will my comp run BF1942??

[ale_x13]

Hello,

I only just built this comp earlier this week, so I don't really know its hardware limitations, and strong/weak points.

Anyway, I was thinking of buying BF1942 and I was wondering how smooth my comp could run it? It looks pretty good from the screenshots, is it all just hype or is it really that good?? I was thinking of downloading it first to test it (i wouldnt keep it longer than the 24hr legal limit, i am very anti-warez) b4 buying it but I dont want to waste 200mb+ on a limited broadband account so im not sure...

specs:

Athlon 2600+ Thoroughbred B
Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro
MSI Excalibur Radeon 9600 non-pro 128MB AGP 8x
512MB DDR400 Kingsmax RAM
7200rpm 8mb Seagate 80GB HDD
52x32x52 cd-r/rw
400W PSU
Win2k Pro

I got 8,836 in 3dMark 2001SE, is this good or bad for my setup? i know i only got 1,416 or something on my old comp (PIII 667/GF2 MX100/200, 320MB SDRAM)

Any help on improving the performance would be greatly appreciated, though i dont want to do any dangerous overclocking, nothing that requires any more fans etc (i have the standard CPU and m/b fan, plus a 120mm extraction fan on the case...)

Well, sorry for so much info, but again my main q is, will i be able to run this game at a playable rate/detail level? how will it fair at high/the highest settings? anyone with a similar setup have any opinions/suggestions/comments?

thanks

[Darthgary]

Your PC is fine for BF:1942.

Actually I have ran the game on much slower PC's.

That 3D Mark 01 score looks a bit low, I have a Radeon 9000 Pro in a P4 2.4A that scores about 8011.

[The Real Bingo]

Yep my computer is much worse than yours, and runs BF fine, when it decides to.

[yukkerz]

omg man u hae nothing to worry about
i ran it on my old pc
1.3 ghz
32mb Geforce2
128mb of ram

don't worry about it, will run

[No Tact]

Just make sure you download and install all the patches for the game.

[ale_x13]

thanks, i think i may pick it up. darthgary - is your comp overclocked at all? the p4 is a bit faster than an athlon 2600+ i think...

im about to re-run 3dmark 2001se, loop it 3 times. then i will compare on the board. i think they class the 9600 and 9600pro in the same category though, makes it hard to compare. i have all the latest drivers installed.

[ale_x13]

okay, just did a fresh shut down/restart, ran it 3 times and i got 8511 3dmarks

this score is the second lowest (with similar settings) on the futuremark website!

the only thing is, futuremark do (as i suspected) classify both the 9600pro and the non-pro under "Radeon 9600 series"

the highest (also with an athlon xp 2600+, 512mb ram etc) was 12,973. i mean, i knew the 9600 pro would be faster, but 4,500 3dmarks faster when mine is only 8,511 in the first place? i didnt think it would be that much! can someone help me to speed it up? would downloading the windows service-packs help?

[ale_x13]

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=7017430

that is my compare URL, i am only getting 5.4 MTriangles/s on the High polygon count (8 lights) setting. and i can notice the framerate being bad on that when it runs.

if anyone could assist me with getting to the 10,000 mark it would be greatly appreciated!

[The Real Bingo]

Are you overclocking the video card? You could try that. Go to http://rage3d.com/r3dtweak/
Just be careful and dont overclock too quickly.

[ale_x13]

no im not overclocking it. i will try some mild overclocking i think, thanks for the link!