Will this much ram be good?

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  • c'tan_man

    #1

    Will this much ram be good?

    Hi, i am going to upgrade to 512 megabites of ram. Since its a minimum req. Will the game still play good? I upgraded to a 6600 graphics card also.
  • AFEDslayer

    #2
    yea its minimum- your still gonna take a long time to load- i would recommend 1gig-2gigs.

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    • aznsensation18

      #3
      yeah....1GB is fair enough....512mb isn't that bad...but you might be running everything on low.....

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      • 5bjoshua

        #4
        Yep 1 gig at least, i had 756 before and it ran awful then to a gig and it runs fine now.

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        • alextaylor29
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          • Sep 2006
          • 196

          #5
          How about 4 gigs? I have 2 now and played with the idea of filling up all my slots for 4 Gig's. Any advantage in that?

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          • HavanaAffair

            #6
            Wouldnt you rather spend the money on a nice new coat?

            I've got 2 Gigs and everything runs great now. I had 512 and i had loader loadings, much more ingame lag and at the start of a game it took like 10-20 where i couldnt move at all. I put 2 gig in and it loads a little quicker, only a little, but the game starts straight away with no 10-15 seconds lag at the start of a match and theres hardly any lag in game, ive got mostly med settings. I really dont see any need for 4 Gig, if everythings running smoothly why waste the money.

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            • alextaylor29
              Member
              • Sep 2006
              • 196

              #7
              Perhaps RAM is like horsepower? More is never enough.

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              • coco

                #8
                Originally posted by aznsensation18
                yeah....1GB is fair enough....512mb isn't that bad...but you might be running everything on low.....
                How much RAM you have will not influence your video settings. :|:

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                • aznsensation18

                  #9
                  yeah 4 gigs is a bit much....that is a little overboard.....2 is fine...i run 1.5 gigs everything on HIGH x2AA ....when i start a game it lags for 2-5 seconds...that is all

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                  • aznsensation18

                    #10
                    How much RAM you have will not influence your video settings.
                    low ram....good graphics card equals stuttering during gameplay..????

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                    • coco

                      #11
                      Originally posted by aznsensation18
                      low ram....good graphics card equals stuttering during gameplay..????
                      No you said ...

                      Originally posted by aznsensation18
                      512mb isn't that bad...but you might be running everything on low.....
                      The 2nd quote isnt true. You could have 2gig and a FX5200, but you will still have all the in game video settings on low.

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                      • HavanaAffair

                        #12
                        Yeah, you need both really, having more RAM doesnt increase the proformance of the graphics card but having low ram impares it? not litterly becuase there seperate things but think with me here. I think that 1-2G is more than enough. 2#s great, anymore than 2 is a waste of hard ernt money

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                        • ODD-BALL

                          #13
                          Originally posted by skunk-dogz
                          How much RAM you have will not influence your video settings. :|:

                          Yes it will. when you launch the game, all those pretty textures (or other misc. info) get loaded into memory (RAM) and if you do not have enough memory (RAM), some of them end up in virtual memory on your hard drive. If your video card requests one of those textures, the hard drive will have to serve it up, quite slowly compared to RAM. Meanwhile, your video card will start to lag behind while waiting for its requested info to arrive from your slow ass hard drive. If you have 2 gigs of ram, you can listen to mp3s while playing BF2 and still have plenty of RAM left over. its all very technical.

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                          • coco

                            #14
                            i stand corrected then.
                            thanks.,

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                            • aznsensation18

                              #15
                              yeah odd-ball broke it down into computer talk ahhah....sorry ahahahh

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