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Well I tried running Battlefield 2 on full on my laptop, and it worked but its just really laggy. If I bought more ram would it reduce the lag? Or is it just my graphics card? I have an intigrated ATI Radeon 200M XPress.

More RAM increase Gameplay, it would make it less laggy, and it might be your Graphics Card too. Most likely it is your RAM.

xXxCocoFangxXx wrote:More RAM increase Gameplay, it would make it less laggy, and it might be your Graphics Card too. Most likely it is your RAM.

Thats what I was thinking cause I don't have very good RAM in this computer.

I'd try to upgrade both if you could

For the time being just turn your gfx settings down a notch or so and it should clear up.

Dos Mes wrote:I'd try to upgrade both if you could

For the time being just turn your gfx settings down a notch or so and it should clear up.

lollerskates, I can't, its intigrated
RAM is the only thing I can upgrade in this problem.

I don't think you need to upgrade the Graphics Card, just the RAM.

i thought choppyness occurred when your gfxcard couldn't put enough frames on the screen..

so i think it is the graphics card.

ram is used for loading parts of the game

No, ram is used the whole time you are playing, and if you have little ram and the game takes up a majority of it, then you start to lag, but depending on the lag, both should be upgraded.

well since he cant upgrade his graphics card, he will jsut have to get RAM. id say a gig would work fine, maybe a gig and half to make up for your graphics card

How much RAM do you have Compare it to the minimum and recommended specs, that should give you a clear picture of what to do, also compare your gfx card to the specs on BF2.

How much RAM you got? Lol, that's the same card I got.

EDIT: Ah, never mind. It's not the same exact model, but I got the ATI MOBILITY RADEON Xpress 200 Series.

GYAAAAH!!!

ok, people. RAM != a videocard. compare your laptop's specs to the minimum requirements and the reccomended requirements, then see what you should improve, think of what's possible to improve, what is practical to improve (cost-wise) and what you want to do. right now, it will probably be most cost-effective to get some RAM, but if you're videocard is having problems rendering the scene, then you're going to have to settle for turning down the eyecandy.

give us your laptop's specs.

Ya know what, it is my ram, cause when I installed BF2 it said I didn't have enough ram and it could effect gameplay.

HARHURHARHARHUR ok, wtf >_>

Anyways, its definatley not my graphics card cause my daddy (lol) said its supposed to be really good, thats why I bought the laptop cause the card were teh pwn, but the ram is pretty low.

I have 448 mb's of ram...... k its my ram lal. Im definatley going to go get a couple of gigs on my next trip to the store lol.

I gig of ram should be fine for almost all games, but 2 gigs would serve you extremely well and you would notice that your system would run A LOT faster

basically, there's not much of a need for 2 gigs unless you really want it, or you want at least 1.5 gigs in dual bank mode, because i don't believe they sell 768 MB sticks of RAM.

and yeah, if you're running battlefield 2 with <512 MB of RAM, that's probably the problem.

[cc]z@nd! wrote:basically, there's not much of a need for 2 gigs unless you really want it, or you want at least 1.5 gigs in dual bank mode, because i don't believe they sell 768 MB sticks of RAM.

and yeah, if you're running battlefield 2 with <512 MB of RAM, that's probably the problem.

I have 2 gigs.When running GuildWars and Windows media player I have around 900 left

yeah, I meet minimum on my card, but the major issue for me is Connection speed. BF2 tends to hog a lot of resources on your PC.