Do I have to be a programmer just to play this stupid game?

[zapatista]

Originally Posted by chadinko

I would love it if this stupid thing just WORKED. I bought the damn game, installed it, and it's choppy and slow and impossible to navigate and the bloody joystick doesn't work. My system exceeds the requirements:

AMD FX6200
16GB DDR3-1600
GEForce 9500GT, 1GB VRAM
Logitech Extreme3D Joystick.

your system doesnt exceed the requirements at all, specifically your gfx card is from 3 or 4 generations ago, and even then it was a mid level card. if you look at the system requirement list, you'll see the 9800 card series is "supported", eg it will run with it, but you'll need to set the game gfx settings accordingly to take account of the low performance card you have. btw for most modern games you might be playing on your pc at the moment, that old gfx card you have will already be the bottle neck on your system, and flightsim's are the most demanding types of games on gfx card and cpu load, so those games will show your system weakness the most. that is of course presuming you are running at 1680 x 1050 or lower. if you have a 1920 x 1080 (or 1200) monitor and are trying to use that resolution (or even higher), i wouldnt bother if i were you, your gfx card cant handle that resolution for CoD

at 1680 x 1050 the game will run for you (presuming you have allowed steam to fully update it to the latest official 1c patches, also using win7 is important), and you will need to set all the gfx details to minimum at first. once you have it running smoothly like that, install the TF patch (which will improve fpsec performance) and then gradually experiment with setting some of the gfx settings a little higher (keep trees, terrain details, and visibility distance to low). there are lots of posts on this forum of what settings you might be able to increase without getting to much of a fpsec hit, and which ones to avoid because your system cant cope.