Smoke & Zoom lag

[Lzryde]

Smoke Lag:

I get a significant drop in FPS when I look at smoke, especially when I walk through it. The more smoke, the more my FPS dies.

In the centre of a big puff of smoke my FPS can even get as little as 15.

Zoom Lag:

The greater the zoom, the more the FPS drops.

Looking at smoke through binoculars = death by framerate (literally)

Specs:

- Vista 64-bit SP 1
- 4GB DDR2 RAM
- NVIDIA 8600 GT 512MB
- P5Q motherboard
- Intel Core2 Duo E7300 @ 2.66Ghz

BF2 Settings:

- All on high
- No AA (took it off thinking it would fix the problems, it didn't)

I get a steady 40+ FPS at all times when not zooming or looking at smoke.

I've tried turning 'Effects' down to 'low', but saw no noticable performance boost while seeing smoke/zooming.

Any help/suggestions is appreciated,
Thanks,
Ryder

[SiN|ScarFace]

Textures to med you should get less stutter.

[Lzryde]

Setting 'Textures' to 'medium' definitely improves my overall framerate slightly, but smoke still has just as bad as an effect on my framerate, as does zoom.

I found that if I zoom at something like a tree with many branches, it will impact my framerate a lot worse than say, a vehicle or a wall (has much less edges)

[Irichanu]

Im not sure about Nvidia, but try going to your driver settings and looking for an AA setting and turn it off/application setting. Try turning all other things to that too.

[Spec]

Zooming in a smoke grenade lags a lot for me too. But simply zooming or simply being in smoke isnt that bad.