locherbread
Member
+0|7104|Scotland
Ok I'm having problems settling on what settingg my current set up should handle playing battlefield 2 - at the moment to get anywhere near a decent framerate I run at 860x600 all settings medium except lighting & shadows which are set to low, also have AA switched off.
Even at these settings some of the maps where intense battles can occur my framerate drops to an near stagger through treacle!!

My Pc is as follows

GA-7VT600 1394
sempron 2300+ ~1.6GHz
Radeon Sapphire X800 pro "Cat 5.13 drivers"
2x 512 Kingston PC3200

Is there anyway I can get a little more oomph out my cpu - tried upping the clock speed from 166 to 200 - booted up fine but then got the blue screen of death ^ ^ so I quickly reverted back :-)
Greenie_Beazinie
Aussie Outlaw
+8|7232
1 thread is enough

Solution - get  a new CPU
armin
Member
+0|7175| Bosnia & Herzegovina
yeahm a new cpu would do u a lot better, i'm using an athlon64 X2 4400+
locherbread
Member
+0|7104|Scotland
Thats a good plan, but buying a cpu+m/board of that quality would surely bankrupt me ^ ^
IBKCKNURASS
Corrosion Inhibitor
+172|7156
ur best bet would be the last decent line of the socket a processors. athlon XP
they are hard to come by these days. socket a is way outdated.

Edit: maybe u can find a powerful sempron but they dont get much more powerful than 2ghz and those are hard to come by.

Last edited by IBKCKNURASS (2006-01-07 08:22:30)

locherbread
Member
+0|7104|Scotland
If I scrimp a bit I have a budget of £150 to buy a new motherboard+CPU - I'll shop around see what i can find.

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