Quick question about graphics (not card shopping)

JK-47 · Post by **JK-47** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 6:41 pm

Well I tried running Battlefield 2 on full on my laptop, and it worked but its just really laggy. If I bought more ram would it reduce the lag? Or is it just my graphics card? I have an intigrated ATI Radeon 200M XPress.

xXxCocoFangxXx · Post by **xXxCocoFangxXx** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 7:44 pm

More RAM increase Gameplay, it would make it less laggy, and it might be your Graphics Card too. Most likely it is your RAM.

JK-47 · Post by **JK-47** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 7:45 pm

xXxCocoFangxXx wrote:More RAM increase Gameplay, it would make it less laggy, and it might be your Graphics Card too. Most likely it is your RAM.

Thats what I was thinking cause I don't have very good RAM in this computer.

dos mes · Post by **dos mes** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 2:02 am

I'd try to upgrade both if you could

For the time being just turn your gfx settings down a notch or so and it should clear up.

JK-47 · Post by **JK-47** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 4:39 am

Dos Mes wrote:I'd try to upgrade both if you could

For the time being just turn your gfx settings down a notch or so and it should clear up.

lollerskates, I can't, its intigrated

RAM is the only thing I can upgrade in this problem.

xXxCocoFangxXx · Post by **xXxCocoFangxXx** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 5:10 am

I don't think you need to upgrade the Graphics Card, just the RAM.

citruspers · Post by **citruspers** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 7:04 am

i thought choppyness occurred when your gfxcard couldn't put enough frames on the screen..

so i think it is the graphics card.

ram is used for loading parts of the game

dos mes · Post by **dos mes** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 10:48 am

No, ram is used the whole time you are playing, and if you have little ram and the game takes up a majority of it, then you start to lag, but depending on the lag, both should be upgraded.

fishface617 · Post by **fishface617** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 3:03 pm

well since he cant upgrade his graphics card, he will jsut have to get RAM. id say a gig would work fine, maybe a gig and half to make up for your graphics card

a mammoth · Post by **a mammoth** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 3:18 pm

How much RAM do you have Compare it to the minimum and recommended specs, that should give you a clear picture of what to do, also compare your gfx card to the specs on BF2.

gh0570fchurch · Post by **gh0570fchurch** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 3:55 pm

How much RAM you got? Lol, that's the same card I got.

EDIT: Ah, never mind. It's not the same exact model, but I got the ATI MOBILITY RADEON Xpress 200 Series.

[cc]z@nd! · Post by **[cc]z@nd!** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 6:58 pm

GYAAAAH!!!

ok, people. RAM != a videocard. compare your laptop's specs to the minimum requirements and the reccomended requirements, then see what you should improve, think of what's possible to improve, what is practical to improve (cost-wise) and what you want to do. right now, it will probably be most cost-effective to get some RAM, but if you're videocard is having problems rendering the scene, then you're going to have to settle for turning down the eyecandy.

give us your laptop's specs.

JK-47 · Post by **JK-47** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 8:25 pm

Ya know what, it is my ram, cause when I installed BF2 it said I didn't have enough ram and it could effect gameplay.

HARHURHARHARHUR

ok, wtf >_>

Anyways, its definatley not my graphics card cause my daddy (lol) said its supposed to be really good, thats why I bought the laptop cause the card were teh pwn, but the ram is pretty low.

I have 448 mb's of ram...... k its my ram lal. Im definatley going to go get a couple of gigs on my next trip to the store lol.

a mammoth · Post by **a mammoth** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 12:15 pm

I gig of ram should be fine for almost all games, but 2 gigs would serve you extremely well and you would notice that your system would run A LOT faster

[cc]z@nd! · Post by **[cc]z@nd!** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 12:36 pm

basically, there's not much of a need for 2 gigs unless you really want it, or you want at least 1.5 gigs in dual bank mode, because i don't believe they sell 768 MB sticks of RAM.

and yeah, if you're running battlefield 2 with <512 MB of RAM, that's probably the problem.

Patrickssj6 · Post by **Patrickssj6** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 3:37 pm

[cc]z@nd! wrote:basically, there's not much of a need for 2 gigs unless you really want it, or you want at least 1.5 gigs in dual bank mode, because i don't believe they sell 768 MB sticks of RAM.

and yeah, if you're running battlefield 2 with <512 MB of RAM, that's probably the problem.

I have 2 gigs.When running GuildWars and Windows media player I have around 900 left

Cuda · Post by **Cuda** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 1:04 pm

yeah, I meet minimum on my card, but the major issue for me is Connection speed. BF2 tends to hog a lot of resources on your PC.

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Quick question about graphics (not card shopping)

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