Low budget, good graphics card, sh*tty processor

Venoxile · 2003-01-02, 02:41 PM

Would planetside run on a
-AMD Athlon 1.3 gig
-Radeon 9700 Pro 128 mb
-256 mb ram

with a constant of 60 fps with good details?
I saw the requirements but those are the bare minimum, and do i really need htat much ram? That's insane. I'm guessing my 1.3 gig athlon isn't good enough to run it though, and I'm really not lookin forward to spending 200-300$ on a new processor.

afex · 2003-01-02, 02:46 PM

you already have a pimp card, and new cpu's are fucking dirt cheap.

look them up on newegg. just as a reference, you could buy the processor you have now for 50 bucks.

for just a hundred bucks you could get an athlon XP 2100+ (1.736Ghz)

look things up before ruling them out.

Dragoon412 · 2003-01-02, 02:47 PM

RAM's cheap. The only reason it's "insane" to have half a gig to most people is because craptacular resellers like Dell and Gateway have been dragging their feet for years, sticking the bare minimum of RAM necessary to run those glorified typewriters they sell. Believe me, it's worth upgrading your RAM; you can never have too much (well, unless your OS or MB won't support it

). personally, I'm planning on stepping up to at least 1 gig of PC2700 DDR by the time PS is released.

As for the rest of the game, it's a tough call. The fact that we have 3 ghz processors on the market right now and PS is only calling 1ghz its requirement is a pretty good sign that the game is going to be more graphic-intensive than CPU-intensive, so you should be okay on that front.

As for the Radeon 9700 Pro, that'll be PLENTY of card for PS; especially in the large-scale engagements.

Venoxile · 2003-01-02, 03:14 PM

afex, I appreciate the answer, but I really don't want to spend any cash at the moment, my wife would kill me if she knew I was even thinking about upgrading my computer again.
Could I get 50-60 fps with a 1.3 gig amd athlon and 256k mb ram?

WhiteSun · 2003-01-02, 03:27 PM

Originally posted by Venoxile
Could I get 50-60 fps with a 1.3 gig amd athlon and 256k mb ram?

In all likelihood, the sticking point here will be your RAM.

Current specs call for 512 minimum with 'optimizations' being done. Your video card is definately beefy enough to handle whatever your CPU can throw at it, but as soon as the OS or PS itself has to hit your virtual memory, all the rest of it takes a smoke break until the hard drive finally gets around to responding.

I recommend you sell a power tool you never use and check out www.crucial.com Their memory is top-notch (I've several gigs of it here at the house) and prices are cheap. Grab a stick of 512 or two sticks of 256 and live life to the fullest.

air_head1 · 2003-01-02, 03:34 PM

I have 1.4 Ghz and 240 MB ram is that going to be enough im buying a new vid card soon im saving so im not sure what its going to be though?

Venoxile · 2003-01-02, 03:37 PM

I'll think i'll buy another 256MB PC 2700 333 MHz DDR Memory stick. Could a dev tell me if 1.3 gig athlon's good enough to get 50-60 fps?

afex · 2003-01-02, 03:37 PM

you'll definitely need more ram to push the frames you're asking for.

i have a 1.4, gf3, 512 ram, and i plan to play with that. (unless it sucks, then i'll upgrade

)

Venoxile · 2003-01-02, 03:39 PM

Whats your ti for your g3? I'd think 200 or 500 wouldn't be enough to run ps at the best possible graphics.

Camping Carl · 2003-01-02, 03:45 PM

Ram is certainly most important, a good video card helps a lot too. Trust me, if you upgraded you cpu now you would notice little difference. Your Cpu and video are fine for now, upgrade your ram tho to 512mb, or perhaps even to 768mb.

afex · 2003-01-02, 03:59 PM

my gf3 is vanilla, i got it when it was first released

Venoxile · 2003-01-02, 04:01 PM

a ti 200 can't possibly run it, can it?? That card sucks.

Dragoon412 · 2003-01-02, 04:05 PM

Venoxile, you have a system that can run the game - by happy, and quit whining. If you want 60+ FPS on high-res with the best graphical settings, upgrade. It's really that simple. There isn't a snowball's chance in hell of your system running at that level of performance right now, and as has been pointed out, your RAM is going to be the biggest problem.

WhiteSun · 2003-01-02, 04:06 PM

Originally posted by Venoxile
with a constant of 60 fps with good details?

One thing that I've totally forgotten is what kind of resolution are you planning on running? 60fps @ 8x6 is a lot different than 60fps @ 16x12.

Dragoon412 · 2003-01-02, 04:07 PM

Originally posted by Wh|teSun
One thing that I've totally forgotten is what kind of resolution are you planning on running? 60fps @ 8x6 is a lot different than 60fps @ 16x12.

Not with his video card... his processor would choke long before the GPU did; I doubt he'd notice any difference in framerate between 16x12 and 8x6.