I know it can be done..

**Potemkine** · 12-21-09, 05:04 PM

Now starts the fun part of 4+ hours of Downloading and installing patches, games, 3rd party software, etc. Enjoy! Care to have some elevator music with that while you wait

**BigHub** · 12-21-09, 05:28 PM

I have everything pretty much installed.

I can't install BF2 until I get back to San Marcos. I brought the CD, but left the case at home which has the cd key in it.

**Potemkine** · 12-21-09, 09:02 PM

Originally Posted by BigHub

I have everything pretty much installed.

I can't install BF2 until I get back to San Marcos. I brought the CD, but left the case at home which has the cd key in it.

HAHAHAH FAIL.

So tell me though.....how does it look? Sexy?

**BigHub** · 12-21-09, 09:05 PM

I like it a lot... Very sexy.

**Potemkine** · 12-21-09, 09:11 PM

Originally Posted by BigHub

I like it a lot... Very sexy.

How many gigs of RAM do you have? I only have 2 at the moment (still waiting on an RMA return from patriot) and all the games I play are stuttering to the max. I think it might have to do with the lack of RAM...but hey, I dont know enough yet about computers to say either way.

Be careful when you run BF2 in 64 bit mode though, the screen is squashed and acts like its in widescreen mode with the funky black bars on top like on certain movies....but instead they are on the sides. Any ideas to fix this? Other hardware gurus?

**WileECyte** · 12-21-09, 11:00 PM

It's squashed because it's running in 4:3 instead of 16:9 or 16:10 mode. Set your default resolution to whatever the native resolution of your monitor is.

BF2 chugged for me with only 2 gigs. I had to basically shut everything down before playing BF2 and then after 3 or 4 maps I'd have to exit and restart. 2142 wasn't near as bad.

**BigHub** · 12-21-09, 11:03 PM

I have 4GB of RAM. I only had 2GB when I had XP, but I went ahead and bought 2 more GB of the same RAM when I purchased Win7 64bit.

**WileECyte** · 12-21-09, 11:04 PM

Yeah, I went to 4GB and W7 64-bit ran everything like a champ.

**Potemkine** · 12-22-09, 01:23 AM

ahhh....ok....thats what I figured. To set it to run in 16:9 I go in game and set it that way yes?

**dex71** · 12-22-09, 02:34 AM

Originally Posted by Potemkine

ahhh....ok....thats what I figured. To set it to run in 16:9 I go in game and set it that way yes?

Yep....the 1.5 added widescreen support. Fire the game up and go to the video options and change it. It will make you dump the game and re-start the game again,but you will be good-to-go.