BF2S Forums Vista and BF2?

Vista has to emulate XP to play BF2, which adds some lag. So long as you save your important files on another harddrive or partition, you could reinstall XP assuming you have the CD.


I'm interested in other people's feedback considering I know next-to-nothing about Vista. In fact, I'm going to be building a whole new computer within the next few weeks and I'm going to run Vista x64. I guess I'll have to stick with XP if BF2 is going to go slow, though

I use to have Vista, and BF2 does go alot slower.

mtb0minime wrote:

Vista has to emulate XP to play BF2, which adds some lag. So long as you save your important files on another harddrive or partition, you could reinstall XP assuming you have the CD.


I'm interested in other people's feedback considering I know next-to-nothing about Vista. In fact, I'm going to be building a whole new computer within the next few weeks and I'm going to run Vista x64. I guess I'll have to stick with XP if BF2 is going to go slow, though

I would figure if you were running 64 bit, it would have to emulate. Not sure what emulates 32bit xp vs 32bit vista.

Yes, I have the same problems.  BF2 runs OK on Vista, but you have to do some tuning.  I have two sets of RAID disks; one for the OS and one for the pagefile and BF2 binaries.  I have also set the pagefile to be a specific size (rather than to a system managed size). 

Make sure that you manually upgrade punkbuster as it changes to using services and a kernal driver.  This was changed so that it will work better in Vista security architecture.  However I get a 10 second hangup after I first join a server (about a minute into the round) and I think that this may be caused by the punkbuster kernal driver.  The hangup seems to effect the system at a low level (when you do perfmon logging, it drops samples suring the hangup).

With the latest version of punkbuster, you no longer need to run BF2 as an admin.

I turned off dual view (monitor + TV output) and that seemed to fix some issues with BF2 being minimised when I join a new game.

Plus you also have to the usual clear of the cache and a propper defrag.  I found that diskeeper did a better job of defraging (so that you would notice) than teh builtin defrag tool with Vista.

But even so you will never get it to run as good as in Vista.  I have mine to a tolerabe state now.

On the up side I find that the game loads a bit quicker under Vista.

Ben
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Last edited by Capella_Ben (2007-12-09 03:20:57)

I'm about to format machine - I'm so tired of Vista. I can't get my printer, my camera, my video camera and finally my new phone working. Lack of drivers. It sucsk so badly. And BF2 ran better on my old XP machine with a single 3ghz machine. Now I got a quad core processor and all, but still BF2 ran better on my old machine. I have more lagging now and I really should not have! (4 mbit network and a 8800GTS graphics card)
So now I format my new one and install XP on it. Then I'm back in business!

My bf2 crashes to desktop whilst the map loads on my vista 64bit


Any ideas anyone?

Yeah, im thinking of reinstalling XP on my new computer, i didn't spend $4500 on a PC for vista to fuck it all up. Like, music and sound comes threw only my center and sub, not the other 4 speakers, funny thing is, the only time it will actually use the other speakers, is when playing modern games, like Bioshock, and CoD4... And there was no vista drivers that came with my elite pro sound card, i think it was only meant for Xp, or thats what the box says anyways... I had to go download some, even then, i was missing out on A LOT of the features i payed good money for. Like, for one, surround sound for EVERYTHING, all those Creative programs, and so much more, its actually quite depressing...

Skorpy-chan wrote:

I think the game's just lazily coded and inneficient.

yea because DICE and EA are supposed to know 2 years after their game is released people will be playing on Vista?

RandomSchl wrote:

Skorpy-chan wrote:

I think the game's just lazily coded and inneficient.

yea because DICE and EA are supposed to know 2 years after their game is released people will be playing on Vista?

Game hasn't ever worked that well. It's no surprise that BF2 doesn't run well on Vista considering it never worked on XP that well either.

My uncle has Vista and he says that the software program runs better with another hard-drive mirrored.  W/E the phuck that means, but I figured maybe you know more about CMPS than I do.  He suggested Mirroring your operating system with 2 or more hard-drives.  And if it was bad advice it proves I'm an idiot.! LOL anyways thought I'd post.

I get CTD and blue screens so often now that I put Vista on (for Crysis DX10 mp) that my friends say I got Vista'd when I disappear from the server we're in.

I've narrowed down the issues to, having creative XMSS3D and Crystalizer enabled for the X-Fi cards, which is a shame, because with those things turned on, the sound is amazingly better. Also running itunes while playing seems to give Vista grief and cause crashes.

Other than that though BF2 runs smooth the entire time with no issues. Crysis is also stable (amazingly) on my machine, although I had to download a 3rd party no CD crack to launch the x64 mode because EA's .exe doesn't work on my box rofl. I've noticed that Vista actually seems a little bit more stable with my 8800 GTS overclocked which is shockingly the opposite of what I expected.