battlefield 1942

ive decided to lower my standards to the next best thing can this comp at least take battlefeild 1942 on the lowest of the lowest of the lowest of the low settings with little lag

512 ram
2.8 ghz
pentium 4
intel graphics media accelarator 950

my god if this comp cant even take battlefeild 1942 i swear i will kill somebody

"im joking...." but ill be very angry if it cant

 

Get StarCraft and play with me.

 

im sorry but dont post if it has nothing to do with the topic

 

I didn't even realize you were asking a question in your original post.
If you own BF1942, why don't you just try to install it and see if it works on your computer?
It worked on my old desktop (512 MB of RAM, 2.4 P4, GeFroce 4 64 MB).

 

I think it would work. I could play it on my dad's old Dell P4, 512mb, Raedon something or another 32mb.

I see no reason why it wouldn't play. Now are you mentioning a computer that you currently own, or something you plan on buying? Because if you plan on buying that, I am sure you can get something better for whatever you are paying for that.


Also, it would play Starcraft easily if you did want to play that.


I just read your other post, I'm guessing that's the 80$ comp? For 80$ that's not a bad computer. Though if I were you, I would save that 80$ and well, keep saving till you had 600$ or so, that way you could buy something newer. Of course that might be unreasonable for you, I don't what kind of position you are in. If it's the best you can do at the moment, it's the best you can do. I'm going to say that any game that came out in the year 2000 or previously will play on that, if not all that well.

 

well i havnt got the game yet

i dont want to get it then turn out it doesnt work

 

It definitely works, and although I've never tried it myself, most people seem to be saying it works well at relatively high settings too...

 

So even with the intel graphics card it will work?

BTW- im going to buy the comp online for 80$

do you guys think though that if I bought a radeon 9250 graphics card for it and maybe some 512 ram it will do better?

also how do I know if i can put the video card and ram into my comp i mean i know there has to be a slot and I cant seem to find where ram goes and stuff

 

Yes it should work on the intel GPU.

You can't upgrade the GPU (graphics card). Read here for more information.

 

the comp is a desktop not a notebook lol

or are you talking about a pc

the comp is a big ol fat hunk of junk lol

SO PLEASE im going out to dinner now so please tell me if its a desktop pc I can upgrade the video card even if another card is entagrated

 

Check the specs. We can't tell you if it can be updated or not, we need to know if it has an AGP slot, if so, then yes, if not, then you can still upgrade somewhat via PCI which every computer has, but its extremely poor value in relation to performance. Still though, if you're only looking to play BF1942, you can get PCI cards that would run it maxed out no problems.

Find out what motherboard it is and google it.

 

well this is what im thinking if I get the comp

Ill add 512 more ram to it
Ill get a radeon 9250 graphics card

so then the final specs would be

1024 ram
pentium 4
2.8 ghz
radeon 9250 card, with GMA 950

(would this be able to take warrock or should I add 5000 more ram

and spend about 2000 on a top notch vid card ) THIS PART IM JOKING

once again i barely made it within my budget by adding a vid card and more ram so please dont say THIS COMP SUX ITS THE WORST PEICE OF **** KNOWN TO MAN and its a horrible computer that needs to die and your freking poor or man that comp couldnt even take WOW, MAN ur comp sux

cause pretty much every other forum has flammed and spammed me for this being the worst peice of crap theyve ever seen to cross there eyes


1. im not rich
2. im not poor
3. this is for school and gaming (gaming mostley)
4. I just want to play warrock thats all and some other fps's and maybe some other rpgs

 

Well adding ram could be difficult, as you don't know if there's a free slot.
It could be that there are 2 slots on the motherboard which are occupied with 256mb ram each.

 

that should work for bf 1942

 

install it first, i'm pretty sure you won't need to upgrade ram or gpu to play it.

the game is old and was prob designed to run on 256mb ram and a 32mb gpu.

if you find it doesn't run to your standards, or you want to up the eye candy, then get the gpu and the ram. but i'm pretty sure you would be satisfied with what you've got.

 

Like lordgood said, don't buy the RAM and GPU until you know you need them. Buy the computer first and try to run your games, if they run fine enough you just saved yourself some money by not buying RAM and a new GPU. If you feel it doesn't run well enough, then invest some money in some RAM and the new GPU.

You'll also want to check how many RAM slots you have (like Hackman84 said). You might only have two slots that are occupied by 256MB each. This would mean you'll have to either replace both with 512MB or one with 1GB.

 

The game plays fine with 512 MB RAM - I've done it with that many a time. I play it on an nVIDIA GeForce MX440 from 2002. I don't know if that's better or worse than the Intel GMA 950 in terms of what it will play decently, but if someone knows that it might answer the question.

And I can play it at maximum settings with 30 FPS average, so the GMA would just have to be somewhat close to make it playable. As BF1942 is a 2003 game, I'd hope today's integrated cards could play it.

 

The specs on my box say that the minimum specs are as follows:
-Windows XP/ME/2000/98
-500Mhz Pentium III or AMD Athlon Processor
-128 MB RAM
-1.2GB of Hard Drive Space
-32MB supported Direct3D and Hardware Transform & Lighting capable video card with DirectX 8.1 compatible driver
-DirectX 8.1 compatible sound card

Supported Chipsets - nVidia GeForce4, GeForce3, GeForce2, GeForce 256, ATI Radeon 8500, Radeon 7500, Matrox Parhelia

I'm not totally sure about the intel graphics, but I think it might be able to handle it.

My old rig with P4 2.66Ghz, 512RAM, and nVidia PCX 5300 ran it at all high details very smoothly.

 

WarRock doesn't have very high system requirements at all, so your PC should have no problem.


I'm not sure about Battlefield 1942 though.

 

yes. if you look at sites about intel 950, you would find it that it supports lighting and hardware transform with direct x9. so no problem there