Borderlands, able to run with 512 MB RAM?

Well a friend of mine and I are thinking about picking up borderlands, however his rig sucks and he's not getting a new one until somewhere in september.

I don't have his exact specs currently (I'll get them when he's online again) But according to him everything except RAM is above the min. requirements.

So shortly, the question is will the lack of RAM do a huge impact or just something minor?

I'm surprised a pc with 512mb can even manage to boot up these days. Anyway, best way to see is http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri

That was the sort of response I hoped not to recieve, the min requirement is 1gb, however alot of games can easily be run with lower than min. requirements.

That was the sort of response I hoped not to recieve, the min requirement is 1gb, however alot of games can easily be run with lower than min. requirements.

ventnor

If your friend wants to play it that badly he can always get another 512 ram,they're not really expensive these days.

If your friend wants to play it that badly he can always get another 512 ram,they're not really expensive these days.

coreybg

.... like he said, that would be his best bet; he needs to have a fairly good video card too .... I run it with 4G ram with a X1650 Pro and still get a little lag ( thats with running everything on high though )

it would run on min graphics of course but go and buy yourself 2Gb of ram it's free these days - cheapest part req for gaming

however alot of games can easily be run with lower than min. requirements.

ventnor

it would run on min graphics of course but go and buy yourself 2Gb of ram it's free these days - cheapest part req for gaming

PredatorRules

50? o.0 My x2 4gb kingston 800 were a total of $60 lol

50? o.0 My x2 4gb kingston 800 were a total of $60 lol

coreybg

may i ask you where you got that kingston ram. i wanted to get another 2gb , but after looking at newegg 50$ for 2gb ram i thought was expensive so i kept my 3gb ram.

Counter Strike:Source doesn't even run smooth with 512mb ram. :P

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50? o.0 My x2 4gb kingston 800 were a total of $60 lol

enriK233

may i ask you where you got that kingston ram. i wanted to get another 2gb , but after looking at newegg 50$ for 2gb ram i thought was expensive so i kept my 3gb ram.

Well I built my PC and ordered it from a Bulgarian website(since I'm bulgarian), but I doubt they deliver to other countries.You can look arround if you know any sites,some may have discounts and stuff :P

His friend is getting a new PC in september, I wouldn't buy more RAM (Since it's probably DDR1 and expensive) Also, I hope to God he isn't buying a prebuilt, or at least, if he is you help him pick out a decent PC. I would either wait it out until September, or buy it for a console.Ikavnieks

Yeah at first when he told me he was talking nonsense, aka. Alienware/Fail Dell.

I then gave him the whole "blargblargh blargh pre-built is overpriced and so on" speech.

Auctually can get some decent machines at best buy without all the headache of making one from scratch but they always come with useless videocards and power supplies, only things you need to change in it.

Counter Strike:Source doesn't even run smooth with 512mb ram. :P

Jamiemydearx3

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Counter Strike:Source doesn't even run smooth with 512mb ram. :P

RealKilla_789

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Counter Strike:Source doesn't even run smooth with 512mb ram. :P

denter21

Perfect to me is 60fps at all times, AAx4. AFx16, everything highest, maxed out reslution.

I use to run CS:S on a athlon 3200+ @ 2.6ghz, 1.5gb DDR1 ram and a X850xt and that didnt even run the game perfect, so I doubt anything along side with 512mb will.