Lowest Specs Possible for BF2 Vanilla?

[[AE]LoneWolf]

i wanna know, i MUST know if anyone can beat my super low specs...see my sig, but to be more specific. (i cant speel)

Dell Inspiron 8600 (Laptop)
15.1 SWXGA Screen :)
Windows Pro
Pentium M @ 1.6 Ghz
512MB DDR Ram @ 400 Mhz (actually might be 533mhz)
NVIDIA Geforce FX GO 5200 (32 MB!!!) tweaked to perfection with all the fix'ns at 245/490 MHZ
All settings on low (aa,af,dynamic lighting off) 1024 X 768 [NO VIDEO LAG!!!!]
80 GB Maxtor (5400 RPM)

Have a page file of 4096mb (i know i dont NEED thatmuch, but hey.)

for Special forces, i have to lower it to 800 X 600 for no vid lag

:p

[maranello]

Re: Lowest Specs Possible for BF2 Vanilla?

My laptop:

HP pavillion zv5000
AMD Athlon 64 3700+ <- (yours is 1.6)
1 GB RAM <- (yours is 512mb)
80 GB 5400 RPM
GeForce 4400 Go 64MB <- (yours is 32)

doesn't run it.

How did you get it to run?

[« R²» HKS]

Re: Lowest Specs Possible for BF2 Vanilla?

His works because he has an FX5200 and your laptop maranello only has an FX4400. Bf2 doesn't work on 4 series cards only 5 and up series.

Suprised he can run it in 1024x768 though.

[maranello]

Re: Lowest Specs Possible for BF2 Vanilla?

His works because he has an FX5200 and your laptop maranello only has an FX4400. Bf2 doesn't work on 4 series cards only 5 and up series.

Suprised he can run it in 1024x768 though.

damn:hmm: I thought there was hope:cry:

so no way to get this working with this video card?

[Robske007a]

Re: Lowest Specs Possible for BF2 Vanilla?

Lowest specs able to play BF2 i've ever seen, its a miracle that you were able to tweak your graphiccard that much

[sp187mf9]

Re: Lowest Specs Possible for BF2 Vanilla?

Wow that is amazing. What fps do you get?

[Robske007a]

Re: Lowest Specs Possible for BF2 Vanilla?

damn:hmm: I thought there was hope:cry:

so no way to get this working with this video card?

A very small chance... very small... by overclocking it.

For nVidea: Coolbits
For Ati: Ati Tool
Rivatuner

Do you have all latest drivers?

[ledbythereaper]

Re: Lowest Specs Possible for BF2 Vanilla?

Read the back of the box...but the game will run on a FX5200.

[maranello]

Re: Lowest Specs Possible for BF2 Vanilla?

A very small chance... very small... by overclocking it.

For nVidea: Coolbits
For Ati: Ati Tool
Rivatuner

Do you have all latest drivers?

Yeah I do, but the problem is my card doesn't have 2.1 shader support. I dont think overclocking it will change anything.

[InsaneKitty]

Re: Lowest Specs Possible for BF2 Vanilla?

nope geforce 4 series are not supported, it won't work in a milion years
if its a swapable videocard, you could swap it for something like a 9700 and you can play bf2 without any problems on your laptop.

as for the topicstarter, a Pentium M 1.6 ghz is allot faster than you think, its comparable with a p4 3 ghz, so its not weird it works, but some extra ram wont hurt either.
the vga isnt that good, but hey it works :P and it can be swaped if you want to.

to bad swapping a notebook vga is quite expensive

[[AE]LoneWolf]

Re: Lowest Specs Possible for BF2 Vanilla?

nope geforce 4 series are not supported, it won't work in a milion years
if its a swapable videocard, you could swap it for something like a 9700 and you can play bf2 without any problems on your laptop.

as for the topicstarter, a Pentium M 1.6 ghz is allot faster than you think, its comparable with a p4 3 ghz, so its not weird it works, but some extra ram wont hurt either.
the vga isnt that good, but hey it works :P and it can be swaped if you want to.

to bad swapping a notebook vga is quite expensive

OOOOOdidnt know that about pentium M!!!! and the laptop was actually FREE through a deal my dad got with his company!

and i tweaked like a mo fo, and used nvidia drivers 77.60, anything higher is based on high quality for vanilla, so maybe you should keep that in mind too. And if you dont want to take risks OCing, i use the omega drivers on my old desktop

P4 1.7Ghz
384MB RAMBUS (RDRAM) [ewww....i know, but is it any good?]
Geforce FX 5500 (256 MB) Agp 4x Oced preety high too, mostly low some med
and raptor HDD

IF YOU HAVE CRAPTASTIC COMPS THAT YOU WANT TO RUN BF2 SEND ME AN EMAIL AND I"LL TELL YOU EVERYTHING I DID!!!

theoneandonlydpk@gmail.com

still the Question remains, can no one beat my laptop?!?!?

:p

[i made you]

Re: Lowest Specs Possible for BF2 Vanilla?

Why would you play the game on a piece of sh*t like that? You can build a PC 4x better than that for $500.

[[AE]LoneWolf]

Re: Lowest Specs Possible for BF2 Vanilla?

Why would you play the game on a piece of sh*t like that? You can build a PC 4x better than that for $500.

because i'm a starving college student who has a sh*ty job, and spends too much on his girlfriend, assh*le

[[AE]LoneWolf]

Re: Lowest Specs Possible for BF2 Vanilla?

My laptop:

HP pavillion zv5000
AMD Athlon 64 3700+ <- (yours is 1.6)
1 GB RAM <- (yours is 512mb)
80 GB 5400 RPM
GeForce 4400 Go 64MB <- (yours is 32)

doesn't run it.

How did you get it to run?

i dont think shader support matters, the 5200 only has 1.1 (i know cause i couldnt run chaos theory very well, or Silent Hill 4)

the first thing i think you should do is download the 77.6 drivers, and coolbits 1 and 2, overclock and tweak your settings nicely. Try that, and dont forget to defrag in safe mode!!!!

how do you tell what fps you have? cause i think i once saw it at 30, maybe i was drunk...dont know.

[Systems]

Re: Lowest Specs Possible for BF2 Vanilla?

How do you get around the heat concerns with the overclocking? I'm pretty sure there's no way to get an after market cooler on a laptop card ... is there?? If heats not much of an issue, then hell, I'll overclock my ATI Mobile x700 ^__^

how do you tell what fps you have? cause i think i once saw it at 30, maybe i was drunk...dont know.

Type in the following to console w/o the " ... "renderer.drawfps 1" change the 1 to a 0 to turn the fps off