Memory
You'll want 2GB of RAM in your system if you want Battlefield 2142 to run completely hitch-free. If you have the bare minimum 512MB of RAM, prepare for a stutter-fest and substantially increased load times. The middle-of-the-road 1GB configuration will suffice, but you will experience minor hitching on-screen.
Memory Performance Tests
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CPU
Battlefield 2142 didn't seem to benefit from a strong CPU in our tests, but keep in mind that our test doesn't account for AI controlled bots, nor the large scale action present on fully populated servers.Our frame rates didn't budge an inch when we scaled our dual-core Core 2 and Athlon 64 CPUs down by nearly 1GHz. Our single core Athlon 64 FX-57 hardly lost any performance when we scaled it down, and Intel's dual-core Pentium Extreme Edition 955 also managed to keep up with our other CPUs. However, frame rates dropped once we moved down to the Pentium 4 3.2GHz CPU.
CPU Performance Tests
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System Setup: AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 CPU, AMD Athlon 64 FX-57, Intel Core2 Extreme 2.93GHz, Intel Pentium processor Extreme Edition 955, Intel Pentium 4 3.2GHz, Intel 975X, Asus A8R32 SLI Deluxe, Intel 925XE, 512MB Corsair XMS Memory, 1GB (512MB x 2) Corsair XMS Memory, 2GB Corsair XMS Memory (1GB x 2), 160GB Seagate 7200.7 SATA Hard Disk Drive, Windows XP Professional SP2. Graphics Cards: GeForce 7900 GTX 512MB. Graphics Drivers: Nvidia Forceware 91.47.
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