BF2S Forums tip for the really really fast CPU's out there

When i start working again I'm going to buy 2 1gb sticks and have 3GB ram XD

I have 3500+ cessor + 1gb corsair ram atm

It's been said a few times before but I'll repeat it and give some additional information and advice.  The processor doesn't have anything to do with load times.  I have 2 machines, one is a AMD 4000+ with 4 Gigs of cas-2 Corsair RAM, and a Raptor hard drive, the other is a 3Ghz P4 with 2 Gig's of Cas3 RAM and a regular speed hard drive.  (The Raptor is a blazing fast hard drive in case you didn't know) 

The slower machine (P4 w/2 gigs) ALWAYS loads slower when my wife and I play.  She's on the slower machine and ALWAYS get into the maps first.  Well, obviously this pissed me off because, well, that's just wrong... so I investigated.  Then I realized I was being stupid...  the faster machine has two 7800GTX's running in SLI and a Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum.  Obviously, with this kick ass video and audio horsepower, I am going to crank the video settings to high and the audio to "Ultra High".  Her machine has a regular Sound Blaster 64 and an ATI X850.  So the settings on both video and audio are about medium.  This means the textures that are loading are MUCH smaller and the WAV files (OOG's or whatever) for the audio are MUCH MUCH smaller.  So the load times are going to obviously be much quicker regardless of your processor, RAM, or even hard drive speed. 

So if you really want to get in first, turn down your texture settings and your audio quality.  Me?  I love the pretty graphics and crystal clear sounds, so screw it... I'm still there before most people and my wife doesn't like flying choppers anyway. 

Last edited by LSD_Wash (2006-04-07 09:10:18)

Learn to use the -sethash command line argument, and swift map loading times shall be thine. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, ask, and all shall be revealed!

Last edited by Auqakuh2213 (2006-04-07 10:16:47)

I have a AMD Athlon XP 2000+ 1.6GHz, with 2 x 512mb Kingston Dual channel RAM (though my crappy motherboard doesn't support dual channel ) with a crappy 7200RPM IDE HDD.

Though I will soon have (on Thursday) an AMD Athlon 3200+ 2.0GHz with 2 x 512mb Kingston Dual channel RAM, and 1 x 512mb Kingston non-dual channel, and 1 x 512mb crappy stuff (all 400MHz) totalling 2GB. And an ABit UL8 motherboard.

Although I will still have the same crappy, slow HDD and a slow GPU, but atleast I won't be border-line minimum specs anymore.

Oh and to show you how slow my computer is, the music loads twice for every map. 

JudgeDredd1824 wrote:

xilix wrote:

Its all about the RAM...With 1GB, it look several minutes to get past the verifying client data portion, I added another gig and it literally only takes seconds now.

I'm running a 3gig machine with 2 gigs of DDR2 and its still dog verifying...30 seconds or more

Any ideas??

Make sure Windows didnt ratchet down your drive to PIO mode.

1927 wrote:

I got a tip.

If you got the fast ram be a squad leader so the team/squad can spawn at you on the first flag as you cap it, points all round. (songhau for eg)

Or if it your on Clean Sweep, grab the usa jet fly n bail out over mec airfield (again as squad leader)

Yup, been there, done that.  Also Sharqi, MEC, gunned it to the TV Station and neutralized the flag.

one time my comp was so fast on SF i took all the bases b4 the other team got in im a pilot so i like getting jets first i usually dont wreck i only die fomr the aa

ThundergodTyLor wrote:

To the people with 4 Gigs of RAM.  Do you have a OS that supports that much?  I've heard that 1) Windows XP doesnt use that much yet, and 2) BF2 cant use that much.

I believe XP-64bit supports it, and even XP Pro (32bit) as the max memory supported.  BF2 can't use that much, but it doesn't hurt.  But in all honesty, 2gb is plenty.

AMD 4000+
2GB RAM
7900 GTX OC

Always first one to spawn,, by the time I get to the first flag people are starting to spawn, love playing on 16 size severs and caping them out befor they spawn (All settings on highest)

Cant wait till i get my Raptor drive's, the should help, a little 

Last edited by dan500 (2006-04-07 13:57:26)

Absinthe wrote:

You're loading and veryfing the map extremely faster then other players. When you finish the verify things, spawn to the nearest vehicle you want to play. If its a jet.. apc, transport, armor.. ITS YOURS.
if you want to know how "fast" your cpu is, the first second you have the abbility to open the playes tab watch the darken skulls, and kits. The more skulls you see, the faster your loading the map.

that's speaking from a 4 GB,  4GHz horse power 

yeah no shit n00b, i came to this post hoping for somehting to speed up my pc, even more that it already is.

if you have a souped up pc and you dont already know this.............kill yourself.

I have an AMD 2700+ with 1.5 gigs of RAM and it still takes forever to load, and just as long on "Verifying client data"... once I timed the game to see how long it took from when I started the game to when my player spawned in the map. It was almost 10 minutes.

I am in US but I often play Karkand on a New Zealand server, so I will have about twice the ping of those local players. But surprisely, I am always belong to the first a couple of players that spawn out.  But when I play in US servers, I am not.

Does that mean all the players from New Zealand all have crappier PCs????????????????????????

lol, i cant care about graphs beacause I must set it on low, but I often see that there are people who are still slower.

AMD2800+
5500FX
2x 512