Vista Stuttering in cities.

[Garack]

I read all vista topics but the didnt help.#

In City maps i have a stutter (frame related lag) when i turn aorund. Strange is when i tourn around again there is the same stutter.

Normaly one turn and all textures are loaded. But this semms to be vista reladet? Or new in 0.8.

Uder XP and 0.75 all works fine.

When stutter frames go down to 10 for a little time.

Normaly i got constant 60 Frames vsnyc in all situation and all maps with:


8800GTX, 4GB RAM and adressed manuelly 3.2 GB to applications, e4400@3000, Raptor HD.

All Settings maxed, vsync on with 4AA und 16AF.

Edit : All windows processes that i didnt need to play are manuelly turned off.

[thepalerider]

Have you tried running the game at the highest res your desktop will go and turn off AA?
If you still have trouble run battlefield cleaner to flush out your video cache files.
Keep in mind most drivers have NOT been fully optimized for VISTA yet so we gamers on Vista are taking a performance hit in till they are.

[Garack]

All cash cleared, makes game unplayable only on great citi maps, have had the memory.dll error lot time. with 0.75 all works fine under vista

[thepalerider]

Found this:

Originally Posted by WilhelmTell

On the first day I tried 0.8, I got many, many CTD's while the map was loading and during mapchanges and sometimes it crashed while I was already playing.

Most of the times I got the following error message:

BF2 Memory Error
memory.dll: all alloc attempts failed for size xxxxxxxx

Unfortunately all the possible solutions here in the this forum did not help me (Resolution higher than 800*600, PB update, BF2 reinstallation).

My specs:
Intel Quadcore 6600
4GB DDR2 800mhz
8800 GT 512mb

Vista 32

My ingame settings:
Everything maxed out
1600*1200

And this is how I fixed those problems. I had no single CTD since that time.
But unfortunately you might get kicked by the md5 tool that some servers are running. It happened once on Thors Brigade to me. (kicked for 2 minutes) On other servers I played like 2-3 hours in a row without being kicked, so for me it is worth it until the Devs find a solution.

Now, this is what you got to do:

First backup your BF2.exe !
Download this tool (direct download link): http://ntcore.com/Files/ExplorerSuite.exe
and install it.
Now start the CFF Explorer.exe
Open the BF2.exe with it.
On the left side click on File Header
Now click on the pink Click here in the row Characteristics (lower right corner)
A new window will open
Just checkmark the App can handle > 2gb addressest , then click OK
Finally save the file. (Again: Don't forget to backup the original BF2.exe !)

I heard of this tool before in some other german Battlefield 2 forum.

By the way, this "trick" worked for me in another game called "Gothic 3" as well. I had similar memory errors, leaks or whatever in that game.

I know this is not the final solution, but maybe it will help some desperate people, who like to play 0.8 finally.

So long ...

Also it has been suggested lowering your textures to medium can fix or reduce memory.dll errors.

Hope it helps