Gamesniped Posted October 17, 2001 Report Share Posted October 17, 2001 Hi y'all I'm new here I can't wait 2 get BCM! I was wondering I'm about to upgrade to 320RAM I have a P2/MMX 500mhz Win 98SE and a PCI 32SDR Radeon should this be effecient to run BCM? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advil Posted October 17, 2001 Report Share Posted October 17, 2001 Honestly, you might as well. I don't know if that much RAM is going to make too much difference to the game, but for petes sake 256MB is under $25. Just do it. It can't hurt.You may also want to start saving up to upgrade your CPU soon. While 500mhz is ok for now, it won't be long now until it's the minimum requirement for most new games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamesniped Posted October 17, 2001 Author Report Share Posted October 17, 2001 K thx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Epsilon 5 Posted October 17, 2001 Report Share Posted October 17, 2001 The more the better. Always. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supreme Cmdr Posted October 17, 2001 Report Share Posted October 17, 2001 quote:Originally posted by Gamesniped: Hi y'all I'm new here I can't wait 2 get BCM! I was wondering I'm about to upgrade to 320RAM I have a P2/MMX 500mhz Win 98SE and a PCI 32SDR Radeon should this be effecient to run BCM?You're upgrading to 320MB RAM. So, uhm, how much RAM to you have now?Anyway, with that rig, all the memory in the world isn't going to help you - unless you're going to be running the game at 640x480 and with ALL rendering options set to their bare minimum.When in doubt, read this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamesniped Posted October 17, 2001 Author Report Share Posted October 17, 2001 Hrmmm.. well I'm gonna upgrade to a P4..in 2 years:/ but the demo ran pretty good except for a texture glich. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamesniped Posted October 17, 2001 Author Report Share Posted October 17, 2001 Oh! and I currently have 128 RAM but gonna upgrade in few days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supreme Cmdr Posted October 17, 2001 Report Share Posted October 17, 2001 quote:Originally posted by Gamesniped: Oh! and I currently have 128 RAM but gonna upgrade in few days.Like I said, your system is fine, as long as you keep everything to a minimum.The demo is NO indication of the full game's processing power. In fact, the demo takes place in a completely smaller galaxy, which is the same as used by the Instant Action scenarios in the full game. So, don't go confusing the demo's performance with that of the full game, unless you only plan on playing IA scenarios. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cmdr Nova Posted October 17, 2001 Report Share Posted October 17, 2001 quote:P2/MMX 500mhz Win 98SE and a PCI 32SDR Radeon I've been running the demos for a while with my Celeron 500, 192MB of Ram, and a PCI 16mb Rage 128. Anyway, I'm upgrading my system around Christmas, so I'll be okay with BCM. I think you'll do okay (as per the reqs. from the BCM Info page).Oh, and those glitches with the textures are based on ATI's drivers. I think have been corrected (at least the ones I experienced with the Rage chipset). Download the latest drivers: http://support.ati.com If that doesn't help, then add /nd1 /nd2 to the end of the "Target" box of the shortcut.Welcome aboard. I'm Nova, and you can ask me any further questions you have about our community, or basic questions about RP, Fleets, or what to expect from here on in (multiplayer, etc.). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hector Socas Navarro Posted October 17, 2001 Report Share Posted October 17, 2001 No, you're gonna have plenty of texture problems with the Radeon. I just traded mine for a GeForce2. I'm sick tired of graphic glitches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eric3045 Posted October 18, 2001 Report Share Posted October 18, 2001 Is it true that on windows 98 that even if you have 512 megs of ram the os only recognizes about 190megs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advil Posted October 18, 2001 Report Share Posted October 18, 2001 eric - It's not that 98 can't USE large amounts of memory, its about how efficienly it uses it.Here, it has to do with cache and memory handling. If you REALLY want to know, read this: http://www.aumha.org/a/memmgmtz.htm[ 10-17-2001: Message edited by: Advil ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamesniped Posted October 18, 2001 Author Report Share Posted October 18, 2001 Hey Nova I'm gonna upgrade drivers but does it automaticly remove the old driver? