What do you think is causing this game to run crappy ?

[Sforsyth]

This game kinda stutters when I play it in multiplayer and my HD lights is going at the same time this happens and I can hear it grindind like its working, so it lends me to bielieve it has something to do with my HD, what do you think ?

Athlon XP 3200 Barton @ 2.2 GHZ
256 MB Ram PC3200 x 2 Running in daul channel
120 HD 2 MB Cache
Sapphire Radeon 9600 Pro Advantage 256 MB

Thanks for your help guys and girls !

 

[computeerrgghh]

Ram for sure... HD lights means that the comp is running virtual memory (usually) because all your RAM is used up.

 

[Bateluer]

Its dipping into the virtual memory, using your hd as ram, because you don't have enough. The BF series is a RAM hog. Although, today, there is no reason to be running less than a GB, given that you can get a GB of DDR400 for less than 85.

 

[Sforsyth]

yeah I know, RAm is really cheap here in Canada I can get 512 MB x 2 for $120 + Taxes, but I just spent $200 on a new hard drive that I'm getting on Wensday, so hopefully I will have some extra money within the next month to buy some Ram.

Thanks for your help !

 

[BFG10K]

512 MB RAM is nowhere near enough these days.

 

[Pr0d1gy]

You better get a decent gig of RAM for Battlefield 2 or you're gonna be hurting...bad.

 

[luigi1]

OMG RAM its that easy, 1 gig for sure, your hd lights up cause youre running from the page file

 

[Sforsyth]

Do you think going from a 2 MB cache Drive to a 16 MB Cache drive will help any ? I'm getting it on Wensday. Also is there anything I could do in the mean time to get this game to run abit better untill I can efoord the new ram ?

Thanks.

 

[luigi1]

no, ram and only ram

 

[biostud]

Check for spyware and virus and see what other programs that run in the background you can disable to free memory.

 

[nbarb99]

Originally posted by: biostud
and see what other programs that run in the background you can disable to free memory.

:thumbsup:

 

[Auric]

With insufficient RAM capacity the data must continually be read from the HDD into memory, then written back to the HDD. So a peppier HDD can reduce the performance degradation but in this case not significantly enough. Once RAM is sufficient though, a peppier HDD(s) is the only way to significantly reduce load times (assuming CPU is adequate for quickly decompressing game files). In the meantime, reduce memory usage by eliminating unnecessary processes (google for guides like Black Viper's) and maximize HDD efficiency by ensuring manufacturer specific storage controller driver, DMA mode, setting the pagefile to the same min/max (perhaps 1GB), defragmenting with a good proggy like Diskeeper, and using 64K clusters on the game partition. Ideally, the pagefile would either be immediately adjacent or on a diff'rent physical platter than the game data to minimize access times, and both near the start of the disk, but that is difficult to control wi'out some advanced partitioning.