More ram would certainly help. To play with what you have now you will HAVE to set everything to low settings. You using and integrated sound card as well? If so make sure you also change your sound settings to low.
It may all that pretty but it will still play.
Also be aware of your AI settings. The higher you turn that up the choppier the game will run. You will have to test starting with like 1 bot and move it up as you test to find to right spot for your machine.
Here is a clip from the readme that no one does that may help out.
VIDEO SETTINGS
- Systems with 128MB of RAM should always run the game with
video settings set to "LOW".
- From the Main Menu choose the "Options" menu. Then select
the "Video" menu, select "Texture Quality" and experiment with
the slider in order to find the best setting for your computer.
You can also try lowering the "Graphics Quality" and "Effect
Quality" in order to meet your machines level of performance.
- Also from the "Video" menu, uncheck the "SHADOWS" check box.
This will prevent the game from creating dynamic shadows for
soldiers and vehicles and should improve performance.
- Also from the "Video" menu, uncheck the "LIGHTMAPS" check box.
This will prevent the game from adding detailed shadows on the
buildings, which should improve your performance.
- Also from the "Video" menu, uncheck the "ENVIRONMENT MAPPING"
check box. This will remove the environmental effects on
vehicles and weapons. This should improve your performance.
- Also from the "Video" menu, try to reduce your view distance
in order to increase performance. This will impact on gameplay
since your opponents will see you before you can spot them.
- Also from the "Video" menu, check the "ALTERNATIVE SPAWN INTER-
FACE" which will give you a black background when you bring up
the spawn interface while playing instead of keeping the game
view in the background. This should improve mouse control in
that menu on slower machines.
- Try reducing your video resolution to 640x480 in your "Video"
menu. The lower the resolution, the easier it is for your
computer to run the game.
- From the "Video" menu you can try to lower your color depth from
32 to 16 bit by picking your desired resolution with the color
depth of 16 (800x600x16).
SOUND SETTINGS
- From the "Sound" menu you can try to lower your audio quality
by checking the 22 or 11khz checkbox. Also test with lowering
the number of channels used to 24 or 16.
- Systems with 128MB of RAM should always use 11khz.
- From the "Sound" menu you can try to lower your sound detail
to "MEDIUM" or "LOW". This will prioritize sounds harder so
that only the core sounds of the game get played.
- From the "Sound" menus second page you can activate "HARDWARE
ACCELERATION" given that your soundcard supports this. This
should improve your performance.
I would go for the vid card over the ram. I know bf is a memory hog but that vid card is still your bottleneck. Plus another 256 of ram is only like $40 anyway. So get the vid card.
I am running with an original gf3 64 meg card and dont have any issues.
just any geforce 3 or above will run BF better than most cards, i have had an ATI 128 mb ddr and it didnt run like it does now with a geforce 4200 128! it was made for a gforce card!
1. Intergrated means it is part of the motherboard. i.e. you cannot take it off BUT you should be able to disable it in the BIOS. We all forgot to tell you to ENSURE you even have an AGP slot on the motherboard BEFORE you go buy the new video card.
2. Look at the memory itself should have a sticker saying what it is.
3. Well any Gf3/4 cards will work. (stray away from the GF MX cards if you can) The 4200 are really nice cards. As well as the ATI 9500's these are better then the GF4200 and around the same price but some people are stuck on the NVIDIA train sooooo all comes down to money really.
You could just tell us the type of motherboard you have (or if its a dell or compaq etc the model #) and we can tell you the info you need to know before buying new stuff.
ummm which 2300 you have? From what I see they dont have an agp slot.
Open up the computer. Look for a brown card slot should be the top one. If all you see is white PCI slots you wont be able to install that card you bought.
From what I see on Dell's website you cannot add a new video card to your machine unless you buy a PCI card which will hurt you more then help.
PS...Sorry I didnt answer before you left...it was a nice day up here...lol