For the Battlefield Players

[Arnwyn]

Well that seals it...I am not buying it,

Yeah, that goes for me as well.

Not to mention the fact that my 128MB GeForce 4 Ti4400 is unsupported. Forget it.

 

[ender_wiggin]

What are the minimum and recommended specs?

 

[Lazybones]

A couple of posts above yours I posted my specs, and I can play smooth with an average fps of around 30 to 40. Have you enabled antialiasing or forced anisotropy in your drivers? Turning that down of off should help because your PC should beat the crap out of mine and play this game silky smooth.

I'll fool around with those settings. My main point was that many, many people whose specs exceed the minimum are having real problems (up to 30 seconds a click just to navigate menus, etc.).

 

[KenM]

What are the minimum and recommended specs?

Battlefield 2 has the following minimum requirements. If your computer does not meet these requirements, the game will not run properly if at all.

Windows XP (32 bit version) with Administrator rights.
1.7 GHz or faster processor.
512 MB or more RAM.
Supported 128 MB video card with the newest manufacturer drivers.
CD Version, 8x or faster CD/DVD drive.
DVD version, 8x or faster DVD drive.
2.3 GB free hard disk space plus space for the Windows swap file and save data.
If you would like to take advantage of the higher detail video settings Battlefield 2 offers, we recommend the following specifications.

2.4 GHz or faster processor.
1 GB or more RAM.
Supported 256 MB video card with the newest manufacturer drivers.
Supported Processors:

Intel Pentium 4, Xeon, Extreme Edition, Celeron D.
AMD Athlon XP, Athlon 64, Athlon 64-FX, Sempron.
Supported Video Cards:

ATI Radeon

X700 (PCIe), X600 (PCIe), X800 XT Platinum Edition, X800 PRO, X300 series.
9800 series, 9700 series, 9600 series, 9559 (RV350LX), 9500 series, 8500 seies.
NVIDIA GeForce

6600 (PCIe), PCX 5900 (PCIe).
5800 series (AGP).
6800 Ultra, 6800 GT, 6800.
FX 5950 series, FX 5900 series, FX 5700 series.

I have an Althlon 2400 CPU, runs at 2.0 Ghz, 1.5 GB of DDR RAM, a 256 MB Gforce 6800 GT video card and I still have issues to get it to run at high. I have my video settings set to 1024 x 768, 2x anti allissiang, everthing on medium except geometry, thats on high. I can run Doom 3 at 1280 x 1024 everything on high, 2x AA with no problems.I have not played Half Life 2, so I don't know how that will run on my system. But I heard the new BF2 engine is based off of the HL2 engine.
Tonight when I tryed to play, I kept getting kicked from severs, most I stayed on a server for was like 10 minutes. SO I just got frustraded and stopped. EA best fix this, and fast.

 

[The_lurkeR]

I'll fool around with those settings. My main point was that many, many people whose specs exceed the minimum are having real problems (up to 30 seconds a click just to navigate menus, etc.).

You can help speed up loading the game and navigating the menus by turning off the movies.
Unfortunately EA/Dice didn't give an option for this, but you can still do it easily. Locate the folder

... (wherever you installed it)...\Battlefield 2\mods\bf2\Movies

Right-click the "Movies" folder and choose rename. Name it anything else, I chose "Movies_off". That's it you're done. Load Battlefield and you'll go straight to the login screen, and you won't have the movies playing in the background of the menu system.


Another easy way to speed up the game play without sacrificing too much is to turn down the Dynamic Shadows to 'low' or 'off'. Or also the 'Dynamic Lighting'. (ALthough I like leaving that one on, since it plays smoothly for me at 1024x768 with everything else at Medium.

(Athlon XP 3000'ish (Overclocked) 1GB PC3200 DDR, ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128 meg.)

 

[ender_wiggin]

Would it be possible to play this game on a laptop? That is, a new laptop.

Without too much chunking.

 

[KenM]

Would it be possible to play this game on a laptop? That is, a new laptop.

Without too much chunking.

If your laptop meets the specs, it will run.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Would it be possible to play this game on a laptop? That is, a new laptop.

Without too much chunking.

It runs great on my year old laptop. Obviously, though, its the specs that really matter.

 

[KenM]

Most of the chunking, IMO are due to overloaded servers, and a poorly tested netcode from EA, IMO.

 

[ender_wiggin]

I'm no expert, but I noticed that the supported processers don't take into consideration the differences inherent in "mobility" laptop processers.