I need to know if there is a way to get Battlefield 2 to run on my Radeon 9250 128mb graphics card.because there are things you can download for oblivion to make oblivion work on unsupported graphics cards and the links have been posted at this site,but is there anything like that for battlefield 2 because ive had oblivion running on my unsupported graphics card with supprisingly good graphics so is there anyway possible for battlefield 2 to run on my pc because a decent graphics card is like $300+ which is quite expensive to buy just for playing games.
9250 does not support DX9 shaders at all. With Oblivion it isn't that sort of issue, it's just unusably slow with older cards, with BF2, it is a complete incompatibility. I know this well, I was there, with an old GeForce 4 Ti4800. The best in the 4 series, faster than some of the FX cards; yet, due to complete incompatibilities, I had to upgrade my card to a higher chipset, that, while not as *fast* IMO, was better capable of running newer DX functions.
There IS a fix for BF2, that allows it to run on older graphics cards. However, I must warn you that it causes severely terrible performance, and is by no means 'playable'. You will be forced to play on the absolute lowest settings, the framerate will be bad by default, and the resolution will be at it's lowest, and there is no avoiding it. I can't remember the title, but I found it on google, by looking for battlefield 2 geforce patch. It works for geforce AND ati; it simply became known as the geforce patch, because the original shipment listed GeForce 4's as a supported video card, and it wouldn't really run on them, the same thing happened with a few lesser known ATI cards as well. It will make the game run.... But I wouldn't suggest it if you can find ANY way around it at all.
So Yes, it exists. But no, it isn't good by any means.
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Edit *AHEM* - I meant to state that the 9250 does not support DX 9.0c shaders, slightly different, same problem.
If you're stuck in AGP (And it sounds like you are) FX 5700's are one of the most affordable cards, which can run Battlefield 2 plenty efficiently, that's what I did, because it was cheap, just to help you out; I know all too well how irritating it is to buy new equipment for a game.
