Hello and welcome to TSF!
I suspect the problem you are having is related to your hardware. Technology jumps and changes every few years with significant improvements being made to their precursors. Your hardware is extremely dated and barely scrapes past the requirements for the lowest demanding game (Crossfire) D:
Crossfire requirements vs your PC
CPU: AMD Athlon 3000+ 64 @ 1.18Ghz vs Pentium 4 @ 1.5GHz - Your PC barely makes this cut.
MEMORY: 1GiB unspecified frequency vs 512MiB unspecified frequency - Your PCs operating system will use anything to one quarter up to around half of this leaving 512MiB for the game itself. So if you have anything else running at all it will cause problems, serious ones.
GPU: ATI Radeon 1950x Pro vs GeForce 5600 Or Equivalent Class - A very dated card. Will struggle to run the game properly.
If you are running Windows XP and above you meet the requirements for the rest.
Summary:
Since Crossfire is the least demanding of all of these games we can rule out playing anything else like WoW, Dragon Age: Origins etc...
Your PC hardware does meet the requirements, but barely. Anything else running other than a vanilla boot (i.e. only what the OS needs) will cause performance issues and starve the game of memory. If this happens it will freeze or crash. This coupled with the weak processor and GPU confirms my suspicion.
When games list their minimum requirements they are just that, the absolute very minimum. I doubt anyone could play a game reasonably well on minimum settings since any change in any of the components will result in problems which is what I think you are experiencing.
You should look into upgrading your system
Threads to help you:
Power supplies
Memory
If you cannot be stuffed reading those I personally recommend nothing other than these brands for power supplies and memory respectively:
And these for memory
Post any questions you have mate
If you do decide to build a new machine (I recommend that highly) the build team will help you out
Good luck!
Fluidz
I suspect the problem you are having is related to your hardware. Technology jumps and changes every few years with significant improvements being made to their precursors. Your hardware is extremely dated and barely scrapes past the requirements for the lowest demanding game (Crossfire) D:
Crossfire requirements vs your PC
CPU: AMD Athlon 3000+ 64 @ 1.18Ghz vs Pentium 4 @ 1.5GHz - Your PC barely makes this cut.
MEMORY: 1GiB unspecified frequency vs 512MiB unspecified frequency - Your PCs operating system will use anything to one quarter up to around half of this leaving 512MiB for the game itself. So if you have anything else running at all it will cause problems, serious ones.
GPU: ATI Radeon 1950x Pro vs GeForce 5600 Or Equivalent Class - A very dated card. Will struggle to run the game properly.
If you are running Windows XP and above you meet the requirements for the rest.
Summary:
Since Crossfire is the least demanding of all of these games we can rule out playing anything else like WoW, Dragon Age: Origins etc...
Your PC hardware does meet the requirements, but barely. Anything else running other than a vanilla boot (i.e. only what the OS needs) will cause performance issues and starve the game of memory. If this happens it will freeze or crash. This coupled with the weak processor and GPU confirms my suspicion.
When games list their minimum requirements they are just that, the absolute very minimum. I doubt anyone could play a game reasonably well on minimum settings since any change in any of the components will result in problems which is what I think you are experiencing.
You should look into upgrading your system
Threads to help you:
Power supplies
Memory
If you cannot be stuffed reading those I personally recommend nothing other than these brands for power supplies and memory respectively:
- Corsair
- Thermaltake
- CoolerMaster
And these for memory
- Corsair
- Crucial
- Kingston
- OCZ
- GSkill
Post any questions you have mate
If you do decide to build a new machine (I recommend that highly) the build team will help you out
Good luck!
Fluidz
