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Greetings.

I'm suffering from really bad FPS. I got everything that can be set as "off" to off, also got everything "low" except for Lightining, if I put it Low the shadows will be removed and that's far from "Reality". View Distance is 80%, Audio Render is Software, lowest quality. Even toggled VoIP off. My computer is 6 years old, I know it is time for an upgrade but...things cost double here than most countries out there. My CPU is always 100% even on the main screen, which surprised me, c'mon, there's nothing going on there...just the music playing and a background image. Few times a video. Already manually raised my virtual memory.

System Specs:

Athlon XP 3000+
ASUS A7V600-X
ATI Radeon 3850HD AGP 512DDR3 (CCC 10.3)
2GB DDR 400mhz
Windows XP Professional SP3

Think this is all that matters. Thanks in advance.

Edit: I can easily run BF2 with some settings in High, some in Medium, a few in low and 100% Distance. Since those are my default BF2 settings I first played PR with them, I don't see much of a difference, performance did improve my lowering things but...I expected more. Just too much stuttering, deserted maps performance is bad but I can endure it, highly forested maps is just....a dizy deer in the woods.

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sorry to hear that man. But the agp and the ddr ram seem to be your biggest problem. Might i suggest a new computer or a new motherboard.

This mother board comes with nvidia graphics that will allow you to play pr med-high.

Newegg.com - ASUS M4N68T-M AM3 NVIDIA Geforce 7025/nForce 630a Micro ATX AMD Motherboard - AMD Motherboards.

Then you will need a decent processor.

http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDe ... st=froogle

with 2 sticks of these and you should have much better performance.

Newegg.com - Kingston 1GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1066 (PC3 8500) Desktop Memory Model KVR1066D3N7/1G - Desktop Memory

i would suggest just a better video card but since your motherboard only supports AGP i can't suggest that. You gotta have PCI express now a days.

Also try craigslist

http://www.craigslist.org/about/sites

you might find a use computer better than yours on there for cheaper than building your own. Or find some dude willing to trade for something.

the AGP and DDR1 is hardly the limiting factor, AGP wont be an issue especially on low(ie 1280x1024) resolutions

the best way is to add ram to 4Gb and overclock your CPU, the latter limits performance of your graphics card
with better CPU you would be able to easily max out vanilla BF2 and play most of PR maps pretty well

[R-CON]DankE_SPB wrote:overclock your CPU, the latter limits performance of your graphics card
with better CPU you would be able to easily max out vanilla BF2 and play most of PR maps pretty well

Yea i didn't think of that. Ofcourse you will need to keep the anthlon cool while you overclock it. If you wanna be cheap and not buy a new cooler for your cpu. You can always open up the side and have a big fan blow on it.

corp_calqluslethal wrote:You can always open up the side and have a big fan blow on it.

Actually I already do this, lol. Thanks by the bits, I'll give a look on how to overcloak this dinossaur.

Just an update:

Found out that I can play many maps that don't involve higly tree crowded forests, such as Dragon Fly. I can play desert maps, urban maps and maps with fair amout of vegetation, I can play those maps with decent performance.

Athlon XP does not have SSE2 cpu instructions,these are widely used now.