My poor puter

[WCG]

Hello, I'm a half-lurker(jul 2002 w/ 69 posts lol) around here, but I was wondering if anyone has a similar system to

ATHLON 64 X2 (6000+) 3.0GHZ SOCKET AM2
BFG GEFORCE 8800GT OC2
2GB RAM

and could tell me if performance would be playable at a decent setting...or if I should just give up...?

I'm looking to upgrade and that's about the upper end of what I can afford... pushing it in fact..

Currently I run

AMD Athlon 64 2.0GHZ (socket 939)
BFG Geforce 6800 OC (yes I said 6800 lol)
2GB of PC400 Ram...

I ran through it once in the choppyness, my favorite part was when every 10 minutes or so it would hang for 2 minutes... and I just think that it would be soo much more fun if it ran at a playable FPS without the hanging...

I used

Textures - Medium
Objects - Medium
Shadows - Medium
Physics - High
Shaders - Medium
Volumetric Effects - Medium
Game FX - Medium
Postproc - Low
Particles - Low
Water - Low
Sound - Low

Now before anyone says that's why it was so deathly slow, I have to say, I worked from Low up, to somewhere I could still actually kill and enemy, as all at the lowest is horrid looking. At least it kinda looked half-decent.

I wouldn't mind playing at my current settings but smoothly, so again, was just wondering if the above hardware would be sufficient? If you have a moment, what would you suggest I get? I'm looking really cheap as, since my system is so outdated, AGP even, it has to be a full upgrade, PS, Mobo, GPU,CPU, Ram etc.

Christmas is so horrible for money. lol.

Thanks!

[Madpistol]

with an 8800 GT, I'm sure performance would be just dandy at medium to high settings. You have nothing to worry about.

[methimpikehoses]

nvm, like madpistol said.

[agentkay]

All settings on high in DX9 with a custom cfg should be good for 1280x1024 without AF/AA and it should still be enjoyable at 1600x1200 when you use all settings on high and maybe disable motion blur. This is with XP, Vista especially with only 2GB is a somewhat slower.

[crainger]

You need a mid to high Level 8 series card. A 8800GT or one of the new GTS would hit the spot.

EDIT: LOL We all post at once! Except for Madpistol. He fires fast. :)s

[SH64]

Should run smooth @1280x1024,n0AA,All high settings.

[WCG]

Yay for fast responses :D now for the slow getting money part. Oh, and I shoulda mentioned I played through @ 800x600 on my 19inch widescreen.. lol.

[SlieTheSecond]

I played through at 16x80x1050 with all settings on High in xp.
E6600 @ 3.2Ghz and 8800 GT

[Thingding]

so i did it on a 4200+ and an 8800GTS 640MB and the thing chugged at 15-19fps outdoors on medium.

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There seemed to be a problem with my copy of the game cos it ended halfway through. One minute I'm shooting micro-nukes off an aircraft carrier and next BAM!... end credits. Can anyone tell me what switch I need to press to unlock the last four hours?!

[RobCZMAN]

There seemed to be a problem with my copy of the game cos it ended halfway through. One minute I'm shooting micro-nukes off an aircraft carrier and next BAM!... end credits. Can anyone tell me what switch I need to press to unlock the last four hours?!

LOL! Crysis is full of stupid little glitches right now and I refuse to play it anymore until a decent patch comes out.

[Madpistol]

LOL! I posted 2 minutes before anyone else, and then methimpikehoses, crainger, and agentkay fired off 3 posts in one minute.

Good Job. You get a nana. (nana2)

[LORD-eX-Bu]

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[methimpikehoses]

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[Madpistol]

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[LORD-eX-Bu]

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