Any reason why I'm getting video lag in bf2:sf?

[kevman]

Seems to be specific to certain maps on BF2:SF (Warlord) but I get some serious choppiness and video lag I guess. any way to imporve reduce this? I've put my game settings to medium accross the board it seems to help somewhat but I fell like a 6800 should be abel to handle this game w/o issues.

 

[mwmorph]

ram. bf2 runs best with 2 gigs of ram. the swapfile can easily grow to something like 1600megs for bf2.

 

[w00t]

mine used to drop down to 20 and than when i pressed print screen minimized or esc it would go back up now it stays steady idk what happen but it just went away maybe defrags?

 

[xtknight]

My 6800/1GB of RAM system suffered a lot in the original BF2. Turning down texture settings seemed to help a lot for some reason. Getting another gig of RAM eliminated the stuttering.

 

[kevman]

yeah the texture setting helped a bit for me too. Gonna try dropping in a gig from my other machine and see if that helps.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

keep dynamic lighting, shadows, and settings of that matter to medium. you wont notice a difference in IQ and it will help stuttering alot

 

[hectorsm]

Originally posted by: AznAnarchy99
keep dynamic lighting, shadows, and settings of that matter to medium. you wont notice a difference in IQ and it will help stuttering alot

Agreed!

BF2 uses a lot video memory for textures and other things so it is best to drop to medium on most of the settings. In my case the 2gb memory upgrade helped but I still had some lag. Reducing some of the settings to medium completely eliminated the lag.

 

[Randum]

i run well its its OCed, and the extra GIG is a huge

 

[Zenoth]

I run BF2 fine with my system at 1280 x 960.

Very rarely notice choppiness. Only thing I believe is somewhat "slow" is the actual map loading time. Gameplay quality itself is superb. Using 16 x High Quality A-F, 4 x AAA.

 

[Rogue 2]

Another vote for 2GB. Even at "medium" settings all around, I had severe "lag" for the first few minutes (and then, even during the game at times) while the system was caching to disk. I thought my HDD was going to blow up it was working so hard. Now, it hardly churns after I hit "Join Game"... 2GB = HAPPINESS for me!