Battlefield '42 goes jerky till I bring up scores...

[loic2003]

When I play battlefield 1942, it runs fine for a while but sometimes the game will go all jerky and the frame rate will drop to around 3 fps (just a guess, but about that). The weird thing is, though, when I press tab and bring up the scores/pings etc the problem is instantaneously, although temporarily, fixed. This thing has me perplexed, I'm certainly not getting this because I have set the graphics settings too high, as after I release tab and hide the scores the game will run perfectly for a while, and it still happens when I drop the settings to minimum.

Does anyone know what could be going on here? I don't have anything running in the background that could suddenly take up resources, so I'm totally stumped.

Thanks in advance for your help,

-Loïc

 

[lobadobadingdong]

system specs?

 

[loic2003]

1.33 Athlon
512 DDR
MSI KT266 Chipset
GeForce 3 Ti 200
80 Gig maxtor HD, 7200 RPM
300W Power Supply
Broadband connected at: 576/288 (down/up)
Suntek case...

Windows XP, SP1 with all the other SP2 fixes.
DX 9.0b, very latest BIOS flash, MOBO drivers and Video card drivers available.

Other games like counter-strike run perfectly with absolutely no jerkiness at all. I've found that the jerkiness happens more often when I turn left or right: if I turn the turret in the tank, look left/right as a soldier or bank the aircraft hard... I've resinstalled the game, but that made no difference. Incidentally, it did it with the demo as well.

Thanks again,

-Loïc

 

[LesPaul]

I'd also try updating your sound drivers. This game has alot of wierd issues with sound.

 

[KingofFah]

compairing the demands of battlefield to countstrike is a little crazy. CS will run on a 300P2 64mb 8mb vid fairly well.

 

[loic2003]

Sounds card drivers are the latest too. I think it's just a botched windows install... it never used to do this so it's got to be something to do with the OS or some other software problem. It doesn't matter I guess, got a new machine arriving monday which should sort all these problems out.

cheers anyways,

-Loïc

 

[InlineFive]

I have this same problem as you and my system is a little different. I think it's a game bug, I just noticed it with patch 1.45. We dont need more than one Microsoft releasing "patches". :frown:

As for the sound that is a major bug, my Hercules Fortissimo III 7.1 and the nVidia SoundStorm in the other computer both have problems. The game is just buggy that's all, your computer's just fine.

-Por