Hay guys,

 

First topic post for me!!

 

Thanks for the reference ROOTER, i feel bad when registering i forgot to put ur name down for the bit that asks if someone referred you to the site ...

 

anyway, yeh i was talking to ROOTER the other day about my lag issues, im running

 

MY STATS

 

Processor Information:

Vendor: GenuineIntel

Speed: 2394 Mhz

4 logical processors

4 physical processors

HyperThreading: Unsupported

FCMOV: Supported

SSE2: Supported

 

Network Information:

Network Speed: DSL > 768k

 

Windows Version:

Windows Vista (32 bit)

NTFS: Supported

 

Video Card:

Driver: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

DirectX Driver Name: nvd3dum.dll

Driver Version: 7.15.11.6960

DirectX Driver Version: 7.15.11.6960

Driver Date: 10 Jan 2008

Desktop Color Depth: 32 bits per pixel

Monitor Refresh Rate: 59 Hz

DirectX Card: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

VendorID: 0x10de

DeviceID: 0x402

Number of Monitors: 1

Number of Logical Video Cards: 1

No SLI or Crossfire Detected

Primary Display Resolution: 1680 x 1050

Desktop Resolution: 1680 x 1050

Primary Display Size: 23.35" x 14.57" (27.48" diag)

59.3cm x 37.0cm (69.8cm diag)

Primary Bus: PCI Express 16x

Primary VRAM: 512 MB

Supported MSAA Modes: 2x 4x 8x

 

 

Sound card:

Audio device: Speakers (Realtek High Definiti

 

Memory:

RAM: 2046 Mb

 

Miscellaneous:

UI Language: English

Microphone: Yes, I have a microphone.

Media Type: DVD

Total Hard Disk Space Available: 476937 Mb

 

Umm yeh i had medium and high graphics settings on before, running windowed at 11250 x something resolution 60hz

 

and sometimes when flying, and un-fogging a new area of the map i would have a 1-2 second lag spike (which is not good when flying) I recently moved all my settings down to low, but with same res and same view distance, lags better but graphics look bad i can run other games well on my rig but PR is a lil bit buggy (with PB and all)

 

Umm... otherwise...

 

Yeh great servers, thanks for having me -

 

Oh also can't run fraps- get kicked, dont have the latest vers. just the *cough* *cough* vers off youtube....

8600GT and 2gb of ram are pretty low spec on PR, so expect to experience low FPS with the game, although a quad core is nice

 

If you want to see your FPS in-game, type

renderer.drawFps 1 in the console (~) and it'll show your FPS at teh top right of your screen. You want > 30FPS at all times preferably, adjust your settings down to achieve that average.

 

When you say

PR is a lil bit buggy (with PB and all)

What do you mean?

 

In regards to fraps, it's a good program, and well worth the $50 for lifetime updates, however things like Xfire and some weird other recording programs perform very similar functions, try them out.

More RAM needed here,PR & vista hungry ram eater's

Vista + PR honestly I would recommend just paying the $40 to get 4gb of ram and be done with it, great investment IMO

Try only turning down shadows. I had this game running on my old 939 socket 3500 with a 7900gs and 2gb ram on full. Res was only 1280 x 1024 tho.

Of course 4 gb of ram won't hurt..

Edited June 12, 200915 yr by Surgical Ace

Similar system to mine ^ and ran well. From memory, just changing textures to low will free up a bit of video ram. Try to keep shadows on, the game isn't reality without them.

 

Running XP though, and I disabled all the unnecessary services.

 

Have you defragged?

8600GT and 2gb of ram are pretty low spec on PR, so expect to experience low FPS with the game, although a quad core is nice

Agreed +100.

 

The 128 bit 8600 coupled with 32 bit Vista/ 2GB is a bad combination sorry to say...

 

PR likes VRAM, and lots of it....or bandwidth.

Edited June 12, 200915 yr by seo iphone

Also do a chkdsk and perhaps see how it runs with your AV/Firewall prog (if used) turned off. I have had problem that chkdsk fixes up and also sometimes Zonealarm will lose the plot. Think you need to make sure you clear the following folder after changing any graphics settings. Clear anything from within

C:\Documents and Settings\Gary\My Documents\Battlefield 2\mods\bf2\cache

Hay guys.

