Graphics problems

[richie83]

I downloaded 0.6 last night. Previously, 0.5 worked fine, nothing has changed, except uninstalling 0.5 and installing 0.6.

Now the game chugs like ****. BF2 online and single player works fine, but local server and online of PR are chugging like mad. A prime example is Gulf of Oman. Walking on the carrier, everything is fine. Get into a boat and head to the shore and as soon as you get close to the shore (and can see more detail), the game goes from 80FPS to 15FPS. Playing on the exact same servers (BigD in Australia) with the same pings as before (100ms).

I've tried
-reducing AA from 8x to 2x
-reducing dynamic lighting to medium
-reducing draw distance to as low as possible (50%)

I still cannot stop the game from chugging. Running PR via a shortcut with +szx 1920 +szy 1200, same as before. I suspect it has something to do with the new draw distances, as thats when it craps out, when theres a heap of detail. Does anyone with similar configs have any problems?

Specs:
Opteron 165 @ 2.4Ghz
2GB ram
8800GTS 640mb
Dell 2407
Vista

The only options I have left are to reduce AA to nothing, and other settings down, but this shouldn't have to be the case if the game ran fine before?