Comp issues with gaming

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maybe someone here can help me out. I love playing BF2 but am having some issues.

Whenever the level is over and another one loads its takes almost 1 1/2 minute to load. The first 2 min its really choppy then tends to slow down during heavy fighting.

my comp specs are
3200+ (not able to overclock due to crappy mobo)
1 gig of XMS PC3200 mem
ATI X700 PRO overclocked at 452 mhz clock and 499 mhz mem (8x agp) (Omega drivers)

I have been thinking about upgrading but it costs damn near 700 to 1000 cuz none of this stuff is transferrable to a newer motherboard.

Anyone know any remedies to help improve performance?
 
underdone said:
sounds like you have the settings too high for the amount of ram you have.
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???

seriously?

a gig of ram is FINE for BF2. i'm more skeptical of your video card being able to handle higher settings. perhaps the overclock is too agressive.

essentially, i think you have 2 different "issues" the load timing is likely unrelated to the choppiness, which i'm guessing is attributed to your overclocked, older video card.

zv
 
Before throwing money at the problem, I would try:

1. Defragging
2. Try official ATI drivers/update directx (they had a new revision of 9.0c this month)
3. Nuke + Pave (reinstall clean windows)
4. More RAM (2GB is standard for BF2)


Is that 3200+ an A64 or an XP? Slowdowns during heavy fighting mean that you're having some CPU bottlenecking, try turning down bullets/shadows/smoke or other things that put a lot of strain when multiple people are onscreen.
 
-=Antimatter=- said:
...try turning down bullets/shadows/smoke or other things that put a lot of strain when multiple people are onscreen.
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Yes I agree. if you turndown the graphical settings and then things are fine then you just dont have fast enough hardware to run the game at those settings. If you turn down the settings and you still have the same problems then its time to start troubleshooting. Do other games have similar problems?
 
2GB of RAM is the norm for BF2, but I wouldnt upgrade that first. I would do video card then ram.
 
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