Shocking Battlefield 2 Benchmark Results

The Inquirer has been benchmarking the Battlefield 2 demo using various systems, from high spec to not so high spec. They make some frankly shocking discoveries.

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You can play this game on a low end system, however it will look far better on a more powerful PC. We first tested the game with a GeForce 5700LE graphics card on a 2GHz Pentium 4 system with 1GB of memory. This is close to the minimum required system specifications for Battlefield 2. At low resolutions (1024x768), with most of the DirectX 9 effects turned off, the game ran well. However, with these settings, the graphical glory was sadly diminished.

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Bottom line: To run the game smoothly on older hardware you'll have to turn the graphics settings down.

Who'da thunk it?

[L'Inq]

Don't see how this is terribly shocking - I was quite impressed how well it runs on my 9800 pro. Never tried the original so can't compare, but I'm having fun with the demo just playing the bots. I'm new to this whole 'military' shooter lark (CS pi55ed me off) so only waring I'd give is you need highish res to be able to pick out enemy soldiers crouching at a distance.