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d620 and Battlefield 2

post #1 of 16
7/31/06 at 12:18pm
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I just received my d620 with the specs below and installed the nVidia 84.25 video drivers. When playing Battlefield 2, the game's frames per second seem okay running on 1024x768 with medium detail settings, however the game is VERY jumpy when there's a lot going on. It's almost more of consistent "delay" rather than slow FPS. Is 1 GB of RAM enough? Has anyone else experienced this? How does BF2 play on your d620 and with what settings?

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post #2 of 16
7/31/06 at 10:36pm
1GB of ram is not enough for BF2. You need 2GB minimum.
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post #3 of 16
8/1/06 at 2:12am
ditto Ronin. 2GB of RAM in BF2 is night and day different from 1GB....even on a system with a much better video card.
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post #4 of 16
8/2/06 at 5:32am
definatly 2gb of ram.
even on my home system with the x1900, the extra 1gb of ram helped loads
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post #5 of 16
8/20/06 at 6:00pm
I tried bf2 myself, running with 1 gb of ram and the nvs 110. it runs ok mostly. i get 75/15 with the command "renderer.drawfps 1", which i have been told is good. but like previously stated it gets choppy at times when there is a lot going on.

anyone with 2 gb of ram and the nvs110 card who has tried bf2?

how would an extra gb of ram improve performace?
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post #6 of 16
10/9/06 at 9:16pm
Yeah i'd like to hear how the NVS 110 runs BF2. It runs pretty decent on my ati x1400 w/ 2gb of ram.
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post #7 of 16
10/10/06 at 4:53pm
the people telling you to double your ram arent doing you a favor. the quadro is a business style graphics card, its meant for rendering and 3d modeling. its terrible for games. its features are designed for CAD and other industrial design, etc.. you can have the fastest processor in the world, and 10gb of ram and it wont help you. the card is the issue here. on nvidias website, of the quadro nvs 110, they have this to say: "General Purpose Business and Corporate Financial Trading" high performance games need not apply.
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1GB of ram is not enough for BF2. You need 2GB minimum.
simply not true. 512mb is the minimum. no game in existence needs 2gb to perform to specification.
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post #8 of 16
10/10/06 at 8:41pm
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Originally Posted by customerservice
the people telling you to double your ram arent doing you a favor. the quadro is a business style graphics card, its meant for rendering and 3d modeling. its terrible for games. its features are designed for CAD and other industrial design, etc.. you can have the fastest processor in the world, and 10gb of ram and it wont help you. the card is the issue here. on nvidias website, of the quadro nvs 110, they have this to say: "General Purpose Business and Corporate Financial Trading" high performance games need not apply. simply not true. 512mb is the minimum. no game in existence needs 2gb to perform to specification.
No disrespect, but it sounds like you aren't speaking from experience at all. Anyone that has sat waiting for BF2 maps to load know that it needs 2GB of ram. BF2 might have crappy programming but thats just how it is. It isn't really helpful regurgitating the corporate speak or magazine blurbs. I want to know factually how BF2 does with this card. There are plenty of "business" type cards that actually play games decent, even with gaming not being the main focus of the card designers.
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post #9 of 16
10/10/06 at 9:06pm
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Originally Posted by lasmith05
No disrespect, but it sounds like you aren't speaking from experience at all. Anyone that has sat waiting for BF2 maps to load know that it needs 2GB of ram. BF2 might have crappy programming but thats just how it is.
no doubt the maps load quicker with 2 gbs, i never denied that. then again he never complained about the load times. i did say that the reason his shit is performing badly is because his card isnt designed for it. i also said that bumping it up to a gig wont fix his problem. particularly for the price tag attached.
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It isn't really helpful regurgitating the corporate speak or magazine blurbs. I want to know factually how BF2 does with this card. There are plenty of "business" type cards that actually play games decent, even with gaming not being the main focus of the card designers.
um if a card is meant for gaming, it is marketed as such. if its meant for cad and other menial tasks, its advertised as such. while some of the newer quadros can play games decently, but (especially given the good ones price) its not worth it using one. there are solutions, like further turning the graphics down, but bumping his ram up is not going to give him the result he wants. it will just require some tweaking, and i dont have the know how to say exactly what needs to be done. but quadros are at least similar to the game oriented cards and should behave pretty much similarly.
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post #10 of 16
10/11/06 at 12:13am
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Originally Posted by customerservice
the people telling you to double your ram arent doing you a favor.

the quadro is a business style graphics card, its meant for rendering and 3d modeling. its terrible for games. its features are designed for CAD and other industrial design, etc.. you can have the fastest processor in the world, and 10gb of ram and it wont help you. the card is the issue here.

on nvidias website, of the quadro nvs 110, they have this to say:

"General Purpose Business and Corporate Financial Trading"

high performance games need not apply.


simply not true. 512mb is the minimum. no game in existence needs 2gb to perform to specification.