 

 

Yeh i got my PC a while ago 2+ years ago as a standard computer from a retail store... yeah not the best will hopefully look to upgrade. Ram would be very nice Yeh im now running on low as i stated before (i think) No lag now heaps of fun. And by buggy (PB) i mean Punkbuster being over cautious, geting kicked for std_archive.md5 errors on training Kashan only. and everynow and then geting a memory error and totaly crashing PR when loading Kashan. Otherwise all sweet. Oh and can't really re-install because i lost BF2 disc 1 a while ago, running off the special forces update disc no idea where that went to..... hmm anyway- 0.86 coming out soon

 

have fragged. think i should vacuum the fans though, alot a dusk build up there and havent done it in a while.

 

Thanks for the replies

 

 

CHUGGA CHUGGA

have fragged. think i should vacuum the fans though, alot a dusk build up there and havent done it in a while.

 

Make sure you stick a pencil or something through the fans before vacuuming them, to prevent them from spinning too fast [in this case at all] and messing up the bearings.

Hay guys.

 

 

Yeh i got my PC a while ago 2+ years ago as a standard computer from a retail store... yeah not the best will hopefully look to upgrade. Ram would be very nice Yeh im now running on low as i stated before (i think) No lag now heaps of fun. And by buggy (PB) i mean Punkbuster being over cautious, geting kicked for std_archive.md5 errors on training Kashan only. and everynow and then geting a memory error and totaly crashing PR when loading Kashan. Otherwise all sweet. Oh and can't really re-install because i lost BF2 disc 1 a while ago, running off the special forces update disc no idea where that went to..... hmm anyway- 0.86 coming out soon

 

have fragged. think i should vacuum the fans though, alot a dusk build up there and havent done it in a while.

 

Thanks for the replies

 

 

CHUGGA CHUGGA

Without trying to sound mean, the 8600 is one of the worst performing cards nVidia has produced. It has a very poor reputation.

 

Also I noticed your drivers are rather old - from January 2008. You may want to update them.

The latest Beta drivers are 186.08

 

btw if you have a legit cd key, you can find the BF2 disc at all usual outlets on the net.....

 

I think you could buy a copy for cheap too. Maybe $20 or so?

Edited June 13, 200915 yr by seo iphone

Second that. I had a computer without a DVD drive for a while, downloaded the image, mounted with Daemon Tools and away I went. Have never used the discs since.

Thanks psyrus, pill monster and SOP,

 

Thanks for the tip psy, thats great- didnt know about that- will do

 

Yeh wanna upgrade my graphics card and ram, brother got a new comp not so long ago- its sweet -- like a nvidia GTX 251 (i think) , 8gb ram, vista 64bit, quad core? (cant remeber) a whole bunch of shizz.. really nice-- since then ive been looking to get mine upgraded.

 

Ill look at upgrading my driver too, thanks

UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE:

 

 

 

I'm going to be getting a upgrade for xmas this year.

 

Hopefully a ram and graphics upgrade.

 

But heres the problem. Ive already got 2gb ram, and space for 2 more gig i think, but if i upgrade to 4gb ram apparently i have to go 64 bit. my current config is vista ultimate 32bit but i just bought Windows 7 ultimate upgrade. so can i go 64bit or do i have to go 3gb ram and 32bit.

 

And the graphics card. Any ideas for an upgrade. I think we'll be doing our purchasing from Umart and get them to install.

 

Thanks

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/258528-30-explained

 

In summary a 32 bit OS can only access a total of 4gb of memory. This includes any main memory and gpu memory...

 

So essentially anything above 3 gb on a 32bit OS is probably a waste - but due to the fact RAM is cheap you're best going with 4gb anyhow in the event you decide to go down the x64 path in the future.

And that it's time for 32bit to die... I have no idea why anyone would purchase a x86 OS when pretty much every CPU sold since 06 has been x64

netbooks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Atom

 

Intel Atom comes in x64 as well

 

(but yes you're right, earlier atom/amd models were x86, although netbooks are just glorified tablets in this poster's opinion. )

Edited December 5, 200915 yr by Husker