will this run ps good?

[Mr.Painless]

hi, im your friendly neighborhood noob
i was wondering what would run Planetside good
as soon as i save up money for ram and a better graphics card, heres what i'll have:

Pentium 4 1.8 Ghz Processor
ATI Radeon 9600 Pro 128 MB Graphics Card
768 MB of RAM
16x DVD-ROM drive
1x 80 GB Hard Drive

how well will this run Planetside?



Mr.Painless

[TeraHertz]

Should do pretty well, but planetside doesn't operate in the realms of normal PC buliding sence. Wheras I would think it insanity to have a gig of ram unless you're a 3D modeler or the like, PS seems to have the worst memory management/ client side load I've seen. Ever. I dont know what it is, maybe something to do with how they manage to get so many people fighting in the same area.

[Biohazzard56]

wait until you can get the 1 GB of RAM try www.pricewatch.com

[STEALTHKILLER]

Planetside is like the devil. Its a monster lag machine, and will cuase your computer to grow horns and be engulfed in flames if you dont have a good computer.

[SilverLord]

I run the same loadout but I have 640 RAM and I just run on low settings and in bit zerg battles I get 20-30 FPS.

[Kikinchikin]

I run 1024 Ram. I even lag occasinally. But the new patch that they released not only took care of the crazy long load times, but i can get about 30 FPS in zerg conditions so its all good.

[Jagd]

768mb of RAM will do you just fine, as long as you tweak your virtual memory settings in windows a little and defrag your hard drives every couple months. Prior to Core Combat I ran 20-60 FPS depending on the scenario, and finally after the Nov 14 patch (the 3rd of 4 since CC came out) I am back to running smoothly again. I have 768mb RAM, P4 1.8GHz and a lowly Radeon 7500 64mb.

[Spee]

Jesus, Jagd. you have almost the same compy as me...


768 DDR PC2100, Celeron 1.7 GHz, 7500 64 mb

[Jagd]

Yeah but does yours have wheels on it?






Neither does mine.

[Mr.Painless]

jagd, how do you change virtual memory settings?

[Jagd]

Well how I do it is right-click on My Computer, click on the Performance tab, then click on the Virtual Memory button. Click "Let me specify my own virtual memory settings" and pick a hard drive with plenty of room. I set my minimum to 1024 mb (that's a gig) and my maximum to 4096 (4 gigs) and clicked ok. You probably don't need a maximum that big, but keep the minimum high so that you always have at least a gig of virtual memory reserved. This works for most Windows as far as I know, but I don't have XP so your milage may vary.

Apparently the problems I was having before were that Windows only blocks off the minimum size of virtual memory on your hard drive and when the game overflows that space (which it will) it then has to go push files around and create a bigger swap file, which translates into mucho lagolo. So keep your minimum at a gig, and your maximum as high as you feel is necessary. I think 4gigs is probably overkill, but oh well I've got 2 60 gig hard drives and only one of them is full of porn, so what the hey.