Good morning/afternoon/evening all. Here are my systems specs; at least the ones most relevant to gaming:

Asus M2N-E Mainboard
AMD Athlon X2 (2.0GHz) 3800+
4GB OCZ PC2-6400 (DDR2-800) (1gb x 4) Platinum Revision 2
Asus (EAX1950PRO) Radeon x1950 Pro PCI-E w/256MB
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Gamer
Western Digital (WD2500AAKS) 250GB Hard Drive

I've been looking around at far cry 2 system specs online, trying to determine if I need to do a processor or video card upgrade before october 21st when this game is released. I'm thinking my video card should be ok for low-medium settings, but I think my processor is a bit weak. I don't know how much the processor will play in the mix with this game even though they recommend a 5200+. Any suggestions? Thanks.

-- MaSoP

In my opinion cpu will struggle.

Thanks for the reply. I think I'll ride out the fall season once I pickup the game in 1 week assuming they stick to the 10/21/08 (Tue) release date. If it runs like Crysis does than I should be fine for the most part. I always wanted to see Crysis in all it's glory but my system is incapable of doing so. I will say that the original Far Cry played very well on my previous rig which included an Athlon XP 3200+, 9800 Pro 256MB and 2GB of memory. I can't recall which settings I used on the original, but I do know I used medium settings in Crysis which was perfectly acceptable.

Unless the game plays only in low res mode, I'll hold off on an upgrade until black friday, or christmas. If I see any crazy black friday ads online for a faster AM2+ based processor (retail boxed) or video card than I may jump then. Thanks again, to all 3 who replied to my original question. :-)

-- MaSoP

WTF??? how can a X1900 handle crysis medium in such a high res????? how many FPS?
Everyone had trouble at the final battle my OCed Q6600 and 4870 couldn't run it, it's a bug, you have to run at DX9 mode.

Because he was using stealth. If he went in guns blazing throughout the entire game like I did he would have seen much lower frame rates. When you blow up buildings while shooting at 5-10 enemies who are shooting back, things get laggy. I know, because that happened to me a couple of times. Mainly since it was a lot of debris flying around, and the CPU must calculate all the physics for each piece of debris. Not to mention the GPU has to render all the flying debris.

BTW, I play at 1280x1024 all settings high and AA off since I only have DX9.

I've never even attempted at using any of the advanced features such as AA or TriLinear filtering, etc on any games thus far. I suppose I may tinker with it out of curiosity when I get FC2. The resolution I usually play at is 1024x768. I can't do 1280x1024 because my 19" widescreen samsung natively tops off at 1440x900. I suppose I could try selecting it by unchecking the option to reveal the unsupported resolutions listing, though it likely wouldn't look right.

It would be nice to have the option to be able to go into a slaughterfest with guns blazing without laggy frame rates, lol. :-) I'll never play any "good" game with anything other than medium settings at a minimum if at all possible. love the eye candy!

-- MaSoP

Yeah I have WinXP installed on my PC. It seems I need to update my sig since it is not listed.

I tend to use stealth in FPS games. I like to snipe my enemies (love heat shots) if possible and also use cloak at lot in dense foliage so that I can run in grab an enemy then throw him in the air so that the fall would kill him. Kinda like Predator; too bad there's no option for a knife in the game.

Don't know what my FPS is since I never bothered to check it.

just got done doing some exploration in far cry 2 seeing how my FPS comes in...

I was pleasantly suprised running a qx9650 @ 3.6 with 3 8800gtxs with very high settings except high on post processing at anti 2x i was cranking in 76-82 fps @1080p....I could even vsync up and lock on 60 with zero lag. running the nvidia beta driver (first ran it with a 178.. with good results as well) 180 i found some extra stablity and a small fps boost. Anyone else having similar results? most of the benches i have seen only show a single 8800gtx and sli'd/cf 200 series/4870's.

ultra high dx 10 at anti 2x @1080 I average 30-36

It wont help, seeing as the thread is 5 months old.