bf2 suggestions

[Porter21]

Hey everyone. I purchased an ati x850xt a while back and am messing around with the settings in battlefield 2. I will list my specs below. I am running the game at mostly medium, with 4x, and a few settings on high. Overall, I was wondering why I seem to keep having low fps, about 40-50. Gamespot.com said the game wasn't too cpu dependent, and that with my card I should be able to run all high with higher resolution. Mine is at 1024x768 right now. I just would like to hear some opinions from others on how they can run the game. I havne't defraged my hd's and am thinking about reformating them soon if that might help at all with smoothness. I notice that my computer's hd indicator light blinks a good amount. Thanks for support. Specs below:

BTW: I even over-clocked the card to platinum specs and i noticed a little improvement.

amd xp 2500+ mobile o'ced 2.4ghz
1024mb crucial pc3200
wd raptor 36gb
wd se 80gb
abit nf7-s
ati x850xt

 

[Porter21]

no one?

 

[Heffty]

My specs are pretty similar. I have found playing on medium setting across the board to be the best solution. I don't notice any degredation in the picture quality by doing this. On high I just got too much lag. Maybe your video card will allow med-high settings but aside from that your computer looks almost identical to mine. By the way...if you're thinking of getting more ram...don't bother going over 1.5G. I went from 512 to 1, then 1 to 1.5, then 1.5 to 2. I noticed no difference going from 1.5 to 2.

XP 3200+
Asus A7N8X Rev 2
2 Gig Kingston PC3200
74G Raptor
80G Maxtor
ATI X800XL

 

[Heckler 5th]

to run bf2 with high textures and/or quality you really need 2GB RAM. [note: like heffty said, 1.5GB would be enough but i prefer 2x1GB DIMMs as opposed to 3x512MB DIMMs] loading all those textures with only 1GB forces windows to use the pagefile which WILL slow you down. defragging may help a little but not significantly. set all the graphics settings to 1024x768 and medium. if the lag goes away, increase one setting at a time until the desired quality is achieved. if the lag doesn't go away, make sure u have the latest video & chipset drivers installed. if i were you, i'd install the latest omega drivers from http://www.omegadrivers.net. they're the best.

i would think you'd be able to run 1280x1024 no problem, tho. turn dynamic shadows down to low or medium, you'll hardly notice a difference yet the setting has a significant performance impact. same with dynamic lighting.

do u have any benchmarks installed like 3dmark01, 03, 05 or 06? you could run some of these to verify your system's chuggin like it oughta.

 

[Porter21]

Thanks for the help guys. I have tried omega drives in the past and may try them again. I changed most of the settings to med and turned down dynamic shadows and such. I upped the texture setting too. So I am at about med-high settings. I feel that I could run the game and have it def still be playable at high, but for the sake of keeping my frames at 90fps with the med-high I am happy. I would purchase some more memory, but right now all I have is 2 sticks of 512mb pc3200 in dual-channel. My board only supports 2 sticks of pc3200 and 3 of lower ram. I may have to work that out. I should hit up the omega drivers, does anyone know how significat these drivers are for this game?

Thanks!