problems with lags

[Aslaarn]

i have a new system with only 2 games. BF2 and of cours PR.

4 gig memory
intel core duo E8400 3 ghz
a new graphiccard with 512mb ram 8800 GT GFORCE

in the game i often see lags which makes it very difficult for me to aim at targets while moving.

with fast moving vehicles the lags get more and more disturbing.

i have no clue how to solve this problem, i dont think my system is too slow for the game...

if you have any ideas plz let me know...

greetings

[LeChuck]

hah no your computer is more than ok. do you mean that soldiers/vehicles sometimes stutter back and forth when they move?

[Chanvlan]

yeh dude thats a bug, it happens when you play FH2 with PR or vBF2 what ya gotta do is delete the system "caches"??(correct me someone i might be wrong) to reset it. but with your case i dont know. need more info on what happens if its what i think it is then ill tell ya how to fix it.

[Darkpowder]

Vista or Xp, X SP3 or SP2?

is the new machine from the store all pre-built, or did you build it with minimum installed services, drivers and assorted junk?

Also are you using the latest nvidia forceware from their main site, rather than the built in microsoft drivers?

also check you have all the main system drivers installed for your mainboard if you built it yourself. Check there are no little yellow question marks in your device manager.

[LeChuck]

Originally Posted by Chanvlan

yeh dude thats a bug, it happens when you play FH2 with PR or vBF2 what ya gotta do is delete the system "caches"??(correct me someone i might be wrong) to reset it. but with your case i dont know. need more info on what happens if its what i think it is then ill tell ya how to fix it.

i dont have fh2 installed. when you say caches you mean windows caches right?

[thepalerider]

I think he was referring to your video card cache.
Run battlefield cleaner to quickly flush out files on your card.
You should run the game at the same res as your desktop. I find you can lower some settings without even noticing it really.
Light maps to med
shadows med
I feel if your running at a high res you don't even need to have anti aliasing on, but some like it.
Experiment a bit and use what looks good to you.
Check out some tweak guides for bf2.

Your systems specks sound just fine to run all max tho so check you have the latest drivers.
Do you use the "AFFINITY 2" in your shortcut to run the game only on the 2nd cpu? Mine looks like this:
"E:\Program Files (x86)\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2\mods\pr\pr.exe" start /AFFINITY 2 +modPath mods/pr +menu 1 +widescreen 1 +szx 1680 +szy 1050

bf2 isn't multi threaded so it can't take advantage of more than one processor.

Hope you have your sound in game set to "hardware" if you can to take some of the lode off the cpu

What O/S do you run the game with?