Poll: can you use Anti Aliasing and alt-tab on BF2 1.5?

[AquaticPenguin]

Not certain on the driver version of my gtx260... I believe it is nvidia's july or august drivers though.

could be a driver thing or perhaps something to do with the ram fix in the patch.

[gomimin]

E8400 on P45, 4GB ( with 3,5GB in XP and /userva=2600 in Boot.ini), ATI4870/512-ccc 9.5 Alt-Tab OK with XP, W7B7600

BTW. It's dicussed often in forums and even DICE says: some can and some can't...

[GoreZiad]

Originally Posted by gomimin

even DICE says: some can and some can't...

*claps hands slowly*

[[R-CON]Snares]

Originally Posted by gomimin

E8400 on P45, 4GB ( with 3,5GB in XP and /userva=2600 in Boot.ini), ATI4870/512-ccc 9.5 Alt-Tab OK with XP, W7B7600

BTW. It's dicussed often in forums and even DICE says: some can and some can't...

I am aware of this. What I am trying to figure out is exactly why some can and some can't; there is always a reason. If we can determine the reason, a fix may be possible.

[N.Kuntze]

I can and i have an EVGA Gefore 275, an Intel Core2Duo E4600, Asus Rampage Formula (X4, 4gigRam 3 HDDs and one DVD Combi
Driver Version 190.26
Windows XP 32bit
MEthod of Installation Regular (per Setup)
BF2 Version 1.41
Special Forces Installed
Windows fully updated.

[[R-CON]Snares]

Originally Posted by N.Kuntze

I can and i have an EVGA Gefore 275, an Intel Core2Duo E4600, Asus Rampage Formula, 4gigRam 3 HDDs and one DVD Combi

Driver version, version of Windows, method of installation, what version of BF2 do you have installed, do you have special forces installed, is Windows fully updated?

Please post your motherboard model and chipset. I think this may be the root issue.

Judging from the few posters who can alt-tab and posted all the specs, there seems to be some correlation between chipset and alt-tab ability. It seems to be the only difference. Most of those with P45/X48 chipsets seem to be able to alt-tab.

[Drunkenup]

E4300, 3GB of RAM, Vista 32-Bit, SP2, EVGA 9600 GSO 512 With latest drivers. I can Alt-Tab perfectly, but my crappy processor crashes me alot. Factory ASUS P5LP-LE, I haven't updated the BIOS in maybe 2-3 years.

[[R-CON]Snares]

Of those that can alt-tab: do you have your anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering set to "application controlled" in your graphics control panel? If you do not, then BF2 is simply ignoring anti-aliasing altogether, even if the video options say "8X." I'm thinking this might be the case with many; several people I know have had it on, but when they actually turned the AA on (set to application controlled), they could not alt-tab either.

Some more information: Apparently you can now run a debugger with BF2 (which is nice ). I managed to capture this when trying to get back into the game...

(e4c.aa0): Access violation - code c0000005 (first chance)
First chance exceptions are reported before any exception handling.
This exception may be expected and handled.
*** WARNING: Unable to verify checksum for C:\Program Files (x86)\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2\RendDX9.dll
*** ERROR: Symbol file could not be found.  Defaulted to export symbols for C:\Program Files (x86)\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2\RendDX9.dll - 
RendDX9+0x4103:
05704103 8b08            mov     ecx,dword ptr [eax]  ds:002b:00000000=????????

... so this particular file seems to be the culprit.

[rampo]

I seem to be able of alt+tabbibg whit vista 64bit,8GB RAM and a Nvidia GT210

[[R-CON]Snares]

Originally Posted by rampo93(FIN)

I seem to be able of alt+tabbibg whit vista 64bit,8GB RAM and a Nvidia GT210

Please go to the nvidia control panel and set anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering to application controlled, if it is not already set to that, and if not, retest.