Computer tech question

butter34 · Post by **butter34** » Mon May 15, 2006 2:38 pm

Will this computer run BattleField 2 Half life 2 Farcry and or Halo With these specs. Im not sure but im thinking it should run Halo and Farcry possibley even Half life 2. My desktop with a AMD 3200+ 1Gb of ram and a ati 9600 with a 128 mb of video ram works all those games. Im guessing theyll work but I would like some back up before I purchase.

Processor Type : Intel

RaVNzCRoFT · Post by **RaVNzCRoFT** » Mon May 15, 2006 2:41 pm

Halo will run on 512 megabytes of RAM. Half Life 2 may or may not run on 512 megabytes. If it does, that's definitely the minimum amount of RAM it will run on. I'm not sure about Battlefield 2 or Farcry.

Patrickssj6 · Post by **Patrickssj6** » Mon May 15, 2006 2:54 pm

Why don't you download the demo first>?

The_Hushed_Casket · Post by **The_Hushed_Casket** » Mon May 15, 2006 3:09 pm

My brother's old computer (~3 years old) can run Half-Life 2, to be fair at very low settings. But you should be fine with that setup, my brother's computer is slightly worse in the graphics department.

jks · Post by **jks** » Mon May 15, 2006 3:15 pm

Its a laptop, so no its not going to come close to having what it takes for Battlefield 2 I know for a fact, you need 128MB of video RAM. Also, get a laptop that has an AMD processor, games will run much faster, and AMD mobile processors are even more lightyears ahead of Intel mobile processors than the desktop ones. And I would suggest a RAM upgrade as well, I used to run BF2 on my comp back when it still only had 512MB and I could barely move 5 feet without skipping at least 30 or so frames and almost lagging out, I had my vid card fully overclocked to the speed of a 7800 GTX too. Halo, HL2, and Farcry would probably run fine, but if you're expecting full spectral effects and it to look OMFG beautiful.... not gonna happen.

Cuda · Post by **Cuda** » Mon May 15, 2006 10:20 pm

Ok, Ill tell you from my experience.

I have a Pentium 4 2.4 GHz , 512MB RAM, and a 128MB GFX Card, and heres what I can run compared to your list.

Battlefield 2: Very low settings(demo only, never tried the full game)
Half Life 2/Source Engine Games(CSS, DODS, SiN, Halflife 2 and Variants): medium settings and some high.
Halo: Mid to High settings.
I never tried Farcry, so I wouldn't know. You could find the Game specs and requirements and compare it with the data in your DirectX Diagnostic tool (DXDIAG.EXE)

Hope this could be of any help.

butter34 · Post by **butter34** » Tue May 16, 2006 5:18 am

I saw a laptop for 6 bucks at ubid.com that I won for 58 bucks and I was just wondering. Also I wasnt expecting OMFG thats amazing. Im expecting the lowest setting on a few of those games. Thanks thought for the help. O one more question would a 1.8ghz AMD 2800 work okay.

citruspers · Post by **citruspers** » Tue May 16, 2006 7:51 am

on low settings, i think so, but it also depends on the video card