Do you even PLAY BF2? The desktop in my sig had 1GB of DDR2 in it before I bought the Ballistix. This other memory had even been overclocked. Everything else was the same, graphics card, CPU, all of it. The game was ABSOLUTELY unplayable with 1GB of RAM and with graphics options worthy of a 7800GT. The game was VERY choppy and my Hard Drive LED was on almost constantly. Swap file usage in BF2 KILLS your framerate in a very bad way and BF2 will take up even 1GB of system RAM, unless you turn graphics options all the way down on a high end card (can't go any lower with a low end card). BF2 IS playable with 1GB of RAM, if you sacrifice some of the graphical niceties. I was playing it fine on my D820 with 1GB (was waiting for a replacement module from G.Skill) but it took a few minutes of being in game before the hard drive would quit swapping.
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post #11 of 16
10/11/06 at 4:07am
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Originally Posted by customerservice
no doubt the maps load quicker with 2 gbs, i never denied that. then again he never complained about the load times. i did say that the reason his shit is performing badly is because his card isnt designed for it. i also said that bumping it up to a gig wont fix his problem. particularly for the price tag attached.

um if a card is meant for gaming, it is marketed as such. if its meant for cad and other menial tasks, its advertised as such. while

some of the newer quadros can play games decently, but (especially given the good ones price) its not worth it using one.

there are solutions, like further turning the graphics down, but bumping his ram up is not going to give him the result he wants. it will just require some tweaking, and i dont have the know how to say exactly what needs to be done. but quadros are at least similar to the game oriented cards and should behave pretty much similarly.



Shite,I hope your not in computer customer service.
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post #12 of 16
10/11/06 at 4:09am
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Originally Posted by MrEvil
Do you even PLAY BF2?
yes, though i havent for awhile. my name was nurse.ratched if you really want to look it up.
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The desktop in my sig had 1GB of DDR2 in it before I bought the Ballistix. This other memory had even been overclocked. Everything else was the same, graphics card, CPU, all of it. The game was ABSOLUTELY unplayable with 1GB of RAM and with graphics options worthy of a 7800GT.
i would say this points to other issues, because i play bf2 on an athlon 64 3200+ and a radeon 9800 and a gig of ram and it works just fine. might be some network or other issues there.
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The game was VERY choppy and my Hard Drive LED was on almost constantly. Swap file usage in BF2 KILLS your framerate in a very bad way and BF2 will take up even 1GB of system RAM, unless you turn graphics options all the way down on a high end card (can't go any lower with a low end card). BF2 IS playable with 1GB of RAM, if you sacrifice some of the graphical niceties.
no doubt, but this wont help the OP with his current issue.
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I was playing it fine on my D820 with 1GB (was waiting for a replacement module from G.Skill) but it took a few minutes of being in game before the hard drive would quit swapping.
i dont imagine you tweaked your swap file at all? many of those problems can be fixed within the software, you shouldnt have to use another gb of memory to fix it.
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Originally Posted by gerryjoson
Shite,I hope your not in computer customer service.
no im in customer service customer service. it sucks.
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post #13 of 16
10/13/06 at 6:23pm
My friend plays Battlefield two at 1024x768 with an ATi Radon XPRESS 200M ( integrated graphics processor ) and with 1 GB of RAM. Details at medium and the quality of the game is nice. Everything runs smooth with no lags. Why are you saying that we needs at least 2 GB ???
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post #14 of 16
10/14/06 at 6:55am
lets calm down ppl!

Since i posted i have upgraded to 2 gb of ram (dual ram), and from experience the game runs very well, even medium settings is ok. i have not tried high settings. as to the questioon if 2 gb is needed or not...to be honest i didnt notice any improvement in the game itself because of the extra gb, but i can run a lot more programs at the same time now.

on low settings it is amazing. im mostly playing the POE mod (Point of Existence) these days and ill get 95 fps on average. Sure all the eye candy is turned off and im running on low settings but this is a light and small laptop and i love it.

is there anything special i can try to answer? just post and ill try to do it.

and btw, i could play bf2 with 1 gb of ram without artifacts. i dont remember exactly how i solved the artifacts, but i did reinstall the graphic drivers with updated ones on dells homepage.
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post #15 of 16
12/19/06 at 1:27am
Just to clear up, the notion that these Quadro cards were designed "only for business uses in mind and cannot play games" is ridiculous, Nvidia doesn't design two sets of cards for different tasks. The NVS110M Quadro card is quite simply a Geforce 7300 Go with a bios that indicates the name change, and drivers which are optimized for business tasks.
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post #16 of 16
12/19/06 at 11:59am
Can any one give me the part # for the MB with the Nvidia vido

Thanks.
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