Sudden bad performance

[Zahj]

Hi, I've recently been getting bad performance. I don't measure FPS but lately I have been having noticeable performance problems.

When I first got my computer I played the game just fine on high settings, now it seems it can't even run the game on low. Maps used to load before the loading music even finished, now I run through the entire song and its only at 15%.

I don't have any perceivable problem from other more demanding games such as BF4 or Assassins creed unity.


I've tried reinstalling, defragging my HDD, updating my video drivers, and terminating other applications through task manager (IE: Steam, origin, skype, antivirus) before I play but so far neither of those have solved my problems.

Please, does anyone have any other ideas?


System Information
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Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium (6.1.7601)
Architecture: 64-bit
Current Culture: English (United States)
Motherboard: Hewlett-Packard 2AF7
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4590 CPU @ 3.30GHz (Physical: 4, Logical: 4)
Memory: 6.00 GB
DIMM Modules: DIMM1: 2.00 GB @ 1600 MHz
DIMM2: 4.00 GB @ 1600 MHz
Page File: 5.94 GB
.NET Framework: 4.5.1, Runtime: 4.0.30319.18444

Display Information
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Display Device(s): Generic PnP Monitor on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750
Display Mode(s): 1920 x 1080 (32 bit) @ 60 Hz
Driver Version: 9.18.13.4475 (344.75)
Display Memory: 2.00 GB
Multisampling: 2, 4, 8
DPI: 96 (100%)

Audio Information
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Primary Playback: Speakers (Logitech USB Headset)
Primary Recording: Microphone (Logitech USB Headse
Open AL Renderer: Software
EAX: True
EAX 1.0: False
EAX 2.0: True
EAX 3.0: False
EAX 4.0: False
EAX 5.0: False
X-RAM: False

Disk Information
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Install Path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Battlefield 2
Free: 572.80 GB, Total: 915.52 GB, FS: NTFS, SSD: False
Mod Path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Battlefield 2\mods\pr
Free: 572.80 GB, Total: 915.52 GB, FS: NTFS, SSD: False
Profiles Path: C:\Users\TamPC\Documents\ProjectReality\Profiles
Free: 572.80 GB, Total: 915.52 GB, FS: NTFS, SSD: False
Update DL Path: C:\Users\TamPC\AppData\Local\Project Reality\Project Reality BF2\Downloads
Free: 572.80 GB, Total: 915.52 GB, FS: NTFS, SSD: False
Update Log Path: C:\Users\TamPC\AppData\Local\Project Reality\Project Reality BF2\UpdateLogs
Free: 572.80 GB, Total: 915.52 GB, FS: NTFS, SSD: False

Game Information
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Installed Mods: bf2, pr, xpack
Current Mod: pr
BF2 Version: BF2 1.5
PR Version: 1.2.1.0
Language: english
Debug Available: False
Large Address: True
Supported Hardware: None

Profile Information
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Profile 0001: [PRTA]Zahj
Type: Online
Last Used Profile: True
View Intro: True
Fullscreen: True
Display Mode: 1920x1080@60Hz
Display Mode Valid: True
Graphics Scheme: Medium
Multisampling: 8x
VSync: True
Terrain Quality: Low
Effects Quality: Medium
Geometry Quality: Low
Texture Quality: Medium
Lighting Quality: Low
Dynamic Shadows: Medium
Dynamic Lights: Medium
Texture Filtering: Medium
Audio Provider: Software
Provider Valid: True
Audio Quality: Medium
EAX: True

[LITOralis.nMd]

hiya Zahj,

Memory: 6.00 GB
DIMM Modules: DIMM1: 2.00 GB @ 1600 MHz
DIMM2: 4.00 GB @ 1600 MHz

Do you actually have 6GB of RAM, or is one of your 4GB sticks broken?



try a 3rd party defrag program that consolidates files by directory structure, such as mydefrag.com and the user forum script for the steam directory.
Download and install
[Script] Games Optimization Script for Data Disk

Multisampling: 8x
change to 4x or 2x

and Change everything else to medium. Low is actually worse for performance for PR. (voodoo idk why)

Primary Playback: Speakers (Logitech USB Headset)
Primary Recording: Microphone (Logitech USB Headse

Try disabling the logitech software, then/or disabling the USB headset in your My COmputer->Manage->Device manager.

... These are kind of random suggestions because your system looks fine from your spec report.

[LITOralis.nMd]

Another thing, and I'm pretty certain this should be investigated,
what firewall do you have?
what antivirus do you have?

It's possible they autoupdated and the settings to do deep packet inspection on compressed files was reset to default ON, with all of BF2 and PR's compressed files it causes this type of random FPS stuttering.


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Make sure to turn off all your 3rd party overlay programs, TS3, overwolf, msi afterburner, skype, fraps, etc.