There is no such a card Radeon HD 3600 (?), there is Radeon HD 3650 that will perform very poorly. You will need to play on low resolutions like 800x600.
Kouji_SanSr. Hινε UÏкεεÏεг - EUPT DeputyThe NetherlandsJoin Date: 2003-05-13Member: 16271Members, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue
edited December 2012
On 512Mb it will go over the VRAM quite easilly even on low quality. Your best bet wold be to use the ingame graphics setting called "texture streaming".
Also just posting about your graphics cards HD series, is simply not enough info. First of all it is a what, 4 year old card? And also a none gaming card in terms of raw 3D processing power and options available on the card. The x6xx and x7xx series are mainstream cards, not pure gaming performance cards, it usually has only half the memory bandwidth as such. With the x3xx, x4xx and x5xx series only 25% of the memory bandwidth compared to the high end cards. Not ot mention the lower the number the lower the overall processing power
So put two and two together and we've got a recipe for "nope you cannot run NS2", But we really need more information about your PC like the most important part for being able to run NS2, the CPU and the amount of system memory...
<!--quoteo(post=2051863:date=Dec 27 2012, 08:04 AM:name=Kouji_San)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Kouji_San @ Dec 27 2012, 08:04 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=2051863"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->On 512Mb it will go over the VRAM quite easilly even on low quality. Your best bet wold be to use the ingame graphics setting called "texture streaming".
Also just posting about your graphics cards HD series, is simply not enough info. First of all it is a what, 4 year old card? And also a none gaming card in terms of raw 3D processing power and options available on the card. The x6xx and x7xx series are mainstream cards, not pure gaming performance cards, it usually has only half the memory bandwidth as such. With the x3xx, x4xx and x5xx series only 25% of the memory bandwidth compared to the high end cards. Not ot mention the lower the number the lower the overall processing power
So put two and two together and we've got a recipe for "nope you cannot run NS2", But we really need more information about your PC like the most important part for being able to run NS2, the CPU and the amount of system memory...<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Kouji_SanSr. Hινε UÏкεεÏεг - EUPT DeputyThe NetherlandsJoin Date: 2003-05-13Member: 16271Members, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue
Hmm that is indeed below the minimum requirements, the game usually only starts to shine on about 3.0Ghz or higher. I can post you my findings on a similarly specced PC a while back:
Intel® Core™2 Duo E6420 @ 3.2Ghz (overclocked) HD4850 512Mb 2Gb DDR2-400 Windows XP
NS2 on the "Low quality" setting, eats up about 600Mb Video memory and 900Mb System memory (which is quite a lot with just 2Gb RAM and 512Mb VRAM). So since it is going over your Video memory it would have to swap between the system memory and the video memory, which will cause hitching. And on the other hand your CPU at only 2.4Ghz will have trouble running texture streaming, which reduces memory consumption, but needs a faster CPU as far as I've seen to be able to do its job correctly (without hitching)
On this system I used to get 20-40FPS in combat, depending on how much combat was going on. With some dips into the 15FPS range and walking around the map or during 1vs1 combat it was around 60FPS. Keep in mind that this system has a much more powerful 3Dcard and the CPU is running at a much higher speed.
I'm afraid you'd have to take those FPS values and subtract about 5 from them, maybe even 8. Even if you manage to run the Q6600 at around 3.0Ghz the thing that is causing this is the GPU. But overall your system will not be able to brute force its way through the NS2 code at this moment of development.
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Also just posting about your graphics cards HD series, is simply not enough info. First of all it is a what, 4 year old card? And also a none gaming card in terms of raw 3D processing power and options available on the card. The x6xx and x7xx series are mainstream cards, not pure gaming performance cards, it usually has only half the memory bandwidth as such. With the x3xx, x4xx and x5xx series only 25% of the memory bandwidth compared to the high end cards. Not ot mention the lower the number the lower the overall processing power
So put two and two together and we've got a recipe for "nope you cannot run NS2", But we really need more information about your PC like the most important part for being able to run NS2, the CPU and the amount of system memory...
Also just posting about your graphics cards HD series, is simply not enough info. First of all it is a what, 4 year old card? And also a none gaming card in terms of raw 3D processing power and options available on the card. The x6xx and x7xx series are mainstream cards, not pure gaming performance cards, it usually has only half the memory bandwidth as such. With the x3xx, x4xx and x5xx series only 25% of the memory bandwidth compared to the high end cards. Not ot mention the lower the number the lower the overall processing power
So put two and two together and we've got a recipe for "nope you cannot run NS2", But we really need more information about your PC like the most important part for being able to run NS2, the CPU and the amount of system memory...<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Intel® Core2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
2GB RAM
Intel® Core™2 Duo E6420 @ 3.2Ghz (overclocked)
HD4850 512Mb
2Gb DDR2-400
Windows XP
NS2 on the "Low quality" setting, eats up about 600Mb Video memory and 900Mb System memory (which is quite a lot with just 2Gb RAM and 512Mb VRAM). So since it is going over your Video memory it would have to swap between the system memory and the video memory, which will cause hitching. And on the other hand your CPU at only 2.4Ghz will have trouble running texture streaming, which reduces memory consumption, but needs a faster CPU as far as I've seen to be able to do its job correctly (without hitching)
On this system I used to get 20-40FPS in combat, depending on how much combat was going on. With some dips into the 15FPS range and walking around the map or during 1vs1 combat it was around 60FPS. Keep in mind that this system has a much more powerful 3Dcard and the CPU is running at a much higher speed.
I'm afraid you'd have to take those FPS values and subtract about 5 from them, maybe even 8. Even if you manage to run the Q6600 at around 3.0Ghz the thing that is causing this is the GPU. But overall your system will not be able to brute force its way through the NS2 code at this moment of development.