BF2S Forums Question to run BF2 in High video mode ?

Fuzzball_the_Shooter wrote:

Your processor is the same as mine, and that will slow you down QUITE a bit if you put it on all high.

That's is why I need to know if just changing the video card is enough or Do I need to change processor too ?.

You would have to upgrade your CPU aswell
I'm running with a 3800+ dual core. You won't need that big. A straight 3800+ should do the trick.

The gfx card would only run to the best performance with the balance of work from the CPU, like the poster above said, a bad CPU would lead to a bottlenect with the performance of a good gfx card. For you, you need a better CPU, mobo and gfx card to improve performance. Just splurging on a good gfx card would barely achieve any more performance from that old CPU and mobo you have. If you have the money, go get a decent AMD Athlon 64 3200+ on a Socket 939 Mobo that supports PCI-E x16 Graphics and get a nVidia 6 Series and above gfx card and you will be amazed. If you just upgrade even to a top-of-the-line GeForce 7900GTX would not give you any better performance than you have now. Also 1.5 GHZ DDR RAM is also a problem of performance as that would not even give you good latency for data flow and transfers, causing even more bottleneck in performance.

Final Solution: Get a new system. That is the only good way to go for better performance.

Last edited by BlackLegion42 (2006-04-21 20:56:42)

Or if you want the ub3r-kool Intel Conroe... Wait till Fall or Winter and by that time, the new nVidia gfx cards will also be out I think... Or if you don't have that kind of money, get the AMD Socket 939 for cheap prices and you still would be amazed in the difference it can make.