Low FPS when gunning or with smoke

ShinyMac10 · Post by **ShinyMac10** » 2015-01-15 12:45

Hi, for some time now I experience heavy fps drops when gunning BMP/bradleys' and other vehicles. It happens whenever there is smoke (from barrel, or from smoke grenade), both drop my fps to unplayable levels, but *sigh* have to live with it.

My system:
Laptop (3.5 yrs old) loaded with Windows 7 x64
Graphics: nvidia GeForce 315M
RAM: 8GB
HDD: lots of space.

What I tried:
Setting MAX performance in powercfg and max perf in nvidia control pannel for PR:BF2.exe

Lowering graphics settings --> small/no difference in FPS drops

Shouting and raging on mumble --> does nothing but express my displeasure.

Where/when this occurs:
often on most large maps, e.g. Kamisayah, even looking at smoke effects from burning rubble on oil fields kills my fps. Smoke grenades, BMP, Bradley, Tank, etc etc.

Quite a few people have experienced the same issue and I was wondering if there is anything that can be done? I dont think my graphics chip is that outdated... played skyrim well few years ago.

sweedensniiperr · Post by **sweedensniiperr** » 2015-01-15 14:44

I'm a little concerned over your videocard if i'm honest... Yes this is an old game but damn it really doesn't run well.

And your processor?

ShinyMac10 · Post by **ShinyMac10** » 2015-01-15 15:02

got the i5 processor, which is aite.. yeah my graphics card sucks, it use to run PR very well, until ver 1.0, smoke became a real problem.. Im guessing I will need a new pc?

sweedensniiperr · Post by **sweedensniiperr** » 2015-01-18 16:13

What kinf of cpu is it exactly? But yes probably to your second question. I and other experienced the same thing with 1.0, which was a major performance hit.

wrecker · Post by **wrecker** » 2015-01-18 18:04

I just got Msi afterburner and realized after all this time that the bottleneck of my computer at least for PR is in fact my cpu. I've got a dell studio 1558 from 2010 I think and it says it has an i5 but obviously it's a cheaper laptop i5. It has 2 cores and 2 virtual cores. Obviously bf2 can't use the VC so I'm down to two subpar cores.
Edit: anyway my point is it may in fact be a cpu bottleneck. And you should download afterburner as well to figure it out.

ShinyMac10 · Post by **ShinyMac10** » 2015-01-26 00:33

@wrecker: Gave it a test... nice piece of software. Its my GPU, the usage spikes during FPS drops whilst nothing concerning occurs on the CPU, just higher usage but doesnt hit 100%.

GPU hits 99% and its definitely above 90% most of the time on PR..

@sweedensniiperr: Oh to answer your previous question my CPU is a i5-480M (dual core/4 threads).

I'm currently reviewing some settings, nvidia control panel, PR graphics settings etc. see if I can get it optimised. If I can, Ill definitely update.