Hulo Thar

Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 4:10 pm

Hi all,
I used to play BF2 and 2142 in this clan a couple of years back. With the arrival of BC2, I'm considering returning (hurrah! Wink

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Anyone got experience of playing this with a E6300 dual core and 8800GT or similar? Even at low settings on a 1280x1024, aslong as it's playable im fine.

Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 2:44 am

hi nitro, there's a few of the old bf2 lads returning. not using those components myself, but i would say it'll run it on low smooth enough. i think omimace is using one of those cards in his kids pc so he'll know. the game seems to be very heavy on cpu's, quad cores are ideal, but should be ok. that cpu will overclock really well if need be Twisted Evil

, throttle it and spank it untill it plays Twisted Evil

Community Founder Joined: Jun 30, 2005 Posts: 3628

Hello Nitrokid Very Happy

Been a while, nice to hear from you Cool

That card should run the game ok as we got a member who is running with a 8800GTS which is the card one down from yours.
As for the processor I am not sure hopefully someone here is running similler.
Cheers
|2es-mrix

Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 9:49 am

The CPU may be a bit of a bottleneck. I'm sure it would be able to cope with low settings but I don't think it will stretch much beyond that. As said you may be able to squeeze it with a bit of an overclock.

Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 10:44 am

Cheers guys, may pick this up today or tomorrow.

So, I'd first be looking to up to quad first before upping my graphics? I dontm ind playing on low for a while anyway so no rush. Just wanted bare minimum playability Smile

Joined: Aug 13, 2007 Posts: 571 Location: Birmingham

Yes the kids are actually using a 9600GT and runs fine, this game definatly seesm to be CPU heavy rather than graphics. LOL there card still loads quicker than mine just being Nvidia and not ATI.

Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 1:38 pm

*shakes fist at AMD/ATI*

Community Founder Joined: Jun 30, 2005 Posts: 3628

I have noticed the first signs of the New Nvidia card releases as if you go to download the latest drivers for Nvidia cards they have added the 300 series drivers in the list Cool

Cheers
|2es-mrix

Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 3:20 pm

Well, to update, got this running last night, all at stock clocks for CPU and Gfx. All settings were medium at 1280x1024 and Playclaw's fps meter was usually between 20-30. It was still playable funnily enough with no uberproblematic jitters

Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 3:21 pm

Oh, and it's good to be back Wink

Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 3:25 pm

Nice one

Cya on the battlefield fella!

Joined: Nov 21, 2007 Posts: 650

these are the settings im usung with a E8400 O/C to 3.6 gfx card doesnt mater but im running a GTX285 but its onlu using about 40% in GPU Z and getting around 50/60 fps in battle

Width=1680
Height=1050
Fullscreen=true
RefreshRate=60
VSync=false
[Sound]
Quality=high
VoipEnable=false
SpeakerCount=0
[Graphics]
Effects=low
Soldiers=medium
Vehicles=medium
Overgrowth=medium
Undergrowth=medium
StaticObjects=medium
Terrain=medium
Shadows=low
Bloom=false
HSAO=false
MSAA=0
Water=low
MainQuality=custom
Texture=low
DxVersion=auto
Aniso=0
Detail=medium
RenderAheadLimit=0
Fov=65

Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 10:50 am

I haven't messed around with the settings files yet, but I upped the E6300 to 2.1Ghz last night, GFX still at stock and managed to play with High settings (chosen at ingame options) at between 30-40FPS with minimal noticable jitter last night. Maybe I'm getting away with it due to the lower resolution than many of the benchmarks online are done in.