Battlefield 2142 settings comparision

[Rafiq]

BATTLEFIELD 2142:

Maxed Out Settings:

For BF 2142, to run on Maxed out settings you would need the following:

CPU: Any AMD 64 or AMD X2 CPU. Intel P4 3.0 GHz or greater. Any Intel core 2 Duo or Higher CPU.

Video Card: Nvidia 7800GTX 256MB or greater. ATI Radeon X1800XT or greater.

Memory: 1.5 - 2 GB of RAM. preferably 2GB or RAM. Will help greatly on loading times and shuttering.

In Game Settings:

Terrain: High
Effects: High
Geometry: High
Texture: High
Lighting: High
Dynamic Shadows: High
Dynamic Light: High
Anti-Aliasing: 4x
Texture Filtering: High
View Distance Scale: 100%
Enhanced Lighting Effect: On
Monitor Reseloution: Highest Possible


Medium Settings:

For BF 2142, to run on medium settings you would need the following:

CPU: Any AMD 64 or AMD X2 CPU. Intel P4 3.0 GHz or greater. Any Intel core 2 Duo or Higher CPU.

Video Card: Nvidia 7600GT 256MB or greater. ATI Radeon X1650Pro or greater.

Memory: 1GB of memory.

In Game Settings:

Terrain: Medium
Effects: Medium
Geometry: Medium
Texture: Medium
Lighting: Medium
Dynamic Shadows: Medium
Dynamic Light: Medium
Anti-Aliasing: 0x
Texture Filtering: Medium
View Distance Scale: --
Enhanced Lighting Effect: On


Low Settings:

For BF 2142, to run on Low settings you would need the following:

CPU:

Video Card:

Memory:

In Game Settings:

Terrain: Low
Effects: Low
Geometry:Low
Texture:Low
Lighting: Low
Dynamic Shadows: Low
Dynamic Light:Low
Anti-Aliasing: 0x
Texture Filtering: Low
View Distance Scale: --
Enhanced Lighting Effect: Off

In Game Comparison Pictures:

Maxed Out Settings:

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Here are some pictures I took. You can really see how the dynamic Lighting and textures really make the game look very nice. Look at the reflection of light on the gun...amazing!

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Look at the trees and the viewing distance. Viewing distance is really important in this game. If you can sacrifice other settings for Viewing distance...I would highly suggest you do so.

Medium VS Low Settings:

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Thanks to crookbounty from steam forums, we have these Side-By-Side Comparisons. You can see that they dynamic lighting really helps for that realism look...although having it enabled does give you a performance hit, but hey if you can run it with smooth game play...why not, but disabling it will greatly help to give you a boost in performance.

Also AA, we can see that that there is a little difference with have 4xAA turned or and not having it on at all...but it does make a difference non the least.

Some more here from crookbounty:

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[Vreki]

Its great that you work on a guide, but it is a bit of a wasted effort: http://www.tweakguides.com/BF2142_1.html

BATTLEFIELD 2142:

Maxed Out Settings:

For BF 2142, to run on Maxed out settings you would need the following:

CPU: Any AMD 64 or AMD X2 CPU. Intel P4 3.0 GHz or greater. Any Intel core 2 Duo or Higher CPU.

Video Card: Nvidia 7800GTX 256MB or greater. ATI Radeon X1800XT or greater.

Memory: 1.5 - 2 GB of RAM. preferably 2GB or RAM. Will help greatly on loading times and shuttering.

In Game Settings:

Terrain: High
Effects: High
Geometry: High
Texture: High
Lighting: High
Dynamic Shadows: High
Dynamic Light: High
Anti-Aliasing: 4x
Texture Filtering: High
View Distance Scale: 100%
Enhanced Lighting Effect: On



No. I meet these requirements, but running 4xAA would kill it.
Maxed out is also a resolution of 1600x1200, that must be a slideshow with a low end AMD 64 and a 7800GTX

[Rafiq]

nah, I am not going to work on a guide...jsut don't have teh tijme and I know there are way better guides out then what I have here...judt though I would post this, that's all.

No. I meet these requirements, but running 4xAA would kill it.
Maxed out is also a resolution of 1600x1200, that must be a slideshow with a low end AMD 64 and a 7800GTX


Well you see, yes it also depends on your reseloution, that's why I said xxx gfx card or grater...and xxx CPU or greater.

And maxed out is not necessarily a reseloution of 600x1200...it could be lower or higher.

[Namakan]

I run maxed out
4x AA

1280*960

Nvidia 7600 GS 256 mb......


Its my Pentium D dual core at 3.0 ghz

[Rafiq]

I run maxed out
4x AA

1280*960

Nvidia 7600 GS 256 mb......

maxed out settings with smooth game play?????? That's kind of card to belivie, but hey I could be wrong.

Terrain: High
Effects: High
Geometry: High
Texture: High
Lighting: High
Dynamic Shadows: High
Dynamic Light: High
Anti-Aliasing: 4x
Texture Filtering: High
View Distance Scale: 100%
Enhanced Lighting Effect: On

I run a 7800gtx 256MB with maxed out settings with 4xAA as well at a res of 1440 x 900 with smooth game play.

[Vreki]

And maxed out is not necessarily a reseloution of 600x1200...it could be lower or higher.

:confused: I am pretty sure that "maxed out" implies the maximum setting on everything?
So a system capable of running "maxed out" should be able to have max resolution, all settings high and still provide 30+ fps on 48 player Titan maps.

[Rafiq]

Yea that is true. When I imply maxed out settings I ma talking about in game settings. You monitors res is a different story. Although to say you run at maxed out settings, you would have to run the game at the highest res that your monitor is capable of.

