Could my old gaming PC run COD: Black Ops

6644kp · 12 May 2011 at 21:59

Now the minimum system requirements of Black Ops are as follows:

Core 2 Duo @ 2.4GHz
2GB RAM
256 MB Video Card
12GB HDD Space

My old gaming PC has a

Core 2 Duo @ 2.13GHz (I'm about 270MHz short will it still run?)
2GB RAM ~ fine
512 MB Radeon 4850 ~ fine

So when Treyarch put 2.4GHz minimum that is really the least right?
BTW cant OC cos of my old basic MOBO.

Kosmiche · 12 May 2011 at 22:01

You should be able to almost max it out, maybe turn off some non essential stuff like anti aliasing.

Its not a demanding game

danzhang16 · 12 May 2011 at 22:05

As above. I'm sure it will run fine. Really doubt the CPU clock will make much of a difference. If you really are worried perhaps overclock it a little?

Ampeg · 12 May 2011 at 22:08

Dont know how much patches may have improved performance but before christmas I was running the game with an E6600, 4gig of ram and an Nvidia 460 and perfornace was pretty shoddy verging on unplayable.

clippa · 12 May 2011 at 22:08

Make sure you turn off shadows. You get horrible stuttering on some maps with them turned on.

setter · 12 May 2011 at 22:10

Tbh, its a very buggy game, even with the spec i have in sig, it doesnt run all that well at all. Mw 1/2, i can run those maxed at 1920x1200, but bo is a no no.

6644kp · 12 May 2011 at 22:14

guess that is a no then. I wish there was a demo so I could try it out.

Treyach did a pretty bad job with optimization guess that explains the rather high min system req

Murray · 12 May 2011 at 22:17

Just get MW 1 its much better.

Hank_Marvin · 12 May 2011 at 22:23

Murray said:
Just get MW 1 its much better.

Indeed.

xerith · 12 May 2011 at 23:30

Don't bother without a quad core on that horrible POS.

~>Dg<~ · 12 May 2011 at 23:38

cards ok cpu is not really

andy_mk3 · 12 May 2011 at 23:46

Well my pc is a similar spec, same cpu with a mild overclock, not sure how the graphics compare though. and COD-MW1 will run with everything on max. However it badly needs more ram (I'm having 4gb Corsair xms2 being delivered tomorrow as it happens!), it sometimes freezes for a few seconds and I think that's because of the the lack of ram.

Here's a screenie from just after running COD-MW

~>Dg<~ · 13 May 2011 at 10:21

just look at minimum spec a dual core isnt even minimum . you should never aim for minimum either as you bound to get problems. ive tried lots of different pc with this game and play with a lot with different specs.

cpu wise i wouldnt even try to play on less than a quad. not for decent play anyway.

Amraam · 13 May 2011 at 14:28

Is it multithreaded though? If not how will a quad boost performance over a dual?

~>Dg<~ · 13 May 2011 at 14:43

well it wants a minimum of a e6400 i think it was or tricore amd athlon

so if thats minimum you going to get problems.

a quad is what i would play it on .

mtnorris · 13 May 2011 at 15:57

Bo is shocking on older dual cores because its so CPU heavy.