- Jul 13, 2005
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I was ready to chuck BF2 out the window altogether. That damn game has its hooks in me, so I built this computer around playing it (shut up) but when I cranked the settings up to high, I got ridiculous slowdown.
Changing the resolution didn't help, because my Video card should be able to handle it on 1600x1200 which is what I play at. Having read a million posts regarding 1gb of RAM vs. 2GB of RAM, I figured since I only had one gig, it was all of those "high" detailed textures being loaded into memory, I tweaked all of the other settings down to medium and low, and as long as those textures were at high, I was still experiencing massive slowdown at the beginning of the round, here's how I fixed it.
1.) I killed all of my extraneous background programs...all of them. Including some kind of printer software that was running in the background from my all in one. That seemed to help quite a bit.
2.) I disabled a bunch of services that I didn't need. Depending on what you have running, this can be a good way to free up some memory. A fantastic website can be found here at Blackviper.
3.) Turn off AF...AKA "texture filtering" in the BF2 video options, it smoothes things out a little.
4.) If all fails, bump your textures down to medium, in the heat of a gunfight you probably wont notice the blurring of that Blackhawk dashboard.
I hope this helps
Changing the resolution didn't help, because my Video card should be able to handle it on 1600x1200 which is what I play at. Having read a million posts regarding 1gb of RAM vs. 2GB of RAM, I figured since I only had one gig, it was all of those "high" detailed textures being loaded into memory, I tweaked all of the other settings down to medium and low, and as long as those textures were at high, I was still experiencing massive slowdown at the beginning of the round, here's how I fixed it.
1.) I killed all of my extraneous background programs...all of them. Including some kind of printer software that was running in the background from my all in one. That seemed to help quite a bit.
2.) I disabled a bunch of services that I didn't need. Depending on what you have running, this can be a good way to free up some memory. A fantastic website can be found here at Blackviper.
3.) Turn off AF...AKA "texture filtering" in the BF2 video options, it smoothes things out a little.
4.) If all fails, bump your textures down to medium, in the heat of a gunfight you probably wont notice the blurring of that Blackhawk dashboard.
I hope this helps
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