BF2 - poor quality in large servers...

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Just built a new rig... Opteron 148, 2gigs RAM, 7800GT. Game doesn't run smooth, and gets worst on the larger 64 player servers. On smaller 32 player servers, it is decent, but gets very bad in the larger ones. All BF2 video settings are on Med, and I have tried using the tweak guides, and they did nothing. Is my system topped out, or is there a problem? I play on my laptop, a Centrino 1.6, 512mb, ATI 128mb video card, with all BF2 video settings on low in the same servers and it runs a lot smoother, but has lower picture quality of course.

I haven't tried adjusting the BF2 video settings to low, but I didn't spend the cash on this gaming computer to play on low video settings!
 
Make sure your connection speed IS NOT on T1. It causes problems even with the fastest connections. Leave it on the DSL one.
 
Also if you look around many machines cannot run the game how they should. Why I have no idea, but other people may have a machine like yours and be able to max it out where you cant. If you havent gone to the totalbf2.com forums do so as they can prolly help you.
 
My connection was set on T1. I will change it and see what happens... Thx.

I'm going to check out totalbf2.com and see what I can find. Thx.
 
Yeah, keep trouble shooting. You should be getting good performance with better settings. Decent res, maybe medium on the two dynamic settings, high everything else, 2xAA/8XAF. Thats what I do on my GTX 256 but that is for 1920*1200 so you could probably run this at the res you use too.
 
Try different choices on the drivers too. I set the drivers to "application controlled" on AA and Ansio, and then select them in the game.
 
What should AA be set to in the game? There are choices of off, 2x, 4x, etc...
 
Im pretty sure the only way AA works in BF2 is to first right click and set it to aplication controlled on the desktop properties. Then when in game set it to whatever, obviousely the higher the number the cleaner the picture but at a performance cost. For your rig AA shouldnt have a noticeable perf. drop i can even run it maxed out and mines dated.
 
Hmm... this doesn't sound familiar?!

Let's guess what it could be ... hmmmmm... :rolleyes:
 
Luxor said:
Hmm... this doesn't sound familiar?!

Let's guess what it could be ... hmmmmm... :rolleyes:
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Could it be that BF2 is just generally unoptimized and a HUGE game slapped together with game building tools and probably no tweaks. They spent a lot of time making the game look good and have good game play, but probably very little time optimizing code.

They need to hire John Carmack to look at the machine level code and optimize it. :)

I like playing it in Binary view.... the screen just scrolls 1's & 0's and my mind translates it to the 3D game. Just like The Matrix! ;)

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Alright gentleman, helpful suggestions only. :p

We have tried different games as well correct? Your machine dwarfs my oc'd 3ghz PIV and X850 Pro and I run everything medium to high with no issues, and I play 64 player maps more than anything.
 
No other games, unless you consider Spider Solitaire one. ;)

Just removed and reinstalled chipset and video drivers, and used driver cleaner pro. Also updated my BIOS. Let's see what happens.
 
I also have GT (see sig) and I have no problems running BF2. I have everything maxed out with 4x AA, I think even shadows are set on max. Also, you prolly know that, try joining servers that have less than 100 ping. even 64 player servers are running nicely. I hope you have NV80 series drivers, they boost up the performance of GT and GTX cards.
Good luck!
 
Here is a tip:

Change the videodefault.con file

For BF2 Special Forces

C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield \mods\bf2\Settings

Open VideoDefault.con in Notepad and change renderer.allowAllRefreshRates 0 to renderer.allowAllRefreshRates 1 and select save.

This helps some people, others don't notice a difference but it may help with choppy/slideshow gamplay problems.

I am guessing you can do the same if you just have BF2 installed and not SF. It is prob. in the EA Games\Battlefield 2\Settings folder
 
Forgive my video card ignorance, but if it's an AGP card, be sure to set your AGP Apature to 256 MB in your bios. Major improvement.
 
Forgive my video card ignorance, but if it's an AGP card, be sure to set your AGP Apature to 256 MB in your bios.
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Only if you have 512mb on the video card. It is not recommended that you set the apeture size any larger than half of your total dedicated video memory.
 
Taken from the link that Rich provided.

Although it is very common to hear people recommending that the AGP aperture size should be half the size of system memory, that is wrong!
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Also taken from the link

It is recommended that you keep the AGP aperture around 64MB to 128MB in size, even if your graphics card has a lot of onboard memory.
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I guess that would usually be about HALF of the average video cards memory wouldn't it?
 
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