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Korbin91   03-14-2006 at 11:53:42 PM

I have battlefield 2, but it runs....well not smooth, im so darn sure its my video card (Geforce 6800 128mb), but people keep saying its my RAM. 1 gig DDR 333. But i seriously dont think that is the problem. When i put my other card (radeon X600 256mb) put the settings on low with the view distance to 100%. It ran pretty darn smooth. I took my card (geforce 6800 128mb) put the settings on low, view distance to 100%, but it ran crappy. Would a better video card help this chunkyness?

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bman212121   03-15-2006 at 01:48:20 AM
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Obviously it would, but that's not the underlying problem. What resolution are you trying to run it at?

Also, what is the rest of your system specs.

BF2 is a major resource hog, but on low settings, 1GB should be enough. If you can, I would still try 2GBs, but that's not always possible.

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Korbin91   03-15-2006 at 01:50:11 AM
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my specs are AMD Athlon 64 4200+ 2.2ghz
1 gig Patriot
180GIG hardrive.
Geforce 6800 128mb

Im wanting to run at 1024x768
high settings.

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raptor50   03-27-2006 at 05:11:25 AM
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I had the same trouble with my Leadtek 6800 GS 256 Mb. I put all settings to max at 1024 by 768 with 2 x aa and noticed tjhat the harddisk is grinding a lot with the initial play. I decided to put in another 1 Gb of Ram to arrive at a total of 2 Gb and voila! all going smoothly for me.

Tey and borrow a few sticks form your mate or something to try out. I think your card is good for gaming, no need to upgrade as of yet. The disk activity during gameplay ought to telll you a lot, so observe :)

Also, I recently switched to 64 bit windows XP pro and noticed that my BF2 is playing smoother than before as well. not sure well :) the best thing to come with it is that I have an older audigy card in this machine and the new driver provided by Creative seems to give me better sound in gameplay and music as well lol. I will prob put in my xtreme music soon from the other PC and see how it sounds.

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cisco   03-27-2006 at 08:20:10 AM
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I used to run BF2 with my 6600GT 128mb with 1gig of ram with only a little stutter at the beginning of the maps almost maxed out on graphics. I upgraded to 7800GT actually didn't change that, upgraded to 2gigs ram, runs smooth from beginning to end maxed out.
Having only one gig and the fact that it is running 333mhz is not helping. Get the fastest ddr400 you can afford. 2x1gig preferably do not go with 4x512 if you can avoid it.
This game's code has a massive memory leak. The main reason for the stuttering is the game accessing the hard drive page file system.
OCZ has a nice set of 2x1gig Platinum 2.2.3.5. 1T at newegg I think it has a rebate as well.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6820227210

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