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Old 06-14-2005, 11:45 PM   #5 (permalink)
UncleMacro
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To buckyball20 (cool name by the way):
All of the cards on their BF2 list are DirectX 9 cards with the exception of the Radeon 8500 which is a DirectX 8.1 card. A Radeon 9250 is basically a cut-down version of the 8500 and is also a DirectX 8.1 card. It's kind of odd that they would support an 8500 and not support a 9250 but given that your drivers look fine and it works fine with other games, it may be that they just won't support your card. There are also some slow DirectX 9 cards like the FX5200, FX5500 that they claim not to support. I would think that it would run on a 9250 but a bit slowly. That's normally the way game developers operate. If it can work on the card then they let it run even if it performs poorly. The only way you'll know for sure is by searching around on game forums and see if you can find someone running it on a 9250. If there isn't anyone, then EA may be very strict about what kinds of cards they'll accept.
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