Could I run it?

[KaosuHamoni]

Battlefield Bad Company 2. It's on Steam today for £5, and I've had my eye on it for quite a while. Now, here's the kicker...

Core 2 Duo 1.8GHz Dual Core
nVidia 8500 GT
2GB Ram

I understand that my computer is absolutely crap, however, this is by no means a permanent solution. All I want to know, is if I could run it at 30 FPS on the lowest settings, until I get my new laptop (Do not berate me for getting a laptop. It's high end because I will be taking a computing A-Level, and, funnily enough, I want to play games on it.)

Edit: Are there any demos that I can test on my PC, just to see?

EditEdit: I could play the Mafia 2 demo with a decent FPS at low settings, if that helps?

 

[Nocta-Aeterna]

This might help you.

 

[dududf]

Processor is too weak. Sorry mate.

Everything else meets the bare minimum, just not the cpu. It's in safe OC range however if you really want to play BFBC2.

 

[Akytalusia]

find out. [http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri/]

just in case.

 

[electric_warrior]

http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri/

This should help

 

[6unn3r]

If by some miricle it does run...if you know how to over clock you might get lucky, i wouldnt advise playing online with it, you'll get slaughterd. Still, buy it now for £5 and play it later, rather than waiting and having to pay full wack.

 

[KaosuHamoni]

find out. [http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri/]

This might help you.

I'm not an idiot. I have this bookmarked, however, I simply wanted a second opinion.

Edit: Sorry if this came off a little curt. I'm unbelievably tired...

 

[viranimus]

Thats why they make Canyourunit.com

Looking at the spec sheets vs min requirements its plausible. Your only missing 0.2 ghz on processing power. However theres several conditions.

A: thats provided your O/S is Win XP. The Ram requirement is 2gb but Vista & 7 basically eat anywhere from 800mh to 1gb of system ram just from loading.

B: your video card needs to have 256 mb of ram. It is entirely possible to have a 8500 128 card, although it is unlikely.

C: And this is prolly the most important. You dont expect an enjoyable experience out of it. It might load and boot, but its going to chug every second.

D: Your only looking at playing single player, becase 1: having to process and decrypt binary streamed data from across the internet WILL increase system resource demand and 2: your going to be chugging to play your going to basically be a sitting duck.

Can it be done? Perhaps.. I wish you the best in seeing if you can get it running. But its prolly going to end up being more frustrating than its worth to you even if you do get it running.

Edit: But yeah, only being off by 0.2 ghz on the processor speed is not likely going to be a massive hinderence. It should load, and you should be able to system tweak and drop down all the "pretties" and dump the reso to bare min and get a fairly playable experience, at least for single player. I just love h ow people act like, because its 0.2 below the min requirements like there is no chance for it to run.

 

[Worgen]

you might be able to run it at low settings but that is a pretty weak cpu

 

[Lacsapix]

This might help you.

thanks for the tip that link is very usefull.

and I'm afraid your computer needs a few upgrades first.

 

[KaosuHamoni]

Processor is too weak. Sorry mate.

Everything else meets the bare minimum, just not the cpu. It's in safe OC range however if you really want to play BFBC2.

If by some miricle it does run...if you know how to over clock you might get lucky, i wouldnt advise playing online with it, you'll get slaughterd. Still, buy it now for £5 and play it later, rather than waiting and having to pay full wack.

Unfortunately, my computer is a pre-built 7 year old Dell, with a Dell MoBo, there fore I cannot OC. I know how, but the MoBo won't let me =[

 

[WanderingFool]

find out. [http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri/]

This might help you.

I'm not an idiot. I have this bookmarked, however, I simply wanted a second opinion.

Edit: Sorry if this came off a little curt. I'm unbelievably tired...

Thats the way to be with that site. I found I cant play several games on my Laptop... or so said the site. I end up able to run them all at near max settings, I just need to keep my laptop cool...

Also, there is nothing wrong with a Laptop, not as good as a desktop, but not everyone enjoys carrying the whole desktop setup where ever they go.

 

[KaosuHamoni]

Also, there is nothing wrong with a Laptop, not as good as a desktop, but not everyone enjoys carrying the whole desktop setup where ever they go.

Yeah, the one I have my eye on has a quad-core i7, running at 2Ghz, which can then turbo up to 2.9 (It's Sandy Bridge). And it also has a 3GB nVidia 555m GTX (Yes, you read that right. 3GB)

 

[dududf]

find out. [http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri/]

This might help you.

I'm not an idiot. I have this bookmarked, however, I simply wanted a second opinion.

Edit: Sorry if this came off a little curt. I'm unbelievably tired...

Ouch sorry mate.

Personally, I'd suggest you buy it anyways, just as it's a good price. I'm assuming you intend to upgrade somewhere down the line so it'd be playable then, and since you can rn mafia 2 with decent fps, there's a chance you'll be able to play BFBC2.

I'd say give it a shot, minimum is 2ghz you have 1.8ghz, with the use of gamebooster, you should be able to narrowly get by... maybe.

 

[KaosuHamoni]

-snip-

I also have a copy of ETQW, which I can play at high settings, with a decent FPS. Dunno if that helps.

 

[Archangel768]

I reckon it would probably run.

I remember running F.E.A.R. on my pentium 3 733mhz processor, SD 133mhz 512mb ram, Geforce 128mb AGP x4 video card. And that was on second lowest settings and it was online.

The minimum system requirements is 1.8ghz processor, 512mb ram and 128mb video card.

So considering I had the bare minimum ram and video card and had far less than half the processor supposedly required. I think you have a fairly good chance that BBC2 will run on your computer on lowest settings.

I know it's a different game but I was just giving an example of how sometimes the specs just don't matter and the game will run.

Funnily enough F.E.A.R. would not run on my 1.8ghz Celeron processor, DDR 266mhz 256mb ram and the same video card. Seems as though ram was the biggest problem when it comes to running F.E.A.R.

 

[Markgraf]

Hmm, nobody hasn't mentioned yet that while XP consumes less resources, it's also not optimized for multicore processors, something that could harm the OP's chances at running the game.