Freezing with Battlefield 2

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first off post in the games section or do a basic search and you could've answered your question without all this hassle. its due to ram. you need 2gigs to play smoothly. i think its due to the maps being so lagre you need the ram to store the textures otherwise it uses the page file which leads to the delays i think.

im not being mean but do a prpoer search in the right section first before asking a question. what has this post to do with building a comp?

i didn't mean to sound harsh btw but anywhere i the games section of the forums, perhaps the action games. 2 gigs really helps btw spo if you ever get any lag or skip in the game it can usually be soved by ram in bf2's case. also everthing works better with 2 gigs of ram. how anyone can live without it

well im not running at MAX just high/medium

who the hell cares about low settings the game looks crap if he doesn't have the cash then fine but if he does 2 gigs of ram may even let him play with higher detail settings than he used to. it did with my old comp.

we'll agree to differ here as i know from personal experience and from the numerous post here and talking to people who play the game that alot of lag and especiallly freezing can be cured by adding another gig.

oh and korbin91 do you use dual channel memory as that might help as well if you mobo supports it.

well than forget that, but yes i have 2x 512mb. I seriously think its my video card, i put my X600 in here put the settings on low and it ran smooth as for mine, it didnt run that smooth on low

It's the RAM. I have a 6600GT 128mb and I run fine with 1280 * 1024 everything on high except textures. I have 1gb ram. You need to get 2gb. I do too I even checked; one time i turned up the texture all the way, and it was laggy as shit. it looked great, but it was laggy as hell, so i keep it on medium now

It probably because the x600 has 256mb of video memory and the 6800 has only 128mb, which could make a big difference on games like BF2 which require lots of texture memory and not rely on system memory as much.

My 9700pro which has 256mb of ram I believe(might need to count/check chip type >.< ) runs BF2 smoothly on 1024x768/Med settings/Visibility 100%.

I'm pretty sure 6800s with 256mb of v-mem, would run a lot smoother than ones with just 128mb. It could even outperform the x600.

I'd disagree on the video card.

I used to have an AMD xp3000+ with 1gb ram and a 6600gt 128mb agp card. I played everything on medium in bf2. I then upgraded to 2gb ram and i could play some things on high settings without any problems (not iron gator in the carrier though lol).

Fair enough, with the new pc I have no probs at all on any map but 2gb is a real must for bf2. It makes a huge difference with load times as well.

Now with my current setup, I can have everything to high with 4 x aa and still get 100fps on Dalian Plant.

You will need to turn down the settings. BF2 is a resource hog, it wants as much ram as possible and likes 256 mb or more on the video card. THG did a review on how the ram impacts games (including BF2) and the comparison between 1 and 2 GB of ram was impressive. The average framerates were definitely higher even with the same video card. I tried BF2 on a 6800 with 128 mb ram and it doesn't play any better than my 9800 pro. When I upgraded to a X850 PRO card (hoping to soft mod it) the game showed a noticeable improvement (the X850 PRO has 256 mb ram). Good luck and have fun.