BF2 Dies

[The Blue Factor]

so i spent the last week overclocking my new rig and getting it stable only to find out when 3d comes into play it dies. but this is the puzzling thing.

i had my rig OC to 2.66 on x2 3800 (prime stable) ram set to 178 (266 divider) 2-3-3-7 2t. started to play BF2 and on my first map all the grass looks like water. so i was like WTF. then i restart it and run it again. same deal water grass but only this time there is a black box artifact that changes in size with movement. so i think that my OC is making it crazy. so i go into BIOS lower my clock speed to 2.5 and run it again. good news the water is gone and no black box. so i start to play with all my friends and then it just closes the game. so i said okay let me take it back to stock. run the processor at 2.0 and the ram at ddr400 2-3-3-6. start to play BF2 again and it looks good but craps out still. why???

i was thinking that it was my ram timings and since i was running 4 dimms that it was too tight and overlapping causeing the game to get messed up. im not to sure. so could someone start leading mein the right direction so i can start diagnosis.

does anyone else have this problem???

 

[The Blue Factor]

my bad wrong forum

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

What drivers on your video card?

 

[The Blue Factor]

the driver on the video card is the one that came with it. i didnt up date it yet. you think that could be the problem?

 

[Capt Caveman]

Yes. The latest Nvidia drivers actually take advantage of dual-core cpus. Also note, you're not the only one. BF2 is a resource hog and is badly coded w/ lots of bugs.

What voltage are you giving your ram? Corsair requires a minimum of 2.7v and possibly 2.8v to stay stable.

 

[The Blue Factor]

im going to install the latest drivers for my card.

i was running the ram at 2.75 at stock speed and 2.9 at overclock speeds.

i also know what you mean about BF2 being a resource hog. can do anything while something is loading during the game or else your screwed. lol

 

[Spacecomber]

This game does push the hardware; so, it will bring out instability, if it is present. The usual hardware stress tests are a good thing to use (Prime 95, MemTest86, rthdribl) anytime you are overclocking, and they become essential if your games seem unstable.

As good as BF2 as for stress testing, it has it share of bugs that confound the picture. You might want to try the game in single player to see if your still have problems. If you don't it might be a problem with Punkbuster, which seems to be fairly common these days. You can test that out further by finding a non-punkbuster server to play on and see what happens.

I don't think that you mentioned what sound card you were using. The game supports relatively few cards in hardware, meaning that unless you have an Audigy 2 ZS or newer SB card, you may need to set the sound option to software rendering. You'll probably want the latest Creative beta drivers (available on Creative's site) if you do have one of the supported cards.

I don't have direct experience with a dual core processor, but I know prior to the 80s series nvidia drivers, it was necessary to set the game up to only use one core. I'm not clear if this is no longer the case with the newer drivers (since they seem to utilize both cores) or not.