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AlienWare 7700 Hates Battlefield2

post #1 of 10
9/10/05 at 7:13pm
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I've gone through this forum for the last 2 weeks, updating this, tweaking that, etc...

I even bought a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS to replace the built in audio.


BF2 still has the occassional stutter w/ sound no matter what settings, resolution, high low vid or audio,,, and get this, even with audio turned off/disabled.

I've tried all kinds of settings videowise, nothing matters. Runs crisp, then stutters during some type of audio.

Has anyone gotten BF2 to work on the Alienware 7700 machine? (6800 go, 1 gig of ram 3.4 processor).

My desktop which is a 3 ghz, 2 gig of ram 6600, runs faster and smoother than this alienware.

I'm at my wits end, it's annoying (And I've seen this crop up in other FPS games.. Dooom3).
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post #2 of 10
9/10/05 at 8:27pm
This is odd considering I installed BF2 on my 7700 (no tweaking or installing new drivers) and it works perfectly.
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post #3 of 10
9/12/05 at 1:57am
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What drivers for vid are you using?
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post #4 of 10
9/13/05 at 4:30pm
BF2 works fine for me too and I have lower system stats than you.

Doom 3 works fine.

Maybe you need to reinstall Windows if you can't track the problem down to anything specific, such as ensuring that all your system's drivers are up to date.
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post #5 of 10
9/13/05 at 5:12pm
i had similar problems, and still having weird lag sometimes. i can't seem to narrow it down to anything specific.

although i did defrag my Hd and that seems to be a bit better. When alt-tabbing out of Bf2 to desktop, i get a sound stutter, but not during play.
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post #6 of 10
9/13/05 at 5:48pm
every once in awhile when I start up BF2 and jump into game play, I get this loud stuttering noise...But after closing out to the desktop once and starting the game back up, it fixes the problem. I think it might be the sound drivers..I know you got the audigy card...I also know there is a setting within the game itself, to what Quality sound you want, i would suggest playing around with that. If everything else is working okay and your not getting video lag or anything, then its not the vid card, its obviously something with the sound....The only problem I had with Doom 3, was rendering...every once in awhile, it seemed like it had trouble rendering some of the images on the screen, but that quickly went away. Although I don't play Doom3 anymore it still looked sweet as helll.
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post #7 of 10
9/17/05 at 1:55pm
I had the sound stutter issue too ... oddly enough I get it in other games too (Enemy Territory, HL2). I have not been able to eliminate it but have managed to reduce it a lot by using the double dawg pci latency tool ....

http://www.mark-knutson.com/t3/dawguse.html
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post #8 of 10
9/19/05 at 1:41pm
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Wish I knew what you did or altered. The link doesn't really explain much.
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post #9 of 10
9/19/05 at 4:08pm
What I cahnged was to lower the setting of the PCI Bridge and upped the setting of the audigy card ....
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post #10 of 10
9/19/05 at 6:23pm
i also wanted to add a bit of information: texture settings eat up the most ram. if you are having stuttering problems, and you have texture settings on "high" and you play on a lot of 64player servers, then you may want to turn texture settings to medium. i saw a spike of 1.2gb of ram used at one point loading/playing Kubra Dam. my system has 1 gig of ram, so you can guess what happened; paging to hd.

also, if you do happen to change the settings for ANY of your video stuff, make sure you delete the CONTENTS of the cache folders (\documents and settings\you\my documents\battlefield2...). there are like 4 folders, just delete the contents of the folders, not the folders themselves. this causes bf2 engine to reoptimize the texturemaps, shadowmaps in the cache folder.

it kinda sucks, but i think if you drop your textures to medium and maybe drop dynamic lighting and a few other things to medium, you fps will increase. for stuttering/lockups i think it's the memory maxing out, paging to hd which causes it.
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