battlefield 2 - xp vs vista

[ciproxr]

Im thinking im going to be getting alot of lag on vista, since xp only uses 150 mb ram where vista uses 450mb. should I just make a dual boot with xp and uses xp for battledfield2 or can i use a usb drive to as ram? (dont remember what its called)

 

[CloE]

vista usb drive is call ReadyBoost..

since BF2 already need 2 gigs to run smoothly in XP, no question it'll need at least that much in vista. To answer ur question, get vista with 2 gigs ram + readyboost, test and see yourself how it runs

 

[Oxaqata]

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[Bateluer]

Originally posted by: Oxaqata
I ran BF2 on a 6200 for about 2 months....albeit 800x600 lowest detail =b

It never ceases to amaze me that people can run at those low resolutions and details and be satisfied. I suppose you don't miss what you never had. One taste of decent hardware and most people like that would be forever hooked.

 

[Oxaqata]

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[MobileLoser]

I have played BF2 on XP and now on Vista. With my 6800GT, P4 2.8C, 1GB DDR, I notice a substantial performance penalty in Vista. Whereas I ran on mostly high settings in XP under 1024, I have to play on low with no AA on Vista. I am considering dumping Vista entirely for this and other reasons until things get better.

 

[duffman1]

it is proven that all games run slower on windows vista. Because it takes up 1gig of ram to run vista.

 

[KeypoX]

Originally posted by: duffman1
it is proven that all games run slower on windows vista. Because it takes up 1gig of ram to run vista.

scientifically huh... lol BF2 on my system high 1280 x 1024 in xp

low on 1024 x 768

 

[secretanchitman]

6600GT, p4 2.4C @ 2.9Ghz, 2GB of ram. game ran fine with high details, 1280x1024, 2xAA.

of course, the rig in my sig plays bf2 with everything cranked and 4xAA.

 

[bob4432]

running bf2 on xp w/ 1GB of ram is possible - here is a site i made a long time ago - it was close but it did work

http://bf2hardware.sytes.net:6583/