Okay i have a 2600+ 1 gig ram, and a ati 9600 and a 256k dsl connection. im wondering if this is enough for battlefield 2. How would it go in a 64 player server? what about in high traffic situations with lots of players, explosions and vehicles moving around, would it be slow and crappy?

Am i right in thinking to play without ANY lag, i should have a 4200+ 2 Gig ram, 7800GTX and a 1500k DSL or better connection.

Okay i have a 2600+ 1 gig ram, and a ati 9600 and a 256k dsl connection. im wondering if this is enough for battlefield 2. How would it go in a 64 player server? what about in high traffic situations with lots of players, explosions and vehicles moving around, would it be slow and crappy?

Yes

Am i right in thinking to play without ANY lag, i should have a 4200+ 2 Gig ram, 7800GTX and a 1500k DSL or better connection.

No
Don't confuse LATENCY with FRAMERATE
In simple terms, latency is about your signal going from your connection to the server. This is made worse when you lose packets of this inforamation ie when you seem to "teleport" a couple of metres all of a sudden. The info displaying what occurred in the stuff you never got to see was lost or dropped.

I have a 1500/256 connection an get an avg of 70 ping to it's servers even when I'm sharing the connection with a few mates on our LAN. As to framerate, I play on a P43.0 Ghz with 2gig ram and a 7800GS and get around 40fps on average with my vid settings ranging from high to medium even under instense activity

If you want to have a look at your framerate in game bring down teh console (use the ~ key) and type in
renderer.drawfps 1

Play a round and have a look at it when everything gets really active. If it drops below 20 frequently you need to either upgrade (as you've indicated) or lower your settings even more and forget about enjoying the eye candy that is BF2

No
Don't confuse LATENCY with FRAMERATE

On slower systems, you can get mouse lag in BF2.

It's not necessarily choppy, but controls are delayed .. which can be mistaken for server lag.

^ ah yeah, good point been so long I'd forgotten about that

oh my god 40 fps on a 7800GS, jesus christ this game is thirsty

Hmmm, I'm thinking that maybe my computer wouldn't handle this after all. Am I right to compare BF2 with Half Life 2 in terms of requirements?

I'll have to do a bit of digging around for the minimum requirements to see if I can play it. I doubt I'll be able to.

Am I right to compare BF2 with Half Life 2 in terms of requirements?

BF2 has higher requirements, such as requiring at least 1.5GB of memory to prevent swapping (as opposed to 1GB being sufficient for HL2).

Yes, many people get by in BF2 with 1GB, but more helps for sure.

i have:
AMD 3200 939
6600gt
1 gig of ram

and bf2 runs flawlessly on high detail at 1024*768

No
Don't confuse LATENCY with FRAMERATE
In simple terms, latency is about your signal going from your connection to the server. This is made worse when you lose packets of this inforamation ie when you seem to "teleport" a couple of metres all of a sudden. The info displaying what occurred in the stuff you never got to see was lost or dropped.

Hehehe >:) If your CPU is chugged up it wont have time to send a packet and you'll get your packet loss, creating latency issues :D

Is it really latency problems if your CPU is the bottleneck? Is latency technically only the single from your modem and back? So if your CPU chugs up is it still latency or called something else with the same end effect?

I used to play BF2 on my system
AMD 2100+
768 meg ram
128 meg 9600xt
cabl0r internet

I have most settings down to medium at 800x600 it ran just fine..

last edited by Tollaz0r! at 19:05:33 25/Apr/06

oh my god 40 fps on a 7800GS, jesus christ this game is thirsty

Don't freak out too much
I'm running a pretty old machine and running @ 1024x768

CPU: P4 3.0Ghz
Mobo: Asus P4G8X-Deluxe (533 bus)
RAM: 4x512mb @PC2100 ram (limited to that speed by the chipset)
S/Card: Audigy DS
Drives: 2x WD80 Gig SATA in Raid0 (OS & Games are installed on Raid)

Seperate drives for storage etc

The game wil run s*** on your system dude.

ram i find is a big facctor to me. my system chugged heaps and then i put an extra 1.5gb in a now its sweet. but you will need a fat gfx card