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supreme Cmdr Posted October 18, 2001 Report Share Posted October 18, 2001 quote:Originally posted by Gamesniped: Hey Nova I'm gonna upgrade drivers but does it automaticly remove the old driver?No, it will just replace the older files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamesniped Posted October 18, 2001 Author Report Share Posted October 18, 2001 K thx for the help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ancharon Posted October 19, 2001 Report Share Posted October 19, 2001 I just ordered 256 megs of RAM for my comp for about $35, with s&h. Unfortunately, my comp's a piece of crap (PII 350, 128 MB RAM right now, Voodoo 3 3000 16 MB)... But I should be getting a nice new comp if my grades are good in school, which they are, so now it's just a matter of time. Specs for my new comp: 1.33 gHz Athlon 256 MB DDR (probably...) RAM (I'm gonna up that to at least 512 later on, though. 256 is just to get it started) 40 GB harddrive Either a GeForce 2 or a GeForce 3 card (haven't decided which I want, or, rather, want to spend the money on) 52X CD-ROM 17" monitor (nothing bigger fits at my computer desk ) All for a little over $700, if I get the GF2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
william_broyles Posted October 19, 2001 Report Share Posted October 19, 2001 Hey, this is my first post and I've got myself a couple of questions. My tower computer's specs really, really, REALLY SUCK! They are a 300mhz processer, 16mb voodoo card, 64mb of ram, Win 95..... I think I'll stop while I'm ahead. Anyway I'm going to upgrade after I get some money but that won't be for a while, around January but can your guys tell me what the best confguration would be for the lowest cost. As I said I'm kinda strapped for cash so make it CHEAP! Also do you think it would be enough to at least run BCM for a while? I also have a notebook with everything exceeding the requirements but the graphics card is only 8mb...Would that hold up until my tower stops suckin? Thanks for helping...Assuming you help. THXS! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advil Posted October 19, 2001 Report Share Posted October 19, 2001 Your video card and memory will sort of work for the time being, hopefully. Expect graphic artifacts in BCM, and likely not smooth gameplay because of the small amount of RAM you have.You want to upgrade on the cheap around January? Grab one of the Nvidia Nforce chipset motherboards that should be out by then. Put an AMD duron on it. That should all cost under $300 even if you need a new case and memory. That will give you a much faster system, and upgrade your video, sound, and NIC all at the same time.In the meantime... you could grab a 128MB stick of memory for under $15 to help hold you over. Don't buy any more though, as you will probably be buying DDR memory for your next rig, and memory alone isn't going to help your current system that much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles Lindsey Posted October 19, 2001 Report Share Posted October 19, 2001 Gamesniped, I ran the Beta up until the last version at acceptable levels. Wasn't spectacular but it wasn't anywhere near being a dog either. I posted several favorable reports about my system.500 Celeron 192 meg ram Voodoo 3 2000 pciIt ran pretty good I thought. Like Derek said, you will be ok I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
william_broyles Posted October 19, 2001 Report Share Posted October 19, 2001 Thxs Advil, I'll get that, one more thing, I've got the BCM demo episode 2 and it was working like 15 minutes ago then it suddenly won't load the game anymore, it won't even attempt to load the opening avi. Got any ideas what might be wrong?As I said, thxs I'll take your advice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Papi Posted October 19, 2001 Report Share Posted October 19, 2001 willb, I think the best thing is to try uninstalling and reinstalling the demo if you haven't tried that yet. It might be that the game crashes because you have only 64mb memory.Remember that you should quit all programs, except eplorer and systray.I run memory manager called "Ram Idle" prior to starting any games, so I can get as much memory as possible, then I quit the memory manager too.Hope this helps and welcome to our universe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advil Posted October 19, 2001 Report Share Posted October 19, 2001 What Papi said. I didn't play much with demo2... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Põdi Posted October 19, 2001 Report Share Posted October 19, 2001 Didn't he say Win 95? I thought BCM needed Win 98 at least, even for Demo 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supreme Cmdr Posted October 19, 2001 Report Share Posted October 19, 2001 quote:Originally posted by Paddy Gregory: Didn't he say Win 95? I thought BCM needed Win 98 at least, even for Demo 2.Yep Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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