It's a game from the end of 2007 / beginning of 2008.

A Core 2 Duo with a 8800GT shoudl do the trick.

But it's a game with a ton of creeped in materialistic bloat. It will not run well on its release period systems as it used to.

http://www.game-debate.com/games/index.php?g_ … %20Fortress%202 according to the minimum system specs I have found it should run ok. Maybe dx8 could be the issue?

leileilol wrote:

But it's a game with a ton of creeped in materialistic bloat. It will not run well on its release period systems as it used to.

This was what had me worried. How with updates over the years these online games run worse and worse on older hardware.

I think you could dare to try the X1950 Pro with the 250W PSU as longs as it has 15+ amps on the 12v rail.
The Northwood 2.8 GHz CPU + X1950 Pro do need 18+ amps if you go by the specifications but in real life I have found that the X1950 Pro isnt very power hungry.

This review at guru3d.com has some information concerning what you can get away with PSU wise when it comes to ATI X 1xxx video cards.

http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/radeon-x … b-review,3.html

The video card is going to be the least of your problems tbh

I remember trying it on C2D E6300, 4Gb RAM and HD5670. Same thing, smooth as silk until someone starts shooting. I did not try detail settings below average though, I'm just never happy with minimum settings.

Ended up severely cpu bottle necked. not even the x1950 could make up for the slow cpu. Used a 300watt power supply to try it out, ran fine and stable. There were indeed 15 amps on the 12v rail xD haha. It worked ok with normal web browsing but was a really slow system all-in-all.