512mb enough ? help please

Hi ppl, My laptop has only 512mb and i CANT upgrade for at least 4months.
So i was wondering if it would be enough to run BF2 on low-med settings?.


I have 1.66ghz dual core and X1600 aswell.

Please Help asap

Thanks

 

As long as you don't have many other apps running, you should get by. I really don't know for sure tho.

mem on G card? shared or not?

 

The X1600 doesn't do hypermemory. It basically has to have dedicated memory. So he should be fine. Just turn off all programs you don't need, IM programs, browsers, etc. Anything in the tray that's not essential. Upgrade ASAP though... sell your body if necessary j/k

 

Thanks but a freind of mine had a excellent experiance with the same amount of ram. What does Ram effect ?.

 

RAM affects a lot of things.

namely how quickly data can be accessed/processed/used

for extra extra free RAM space get rid of all the garbage services Windows loads up after every boot...go to services.msc in the run task bar....google every service to see if its required or not, if not, set to manual/disable. Then run msconfig and go to startup and get rid of RAM hungry programs --- raarr MMM.

 

There are hypermemory versions of the X1600 available, so it might be worth checking out if yours is hypermemory before you take the plunge. BF2 is a game that really, really likes 1gb. It'll run on 512mb, but you'll find it much easier with 1gb installed.

 

I forget...how much does Windows need to run without any slowdown? 512?

 

Well thanks again. I may update it to 1gb later on but for now i think BF2 will be able to run smoothy ( fingers crossed ). I mean i will only have CS source and BF2 installed to save ram .

The laptop is here ; https://www.pcnextday.co.uk/products/ProductDetail.asp?ProductCode=3382-6301

Im not sure if the card is shared or not.

 

the x1600 sionyboy is talking about is the 512mb version with the 256mb hypermemory option... doesn't do much more than the 256mb option i don't think... benchmarks speak for themselves... basically listen to redsensistar... just turn everything off to maximize the 512 mb that you have... and you should be fine till you upgrade... that game will run on higher settings as that should be controlled by the gpu and not the ram. the ram affects multiple programs... if you shut everything else down and just play bf2... that should be fine, but the settings shouldn't affect ram as your gpu does not support hypermemory... so turn your settings up if you like, just don't run other programs while playing it...

 

Yay!! thanks. One more question though ?

Because i have pc downstairs ( connected with router ). if someone is on the internet on the the pc will that slow down the internet on my laptop which is connected to the same router ?? please help again

Thanks so much though.

 

Depends on what you are both doing on the internet. If one PC is on Bit Torrent, or another p2p program, and is uploading too much then the network will slow down. If you are both just browsing then you'll be fine.

 

Well the laptop would be online gaming and the pc would be on msn any lag on the laptop ?

 

yes, I'm afraid you'll have to shut down MSN...

 

why should it lag .. there is not much packets when using msn !!

 

That's what the smiley was for, 31337. It was a joke. Don't dredge up old topics if you can help it, especially if they're not helpful additions to it.