Can't run Farcry on my system

[hugabone]

I have a P4 3.0 with only 256k of memory, a Geforce 5200fx card and everything is set to med in the game. Im in the process of upgrading my memory to 1gig and later getting an 9800 pro.

Whats happening is after the game loads, it moves extremely slow. Its totally unplayable. I havent set the game to low. Its set to auto. Is it my memory too low? Or is it the card.

Im looking to get the Corsair twinx highend pc3200 ram and see what happens. I fail to mention that I have the Prescott chip because I do a lot of dvd copying and other things. i know it cant be that.

After I get out of the game i get an virtual memory error. The 128 video and the 256k isnt enough that it has to go into the h/d? This is on windows XP. Any help would be appreciated.

[tony_j15]

256k of memory aint enough. I only had that much and had so many visual errors it looked like a childs fingerpainting! Upgraded to 512 RAM and problem solved.

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[washe]

The game requires at least 256 MB as minimum and surely windows xp only eats that amount.... but it should run...

are you up to date on directx, audio and video drivers?

Try the low settings, and if its playable tweak some of them.

[jman01pa]

Here are the requirements found here

SYSTEM REQUIRMENTS:

Minimum:

* Supported OS: Windows® 98SE/2000/XP (only)
* Processor: AMD Athlon™ 1 GHz or Pentium® III 1 GHz
* RAM: 256 MB
* Video Card: 64 MB DirectX® 9.0b-compatible graphics card (see supported list)
* Sound Card: DirectX® 9.0b-compatible PCI card
* DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0b (included on disc)
* CD-ROM: 4x DVD or 16x CD-ROM
* Hard Drive Space: 4 GB
* Multiplayer: Broadband with 64 Kbps upstream to play (512 Kbps upstream to host 8 players)

Recommended:

* Supported OS: Windows 98SE/2000/XP (only)
* Processor: AMD Athlon 2400-3000+ or Pentium 4 2-3 GHz
* RAM: 512-1024 MB
* Video Card: 128 MB GeForce 4 128 MB to GeForce FX 5950; ATI Radeon 9500-9800 XT
* Sound Card: Sound Blaster® Audigy® series
* DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0b (included on disc)
* CD-ROM: 8x-16x DVD or 32x CD-ROM
* Hard Drive Space: 4 GB
* Multiplayer: Broadband with 64 Kbps upstream to play (512 Kbps upstream to host 8 players)

NVIDIA® nForce™ or other motherboards/soundcards containing the Dolby® Digital Interactive Content Encoder required for Dolby Digital audio

[jp22382]

i have an amd 2600 (2 gig) geforce3 64mb and 768mb 266 ddr.. i have everything on medium and it works fine. im running win2k pro

more than likely xp is sucking up all your ram, obviously you have enough video card to run the game.

[hugabone]

Thx for the reply, Im just going to start out with more memory and go from there. This is my 1st game on the new system.