a problem with pc games

**soldier one** · 07-21-2005

im trying to play battlefeild modern combat 2 and it wont let me. all it does is play the beginning movies then goes to a blurry sceen then blank. i tried everything like getting the driver and makind a default file. does anyone that has played the game know what the problem is.

**hoverbike** · 07-22-2005

ahh the joys of playing PC games. I don't have a fast enough computer to play the game (266 MHz,32 MB of RAM,8 MB of VRAM). I would try to reinstall it or check the specs of your computer to see if you can run it good.

**coltde420** · 07-22-2005

What video card are you using.
thse are min specs

1.5 GHz processor
512MG RAM
Shader version 1.4 capable graphics card (ATI 9500 and above or nVidia 5200 and above

I know alot of people are mad because the shader model 1.4 cut out alot of cards.
Check out this webpage's forums, you can find alot of info on things there
http://www.forumplanet.com/planetbattlefield/

**soldier one** · 07-22-2005

trust me i did all of that. i dont know the exact specs but i do know my computer is a lot higher since one its new and two i upgraded it to play doom3. doom3 works fine this game just wont start. i hate this because i wasted $50 bucks and best buy wont let me return it even though i just bought it a day ago.

**Banned** · 07-22-2005

EA's just forcing us to upgrade huh? Save up and upgrade to the best video card you can and save the trouble of buying a new card every other game *shudders*.

**demoncosmo** · 09-01-2005

I spent over 1000 dollars on my computer and it still cant play some of my favourite games this really makes me mad

Companys want u to pay 1000 dollars for a computer that cant even play your favourite games that outrageos

**hoverbike** · 09-01-2005

That's why there's consoles. I would spend 1500 on a great computer that won't be outdated the hour you take it out of the box.

**CompGeek** · 09-02-2005

Originally Posted by hoverbike

That's why there's consoles. I would spend 1500 on a great computer that won't be outdated the hour you take it out of the box.

Well consoles will be. The graphics cards out now already match the 360 and PS3. Console is for computer illiterates that dont know what good components are and buy from places like Dell, HP, and Gateway to name a few.

**Soviet635** · 09-04-2005

Or people who just dont like PC's...I personally like them, but mine sucks(best it can play is Half Life1...with trouble

...)

**coltde420** · 09-04-2005

Ive defended PC games for a while now, but after reading the article from the guy associated agiea saying that soon ppu's will be minimun req. to play games i think it may change. For a good gaming computer it is now getting crazy. I started thinking this when the creative x-fi sound card was released. It runs for around 250 for the gaming on i think, then they say the ppu's will cost around 250 also. I mean come on 250 for a sound card, thats crazy. Then throw in 300-400 for a good video card and bam you almost at 1k. Then you need a processor thats going to match up with them and thats anohter 500-1000. So your already at 2000 without the mobo,ram,drives,case, moniter, etc. So i do think PC gaming is going to be expensive in the future. For example i upgraded my comp for battlefield 2 and spent around 500 and the game still didnt run all that well.

**CompGeek** · 09-04-2005

Well, PC Gamers arent for people who like to spend money on a lot of other things, tis true, but its worth it.

I use onboard sound, never made sense to spend extra money on a sound card, and $250 on one is for the filthy rich.

**The Chocobo Kid** · 09-05-2005

this is the problem I have with pc games. I have to keep upgrade my pc to play the game the way it was made too. and that cost to much.

**CompGeek** · 09-05-2005

Originally Posted by The Chocobo Kid

this is the problem I have with pc games. I have to keep upgrade my pc to play the game the way it was made too. and that cost to much.

Some of us get as much joy buying high-end hardware as using it.

Like I said, if u spend a lot of money on other stuff (ex. ridiculous name-brand clothes, movies, theme parks, excess junk food, whatever) you werent cut out to be a PC Gamer.

Upgrading once a year for $800 keeps your PC bleeding edge.

**Damnit** · 09-05-2005

Originally Posted by soldier one

trust me i did all of that. i dont know the exact specs but i do know my computer is a lot higher since one its new and two i upgraded it to play doom3. doom3 works fine this game just wont start. i hate this because i wasted $50 bucks and best buy wont let me return it even though i just bought it a day ago.

If you have a Nvidia card, update to version 77.78 of its drivers. BF2 should work fine then. My friend had the same issue, the new version of the GPU driver fixed it for him. If you got ATI, do the same. Get ATI's latest graphic drivers.

Make sure your PC has enough RAM, I recommend 1GB atleast. The game plays like cream on PC's with 1GB RAM and a decent GPU card.

**DeputyDon** · 09-05-2005

Originally Posted by Soviet635

Or people who just dont like PC's...I personally like them, but mine sucks(best it can play is Half Life1...with trouble

...)

I didn't know that computers still existed that had a hard time playing Half-Life 1.

My computer specs are really, really low, yet I can run Half-Life 2 on max setting with hardly any slowdown.

633Mhz
64 Nvidia GeForce 4
256 Ram

Thats pretty low. 7 year old computer, been upgraded twice (video card and more ram.)

I also have only 14 GB of memory. This is horrible for me. If I get below 5 GBs my computer slows down, most of the time. Right now its at like 4.86 GBs left and I am all of a sudden having problems running Counter Strike Condition Zero, yet Half-Life 2 single player is still running almost perfect.

Anyone know what I can do to fix this? I defrag my computer weekly, Disk Cleanup, Scan for viruses, thats all I can think of that I do..

I might use one of the programs that focus most of your ram onto one program at a time to speed it up. I don't know how those work though.

