BF2 128MB video card high textures?

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My PC has 1GB of memory and a 128MB video card (AGP 6600GT). I can
play the demo (I am awaiting my order for the full game to turn up)
fine with medium textures, but if I try high textures I get a lot of
stuttering which seems because of extra pagefile usage. I was
wondering if anyone is able to play the game smoothly with high
textures on a 128MB card before I go and buy more RAM.
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"Andrew" <spamtrap@localhost.> wrote in message
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> My PC has 1GB of memory and a 128MB video card (AGP 6600GT). I can
> play the demo (I am awaiting my order for the full game to turn up)
> fine with medium textures, but if I try high textures I get a lot of
> stuttering which seems because of extra pagefile usage.

It's not extra pagefile use, it's the graphics card faulting textures in and
out all the time. If you have 128Mb of memory on your video card then medium
is the best opion.

L.

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"Andrew" <spamtrap@localhost.> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 12:32:48 +0100, "Lorian" <nospam@lorian.nod>
> wrote:
>
>>It's not extra pagefile use, it's the graphics card faulting textures in
>>and
>>out all the time. If you have 128Mb of memory on your video card then
>>medium
>>is the best opion.
>
> There certainly is extra pagefile usage, it rises by about 500MB when
> I use high textures, so I believe extra RAM would help to some extent,
> but m3thod's message doesn't fill me with hope!

The page file goes up because all the textures won't fit in the graphics
card.

He needs more memory on his graphics card.

A really decent disk defragment can help a bit, but not with the built-in
winXP defrag, but with something like the full version of diskeeper or the
30 day trial version of O&O, which I found works well doing a full
defragment by directory (names algorithm)

You can find O&O defrag at http://www.oo-software.com/en/index.html

L.


L.

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Andrew wrote:
> My PC has 1GB of memory and a 128MB video card (AGP 6600GT). I can
> play the demo (I am awaiting my order for the full game to turn up)
> fine with medium textures, but if I try high textures I get a lot of
> stuttering which seems because of extra pagefile usage. I was
> wondering if anyone is able to play the game smoothly with high
> textures on a 128MB card before I go and buy more RAM.

I raised the AGP Aperture size BIOS setting to max, that helped quite a
lot. But probably the only perfect cure is a 256 Mb card.

regards,

Achtung Ecco

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You really don't want to be running both. If you already have the full
version of diskeeper I just stay with that.

L.

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On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 13:00:53 +0100, Andrew <spamtrap@localhost.>
wrote:

>On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 12:32:48 +0100, "Lorian" <nospam@lorian.nod>
>wrote:
>
>>It's not extra pagefile use, it's the graphics card faulting textures in and
>>out all the time. If you have 128Mb of memory on your video card then medium
>>is the best opion.
>
>There certainly is extra pagefile usage, it rises by about 500MB when
>I use high textures, so I believe extra RAM would help to some extent,
>but m3thod's message doesn't fill me with hope!
>
You probably know this but just in case. AGP and probably PCI-E use
system memory like video memory after the video ram is filled up. The
delay/lag/choppiness sounds like typical AGP when the video ram is all
used up.

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In alt.games.ea.battlefield Schrodinger <no@way.com> wrote:

> "Andrew" <spamtrap@localhost.> wrote in message
> news:t16tb11jps0ot3pk8qocor8uckt9ntprj0@4ax.com...
> > On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 12:32:48 +0100, "Lorian" <nospam@lorian.nod>
> > wrote:
> >
> >>It's not extra pagefile use, it's the graphics card faulting textures in
> >>and
> >>out all the time. If you have 128Mb of memory on your video card then
> >>medium
> >>is the best opion.
> >
> > There certainly is extra pagefile usage, it rises by about 500MB when
> > I use high textures, so I believe extra RAM would help to some extent,
> > but m3thod's message doesn't fill me with hope!
> > --
> > Andrew, contact via interpleb.blogspot.com


> It says in the readme, don't enable high textures without a 512MB graphics
> card. You might get away with it with 256MB, but it is clear a 128MB will
> simply not cut it.

Where did you see that in readme.txt file? I don't see it. I even
searched 512, but nothing related to high textures. I even viewed EA Help
HTML files.
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ANTant@zimage.com wrote:
> In alt.games.ea.battlefield Schrodinger <no@way.com> wrote:
>
>
>>"Andrew" <spamtrap@localhost.> wrote in message
>>news:t16tb11jps0ot3pk8qocor8uckt9ntprj0@4ax.com...
>>
>>>On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 12:32:48 +0100, "Lorian" <nospam@lorian.nod>
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>It's not extra pagefile use, it's the graphics card faulting textures in
>>>>and
>>>>out all the time. If you have 128Mb of memory on your video card then
>>>>medium
>>>>is the best opion.
>>>
>>>There certainly is extra pagefile usage, it rises by about 500MB when
>>>I use high textures, so I believe extra RAM would help to some extent,
>>>but m3thod's message doesn't fill me with hope!
>>>--
>>>Andrew, contact via interpleb.blogspot.com
>
>
>
>>It says in the readme, don't enable high textures without a 512MB graphics
>>card. You might get away with it with 256MB, but it is clear a 128MB will
>>simply not cut it.
>
>
> Where did you see that in readme.txt file? I don't see it. I even
> searched 512, but nothing related to high textures. I even viewed EA Help
> HTML files.

It doesn't, it says....
'Recommended Specification:
CPU: 2.4 Ghz
RAM: 1 Gb
Video Card with at least 256 Mb of RAM'

HTH
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On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 11:49:51 +0100, Andrew <spamtrap@localhost.>
wrote:

>My PC has 1GB of memory and a 128MB video card (AGP 6600GT). I can
>play the demo (I am awaiting my order for the full game to turn up)
>fine with medium textures, but if I try high textures I get a lot of
>stuttering which seems because of extra pagefile usage. I was
>wondering if anyone is able to play the game smoothly with high
>textures on a 128MB card before I go and buy more RAM.

To follow up on my own question, I have bumped my RAM up to 1.5GB to
stop some paging that was going on during the game. I just tried
running it with every graphic setting on high and most of the time it
ran fine, around 30-40fps, but what stops it being playable is when
you do a quick 180 as infantry and the scenery behind you is very
different, the framerate drops to about 1fps momentarily.

I will have to stick with everything on high apart from the textures.
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Andrew wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 11:49:51 +0100, Andrew <spamtrap@localhost.>
> wrote:
>
>
>>My PC has 1GB of memory and a 128MB video card (AGP 6600GT). I can
>>play the demo (I am awaiting my order for the full game to turn up)
>>fine with medium textures, but if I try high textures I get a lot of
>>stuttering which seems because of extra pagefile usage. I was
>>wondering if anyone is able to play the game smoothly with high
>>textures on a 128MB card before I go and buy more RAM.
>
> To follow up on my own question, I have bumped my RAM up to 1.5GB to
> stop some paging that was going on during the game. I just tried
> running it with every graphic setting on high and most of the time it
> ran fine, around 30-40fps, but what stops it being playable is when
> you do a quick 180 as infantry and the scenery behind you is very
> different, the framerate drops to about 1fps momentarily.

Raise AGP aperture size (BIOS setting), worked for me (128 Mb 5900XT
card, 1 Gb ram).

regards,

Achtung Ecco