BF2 - thoughts please

[parlee]

decent = amd 3000+ or p4 2.8 thats plenty to run at 1280x1024, for 1600x1200 u may need a bit more power, maybe even more video power... but that res is overrated 😛

 

[llama_man]

I tend to run at 1024 for most games! So I should be OK if I get some more RAM (which I was going to get anyway to help with X3 and Champ Manager...)

Would love to upgrade to a 7800, but since I only bought the 6800 about a year ago, it seems a bit excessive. Besides, I haven't got aroud to fitting the Artic Cooling thingy yet either. 😳

 

[chuckshissle]

I have the 7800GT in one of my pc and it works great with BF2. I have the card settings at 2QAA, 4xAF and the game all high settings at 1280x1024 resolution. It plays the game pretty good. But if planning to upgrade, you should get the 7900GT rather than the 7800 becuase it's faster and cheaper than my 7800GTX 256 card. I have my cards (7800GTX256) for about 3 months now and I'm trying to sell to get them 7900GTX512, I wanted the X1900XTX crossfire but I don't want to get another mobo with is going to cost me another $200. But other than that I'm playing BF2 at high settings and resolution.

 

[llama_man]

I have the 7800GT in one of my pc and it works great with BF2. I have the card settings at 2QAA, 4xAF and the game all high settings at 1280x1024 resolution. It plays the game pretty good. But if planning to upgrade, you should get the 7900GT rather than the 7800 becuase it's faster and cheaper than my 7800GTX 256 card. I have my cards (7800GTX256) for about 3 months now and I'm trying to sell to get them 7900GTX512, I wanted the X1900XTX crossfire but I don't want to get another mobo with is going to cost me another $200. But other than that I'm playing BF2 at high settings and resolution.

The cheapest 512Mb 7900 I've seen is £390! Waaaaaay too much money for me!

 

[chuckshissle]

No, Im talking about the 7900GT 256 and they go for around $350 not them 7900GTX 512 with are $550-$600.

Right now 7800GT are $300-$340 and the 7800GTX are $450-$500.

 

[parlee]

this prob isnt in american dollars, since the 7800gt is as low as 260 and the 7900gt is 299... i believe the 7800gtx is 450-500 and the 7900gtx is 600...

dont upgrade those dual 7800gtx's! ur losing money for like 2 fps at that res, keep those puppies till u cant play on high detail anymore...

 

[chuckshissle]

Yeah, you're right. Im one of those people that has to get the latest hardware on computers. I'll just wait then for a 8000 and X2000 card series maybe by the end of this year. Im still able to play BF2 and high settings and resolution.

 

[llama_man]

Well, I went and bought BF2 today. Played one single player level to check my PC was up to it, and currently waiting for the patch to download (from a mirror - if I'd waited for a connection to the EA games site I'd die before getting to play).

Looking forward to getting wasted many hundreds of times in the next couple of days

 

[chuckshissle]

I've took someone's advice and went to fileshack.com. They have patches for BF2 and the download are pretty fast compare to that of the EA site. You just need to register, that's all then you can download. Sometimes you have to wait no more than a minute, then download at rate of 200kbs or more. Fileshack is pretty awesome for downloading patches for games. 😀

 

[llama_man]

I went to some random site I found on google - think it was called www.bf1942files.com or something. Didn't need to register and it didn't take too long - about 1/2 hour.

Man, did I suck at BF2. I need to reconfigure my keys, cos my big hands can't hit the prone button fast enough. Only got killed 3 times though, and someone else did even worse than me! I hope he was a n00b too...

One question - what are the 4 icons in the post-game score screen supposed to designate? It's not in the (very short) manual...
My guess was:
Trophy = experience points?
Target = kills?
Skull = deaths?
Can't remember what the fourth one was.

 

[chuckshissle]

Then you should really try the fileshack.com, it's a lot faster. I mean I download a 200+ Mb patch in less than 15 min. Saves you time and more on gaming.

Anyways on BF2 controls, yeah you have to modify your controls to get more faster reflexes. For crouch I put "C" and for prone I put "X" I pretty much use the same configuration on all my FPS games.

The four icons are:

Starting from left, is the total points designated by the trophy icon, its your overall score of the game. Then the support points designated by a box of ammo, basicall if done something useful or worked and obey command from your commander. Next, is the kill count designated by the crosshair, how much you frag in the game. Finally the death count, designated by the skull, tells you how many times you been tag.

The way I learned fast in the game is just I picked a good player and join his squad. I just follow the player around and observed his/her skills and tactics in the game and learned from it. But I don't really care if I get killed all the time, I more of life a kamekazi style fighting and charge a tank with a grenade. 😀

 

[llama_man]

Well, it was only 1 file and since I was cooking dinner at the time it didn't matter if it took 15 minutes or an hour. It was just good to get it started (unlike on the EA site). Running emule at the same time probably didn't help either... 😳

But I'll remember fileshack next time I need to do a big download.


Cheers for the BF2 info. If you see "LlamamanUK" around, say hi. (NOT with a bullet, please!)

 

[chuckshissle]

Yeah, I usually go uk servers at night here in the US, well mine obviously "chuckshissle" I play mostly on crowded urban level like Karkand, Mashtuur City, Warlord and Ghost town. I'll say hi when I see you with in my crosshair 😀

 

[llama_man]

8O Even if I join your squad? :?

 

[chuckshissle]

Im not going to shoot you. 😀

Right now I don't belong to any clan, fanboys, groupies out there but I play just to have fun. I like teamwork in BF2 as well, but sometimes I go sniper mode and just point out enemies and shoot them, but I like hunting down other snipers as well.

I usually play around midnight to 4pm here in the US. Im also a member of Xfire.com and you should too, to find friends playing online.

 

[llama_man]

Do you mean midnight to 4am? How do you get up for work in the mornings?!

I'm usually online 8pm-2am (latest, if I'm being naughty 😳 ) GMT during the week, so I guess I'll miss you!

 

[chuckshissle]

Im a full time student and have night schools pluse I have a part time job. So the best time I play is afterschool and usually midnight. Sometimes I play until 4 pm yeah right before my classes.