**hoverbike** · 09-05-2005

Originally Posted by DeputyDon

Originally Posted by Soviet635

Or people who just dont like PC's...I personally like them, but mine sucks(best it can play is Half Life1...with trouble

...)

I didn't know that computers still existed that had a hard time playing Half-Life 1.

My computer specs are really, really low, yet I can run Half-Life 2 on max setting with hardly any slowdown.

633Mhz
64 Nvidia GeForce 4
256 Ram

Thats pretty low. 7 year old computer, been upgraded twice (video card and more ram.)

I also have only 14 GB of memory. This is horrible for me. If I get below 5 GBs my computer slows down, most of the time. Right now its at like 4.86 GBs left and I am all of a sudden having problems running Counter Strike Condition Zero, yet Half-Life 2 single player is still running almost perfect.

Anyone know what I can do to fix this? I defrag my computer weekly, Disk Cleanup, Scan for viruses, thats all I can think of that I do..

I might use one of the programs that focus most of your ram onto one program at a time to speed it up. I don't know how those work though.

Ok My computer is the oldest ever everyone. I can play Half-life on my computer at a normal rate with all the settings at the lowest. There is still some lag even then.

A have a 266 MHz Celeron with 16 KB of L1 cache and 0 KB of L2 cache,32 MB of SDRAM (PC 100/133),ATI Rage Pro with 8 MB of VRAM,40 GB hard drive (used to be 1.5 GB), Sound Blaster Card, CD reader, DVD burner, FSB is 66 MHz, 4 PCI slots, 2 ISA slots, 1 floppy drive.

Now who here can beat that?

**DeputyDon** · 09-05-2005

Well I have a computer that my grandpa built me when I was about 6. The best game it can play is games of about the original Atari graphics. So basically no games but tetris and cards. maybe some overhead 2d flight sims..

**soldier one** · 09-05-2005

well my old computer could barely play doom and never had a chance with quake. the original doom would lag and quake was even worse. it was really slow and froze alot. the tower is also like 2 feet tall.

**Reiaz** · 09-05-2005

I just built a new computer, went with a AMD 64 X2 3800 manchester, asus mobo, 74G raptor HD 10k rpm, 256 Nvidia 7800GTX etc, waiting for some MMO's to come out, hoping to run F.E.A.R. with a decent fps.

I decent gaming PC is getting to be too much, for me anyway. I'll prolly end up sticking with X360 and PS3 for my gaming fix, consoles have finally caught up to PC game power, sure, PC games still have a slight edge, but its affordablity outweighs the slight edge that PC's will have graphically. In the end, I'll get more for my money with consoles then if I keep building new PCs to game on.

**Zach730** · 09-09-2005

crap i just ordered my new laptop yesterday and didnt realize that i couldnt play bf2 with most graphic cards . . . . .

will 128MB ATI RADEON(R) XPRESS 200M w/Hypermemory(TM) work for BF2???????

**CompGeek** · 09-09-2005

Originally Posted by Zach730

crap i just ordered my new laptop yesterday and didnt realize that i couldnt play bf2 with most graphic cards . . . . .

will 128MB ATI RADEON(R) XPRESS 200M w/Hypermemory(TM) work for BF2???????

Possibly on minimum

**Helicoidal_stairs** · 09-09-2005

Originally Posted by CompGeek

Originally Posted by The Chocobo Kid

this is the problem I have with pc games. I have to keep upgrade my pc to play the game the way it was made too. and that cost to much.

Some of us get as much joy buying high-end hardware as using it.

Like I said, if u spend a lot of money on other stuff (ex. ridiculous name-brand clothes, movies, theme parks, excess junk food, whatever) you werent cut out to be a PC Gamer.

Upgrading once a year for $800 keeps your PC bleeding edge.

Yes, i can agree with that, you dont really need to spend 800$ a year for that, because you can easly sell the old parts without a huge lost. If only upgrade garphic card and maybe ram, the other parts you can only change every 2/3 years. even if you by a gf7800gtx you still dont spend that much, and trust me it wont even notice your processor(still dont have one,but i´m getting there

).

**CompGeek** · 09-09-2005

lol, yeah true, after i sell my 6600 GT and 1GB RAM the 7800 GTX and 2GB RAM will only have cost me $550

**hyelife** · 09-09-2005

I have had 3 computers in the past 7-8 years. My first one was a compaq with 500mhz celeron processor (i like to kill the guy @ circuit city who sold celeron to me). I paid 1500$, can someone say ripoff?.

My Second computer I build my self. 550$
P4 2,4ghz
Radeon 128mb 9000 Pro
512mb Ram
Soyo Motherboard
This computer was able to handle any game at the time, but eventually needed an upgrade. Instead I just build a new computer. But this computer is still able to run Battlefield 2.

My 3rd computer I build 3 months ago. 800$
Athlon 64 3400+
Radeon 256mb x800xl
512mb ram
MSI motherboard
This computer runs almost all games @ highest quality. Conuter-Strike source runs with 120fps. Battlfield 2 works great too.

In my own experience I could tell you that you need an upgrade every 12-24 months to keep up with todays gaming. Next time I build a computer im going with dual core Athlon and the new R520 cards if they manage to beat the 7800GTX

This is why im glad that Consoles are not upgradable. They atliest last you for 4-6 years.

**CompGeek** · 09-09-2005

Originally Posted by hyelife

This is why im glad that Consoles are not upgradable. They atliest last you for 4-6 years.

So does a PC if you like to keep the same quality graphics the whole time (like consoles), its not like consoles magically get better parts as time goes on

PCs are constantly improving, consoles arent

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