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2006-04-27 13:24:15

#1

Kohlarion: Member; +3|7051|Scotland

ive been playing bf2 for a few months now, and have never experienced any serious lag till a few days ago, and now it always lags like hell at all the critical moments, especially in planes and helis. can anyone help?

my specs are- 1 gig of RAM, 2.4 GHz processor, 128MB graphics card.
I recently defraged.

2006-04-27 13:29:30

#2

CC-Marley: Member; +407|7299

What settings?
more ram will help
256 gfx card will too

Last edited by CC-Marley (2006-04-27 13:30:13)

2006-04-27 13:30:26

#3

Kohlarion: Member; +3|7051|Scotland

medium graphics

2006-04-27 13:31:49

#4

Naughty_Om: Im Ron Burgundy?; +355|7104|USA

put Graphix settings on low.... dont overclock your card.... check internet connection.... get new graphix card.

2006-04-27 13:35:20

#5

CC-Marley: Member; +407|7299

Shut down background processes. Turn some settings to low ie.. lighting , shadows

2006-04-27 14:45:26

#6

{CN}420: Member; +30|7149

Have you tried flushing your modem? Unplug the power for one minute, then back on. Have you tried updating your router (assuming you have one)?

2006-04-27 19:28:41

#7

Darkhelmet: cereal killer; +233|7222|the middle of nowhere

Yeah. Shut down all background processes like virus scan. That REALLY helps. Believe me ive tried it.

2006-04-27 19:40:35

#8

Spark: liquid fluoride thorium reactor; +874|7146|Canberra, AUS

What kind of 'lag'?

Do you get kickback, where you seem to be a bit behind everyone else? That's a connection/internet problem.

Jerkiness is a software/hardware problem

The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
^{~ Richard Feynman}

2006-04-27 19:41:50

#9

k1LLr_M: Prone to Own; +118|7064|Houston, TX

make sure to leave firewalls up no matter what.
also go for 2 gig of ram

2006-04-28 04:17:01

#10

Mj.Blindfisch: Bulletdrop-Buddha; +338|7168|Germany

I have about the same specs - XP 64 3000+,1 gig of RAM and a 128MB GF6600gt.

I run the game on medium settings and the first 2-3 minutes of the first round of a map are just horribly jerky,then it is ok with a bit of trouble when flying,you often get a jerkyness-related crash.

New gfx-card is not in the budget for me yet,I'd have to buy a new motherboard aswell then so I'll just get a completely new machine when I have the money for it,until then I think the only thing I can do is upgrade to 2 gigs of RAM and play a bit with the settings.

A lot of people here say that 2 gigs of RAM removed all the jerkyness on their machines,BF2 is a memory-muncher - 1.3 GB plus your operating system plus all the other programs in the background.

I'll post when I have the new RAM next week if things got better.

2006-04-28 04:53:29

#11

Aruba-Prime: [Expert Smoke Grenade]; +44|7245|Hamburg, Germany

If it's just you lagging also check your soundsettings....

I had problems with helos in BF2SF...
http://forums.bf2s.com/viewtopic.php?id=22343

Last edited by Aruba-Prime (2006-04-28 04:54:08)

2006-04-28 05:14:24

#12

imdead: Death StatPadder; +228|7240|Human Meat Shield

Wow..you guys lagging with those rigs!! THe best thing has already been said: ' Turn your Shadows and Lighting and sight ( believe, its the last option) to like 60% instead of 90%. If you look at my rig you know why I have those settings! [2.08 GHz AMD; 256 ATI 700x Graphix; 768 RAM (yeah I mixed and matched because Im cheap) and a router.]

Heres what I USED to run and it worked really well:
Lighting: low
dynamic shadows: off
dynamic lighting: off
Terrain: low
effects: high
geometry: high
texture: high
anti-aliasing: 4x
texture filtering: high
distance scale: 100%

But couple things I've adjusted because I liked, like lighting and terrain and moved distance scale to like 70% -- took shadows off because it uses alot of pixelation. I don't get any lag unless someone comes on with 350 ping then everyone lags..

Last edited by imdead (2006-04-28 05:15:45)

2006-04-28 05:25:51

#13

Breez: AKA: badhq; +937|7103|Derby, England

Kohlarion wrote:
ive been playing bf2 for a few months now, and have never experienced any serious lag till a few days ago, and now it always lags like hell at all the critical moments, especially in planes and helis. can anyone help?

my specs are- 1 gig of RAM, 2.4 GHz processor, 128MB graphics card.
I recently defraged.

try low settings

also try this

open console by pressing ` ingame type in

pb_sleep 500 ( this comand will Change your PB doing its thing to every 500 secs instead of every 20 secs )
then type in
pb_writecfg ( this will save your PB settings so you don't have to type in every time you go in to server )

Peace Boris

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