Battlefield2

[Softytop]

Just played the demo and ive jus bought the game from play.com, gees its a thirsty game really demanding on the system, time for an upgrade to 2gb from 512mb i think. should make huge diference

[leeglf]

i upgraded from 1gb to 2gb and it made a big difference so i guess going from 512mb to 2gb will make a massive difference!

[GoNz0]

yep go for it

[Mutley]

ooooh, 512mb is going to hurt in BF2. I upgraded to 1Gb and that really helped. I've just upgraded to 2Gb to extend the life of my system. I've yet to try BF2 on 2Gb, but I fully expect it to further improve the game.

Lots of video RAM helps as well, in some cases more than having a really powerful GPU, at least thats been my experience. BF2 works well with GFX cards that have 256Mb RAM.

[cptwhite_uk]

Definately the game engine isn't actually *that* demanding, in terms of raw power - but lots of vid RAM and system RAM as really important

Until to upgrade set the textures to low (Game will use about 300+Mb System RAM with low textures) put the other settings to low/medium...don't know your vid card or cpu so you'll have judge the resoluition

X600/5600/9600 = 800x600 noAA (ouch!)
9800pro / 5700Ultra + / 6600 = 1024x768 noAA
X700pro/6600GT = 1024x768 2xAA
X800/6800 = 1280x1024 (with AA if it's a pro/XT/ultra/GT)
X1800/7600GT + = 1600x1200 with some AA

Rough guide ^ completely estimated, but I reckon that'll be quite close.

[Ferral]

A lot of games at the min are actually running better on 2 Gb of system rameven though it is not on the recommended specs. However 1 Gb should do just fine for medium settings and detail. Make sure you get the 400 Mhz stuff also, wish I had got that instead of the 333.

[Softytop]

Excellent ive got a 6800gs and it gets held back alot by the memory

[Syd]

I bought an extra GB of ram and it really helped, and shortened loading times!!
Can anyone help, whenever I try and set AA on I get a message saying Reload game to take effect, then when I reload it has defaulted back to no AA.

Running X1800XT256

[Ferral]

Have you got latest drivers etc installed and AA set to either app control or enabled in the control panel. Also is the game patched up to current build ?

Finally, I havn't actually got Battlefield 2 so this is a stab in the dark ! Does it use HDR at all, if it does and you have it enabled you can't use AA with HDR.