I'm having the same issue 2 other people have talked about. I've got C2D with Nvidia 7900 GS and 2 gigz ram, gigabyte 965ps3 mobo. Definately enough firepower to run battlefield 1942. I'm running it in XP compatibility mode as an administator.
During gameplay about every minute or 2, (usually right before I get into combat), the FPS will drop or totally stop, and I will hear some sort of fan or drive or something wind up in the computer, either a hard drive, or cpu fan, or graphics fan, or something. it sounds like a drive winding up, then the game will come back to normal, and I will usually either have crashed a plane or gotten killed in combat. This seems to be a common problem with Vista. I have no antivirus installed yet, only whatever came with vista. Homebuilt system. I was thinking it was Punkbuster, upgraded that no help, disabled it, no help. I've tried running a system monitor on my 2nd screen to see what process or application fires up, but I haven't figured that out yet. It never happened when I had XP home loaded on it...I think it's a Vista thing. I've tried disabling all processes except explorer and the ones it won't let me disable, no help...
Help me Tom's Hardware Guide forum members,
you're my only help
Princess Turd
During gameplay about every minute or 2, (usually right before I get into combat), the FPS will drop or totally stop, and I will hear some sort of fan or drive or something wind up in the computer, either a hard drive, or cpu fan, or graphics fan, or something. it sounds like a drive winding up, then the game will come back to normal, and I will usually either have crashed a plane or gotten killed in combat. This seems to be a common problem with Vista. I have no antivirus installed yet, only whatever came with vista. Homebuilt system. I was thinking it was Punkbuster, upgraded that no help, disabled it, no help. I've tried running a system monitor on my 2nd screen to see what process or application fires up, but I haven't figured that out yet. It never happened when I had XP home loaded on it...I think it's a Vista thing. I've tried disabling all processes except explorer and the ones it won't let me disable, no help...
Help me Tom's Hardware Guide forum members,
you're my only help
Princess Turd