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Personal preference. I prefer smooth outlines with 4xAA and high geometries over the dynamic shadows in BF2 which are poorly done anyway. The buildings etc still have shadow casts. The only noticeable difference is the troops and vehicles which lack shadows and that's fine for me as I don't like the way they've been done.
ok i can understand the personal preference thing but how are they done badly? what do you find wrong with them?... not flaming just asking?
I have a MSI 6600GT here, overclocked, and can run at the "High" overall setting which is pretty much everything on High except textures and lighting. With 4xAA. Since it lagged like a mofo with textures and lighting on high, I'll try following one of your suggestions and setting just one of those on high.
Honestly, I'm not complaining about this card at all, for only $150, it's a huge step up from my Radeon 9550. I can't justify paying $300 more for a 7800 that lets me bump the settings up just a tiny bit more.
I manage to put textures, ,texture filtering, terrain and geometry on high and everything else on medium with 2xAA. It manages around 40-50fps on average.
Well I was NOT complaining about my 6600GT card, fact is I knew when I bought it that it was more of a minimum upgrade just to play BF2. (My last card was a Ti and didnt support DX9). My only thing is that I do notice a diff between Low and Med textures, I thought the 128MB would only allow low textures so until I broke down and got a 256 card I couldnt get the better textures. I am only wondering what the difference is for the people on here who can run Med textures with the same card. There must be some other thing that is allowing the better textures beside the 6600's onboard RAM. This is important because I have two choices to upgrade, both are about $300 bucks.
Option 1 - New CPU($150)/RAM($110)/Motherboard($70)= ~330
Advantages - Going to much newer/faster CPU include FSB going from 266 to 1000. Extra stick of RAM will give me matching pair, can run Dual Channel on new board. New MB has AGP4/8 but also PCIe x16 so I can use same video card but get PCIe slot to upgrade later. Will also make whole system better not just 3D applications like BF2.
Downside - pain in the *** with motherboard replacement prolly a whole Win install. Computer is plenty fast except for BF2, why not just get the better vid card and call it a day.
Option 2 - 6600GT 128 >> 6800GT 256 ~$300
Advantages - Easy! Vid card is best upgrade for BF2 if have enough RAM etc already. Just a card swap.
Disadvantages - Current MB has no PCIe slot, there are few AGP cards available now, and will certainly be hard to find AGP motherboard in the future to support an expensive AGP card purchased now.
Current System
Gigabyte GA-7DX Board (Old but good)
AMD XP Socket A 2.1
1.5 GB OCZ RAM (1GB+256+256)
XFX 6600GT 128
Audigy Gamer
p.s.- Have already spent $50 for game, $80 for new sound card, $150 for new vid card to play this game... add another $300 upgrade and I will be pushing $600 invested in BF2. Not to mention countless hours playing. There is an option 3 upgrade not mentioned - hack up and sell off current computer, use funds to buy laptop that doesnt play BF2 - then go outside - possibly get sunshine, or converse with people about something besides tactics and enemy dispositions
Thanks for the response guys! I have larned alot, i am thinking about overclocking, but i have never dome that before so i am weary, without all teh shadows i can run at like 80 to 90 FPS
I have a 9800Pro and I play lag free with all settings on high draw distance 100, everything on, 2xFSAA 8xAF 1024x768 32bit
But i have 1.75GB of Ram. 1GB+256mb+512MB DDR400@333
when I had 768mb only...it ran for shiiit. the RAM makes a BIG BIG BIG difference.
Ok, tell us how much u overclocked your ****? Or how the hell do u do this because i have 9800 pro, 1 gig of ram, p4 2.8, I run everything on med, and maybe 1 or 2 things on high with very little lag but if i put anyhting else up i can tell its lagging. Plz tell me. lol
I am running on a AMD athlon 64 3000+ 2.1GH GeiL 512 PC 3200 X2 memory K8n platinum mobo and a 160GB HD.
i have the same rig as your except for the mobo and add another gb of memory. i have the Nvidia 6660GT and i play on high and it doesnt give me any problemes.
The ram is the key. Im running 2 computers with a 6600 256mb ddr pcie on 1 and a 6600 256mb agp on the other. The pcie machine has 3 gig of ram and the agp has 1 gig. They both run the game ok but the agp one can only run low and medium settings mixed, the pcie can run everything at max, all higest settings.
Yes thats 6600 not the better 6600 gt. So I would say if you try and get as much ram as you can, around 2 gig you should be set. ok. Red
lol Just today I was talking to one of my friend and I asked what card he had he said a x300 I was like cool you run all your game on high ? he said yeah all on HIGH. I told him that a x300 and 1 gig Is not enough to run BF2 on high he was like hell no BF2 does not look that good, I run doom on all high and doom graphics look way better, I just said some stupid ****...I think I told him he was a homo lol
i have a pc with 2 gigs, 3.2ghz, and a 6800gt, all settings on high 4xaa, highest res. and my other pc is 2 gigs, 3.2ghz, 6600 256mb, settings on mediem, no aa.
p.s.- Have already spent $50 for game, $80 for new sound card, $150 for new vid card to play this game... add another $300 upgrade and I will be pushing $600 invested in BF2. Not to mention countless hours playing. There is an option 3 upgrade not mentioned - hack up and sell off current computer, use funds to buy laptop that doesnt play BF2 - then go outside - possibly get sunshine, or converse with people about something besides tactics and enemy dispositions
Funny stuff. Sad... but true. BTW go with option 1, you'll see a much bigger improvement in performance.
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