Lots o lag

[Drayu]

well, I am having frame rate loss and lag lately, and i am not sure why. I think I need more memory as my hard drive is lit solid the first few minutes of play. My video card I thought should be able to handle everything on high, but maybe it can't :dunno: (6800gt) I overclocked it last night, and it helped a bunch, but there has to be something else I can do.

I noticed two things that I need some advice about (bonez excluded):

1. Using Lavalys's Everest Home Edition I see that my 12+/- rail is in the low 11's (hovers between 11.19 and 11.25). Could this be the problem? not enough power? I know that I want to hook up another fan so that I can cool my vid card better, but that would drain even more power I am afraid :(

2. I know I shouldn't have my video card and sound card on the same IRQ, but they are because of where I have stuff set up, should I at ALL costs fix that? Is that really a lag killer?


ADVICE ONLY PLEASE

[Vryllyn]

Most of the problems within BF 2 has nothing to do with your system. The people I know at EA all say the same thing. The maps are laggy as hell and netcode is crap, but playable. Basically, the patch should help from what I've heard but I also found out the game has incompatibility issue with the 6800GT.

I found this out the hard way. Watched my WinXP get damaged after a hard crash and had to go back to the last good known boot. The patches should help this game get better.

If not, I'm going to black and blue some of my friends.

[Bonez]

also check your other rails, if they drop by anywhere between 1.0 and 0.5 below spec you need a new powersupply(or risk damaging your hardware)

defrag, scandisk, scan ect, same old stuff.

delete anything that is not of use to you that is on your harddrive(games that you never play, applications that you never use)

go in and clean your services, if blackviper is still up use that as a refrence.

run drive cleanup(disable compress old files), clear recycle, clear temp, clear cookies(and change security settings to only allow cookies that you accept)

that's all i can think of.

[ResJudicata]

but I also found out the game has incompatibility issue with the 6800GT.

I found this out the hard way. Watched my WinXP get damaged after a hard crash and had to go back to the last good known boot. The patches should help this game get better.



WTF??? i have the 68GT too, should i be worried? what happend to your XP?

[Vryllyn]

but I also found out the game has incompatibility issue with the 6800GT.

I found this out the hard way. Watched my WinXP get damaged after a hard crash and had to go back to the last good known boot. The patches should help this game get better.



WTF??? i have the 68GT too, should i be worried? what happend to your XP?

I got hit with a BSoD when I restarted and it just repeated. The error message wouldn't stay on the screen long enough to figure it out.

[hamhawk]

It was a problem with another driver.. which we couldn't track down.

However.. the big thing BF2 loves is memory.. 1gb is about minimal for a decent playing experience .. 2gb is worth the money.

You can cut lag and load times by about 30% with 2gb of memory over 1gb