Laptop runs like absolute crap since reformat.

[[R-DEV]Jaymz]

Originally Posted by Ace42

Check your windows services (start > run > services.msc) to see if you're running any hogs you may have forgotten you had previously disabled. .

Pretty sure anything that would hog 30fps+ away from me on a game as old as BF2 is disabled.

Originally Posted by Ace42

Also, have you tried manually editing the BF2 profile in the nvidia control panel? Try turning some of the optimisations on, etc.

Tried loads of different settings and re-optimized shaders in between changing them. Still no difference.

[hx.bjoffe]

But you never got around to checking HDD diagnostics? Find out who made the drive and download the tool directly from the manufacturer.
Also, is there any chance of the Bios-upgrade causing it?
Doesn't sound at all like a softwareissue to me.

[SocketMan]

Did you use that modified bf2.exe,the original can cause lag in certain cases.
I still think it's you're new BIOS however,you say even "Dell's Tools something" ....does not recognize it - does not make sense.

What about other games? Any lag? (if you play other games)
or benchmark scores - do you have something with a result from
the past,maybe a 3dmark score or something?

edit*
Check that the cpu is not down throttling to lower frequency during the game ( Intel Speed step if it has it)

[[R-DEV]Jaymz]

Originally Posted by SocketMan

Did you use that modified bf2.exe,the original can cause lag in certain cases.

Just tried the modified one. No difference really.

[[R-DEV]Jaymz]

Originally Posted by SocketMan

edit*
Check that the cpu is not down throttling to lower frequency during the game ( Intel Speed step if it has it)

I tried disabling speedstep, and that gave me the worst performance I've ever seen (2-3FPS). It also took a lot longer to load.

[SocketMan]

Enable the SLI "visualization" bar in the NV control panel (at the top under the 3d settings)
It shows how much the gpu's are utilized.The more green - the better and if it's really small the gpu's aren't fed enough (for whatever reason)

Use the game.lockpfs 0 as well.

P.S.
Can you flash the older BIOS back or is it "locked" ?

[Ace42]

What's the HDD access like? Is it going nuts while lagging? Or not accessing it particularly? If the drive's bottlenecking, could be down to it not using the SATA / UDMA bridge properly and using archaic PI/O access. Are you positive there's no motherboard / CPU / Whatever driver you've neglected to update?

[[R-DEV]Jaymz]

Originally Posted by SocketMan

Enable the SLI "visualization" bar in the NV control panel (at the top under the 3d settings)
It shows how much the gpu's are utilized.The more green - the better and if it's really small the gpu's aren't fed enough (for whatever reason)

Use the game.lockpfs 0 as well.

P.S.
Can you flash the older BIOS back or is it "locked" ?

Just did this, here's the results.

1. While looking away from the center of the map...



2. While looking towards the center of the map...



EDIT : That is with running everything on medium.

[SocketMan]

Originally Posted by Ace42

What's the HDD access like? Is it going nuts while lagging? Or not accessing it particularly? If the drive's bottlenecking, could be down to it not using the SATA / UDMA bridge properly and using archaic PI/O access. Are you positive there's no motherboard / CPU / Whatever driver you've neglected to update?

Can run a hdtach to get the speed numbers for the drive:

HdTach


There might be a setting in the BIOS indicating how much system memory the video cards can use,512 is the maximum but it's possible it's set to something really low,
like 64.Post a screen shot of GPUz

GPU-Z Video card GPU Information Utility

[[R-DEV]Jaymz]

HD Test results (I selected "quick test" 8mb)



GPU-Z results




(only difference between the two cards is the last digit of the BIOS number)