought something online. When I get it, I'll stick it in and see what happens. Until then, thank you very much./