Suggestion for graphics settings

[LegioX]

Here's my set up

Sapphire Vapor X 5770
Athlon x2 5400+
4gb DDR2 800 RAM
Windows Vista x64

Theoretically I should play this on all high except for textures right at 1680x1050 2xAA right??? Since, well I can play games a hell of a lot more demanding than Battlefield 2 at this setting.

I'm getting ~20fps
I can't take it anymore, I might go crazy...

[PaveHawk]

We are running very similar setups hardware wise. Here's mine.
Athlon x2 5400+ overclocked to 3.0 GHz using an app from the motherboard manufacture
Nvidia 8800 GTS 640 MB
2gb DDR2 pc667
Win XP x32

Now the motherboard I have is on the cheap side so it can handle 2 gigs of ram. I run on all high but textures at 1680x1050 8xAA. My frame rate is between 40-60 depending on what's going on.

To help my gaming I've edited what the computer starts up at boot so that I have only running what I need. I also had an old hard drive that I had kept and tossed in. The only thing running on the extra drive is my windows pagefile. Running the pagefile on a different hard didn't make a difference in my framerate, but helps a **** load when loading maps. I went from getting to the squad select screen with a 1:30ish left to round starts to getting in between 2:45-2:30. I also defrag my drives on a weekly basis.

I'm not to sure what advice I can give you as you are running vista x64. It's my understanding that vista is a resource hog so that my be issue. The first place to start is what's running in the background. You may want to consider downgrading to XP x64. Be sure to to use the XP x64 or it wont see all your ram. The other thing is figure out what type of motherboard you have and see if they have any tools you can use if you want to overclock your CPU. But as you can see it can be done. You're running better ram and more of it then me. Also a slightly better video card. So you have the hardware to run the game better. You just have to tweak it to get it to run better. So do so research and have at it.

[Atkinson]

LegioX, you can run the mod with full graphics with as much candy as u can get to work from CCC and you will still be only using about 50% max of your gpu. CPU is the limiting factor of the fps in some of the maps that i think have some optimization problems, like Fallujah, Lashkan, Korengal etc...
Well the cpu itself is not limiting, just that the engine is not using 100% of all the cores...

[daniellegraham]

Your rig's bottle neck is on the hard drive.

My system:
E6600 OC 3.4G
4G DDR2 800
GTS250
500G x 2 @ Raid 0

As you can see, my GPU is not better than you, RAM is almost the same. The major difference is the RAID 0 Hard driver. No matter OC my CPU or not, I always got 60+ fps with 1680 1050 all high & 8x AA.

[Zoddom]

Your rig's bottle neck is on the hard drive.

My system:
E6600 OC 3.4G
4G DDR2 800
GTS250
500G x 2 @ Raid 0

As you can see, my GPU is not better than you, RAM is almost the same. The major difference is the RAID 0 Hard driver. No matter OC my CPU or not, I always got 60+ fps with 1680 1050 all high & 8x AA.

wheres the difference in performance between RAID with 2 HDDs and having only one. raid does not make you having a better performance than with only one hdd.

[Tacota]

HDD is not his bottleneck, and that RAID setup is not what is keeping your FPS up.

[Garack]

Your rig's bottle neck is on the hard drive.

My system:
E6600 OC 3.4G
4G DDR2 800
GTS250
500G x 2 @ Raid 0

As you can see, my GPU is not better than you, RAM is almost the same. The major difference is the RAID 0 Hard driver. No matter OC my CPU or not, I always got 60+ fps with 1680 1050 all high & 8x AA.

^^never. i papal you 10$ when you do this:

Dont overclock your CPU.

Start LAN MAP Falluja West Std and Spawn as INS at Lower point.

Go a few metres here:

Let Fraps tell me your fps with a screenshot.

It will never(!) 60 plus, and this is offline.


post your screns like this:

http://img3.fotos-hochladen.net/uplo...zln3grebht.jpg

http://www.fotos-hochladen.net/uploa...4369viqt1p.jpg

EDIT:Hmm screens dont work anymore?? i got 60 FPS there.

Setup: [email protected], 8 GB DDR3 1333, Win7 64, Nvidia 266.58, GTX470

Settings: High, AA x 4, Vsync and 16xAF enabled in driver.

With a @[email protected] i get only 38 FPS at the same position with same settings and Hardware.


At OT: Your CPU is your bottleneck.

[Tequila]

There are way too many limiting factors.

-Drivers? Are you running current ones?
-Whats running in the background?
-Do you have PR on the same HDD as your operating system?
-HDD speed. A lot of budget disks are 5400rpm. I have personally seen PR run on an SSD and the load time is amazingly faster than even a 7200rpm. Im talking cutting down minutes to seconds.

Here is my setup. I try to keep my frames consistantly at 60, I get dips in the 40s and RARELY ever go below 30.. I cant remember the last time I did.

Resolution = 1080p
Intel Q9400 @ 3.4ghz
4gb DDR2 1066
WD 500gb 7200rpm HDD <--- PR is installed here.
WD 250gb 7200rpm HDD <--- Windows 7 here.
ATI HD6950 2gb with current drivers (updated yesterday).
Windows 7 64bit <--- No reason to get 32bit anymore. 64bit doesn't limit your ram usage which isnt a big deal seeing that BF2 is a 32 bit app, but it makes a difference in that if I have stuff running in the background, it will address more than 3gb of ram.
I use Microsoft Security Essentials for my antivirus. It has such a small footprint that I don't need to turn if off. If you are using Norton or McAfee, I would suggest looking for another antivirus because they generally use more resources than BF2 does..
-I defrag every sunday night (4am while im asleep).

[whatshisname55]

Garack, obviously it's not his CPU that is limiting him because PaveHawk got much higher framerate on the same CPU. Unless you're implying that he should overclock it, then I agree that it probably would help a bit.

[Garack]

it depends--where you look at , which map, how many players ....and so on.

Believe or not i tested 4 Systems, and the CPU ALWAYS was the bottleneck when you have win7 64 with 4 gig or more and a good GFX card like gtx275 or better.

[whatshisname55]

I guess with Vista it can only get worse. Have you only tested on Win7?

[daniellegraham]

wheres the difference in performance between RAID with 2 HDDs and having only one. raid does not make you having a better performance than with only one hdd.

No, No, No, U r absolutely wrong. I am sorry to say that.

Before I start to use Raid 0 to play PR. I found out everytime the fps drops massively the HD light is ON (not flashing). When HD light flash again, the fps will come back.
It is because the texture is not fast enough to load up by the HD. Then I upgraded to 2 HD on Raid 0. Everything is solved.

But, I do encounter some stranger thing. If there is an APC in my screen. The fps will drop massively (Less than 10fps). BUT this cannot be reproduced, it occurs randomly. Sometime it is a Bradley, sometime is a BTR, or any other APC. It only happens on APC, not on Tank, Truck, etc. No idea why.

[Tequila]

The game pulls textures right from the HDD. Having a raid0 setup will improve performance by quite a bit.

[whatshisname55]

But, I do encounter some stranger thing. If there is an APC in my screen. The fps will drop massively (Less than 10fps). BUT this cannot be reproduced, it occurs randomly. Sometime it is a Bradley, sometime is a BTR, or any other APC. It only happens on APC, not on Tank, Truck, etc. No idea why.

Make sure your game folder isn't fragmented. The files containing APC information may be separated from the rest of the files, causing retrieval of those files to be slower than for other vehicles or objects.