Hummeth wrote:
Yeah, ATI X300, I need a new card.
Oooo. Feel your pain. It was a cool card for Call of Duty or Counter Strike, but BF2, being the system hog that it is, really is pushing it.
If anybody has a x200, x300, or x300SE, know that updating your drivers from ATI.com is one of THE best things you can do. It really helps. And if the graphics are a real letdown for you, I offset it when I had mine by turning the audio quality all the way up to high. I had a decent sound card but I believe onboard audio allows the settings to be turned up to Medium at the least. The audio sounds soooooo good when set to Medium or High. It made me understand why BF2 was so glorious in the beginning. It still is now, but a few more flaws are present in the game.
With the x300 and x300SE, I found that 512MB of RAM with a screen resolution of 1024x768 will allow for ONE medium setting at around 25-29fps. I once tried upping all settings to Medium and got around 7fps. (I thought I could've gotten a purple heart, but i was very close at 4 and 19.) Note that if your Resolution is set higher than 1024x768, the video card will have to work much more than the RAM or CPU. Of course, I believe all Medium settings can be put on a 800x600 game with no lag, but everything looks so damn big - it sucks. So my advice is up the audio quality or mess around with the Video settings to find the perfect balance between performance and quality.
I later upgraded to an x800 256MB and then most recently to a x1800 256MB. Best $400 I ever spent.
Last edited by clncmmndr (2006-05-30 17:12:30)