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| 208025 | 2004-01-17 04:52:00 | I am currently on an Athlon XP 1600 AND 256 DDR RAM. I am thinking about upgrading to ATHLON XP 2600 AND 512 DDR RAm. The main things I use my computer for is playing games like RED ALERT 2, but I notice that my system is under a bit of strain when I use mulipleplayers and playing with hundreds of units a once. My system slows down to a crawling pace and eventually stops running completely. Could you tell me if this is worth upgrading or not. Thanks Sam |
scho053 (5129) | ||
| 208026 | 2004-01-17 05:04:00 | if you have the money... why not? | Megaman (344) | ||
| 208027 | 2004-01-17 06:07:00 | Whats your graphics card?, base on your information i think you have a really old card since red alert 2 has very low requirement. i used to play with a athon 600mhz + tnt2, has never lag once unless thru internet. Maybe you should considering upgrade your graphics card as well. Some games even tho you have a really fast cpu it doesnt means the game will be fast, graphics card is as important as cpu when playing games. |
Blue_face (1148) | ||
| 208028 | 2004-01-17 07:01:00 | I went from a pentium II 266Mhz for 5 years to a Duron 1 . 3 Ghz for two months and then i built my Athlon XP 2800+ System . I ran red alert II on my Pentium II quite well (note that it is the minimum req), with 128 MB ram . Tho i never got to build hundres of units, i think that upgrading would help, tho not completely solve the situation . Some codes are written in ways that restrict operation, look at the original Command and Conquer for example . (Oh and how come i can never play on the net? Damn library) |
Growly (6) | ||
| 208029 | 2004-01-17 08:37:00 | So your upgrade will want a new motherboard anyway won't it? What motherboard do you currently own? Maybe you just need a good video card and go to the Athlon 2400+ with 512 Meg RAM. If your motherboard supports 133/266 then to support the Athlon XP2600+ then the motherboard needs to support 166/333. |
Elephant (599) | ||
| 208030 | 2004-01-17 11:37:00 | I used to play it quite well using a sytem quite a lot under your specs... PII 350, 128 RAM and Diamond Viper (550) video card. I also only ever struggled when playing online. I'd suggest that maybe your video card is the weak link. next step would be the added RAM. But of course it could be your Internet connection - if you're on dial-up, there's not a lot you can do | Greg S (201) | ||
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