Graphics 8800GTX good for Bad Company 2?

As the title says is a 8800GTX good for Bad Company 2?

My current rig is getting battered by it, so I'm thinking and upgrade from a AMD 64 4800+ x2 with 2gig DDR400 to a overclocked i5 750 with 4gig DDR3 1600 should do the trick.

Wanting to run everything on max smooth, 1920x1200

 

8800 GTX will simply not cut the mustard anymore. Your asking a card that years old to run a cutting edge game at a very high resolution at maximu
settings. Just to let you know - I had to upgrade from a single 260 GTX to SLI 260s to run Bad Company 2 at maximum settings smoothly at 1680x1050.

 

Ignore him, the GTX is a fantastic card and will play modern games well because of the 360 holding everything back, the problem is the BC2 engine is a steaming pile of ****.

 

Well he asked about BC2, and you've just said that BC2 engine requires a lot of horsepower, so I don't get why your being rude and telling him to "ignore" me when you've basically just agreed with me?

 

you said it was cutting edge

 

It won't run smoothly with everything on max, as long as you've got a fairly decent quad core you should be able to run it smoothly with a mix of low/medium settings and no AA with an 8800GTX

 

The GTX was a fantastic card. I mean, you wouldn't exactly say a lower-mid range card like the 5770 was fantastic these days, even though it's faster than an 8800GTX.

I get anywhere from 60-90 FPS on medium (which still looks pretty good IMO) @ 1680*1050 with a GTX 275. Saying that, it's certainly a very CPU intensive game, so I'd say you've done the right thing by upgrading to a newer platform.

You're not going to be able to max it at native res, but you should be able to get decent results with the quality settings and resolution knocked down a few notches.

 

I run BC2 perfectly well on a 8800GTX and a Q6600. Running at 1680*1050, I have level of detail, shadow quality, effects quality and texture quality set to medium, AA set to 4x MSAA and anisotrophic filter set to 4x. You don't need to run everything at high, it looks just as good at medium.

 

I have the feeling its not the 8800GTX slowing you down, but the old school 939 Athlon and 2Gb of ram.

The 8800GTX should be fine if the CPU and memory are upgraded

 

I run Bad Company 2 on nigh max settings at 1600x900 and I usually get about 35FPS average.



System in my signature.

 

I run that smooth at 1680 x 1050 on 8800GTX. But then there are 2 of them. Even without SLi it seems OK but I'm running it on a quad core Q9650 with 8GB RAM.

The Game does pretty much max out all 4 cores when I'm playing it so as above I think its CPU intensive.

I dont think a skt 939 would be up to it regardless of GC.

Perhaps when the CPU/Mobo etc is upgraded the 8800GTX may be OK,

 

+1 what Burnout21 says

 

ouch, i would have imagined you can play on high with a gtx275. have you tried Dx9 mode instead of Dx10? also, turn off HBAO, heard that's a performance killer.

try Dx9, medium, no AA with 8800GTX at 1920x1200. should be fine.

 

I disagree, I think it's really good. Not perfect, but well worth the purchase.

 

I can play on high, it just means an average FPS of around 50 vs. ~70 on medium. The reason I keep it on medium is because I like to have a high framerate in multiplayer games and I can't really tell much difference between medium and high. For example, compare these sets of images - one image in each is of all medium settings, the other all high. All other settings are the same (HBAO off, 2x MSAA, 4x AF).

1.

http://i44.tinypic.com/k3uqgg.jpg
http://i42.tinypic.com/16iuop5.jpg

2.

http://i39.tinypic.com/2qittab.jpg
http://i44.tinypic.com/11havs4.jpg

Can you really tell the difference, and would you be able to in-game? I can't honestly say I do, so I'd rather take the extra FPS over being able to say I can run it at max settings.

 

Game plays smooth everything on high @ 1920x1200 in single player, but online is unplayable.
I have to lower all the settings to get more FPS.

So I'd say it's CPU.

 

8800gtx = 9800gtx = gts250

Live I run BF2 with a 9800gtx
and one of my friend run it with his Amd 1090t 6 core and a 9600gt lollll The Processor realy help the card for this particular game. So I think you'll be allright with your card.

 

haha im running BC2 on a x1950 XT 256mb...but everything is on low and playing on 1024x768 res haha.

Good FPS but res sucks!!!

 

GTX260, and mostly on high settings at 1680x1050 roughly 40FPS. So I reckon the 8800GTX will cut it. Just.

Don't expect miricles though.

 

The Frostbite engine is terribly CPU dependent. Your CPU upgrade should give you a good boost in BC2 and other games as well.