Team Fortress 2 - some Qs

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**liquidjoshi**

I am thinking about buying TF2 for the PC, but before I do, there are some questions I need answering.

1)Does it take up a lot of memory on the PC?
2)Can I play it easily on a laptop?
3)Do I need Team Fortress classic to play it?
4)Do people still play it online?

Thanks in advance.

**Cheese Elemental**

liquidjoshi wrote:I am thinking about buying TF2 for the PC, but before I do, there are some questions I need answering.

1)Does it take up a lot of memory on the PC?
2)Can I play it easily on a laptop?
3)Do I need Team Fortress classic to play it?
4)Do people still play it online?

Thanks in advance.

1. I dunno. I play it at a net cafe because my computer is a seven-year-old pile of junk.
2. Depends how new the laptop is. The game is three years old now so it doesn't need a godly computer to run.
3. No, they're completely different games.
4. A lot.

**Nofasse 'Eadhunta**

Cheese nailed it. Almost all of the servers for the popular maps and game types are full during the prime-time (ie all of the time).

**OoieGoie**

The game is super popular here in Austrlaia still. Every class went through an update for more weapons\items and the last character was just updated recently. So now all hell has broken loose.

Best multiplayer ever. Got me away from those time waisting MMO's anyway.

Be warned, some very good players here. Prepare to get backstabbed, blown apart and giggled at.

1)Does it take up a lot of memory on the PC? Seriously? Memory is like $2 for a billion RAM. Seriously

2)Can I play it easily on a laptop? You play games on a laptop?
3)Do I need Team Fortress classic to play it? gawd no
4)Do people still play it online? I can play at 2am. So yes.

**Soup and a roll**

I can log on at 4am, search for servers, sort by ping and get between 20 and 60+ games with 12+ players with under 100ms. Very popular, well supported game.

Get it cheap on Steam with the orange box if you've not played Portal!

**liquidjoshi**

Thanks, but I need to know (roughly) how much memory it takes up, and yes, I do play games ona laptop.

**Soup and a roll**

Team Fortress 2 Minimum System Requirements
CPU: 1.2 GHz Processor
RAM: 256 MB
Graphics Card: DirectX 7 capable graphics card
Windows 2000/XP/ME/98
Mouse
Keyboard
Internet Connection
CD or DVD rom drive

Team Fortress 2 Ideal System Requirements
For running the game smooth in 1280x1024 with High Quality graphics.

CPU: 3.4 GHz Processor
RAM: 1024 MB
Graphics Card: Radeon X800 or Geforce 6800
Windows 2000/XP/ME/98
Mouse
Keyboard
Internet Connection
CD or DVD rom drive

Copied from freaky gaming. 4 hours of solid googling.

Edit: there is no excuse to not have the maximum possible amount of RAM in your computer. It is dirt cheap and will benefit everything you do with the rig.

**liquidjoshi**

Thanks to all that replied, you can probably expect a new TF2 player very soon.

**liquidjoshi**

Soup and a roll wrote:Team Fortress 2 Minimum System Requirements
CPU: 1.2 GHz Processor
RAM: 256 MB
Graphics Card: DirectX 7 capable graphics card
Windows 2000/XP/ME/98
Mouse
Keyboard
Internet Connection
CD or DVD rom drive

Team Fortress 2 Ideal System Requirements
For running the game smooth in 1280x1024 with High Quality graphics.

CPU: 3.4 GHz Processor
RAM: 1024 MB
Graphics Card: Radeon X800 or Geforce 6800
Windows 2000/XP/ME/98
Mouse
Keyboard
Internet Connection
CD or DVD rom drive

Copied from freaky gaming. 4 hours of solid googling.

Edit: there is no excuse to not have the maximum possible amount of RAM in your computer. It is dirt cheap and will benefit everything you do with the rig.

Ok. This means my computer can play it.

steampowered wrote:
Minimum: 1.7 GHz Processor, 512MB RAM, DirectX® 8.1 level Graphics Card (Requires support for SSE), Windows® Vista/XP/2000, Mouse, Keyboard, Internet Connection

Recommended: Pentium 4 processor (3.0GHz, or better), 1GB RAM, DirectX® 9 level Graphics Card, Windows® Vista/XP/2000, Mouse, Keyboard, Internet Connection

This means I cannot play it.

Some advice, anyone...?

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Can anybody get back to me on this?

**Lord Bingo**

What exactly is missing from your laptop?

**liquidjoshi**

According to valve, about 30 MB, and I only have a 1.6ghz processor, rather than a 1.7.

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Ah, i lie, i have the minimum MB

**Brunius**

liquidjoshi wrote:I am thinking about buying TF2 for the PC, but before I do, there are some questions I need answering.

1)Does it take up a lot of memory on the PC?
2)Can I play it easily on a laptop?
3)Do I need Team Fortress classic to play it?
4)Do people still play it online?

Thanks in advance.

1) It needs 9 GB or so hard disk space
2) Depends on your graphics card, really. If you mean using a touchpad or something, rather than system specs, depends how good you are with it.
3) No.
4) Hell yeah.

EDIT: You'll probably be fine with just slipping under the system specs. I've done it plenty of time with valve's games.

**liquidjoshi**

Brunius wrote:
liquidjoshi wrote:I am thinking about buying TF2 for the PC, but before I do, there are some questions I need answering.

1)Does it take up a lot of memory on the PC?
2)Can I play it easily on a laptop?
3)Do I need Team Fortress classic to play it?
4)Do people still play it online?

Thanks in advance.

1) It needs 9 GB or so hard disk space
2) Depends on your graphics card, really. If you mean using a touchpad or something, rather than system specs, depends how good you are with it.
3) No.
4) Hell yeah.

EDIT: You'll probably be fine with just slipping under the system specs. I've done it plenty of time with valve's games.

You, sir, have made my day.

And on the Guard v Tau v 'Crons in you sig, i owned all three, sold the tau, and have 2000 pts of both of the other armies. Just thought you might want to know.

**Brother SRM**

The game is very good about running on a slightly below spec rig. As long as you're playing on PC or Mac you're golden - the console community for this game is dead and it gets no updates.

**Cheesecat**

liquidjoshi wrote:I am thinking about buying TF2 for the PC, but before I do, there are some questions I need answering.

1)Does it take up a lot of memory on the PC?
2)Can I play it easily on a laptop?
3)Do I need Team Fortress classic to play it?
4)Do people still play it online?

Thanks in advance.

1) Not a lot of memory
2) Depends on laptop
3) No
4) Yes

Also get Orange Box instead, you get TF2, Half-life 2 and all the current episodes and Portal for a good price!

**Captain_Trips01**

As the Cookie Commisar says, get the Orange Box. It is an INSANELY good deal. 3 complete, excellent games plus two great expansions for 20 dollars or less? Jawsome.

I should work in advertising.