Originally Posted by Challen76
Originally Posted by ljsevern
Ignore the people that don't have a clue. Navyfield on its own regularly gets near and upwards of a gig of ram.
Ram (DDR3) is cheap nowadays.
If you run Vista/W7, you need more RAM to deal with that.
Laptops; Are fine for being portable and the odd casual gaming, but aren't designed for gaming; Components running at max for long periods in a small, poorly cooled space is never a good idea.
I would recommend a desktop; You can get desktops really cheap nowadays; especially in the US.
Processor wise; Go at least duel core and 2Ghz or above.
GPU; get a dedicated one, but you don't need super high end.
lol yes... Please ignore the people that don't have a clue.
The game is not taxing as the uninformed would have you believe... The game will run on Windows ME with 256mb ram. My old Pentium 4 with XP, 2gb memory and AGP video card was more stable than the fancy desktop I have now. Sometimes, less is more.
Considering the Original game in 2005 had more than 256 MBs of sprites to load, I doubt your running the game on 256 MBs of RAM.
The game by bare minimum requires 600-700 MBs of RAM to load 30 sprites (Average for a a 50 player ish GB)
Thats not including Windows (XP SP3 Uses 250 MBs minimum and 14.6% of your total RAM if you have more than 1 GB average.)
Windows 7 uses 400-600 MBs of RAM Minimum and uses 21.7% of your total RAM average @ 8 GBs, 15.3% @ 16 GBs, 9.8% @ 32 GBs
(Average is based on running Windows with Antivirus and Firewall installed plus basic computer driver programs)
Note you can drop RAM usage by forcing windows to push windows processes memory to pagefile (How windows will first try to avoid maxing out RAM, normally windows balances between Pagefile and RAM but if one gets near full, it will push it toward the other.
Oh by the way, NF doesn't like using pagefile. Hint Hint to those who don't like crashing.
Also NF is most stable in Windows 2000. Followed by XP, then 98, then Windows 8 (Good news huh? lol) then Vista, then 7, then if you install a ton of 3rd party updates, 95 can stably run NF.
NF also is most stable on the Pentium 4 HT processors made in 2005 along with the 2005 Intel Chipset motherboards (Epecially a 2005 Intel Desktop Motherboard made by Intel)
The most Stable build I've ever had with NF:
Intel Pentium 4 HT (3.4 GHz)
Intel Desktop Board D865(PERL) (Forgot the ending of the motherboard name, but its the D865 and its chipsets were the most important)
I believe that was the 475 socket
ATI Radeon 9200 Special Edition (TV Out)
1 GB of DDR400 RAM (x4 256 MBs) in Dual Channel
That system had 0 normal/Mission/GB/OpCon ect. battle involved Crashes (Not including HA mass Crashes, Which was 7 during those years) with NF in the 4 years I played NF with it (2005-2009)(Also doesn't include the server crashing.
Also the current NF servers are from the move San Jose, they are from approx late 2008.
Jimmyawesome if you think this is wrong. Look up the location of where the servers were before the move to San Jose, and look at the maintence time the day the server location change happened in 2008 and tell me how servers can be physically moved in that amount of time. Especially considering the other changes required when physically moving a server to a different location.
Plus quite a bit of the hardware was upgraded when the servers had that lag issue awhile back.
