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post #1 of 19
7/8/05 at 10:13pm
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Those of you on Stock 9300's with a gig of ram etc...


On battlefield 2, what settings for video are you guys using? I am experiencing this problem which occured at a lan party in which certain times in game where i cant move my character to the left or right and i am kinda locked in place and sometimes seem to "lag out". Lag shouldnt occur too badly on the server seeing as though it was a close lan and no body else was experiencing any lag, pings were below 5. Question is, am i experiencing lag, or is it an fps problem? What makes me wonder is that i can set my settings all the way to low, and i will still get this lockup problem. Anyone know what that is?

I am using the 80.40 XG drivers ive got a gig of ram and a 2.0M with a 6800 go..

Also, those of you with the same specs want to reccomend a good resolution/vid settings to play on that give you a good framerate i would appreciate that.

Also, please tell me i dont have to play with everything on low just to be able to play the game .. tell me the 9300 isnt THAT bad lol
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post #2 of 19
7/8/05 at 10:26pm
Sorry, I dont have the game but there have been many questions similar to yours posted and replied to. If you type BF2 into the advanced search and choose the 9300-xps2 forum you will find your answers.
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post #3 of 19
7/8/05 at 10:47pm
Have you tried the patch?
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post #4 of 19
7/8/05 at 10:47pm
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yep, no luck
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post #5 of 19
7/8/05 at 10:53pm
It's somewhat of a known problem. It happens to me sometimes in single player. I'm not sure if turning the graphic settings down to medium would help or not. It seems like the BF2 people need to release a patch to help with performance.
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post #6 of 19
7/8/05 at 11:32pm
Mine does that all the time. However, I noticed when it happens it's paging the harddrive and loading the scenery. When running the game on medium settings it didn't happen but once I up'd everything to max it was bad. One quick trip around the whole map solves it for me as it's then loaded into the RAM. I did drop down to 2xAA from 4x and it seemed to help a bit. I've just gotten used to it as I'd rather deal with it than sacrifice the high settings. Besides, I like taking the trips around the map to see where everything is.
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post #7 of 19
7/9/05 at 12:07am
i9300 1.5gig of ram, 2.0ghz, 6800Go..............Nothing overclocked.

Latest Nvidia Beta Go drivers...70.70?

I have zero problems with the game now that I went from 1gig to 1.5gig. Its very smooth with great frame rates.

My settings are....

1440x900

High-Detail
High-Effects
High-Geomtry
High-Textures
Dynamic Shadows OFF (This and the two below KILL your FPS, but add little or zero to game detail)
Dynamic Lights OFF
AA OFF
Texture Filtering Low (AF)
100%

When I only had 1Gig I had to set my Textures to Medium other wise as I went around the map I got stutter as the textures loaded....paging out to disk. Now its as smooth as BF42/DC unless I get on a laggy server.

Oh Sound is set to hardware medium NO EAX.

Happy Hunting
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post #8 of 19
7/9/05 at 1:59am
My recommendation would be turning AA off or down, seems to me that people with AA off have been having no probs.
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post #9 of 19
7/9/05 at 5:39am
High-Detail
High-Effects
High-Geomtry
High-Textures
Dynamic Shadows HIGH
Dynamic Lights HIGH
AA 2X
Texture Filtering HIGH (AF)
100%
1920x1200

This is what I play with on my i9300.
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post #10 of 19
7/9/05 at 9:25am
Quote:
Originally Posted by icy1007
High-Detail
High-Effects
High-Geomtry
High-Textures
Dynamic Shadows HIGH
Dynamic Lights HIGH
AA 2X
Texture Filtering HIGH (AF)
100%
1920x1200

This is what I play with on my i9300.
I'm sorry, but there's no way this is possible with your i9300 configuration. You're talking about settings even a desktop GF7800 can't handle due to the way the game is coded. Hell, I have problems running the freakin game on my desktop and it is def. more powerful than your i9300.