For me my maxed out res is 1440x900, so I run it at that with maxed out in game settings...so therefore I run at maxed out settings and so do you at your res of 1600x1200...

What I ment is that, not everyone has a max res of 1600x1200, so if a person can run at a max res of xxx that his/her monitor is capable of with maxed out in game settings, then he/she si running at maxed out settings.

But yes I understand what you mean...in order to run at maxed out settings, you ahve to have your monitor res at the highest possible.

[HEFO]

Does it have an effect that i play on a notebook? I could almost have the highest grafics but i cant even go for medium. I have to have Low:cry:

My Rig:
Manufacturer:TOSHIBA
Processor:Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.33GHz (2 CPUs)
Memory:1022MB RAM
Hard Drive:100 GB Total
Video Card:ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9600/9700 Series

Operating System:Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)

[Jeffro420]

I can run at all high, 800 x 600, 4x AA...60-80 FPS. I cant tell much of a difference in picture quality while gaming with higher resolutions (1280x1024 or 1600x1200) other than the fact that nametags get smaller and FPS dramatically goes down...I prefer maximum FPS, so 800x600 suits me just fine. I think that when I get my HD 2600 XT this month, I will see if I can use 1600 x 1200...but only if I at least get 60 FPS.

[Namakan]

maxed out settings with smooth game play?????? That's kind of card to belivie, but hey I could be wrong.



I run a 7800gtx 256MB with maxed out settings with 4xAA as well at a res of 1440 x 900 with smooth game play.

Lag during an orbital other than that its smooth

[Vreki]

Does it have an effect that i play on a notebook? I could almost have the highest grafics but i cant even go for medium. I have to have Low:cry:

My Rig:
Manufacturer:TOSHIBA
Processor:Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.33GHz (2 CPUs)
Memory:1022MB RAM
Hard Drive:100 GB Total
Video Card:ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9600/9700 Series

Operating System:Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)

You have a low end graphics card, nothing that can be done about it.

[Namakan]

Does it have an effect that i play on a notebook?

Yes, mobility cards are different

[Jeffro420]

Lag during an orbital other than that its smooth

Oh yeah...Orbital = 15-20 FPS..lol

[Namakan]

i get 30 fps, orbital 12

[iQu'e]

I can play on medium settings with no lag and I have a nVidia 7500LE 128mb.
I can actually play on all high with an framerate of around 20 the first minutes, then it stabilizes and lies around 30, which is good enough for me.

[Jx3Aroo]

For BF 2142, to run on Maxed out settings you would need the following:

CPU: Any AMD 64 or AMD X2 CPU. Intel P4 3.0 GHz or greater. Any Intel core 2 Duo or Higher CPU.

Video Card: Nvidia 7800GTX 256MB or greater. ATI Radeon X1800XT or greater.

Memory: 1.5 - 2 GB of RAM. preferably 2GB or RAM. Will help greatly on loading times and shuttering.

I would say thats wrong..

I have these specs and i have to run my game all on low on 48 player titan server & 64 player conquest servers..

AMD Athlon 3700+
2GB GeiL PC3200
GeForce 7950GT 512mb

[Vreki]

I would say thats wrong..

I have these specs and i have to run my game all on low on 48 player titan server & 64 player conquest servers..

AMD Athlon 3700+
2GB GeiL PC3200
GeForce 7950GT 512mb

All low? That cant be right, what resolution are you using?
I have a 3800+,7900GS and 2 GB DDR 400 in dual channel and I can play 64 player conquest in medium/high.

[sixshot]

Having gone through a GeForce 7800GT, 7900GT, and now on a 8800GTS 640MB, I figure I'll post some of my own personal findings.

Used to run 2142 at 1280x960 w/ 4xAA on the 7900GT. It didn't give me any hassle. But crank it up to 1680x1050 w/ 4xAA, and the card gets killed over when I get orbital strikes, shield effects, pod landings, and dust particles. Video memory seems to be the limiting factor here. I turned off anti-aliasing one time and it helped some. Then I got the 8800GTS... it's been smooth sailing ever since. 256MB will definitely limit how high of a resolution you can play at with all of the effects turned on and with 4xAA. Supposedly one should be able to play the game at 1600x1200 w/o anti-aliasing. But I haven't had the opportunity to test this resolution out on my ol' CRT.

[Wizrdwarts]

Note that if you turn lighting to low and have dynamic light on, you might get the pitch black titan glitch.

[Vikaman]

I can play maxed out, using an X700 Mobility, but only on singleplayer, with 800x600, and no AA.

Otherwise, its on all low. :(

[venny]

i play everything maxed out at 4x aa but 1024.768, cos my monitor cant support higher res... get about 90 average.

[Basil.]

I play hight with couple at med noAA.

amd64 3200+
1 gig of ram
1650xpro
and a lot of background crap shut down. I find getting a lot of background task gone will help you out a lot.. Do a search on blackviper.

[D3lit3]

7600 GT

2 gb RAM

Pentium D 3.2

All settings max, 1280x1024, 2x AA, lags only when I enter the titan.

[frazle]

I have an AMD X2 5200 and X1950Pro's in crossfire, but have to run in medium as the memory I have can't support it (long story, short version I won this PC and don't have a choice atm! but they should be sending us new memory hopefully). I think Vista not supporting Crossfire doesn't help, but it didn't seem much better in XP. I'm hoping our sponsor will be giving us ATI DX10 card's when they're released so I can finally forget about FPS lag in 2142, but not holding out much hope!

[Diamond621]

As a note, the AA can manually be set to 8x as well for the truly neurotic who want the most video quality out of the game. The frame rate hit is negligible if you already have a high end enough card to support it.