have they fixed LAG problems ? (waited 2 buy)

rain · 2004-02-08, 09:45 AM

have they fixed LAG / BUG problems ? (waited 2 buy)

I have 900Mhz system, 1 gig ram, 64mb geforce2 card ... good enough ?

ZionsFire · 2004-02-08, 09:57 AM

Originally Posted by rain

have they fixed LAG / BUG problems ? (waited 2 buy)

I have 900Mhz system, 1 gig ram, 64mb geforce2 card ... good enough ?

Might want to think about upgrading first. I would recommend a 128meg video card.
That 900Mhz is not gonna cut it. You need atleast 1.8Ghz. And how fast is your RAM?

Queensidecastle · 2004-02-08, 10:43 AM

You need to upgrade the Vid card. For less than 100 bucks you can get a DX9 generation card that would boost you quite a lot

Peacemaker · 2004-02-08, 11:01 AM

The processor is gonna kill you man, 20 min load times at the mininum. Get a faster processor and a better video card and you will be set. 900mhz is unplayable tho.

GreyFox · 2004-02-08, 11:30 AM

Listen to the wise posters.

Most important thing to upgrade of what you got is probably your processor at the moment, it's your worse bottleneck at only 900 Mhz.

The game is playable with a 64Mb Gfx card though, but I recomment you to upgrade to a 128mb one, and a modern one, like the ATI Radeon 9600 or something.

Don't get 256Mb ram on the Gfx Card unless you are planning on running games in 1600x1280 or higher.

Mognoc · 2004-02-08, 11:42 AM

Rain - Listen to these guys, planetside is *not* for the casual gamer, so if you're thinking 'hey, it looks like Halo, I'll pick it up' then it's probably not for you...It's also one of the games with the harshest computer requirment, like these guys say.

Spee · 2004-02-08, 11:45 AM

I have a 1.7 GHz Celeron, 1 gig pc2100, and a 64 meg ATI card, and the zerg battles still kill me.

DaniFilth · 2004-02-08, 01:01 PM

i got radeon 9800xt, amd64, audigy 2 plat 7.1 and 3 gig ram and the game still has sound issues with the rain cuttin off! and lag and fps

Rbstr · 2004-02-08, 01:27 PM

OK people Videos CARD MEMORY DOES NOT MATTER! if you had a 64 mb 9600XT it would, without a doubt, do just as well as One with 256mb's of memory.

You could run it on all low settings and be ok.(low res too)

The truth is your system is gona be outdated for almost any new game you want to get so i would strongly look into getting a whole new comp, before you upgrade anything you have.

Becsaue your at the point were you system can't utilize newer hardware to it potential, Even if you got a 9800XT you would still get bad FPS, Your hardware constraints of your memory Bandwidth(you only have pc-133 at the most) and CPU speed, would keep the 9800Xt from perfoming up to par

SandTrout · 2004-02-08, 01:41 PM

Rbstr, video ram makes a signifigant difference, but you have to tweak your grafix settings so that you use all of the RAM on your card.

Rain, spend a couple hundred bucks on upgradeing your comp, because you wont be able to do shit with that one. I'm running an AMD 2400+, a gig of RAM, and a Geforce FX with 128MB, and the masive zerg battles get real choppy. And this is on the grafics settings that will not enhance gameplay all the way down.

Rbstr · 2004-02-08, 01:45 PM

Yes it can make a difference but not more than about 1% so its not worth it

That biggest thing is people reffer to thier cards as a 128Mb FX, to me that means you put the biggest emphisis on the ammount of vram, and thats just stupid, that what the people likeDell want you to think so thay can sell you FX5200 256mb things on thier "gaming" machine instead of FX5900 128mb's

Happy lil Elf · 2004-02-08, 04:43 PM

You need to upgrade you video card and probably your processor as well. I played on a 950 with a 64 card and 768 RAM and the load times were actually decent, but unless you like playing a FPS game at 11 frames/sec you're gonna need to upgrade

Dyentious · 2004-02-09, 02:30 AM

Well.. i know this isn't what you want to hear... but you're basically gonna need a new computer.

Here is how it works...

You'll need a new cpu, cause 900 mhx is not even cloes to cutting it.
You'll need a new motherboard to support your new CPU cause your old one won't.
Is that 1 gig of ram DDR ram? if it's in a board with a 900 mhx cpu i wouldn't think it is. You will definately need DDR for this game
The video card is just under par, but i'm not sure exactly how it would perform. Is it AGP? if not, you'll definately need an AGP card.

After all that, you'll probably need a new power supply, since your new motherboard and processor will take a hell of a lot more power than your old board did.

After all that there really isn't much left to yoru computer except peripheals and your IDE devices, so it all depends on how much money you have, and if you need a faster computer for anything else you want to do besides planetside.