I am getting a Gateway FX6710-01 for Christmas. It uses windows vista home premium 64-bit, I really enjoy playing Battlefield 2 and it's expansions (especially online), and I was wondering if the "the Battlefield 2 collection" which includes the Battlefield 2 game, it's expansion special forces, and the two booster packs on a single DVD disk, would install, and run, on windows vista home premium 64-bit.

Do I have to install some kind of game patch for it to install and run without any problems on Vista? Since the game was released during the windows XP era, will there be any problems during installation? I have read that some people have the game crash on them about 20 minutes into gameplay into desktop without any error message when they run it on Vista.

Will I be able to install it easily if I just insert the disk into the computer, and go through with the installation process as I usually would if I were instaling it on windows XP? Will it run alot faster, more smoothly, and have faster loading times with my new PC than it would on a machine with Pentium 4, 1GB of RAM, and a radeon X800 series? Especially during online play? Will I get better FPS and less game lag? Here are the hardware specifications of that computer below.

If I were to upgrade to a Radeon HD 4870 X2, would it run Battlefield 2? And since September of 08, has there been a new Battlefield 2 game patch released? I stopped playing because of severe computer problems, let's just leave it at that. I would really appreciate it if someone with a very good knowledge of computer hardware and PC gaming would answer my questions. Especially if they themselves play Battlfefield 2 and run it on Vista.

Motherboard
*Chipset Intel G33
*CPU
*CPU Type Core 2 Quad
*Installed Qty 1
*CPU FSB 1333MHz
*CPU Speed Q9400(2.66GHz)
*L2 Cache Per CPU 6MB
*CPU Socket Type LGA 775
*CPU Main Features 64 bit Quad-Core Processor

Graphics
*GPU/VPU Type ATI Radeon HD 4850
*Graphics Interface PCI Express x16

Memory
*Memory Capacity 6GB DDR2
*Form Factor DIMM 240-pin
*Memory Spec 2GB x 2 & 1GB x 2
*Memory Slots (Available/Total) 0/4
*Maximum Memory Supported 8GB

Hard Drive
*HD Capacity 720GB
*HD Interface SATA II
*HD RPM 7200rpm
*HD Spec 16MB Cache

Optical Drive
*Optical Drive Type DVD Super Multi
*Optical Drive Spec Write max: 18x DVD-R, 18x DVD+R, 6x DVD-RW, 8x DVD+RW, 8x DVD+R DL, 8x DVD-R DL, 12x DVD-RAM, 48x CD-R, 32x
CD-RW
*Read max: 16x DVD-ROM, 48x CD-ROM

Audio
*Audio Chipset Integrated
*Audio Channels 8-Channel (7.1)
*Communications

Modem 56K. V92
*LAN Chipset Integrated
*LAN Speed 10/100Mbps
*Front Panel Ports
*Front USB 2
*Front IEEE 1394 1
*Front Audio Ports 2