BF2 Frame Drops

[RampantAndroid]

I have a 7800GT
AMD Athlon FX53
1 GB Ram 2.5-3-3-6
BFG nForce 4 Ultra

I have most settings on high, except lighting is on Med, and AA is on 2x. I've tried even lowering this, and I get a normal 60-80 frames per second, but then I'll get random drops where the game lags for a second, then goes back to normal. I also sometimes get lag where I can't look while running, then it will suddenly zip to a different screen perspective. It seems this game is all around laggy, on a computer that should run it without a problem.

I got it free with my 7800GT...is it time to throw it in the can? Just bad vid/mobo drivers....BIOS.....

 

[Spacecomber]

The game uses more than 1GB of memory on high settings (especially high texture setting). I suspect that the lag you are seeing is the result of waiting on your page file.

You can try turning down the texture setting and see if this frees up the memory required enough to smooth out the game. Otherwise, you'll need to add more memory.

Space

 

[RampantAndroid]

ouch...thats all? What about all the other lag? Wouldn't my 2 WD raptors in RAID 0 have some small effect on it?

 

[CPlusPlusGeek]

No, the raptors dont matter, BF2 is hinting that you arent give it all the RAM It wants to eat

 

[DRavisher]

Yeah, Raptors are still quite a bit slower than RAM... You can check task manager after playing a game of BF2. Go to Task Manager -> Performance and look under Commit Charge. Peak is the maximum amount of memory (RAM + PageFile) that has been used in this session. If the number is above the amount of RAM you have it's getting time to upgrade or lower settings (you've got such a nice system except the RAM amount). After playing a game of FarCry x64 my peak is at more than 1GiB...

 

[RampantAndroid]

yes, I had checked....I had worried....but figured it was much, 1.3 gigs...OK, I'll kill those textures (and upgrade my BIOS anyway...)

 

[seanp789]

you definitely need more RAM

 

[SketchMaster]

I just put in another 2x256 on top of my gig I had and it did wonders.

You would be shocked the amount of people I've met that sware BF2 at max won't use over a gig.

 

[RampantAndroid]

I already bought a BFG mobo and this 7800GT....BF2 came "free" with my card, and I'm not about to spend more money on RAM....I'll stick with lower settings on my 1GB Corsair low latency RAM....

Still though, a common problem with the GT seems to be when you run is at 4xAA you get jitters...many other people on other forums have that as well as me.

 

[forumposter32]

I'm amazed. I can run AA 6x on my X700 Pro with the demo on max settings. Except I don't know what the lighting setting is for. I left that on default.

 

[RampantAndroid]

whats the resolution at?

 

[Powermoloch]

three letters:...

R A M

 

[icelazer]

I'm not sure BF2 is strictly ram limited, I'm running a pretty sweet system and still getting rough gameplay when artillery strikes or armor vehicles fire around me.

I've got

a8n-sli premium
athlon 4000+ @2.6Ghz 260x10
Silverstone 650w PS
Dual bfg 7800gtx in sli
sb audigy 2
2gb ocz platinum pc4000 dual channel ddr (3-3-3-8-1T 260Mhz)
game installed on 10k raptor

running 1900x1200 with no aa/af all quality settings on high

I run around 65-75fps sitting still, gets down to the teens-low twenties on artillery strikes.

 

[Spacecomber]

I'm sure this is true for other games to some extent, but BF2 really seems to be a good example of a game in which the average fps doesn't tell the story as far as game play performance goes. For example, with a short timedemo (a few minutes), I get an average of about 50 fps, but the range is from 2 to over 100 fps. I've previously posted this link to my write-up about Battlefield 2 Performance, so forgive me for reposting it, but take a look at the graph at the end of the article to see how often the frame rate spikes downward, especially into frame rates less than 15 fps.

 

[1Dark1Sharigan1]

Originally posted by: icelazer
I'm not sure BF2 is strictly ram limited, I'm running a pretty sweet system and still getting rough gameplay when artillery strikes or armor vehicles fire around me.

I've got

a8n-sli premium
athlon 4000+ @2.6Ghz 260x10
Silverstone 650w PS
Dual bfg 7800gtx in sli
sb audigy 2
2gb ocz platinum pc4000 dual channel ddr (3-3-3-8-1T 260Mhz)
game installed on 10k raptor

running 1900x1200 with no aa/af all quality settings on high

I run around 65-75fps sitting still, gets down to the teens-low twenties on artillery strikes.

It could also be a framebuffer issue . . . I think Battlefield would most likely benefit from 512MB VRAM . . . not in terms of average FPS but lowest FPS . . .