Battlefield + 9200 = ?

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Kevin003

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I got a ATI Radeon 9200. Yes i know its old so don't tell me that. I was wondering if this card is supported in Battlefield 2? If someone could be so kind as to answer my question it would be greatly appreciated.
 
hstuehmeyer2000 said:
i dont think it would
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I don't care what it looks like i just want to know if its functional. And id rather not download a huge demo just to find out. Anyone else got an ideas?
 
A friend of mine played battlefield 2 on a 9200. He had to put the details down to the lowest though but it worked very well and still looked quite good.
 
Kevin003 said:
I don't care what it looks like i just want to know if its functional. And id rather not download a huge demo just to find out. Anyone else got an ideas?
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That is the only way you will know for sure.

I can tell you that my Xpress 1100 integrated graphics card on my laptop will run BF2142 at around 15-25fps, but it is butt ugly:

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Wolfkin said:
A friend of mine played battlefield 2 on a 9200. He had to put the details down to the lowest though but it worked very well and still looked quite good.
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Part of the problem with this question is that there where many different configurations of 9200 cards. There were the 64bit ones, the 128bit ones, the fast clocked ones, the slower clocked ones, ones based on this and ones based on that. Then there were all the different models..the Pro, SE, vanilla, GT, etc.
 
if it looks like the integrateds that guy is showing us, i consider that not playable :D

it has the graphix of quake 3
 
Let's stick to the OP's question.

The only problem I forsee here is that the Radeon 9200 supports DirectX 8.1 only. I don't know if BF2 has a DirectX 8 path, but if it absolutely requires a DX9 card, then it won't run at all.

The system requirements say that a DirectX 9.0c card is required, but then it goes ahead and says that anything better than or equal to a Radeon 8500 (a DirectX 8 card) will work. So I'm thinking a Radeon 9200 will be fine.
 
Well i'm going to give it a try today. I will post up some screen shots later tonight. Thanks for all the help :cool:
 
My 9200 wouldn't run the game. Would continually crash as soon as it hit the menu. The 9250 apparently is supported I think, but not the 9200.

Had to wait until I got a X700 on BF last year to start playing it.
 
Kevin003 said:
I don't care what it looks like i just want to know if its functional. And id rather not download a huge demo just to find out. Anyone else got an ideas?
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I dunno, asking for help on something, but yet unwilling to put in any effort yourself? Well, we could just solve the problem and say No, it wont play. Or, you could put in some effort and try it out :)
 
It MIGHT play it depending what else you have running in your system.

If you don't have 1gb of memory and a A64 chip / decent P4 , I'd say no.
 
Kevin003 said:
I don't care what it looks like i just want to know if its functional. And id rather not download a huge demo just to find out. Anyone else got an ideas?
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Well if you want to actually play the game, gotta find out with the demo.
 
I wasen't trying to come off as an ass but sorry if i did. Well i went ahead and bought the game and it freezes when i get to the menu. I should of sucked it up and downloaded the demo :rolleyes: I think its about that time for a computer upgrade anyways.

Thanks for all the help everyone.
 
Kevin003 said:
I wasen't trying to come off as an ass but sorry if i did. Well i went ahead and bought the game and it freezes when i get to the menu. I should of sucked it up and downloaded the demo :rolleyes: I think its about that time for a computer upgrade anyways.
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You didn't come off as an ass. Anyways, if you're cheap like me you can probably play it on a 6200, which is one of the absolute cheapest retail cards you can buy right now (~$30).

EDIT: I just saw Megadeth's post. I'm impressed...can you post screenshots?
 
Does anyone know if i can put a ASUS motherboard or something like that in a dell case? I posted in the motherboards section but it doesn't seem to be as active as it is in here.
 
Unknown-One said:
It's the texture quality, bump it up a notch and it looks 100x better.
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And give up 3 or 4 of my 15 frames per second? I think not :D

It's utterly unplayable on my Xpress1100, but it does run it.
 
Kevin003 said:
I wasen't trying to come off as an ass but sorry if i did. Well i went ahead and bought the game and it freezes when i get to the menu. I should of sucked it up and downloaded the demo :rolleyes: I think its about that time for a computer upgrade anyways.

Thanks for all the help everyone.
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Downloading that demo would have saved you some cash. Oops :p
 
Kevin003 said:
Does anyone know if i can put a ASUS motherboard or something like that in a dell case? I posted in the motherboards section but it doesn't seem to be as active as it is in here.
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What Dell case is it and how old is it? I think the older cases used their own standoff patterns and would only fit Dell boards, but I know for a fact that the newer ones have standard patterns. I did it myself in my mod. I don't know when they started doing this though. Anything newer than 3 years ago should be fine.
 
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