786mb to 1GB RAM - is it worth it?

I've just upgraded my memory from 256mb to 768mb but is it worth going all
the way to 1gb? Would it make any difference to BF at all?

Also, is it worth getting the latest drivers (catalyst, I think they're
called?) for my ATI Radeon 9600 pro? The ones that came with it work
perfectly ok and the site says not to bother unless I'm having problems,
which I'm not.


Allan

On Sun, 7 Mar 2004 12:41:35 -0000, "Allan" <zen19100@zen.co.uk> wrote:

>I've just upgraded my memory from 256mb to 768mb but is it worth going all
>the way to 1gb? Would it make any difference to BF at all?
>
>Also, is it worth getting the latest drivers (catalyst, I think they're
>called?) for my ATI Radeon 9600 pro? The ones that came with it work
>perfectly ok and the site says not to bother unless I'm having problems,
>which I'm not.
>
>
>Allan
>
Naah you won't notice much diff going from 768 to 1gb
of ram in BF or most any game of app out right now.

Vid drivers are a weird thing, some can run the very newest
some can't. If you have no problems stick with what you have
or upgrade them to a newer version but not the very newest.
HairyC is running 9700pro and 4.2 drivers and never
heard him complain about problems (except for FH .6
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> I did a post about a week or so ago on this, Basically the test I ran was
on
> 2 different systems both with 1 gig of ram. I used the /maxmem= to limit
the
> amount of ram Windows could use. On the test I ran, I used 512 meg and 768
> meg for the limits.
>
> Ont eh 512 meg, I noticed longer load times and on and off chop during the
> game, I think up the ram to 768 and the load times were almost twice as
fast
> and had no chop during the game. There was no performance gain, when I
went
> from 768 to 1 Gb of ram. So unless you have other needs, odds are you
won't
> see any gains
>
> I currently use the 4.2 drivers. I had problems with the 3.7-3.10 drivers.
> So far, the 2004 drivers have worked fine. I have the 9800 Pro
>
> HTH
>
> Dale



Thanks Dale and everyone else. I'll stick with 768mb.


Allan

On Sun, 07 Mar 2004 14:30:33 GMT, badbri said without hesitation, so I had to
add:

> HairyC is running 9700pro and 4.2 drivers and never
> heard him complain about problems (except for FH .6

Uh, I almost exclusivley use Omega drivers, of which I am currently using his
4.2 version. ;-)

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