Yeah, I was saying either 800x600 with minimal AA or 1024x768 without AA (Which ever is better). You know, the typical AA or higher resolution trade-off.
But yeah, those numbers definitely mean something but BF2 is certainly no F.E.A.R. or Lost Coast (HDR lighting probably slows it down quite a bit). Also, I was surprised at how well I could get F.E.A.R. to run on this baby. Other than purely cinematic scenes which require more than 128MB (Like the rows and rows of high-detail clone soldiers), performance is good with most of the eye candy turned on (Some trial and error).
Performance-wise, isn't BF2 more like HL2 and less like HL2:LC except that it wants gobs of RAM (provided)?
Well, I'm just gonna attempt the install again and see if it's a waste of time (Last time I went through all three discs and canceled out of my third DX9.0c install for the day only to have the game say that nothing was installed because I canceled!)