BF2 settings with 7600GT and 1GB RAM

[cloakster]

I ordered a EVGA 7600GTS and I know that it can run all high but, the problem is I only have 1GB of RAM. So I wanted to know exactly what settings use the most RAM. I know that textures I should put to medium, but what else to help loading times? I really don’t care a lot about the eye candy just as long as Im not turning stuff to low.

Thanks in advance,
cloaker

[AnnihilateYZ]

Re: BF2 settings with 7600GT and 1GB RAM

I have the same setup and run at :

Terrain High
Geometry High
Lighting Medium
DynamicLighting Low
DynamicShadows off
Effects High
Textures Medium
TextureFiltering High
Resolution 1024x768@75Hz
Antialiasingx2

[megawhompertoo]

Re: BF2 settings with 7600GT and 1GB RAM

I have the same setup and run at :

Terrain High
Geometry High
Lighting Medium
DynamicLighting Low
DynamicShadows off
Effects High
Textures Medium
TextureFiltering High
Resolution 1024x768@75Hz
Antialiasingx2

That looks about right, but you could also run at a littler higher res (1280x1024 or maybe even 1600x1200) if you bumped the terrain, effects, and texture filtering down to medium.

You'll have to experiment to find the sweet spot for all your hardware. Unfortunately, plan on seeing this alot:

"optimizing shaders, please wait. this optimization will occur every time you change your video settings."

good luck; i've heard good things about that card.

[cloakster]

Re: BF2 settings with 7600GT and 1GB RAM

Wow i didnt know that having only 1gb of RAM made such a difference in performance.

[turkeybaggins]

Re: BF2 settings with 7600GT and 1GB RAM

yeh it can do, make sure your pagefile is set correctly too. I have a 7600GT XXX, personally i use all medium except for the following;

Geometry HIGH (helps me see things further away in chopper)
Both dynamic options OFF (i never noticed any gain what so ever)
View Distance Scale 100% (again helps me see everything on the map)
Lighting LOW (lets you see inside buildings and you will always see that sniper camping!)

thats with 2GB ram and i see FPS in 80's pretty much all the time. Peak of 103FPS so far. Yeh and go for 1280x1024 if your monitor supports! Make sure once you have finalized your video settings that you do a shader cache clean out and defrag etc....

[cloakster]

Re: BF2 settings with 7600GT and 1GB RAM

I am a somewhat of a newbie when it comes to computers so i dont know how and what to set my pagefile to. Also how do you do a shader cache clean out and what does that do?

[turkeybaggins]

Re: BF2 settings with 7600GT and 1GB RAM

Pagefile is something you can read about www.tweakguides.com see the tweak guide companion. That will tell you how to set it, most people say your pagefile should be set at x1.5/x2 your amount of physical ram.

Shader cache clear out....finalize your BF2 settings first. Quit to desktop and go to MyDocuments>Battlefield2>Mods>BF2>Cache and delete folder(s) in there. Then start your game, load a map (you will get the shader optimization message) once loaded map quit to desktop again and run a defrag on your drive. That will put all those shader files etc..back together and you will load quicker and generally see smoother gameplay.

Also at www.tweakguides.com is a Battlefield 2 tweaking guide, i recommend having a browse through!

[cloakster]

Re: BF2 settings with 7600GT and 1GB RAM

Ok, thanks for your help with this.

[cloakster]

Re: BF2 settings with 7600GT and 1GB RAM

i just got the card today. It is amazing! Im playing at these settings:

Terrain: High
Geometry: High
Effects: High
Textures: Medium
Lighting: Medium
Dynamic shadow: Medium
Dynamic light: low
AA: 2x
Texture Filtering: High
Res: 1024x768 75Hz

I get 50-65 FPS and sometimes it drops to 38-43. Do these frame rates sound right? Also what im amazed at is my loading times are only about 5-10 sec more (used to play on all low/off). I dont understand how it happens but it does.

[megawhompertoo]

Re: BF2 settings with 7600GT and 1GB RAM

i just got the card today. It is amazing! Im playing at these settings:

Terrain: High
Geometry: High
Effects: High
Textures: Medium
Lighting: Medium
Dynamic shadow: Medium
Dynamic light: low
AA: 2x
Texture Filtering: High
Res: 1024x768 75Hz

I get 50-65 FPS and sometimes it drops to 38-43. Do these frame rates sound right? Also what im amazed at is my loading times are only about 5-10 sec more (used to play on all low/off). I dont understand how it happens but it does.

Sounds good. You do know that turning off dynamic shadows will let you see people hiding in shadows easier, and it will increase the fps?

[cloakster]

Re: BF2 settings with 7600GT and 1GB RAM

Sounds good. You do know that turning off dynamic shadows will let you see people hiding in shadows easier, and it will increase the fps?

Oh, i didnt know that. Thanks for the tip.

[turkeybaggins]

Re: BF2 settings with 7600GT and 1GB RAM

yeh leave dynamics both off, having lighting set to LOW is what actually allows you to see inside :)

if you use Fraps to benchmark you can see exactly what you are getting, i get with my 7600GT XXX:

2006-08-26 18:39:07 - BF2
Frames: 903 - Time: 9330ms - Avg: 96.784 - Min: 89 - Max: 100

2006-08-26 18:47:14 - BF2
Frames: 5429 - Time: 60000ms - Avg: 90.483 - Min: 79 - Max: 100

2006-08-26 18:50:28 - BF2
Frames: 5434 - Time: 60000ms - Avg: 90.566 - Min: 68 - Max: 100

2006-08-26 20:12:15 - BF2
Frames: 5702 - Time: 60000ms - Avg: 95.033 - Min: 73 - Max: 103

2006-08-26 20:15:09 - BF2
Frames: 5776 - Time: 60000ms - Avg: 96.266 - Min: 53 - Max: 103

2006-08-26 20:18:30 - BF2
Frames: 5200 - Time: 60000ms - Avg: 86.666 - Min: 69 - Max: 99

im happy with that, you should be able to get similar results with some tweaking. if you need some help just PM me.

[Spartan209]

Re: BF2 settings with 7600GT and 1GB RAM

i also have the same setup and i run

Texture- High
Terrain-High
Lighting shaddos and all that junk- high
AA- 2x
res- 1024x768 @60hz
Texture Filituring- High
Geometry- High

So basicly its all high with 2x aa. I have 1 gig of ram and play it and have about 50-60 fps during the game it gets the usuall dips into the 40's.