Running COD4 on my crappy system

[BigTwinky]

Is it safe to assume that if I am able to play the single player game that I should be able to run the multiplayer? Or is so much more processsing power required when you have 20+ people online at the same time vs you alone in the SP game.

The only info that I found online is the following

Minimum
Processor: Pentium 4 2.4 GHz or faster / AMD64 2800+ or faster
Memory: 512 MB RAM (XP) or 768 MB RAM (Vista)
Video Card: GeForce 6600 / Ati Radeon 9800Pro or better
Hard Drive: 8GB

Recommended
Processor: 2.4 GHz Duo Core or faster
Memory: 1.0 GB RAM (XP) or 2.0 GB RAM (Vista)
Video Card: GeForce 7800 / Ati Radeon X1800 or better
Hard Drive: 8GB

Twinky
Processor: AMD64 2800+
Memory: 1.5g ram (mix of PC3200 and PC2700)
Video Card: Ati Radeon 9800Pro 256mb
Hard Drive: I think I can fit 8g if I delete some, uh, extra files.

My "issue" (other than having a crappy PC) is that I believe the UT3 minimum requirements were similar to COD4 and UT3 was unplayable on my older system (AMD Tbred 2.x ghz, 1g ram, sapphire radeon 7800pro 128mb), which is not too far off my current system

Thoughts from you experts?

[juneau]

COD4 is a lot easier on your system than UT3. I'm hitting 60+FPS with everything on max @ 1680x1050. What resolution will you be using?

[Cain]

I'm running 800x600..

How do you check your FPS BTW ???

[Premonition]

easy way is turn on fraps. It will show you fps without recording or anything. Gives a good idea walking around to see how bad your drops are. Lag vs system performance.

[CarbonFire]

I'm running 800x600..

How do you check your FPS BTW ???

cg_drawFPS 1 (IIRC)

Twinky, you'll have to turn off pretty much all the eye-candy, but I think you should be able to run it. Try the demo yet? BTW, go get a new harddrive buddy, only 8 gigs free ???

[Duke{CLR}]

I have run the demo on my laptop and it was not pretty but it was playable.

P4m @ 2.3
2 GB Ram
6800 go ultra

[-Bar]

I wanna know why my ping is so crappy with this game.

[paceman]

I wanna know why my ping is so crappy with this game.

+1 Mine is usually low 60-70s on TF2, but on COD4 it's 120+

[BigTwinky]

MY HD has more than 8g free...it has 14 lol.
Its only a 120g HD.

If its less intensive than UT3, I should be ok. I'll go as low as 1024x768 but would prefer running in 1280x1024.

[juneau]

I'm running 800x600..

How do you check your FPS BTW ???

cg_drawFPS 1 (IIRC)

Twinky, you'll have to turn off pretty much all the eye-candy, but I think you should be able to run it. Try the demo yet? BTW, go get a new harddrive buddy, only 8 gigs free ???

/cg_drawfps 1

[-Bar]

I wanna know why my ping is so crappy with this game.

+1 Mine is usually low 60-70s on TF2, but on COD4 it's 120+

Plus a billion...

[Cold Catalyst]

If you can run it I can run it!

and I think I can run it

[-Bar]

If you can run it I can run it!

and I think I can run it

If you play a Source game you play this.

[Cold Catalyst]

If you can run it I can run it!

and I think I can run it

If you play a Source game you play this.

I play TF2

[-Bar]

If you can run it I can run it!

and I think I can run it

If you play a Source game you play this.

I play TF2

TF2 is a source based game.