The shadows/lights are nothing, I always turn them off because of the driver issues.
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post #11 of 19
7/9/05 at 10:10am
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on EA's battlefield site they just announced that 1.01 patch had major problems including a memory leak so they want everyone to revert back by reintalling the game without the patch..
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post #12 of 19
7/9/05 at 11:41am
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Originally Posted by an.enigma
I'm sorry, but there's no way this is possible with your i9300 configuration. You're talking about settings even a desktop GF7800 can't handle due to the way the game is coded. Hell, I have problems running the freakin game on my desktop and it is def. more powerful than your i9300.

The shadows/lights are nothing, I always turn them off because of the driver issues.
Lol...................NO F@cking way is more like it. He could but 5FPS is not what most people want. With those settings and 1gig of ram it would be a power point slide show.

Although I think with a AMD FX57, 2gigs of ram and a 7800GTX you could run it all on high.....I think Anandtech did that and said nothing bothered the 7800GTX
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post #13 of 19
7/9/05 at 11:56am
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2466&p=4

7800GTX is the King
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post #14 of 19
7/9/05 at 12:13pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by gearshifter
on EA's battlefield site they just announced that 1.01 patch had major problems including a memory leak so they want everyone to revert back by reintalling the game without the patch..
That patch gave me major pausing issues. All better now that I reinstalled w/o it.
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post #15 of 19
7/9/05 at 1:42pm
these are my settings and i have not experienced extended lag or enything like that. i did notice last night the with the game running i only had 443mb of ram free and 1.41gb pagefile ...that is very resource intensive

High-Detail
High-Effects
High-Geomtry
High-Textures
Dynamic Shadows HIGH
Dynamic Lights HIGH
AA 2X
Texture Filtering HIGH (AF) 4x
1920x1200

according to fraps i get between 28 and 39 fps 98% of the time
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post #16 of 19
7/9/05 at 2:28pm
coming from Ps still a better MMO FPS then BF2 ( lol ok i havent played BF2 just got a lot of PS love and a good wind keeps the c lock ticking ) that too me sounded exactly like harddrive access problems ( memory leak ), or too high an overclock. major dips in fps to freezing then coming back up always indicate a page access and sometimes a page file resize, the Ps cure to the resize was make yuor min and max page file the same size. mine was to also go get some raptors and raid them which did help abit.

Any free BF2 trials n stuff around? and can i digidownload it
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post #17 of 19
7/10/05 at 12:33am
Weird, I am overclocking my 6800 with a 3DMark05 of about 4217, with a pinmodded 2.26GHz proc and I have similar settings in BF2 with the High options all set and AA at 2X, running at 1600x1200 and 95% for the visibility setting and the only slowness I get is the random freezes that were mentioned earlier, the framerate seems pretty damn high to me. I'll load it up again and confirm...

How did the guy get it up to 1920x1200, I don't have that setting, the resolutions all seem to be 4x3 and are probably just stretched by the 6800 for display...
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post #18 of 19
7/10/05 at 1:30am
This sounds like an issue that I have in WoW when I'm in big cities such as Ironforge, around the auction house, etc.. The screen sort of freezes for a second, and gets jerky. It's caused as a result of accessing the hard drive to copy data to the pagefile. I haven't run WoW since installing an extra 512 mb of ram, but it sounds as if BF2 has some of the same symptoms. I believe that games that use a lot of memory for high detailed textures are more apt to have this problem.
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post #19 of 19
7/10/05 at 2:22am
Setting your Textures to HIGH (NOT Texture Filtering) is a the biggest RAM HOG, and requires about 1.2-1.3gigs of RAM. With 1gig of ram, you have stutters as you move around the map, map loads new textures which causes swapping/pagging since you dont have enough ram.

The Dynamic stuff, and the AA are PURE video card killers. Honestly they dont give you anymore detail.....with out them say the side of a tank is going to have the same detail, just not soft lines.
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