How importaint is the 256MB on vid card?

I'm planning on upgrading my vid card to a Geforce 6600GT 128MB (http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E1681 4130220) ..

Battlefield 2 game requirements call for a vidcard with 256MB.

What I'd like to know is, are there any people playing BF2 with a 128MB vidcard and if so how does the game play?


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Current specs:

AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+
1024MB RAM PC2700
GeForce4 Ti 4200 128MB AGP 2x/4x (ack)

I'm guess alot/most people are playing in 128MB..
mine runs fine on a 128mb 256bit Radeon 9800Pro

Well, I have a 128mb BFG 6600GT and it runs bf2 @ ~40fps with settings all to high and at 1024x768 reso...Amount of memory on the card isn't as important as the clock speed and mem. speed.

Thanks.. Just what I was looking for..

9600XT 128mb

I like res at my desktop res (1280x960) and I think the game looks virtually the same between med and low settings. I run everything low or off and get 30-75, 30 in arty strikes with 10 people, 75 staring at a wall... but I average 50 in most action. Cut the fps in half to run it with any AA or at medium settings. Oh and geometry is set to high because it doesn't effect fps, and I'm not that sure what it even does...

Well I have 256mb and that's recommended. Less textures need to be swapped in/out of memory during a game.

High geometry allows you to see tanks a little bit farther away.

I think geometry is the res of the 3d models excluding the terrain as that has it's own setting, if you lower it there's a lot more switching out from low res models far away to higher ones close up.

I would suspect the 256mb would help out if you run textures on high, getting the geometry high and the terrain high is more important than textures. I have to run the terrain on medium and there's quite a bit of pop up, just like Tribes 1.

the extra vid memory becomes handy for AntiAliasing and antistropic filtering since it has to render the same frame more then once. Having a shitload of memory doesn't hurt you either though.

My 9700 pro runs fine.

bfg 6600gt oc here, runs fine. im not running full effects or anything, but the game looks fine and i have no slow downs

I'm on a 5900 I won from UVA.

And it works fine.

i have a bfg 5900xt

it runs fine but sometimes when i fly trees will pop up and kill me, its not like i can run my terrain all high on that crappy card