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Isn't it a sign of a CPU bottleneck if the resolution is lowered and there isn't much performance increase?

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Zoopy_T

I don't see why Tempus can't play on high. 2142 isn't very CPU bound.

Jaykay

You are running 3200 "speed" RAM, which is 200Mhz. Is your motherboard set up to take advantage of this, or is it a slower 133/100 computer, with faster RAM simms in it? What's your overall system bus speed? 333? 400? 800?

I went from a very sad bus speed by jumping from 2GHz to 3GHz P4s, and PC3200 ram, instead of PC2700. I kept the rest of the system intact, since it's a good mobo and altho it's 3 years old, it has SATA.

My mobo has an AGP 8x bus (is yours only 4x??) and I run a GeForce BFG 7800-OC (factory overclock) at 1024x768 with all textures at HIGH, no shadows, and Filtering at the highest level.

It's as smooth as glass except when the HDD loads a bunch of new textures (boarding a Titan)

edit: 1G of RAM .. really needs 2!! Page file use sucks during gaming.

Tempus

My mobo is a 3200 speed mobo.

I also figured that my CPU was enough, since I understood that 2142 was not CPU 'heavy', but it's getting about time anyway. I'll go to a 4800 (still, only 400Mhz faster) and see if there's much improvement.

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KestrelZ17

2142 is CPU "heavy" enough that you will notice a difference. I went from an AMD XP 2500+ running at 3200 speeds with an ATI x850xt to a A64 3700 runiing at 2.7 (FX-53/55 speeds) (thanks Gixxer) with the same ATI card and noticed an FPS jump from the mid 20's to the mid 50's with slightly higher settings.

S939 chips are dirt cheap now and still provide a good bang for the buck, especially if you can OC them. I got an ASROCK 939 Dual Vista board which takes both PCI-e and AGP cards and has a daughter card that you can purchase seperately in order to upgrade to an AM2 CPU and DDR2 so I still have a viable upgrade path without having to get a new MB or graphics card.

The MB/CPU upgrade cost me about 130 bucks, and will carry me until it's time for a C2D/DX10 upgrade.

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BleedingKnee

Well, I upped my system. It runs *everything* on high at 1600x1200. Not only does it look and sound awesome, I also get a perverse pleasure from sliding them controls to high. If you can afford it, upgrading is worth it. While the gameplay is still the same, the visuals and the sounds get sooooo much better.
This is the new system:
AMD Athlon X2 4800 socket 939 (haven't needed to overclock it yet)
ASUS AN8SLI mobo
2GB DDR at 400MHz
BFG 7950GT OC PCI-E video
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Zid

sorry to kill your bragging =D but i upgraded and run everything on high at 1920 x 1200 =D /end brag.

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Zoraster

i run with everything on high except for shadows. I took them off because it's easier to see people without them on. I play on a fairly low resolution though.

5000+ AMD, 7950 GTX (1024 MB), 10k Hard drive and 2GB Ram.

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Zid

why?...buy a widescreen monitor newegg has one 1680 x 1050 res for about 250 dollars.

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Zoraster

i like playing on a small monitor. It allows me to take in all of my vision at once without having to move my eyes. I play on a 17" screen when I could have easily gotten at least a 19" screen without much more money, but I stick to the smaller screen on purpose.

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jonan_

I would say bigger is better. It makes it seem like I have bigger targets to shoot at

WaffleHousChef

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Click for big


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Yeah 1080i is nice.

Zid

bigger screen yes but i'm running at a higher res.

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WaffleHousChef

My TV does 1920x1200, same as you mentioned. 1080i is technically 1920x1080, but to get 1600x1200 in PC mode they had to make it possible to get 1200 vertical lines. You can't get 1920x1200 in any other mode but PC input, but I'm not complaining.

Tempus

Omg!

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