Bad battlefield 1942 performance.

[Xtasy]

I just tried battlefield 1942 on my comp - 1.92(120x16) PIV Williamette, 256mb ddr400 (cas 2.5,3,31T), Geforce 3 ti200 @ 245/540 det 23.12, winxp. It is a little laggy for my liking. I am playing at details (default) (res. varies from 800x600x32bpp to 1280x960x32bpp). I also updatted it to the latest version 1.1.

 

[klah]

What framerates are you getting? I am unaware of any built-in frame rate display, but you can use this: FRAPS.

Is it laggy in single player or only online? My ping is below 50 on the EA servers and the game is still sort of laggy. I run a XP1600+, 512MB PC21000, GF4ti4200 at 1152x864x32 with the default settings and get ~50-80fps.

 

[Xtasy]

Mine are pretty bad, feels like it drops down to 5 to 10 occasionally. This is in the single player missions.

 

[neomits]

Hope this can help some

 

[klah]

Your lack of RAM may also be a factor. I have just been playing the demo and when I alt-tab out of a game the BF1942 process is using over 200MB by itself. Is the hard drive active the entire time you are playing?

 

[Xtasy]

Originally posted by: klah
Your lack of RAM may also be a factor. I have just been playing the demo and when I alt-tab out of a game the BF1942 process is using over 200MB by itself. Is the hard drive active the entire time you are playing?

What do you mean if my hard drive is active or inactive, shouldn't it be active?

 

[kgraeme]

Originally posted by: klah
What framerates are you getting? I am unaware of any built-in frame rate display, but you can use this: FRAPS.

For the built in framerate display, pull down the console and type "Console.showFPS".

 

[JackBurton]

Another 256MB (at least) will help you a lot in this game. I have 256MB of memory and refuse to play it due to the bad performance attributed to my lack of memory. During game play, my memory usage has gotten to 533MB!! :Q

 

[kgraeme]

I play with:
P4 2.4
768MB ram
Radeon 64 at 800x600, 24 high quality
Santa Cruz high quality sounds.

I get: 40-50fps.

 

[DT4K]

What do you mean if my hard drive is active or inactive, shouldn't it be active?

NO. When the game first starts and the maps are loading, the harddrive should be running, but while playing, the game should be running from RAM. Accessing RAM is thousands of times faster than accessing your harddrive. If you don't have enough RAM to run a program, your operating system uses part of the hard drive as virtual RAM. This really bogs down your performance. The amount of RAM used varies depending on the game and the operating system.

WinXP is a serious memory hog. I'm running it and I've seen it use 200 MB or RAM without any other apps running. I went from 256 to 512 and Medal of Honor played much better. I'm now playing Battlefield on my XP 1700 w/ GF3 Ti200 and 512MB DDR. I play at 1024 x 768 with medium detail settings and it runs smoothly. I'm guessing that Battlefield uses a ton of memory with all those huge maps. That's a very big 3D area that has to be mapped out in your memory and kept track of.

Your CPU and video card should definitely be fast enough to run that game smoothly, especially at 800 x 600. I'm absolutely sure the amount of RAM is the problem. I would upgrade to at least 512 or more if you can afford it.

 

[Xtasy]

Well heres the dilemna. I do have two sticks of 256mb samsung pc2700. With one stick in, my comp can run it at ddr400 (normal timings). With two sticks in, my comp can only run at ddr333 or so at normal timings. I also noticed that with 512mb in, it is still a lil slow, but alot faster than 256mb.