Issues since CPU + RAM upgrade

[Hacksaw]

I had this stuff:

Venice 3200+
1GB DDR
6800GT
DFI NF4 Ultra-D 939 board
Using on-board sound

I bought a 4200+ X2 and 2GB matched DDR as upgrades. After I put them in, I changed my texture settings to high in BF2. Everything else was already mostly high.

Ever since the upgrades, I've had trouble with the game when a large map comes up, like Dalian Plant or Kubra Dam. I noticed it happening immediately last night when I got in a plane on Kubra. It seems like BF2 eats all my memory and starts disk thrashing like crazy. I heard something about setting the CPU affinity to 0 on the BF2 process, which I did, but it doesn't seem to help.

[Corkum]

Re: Issues since CPU + RAM upgrade

its your graphics card, turn your textures down.

[Munk_Madness]

Re: Issues since CPU + RAM upgrade

the card should be able to run it well without probs

[=98=]

Re: Issues since CPU + RAM upgrade

I forgot how to do it, but turn off the page file when you when you want to play. This will force everything onto the RAM and will avoid disk thrashing.

It shouldn't do this in the first place, so its simply a way to prevent then problem not fix it.

[Hacksaw]

Re: Issues since CPU + RAM upgrade

its your graphics card, turn your textures down.

It's not the card, it's fine with high textures, memory was the constraint with texture size.

I did try turning off paging, but it would just continue to eat memory until it would starve the OS of memory and it would create a paging file to avoid crashing.

This really seems like a memory leak to me.

[=98=]

Re: Issues since CPU + RAM upgrade

run memtest and see what happens. Also make sure there are no nasties on your comp E.g. Viruses, spyware, malware etc...

[ConscriptVirus]

Re: Issues since CPU + RAM upgrade

try changing ur agp aperture size

[Trevortt]

Re: Issues since CPU + RAM upgrade

did you delete the folder from here? after u installed the new hardware!!! If not u ought to do so.

C:\Documents and Settings\your name\My Documents\Battlefield 2\mods\bf2\cache

[Hacksaw]

Re: Issues since CPU + RAM upgrade

I did run Memtest after the upgrade, always do when installing new memory...it passed fine over and over throughout the night, not sure how many times but it was several.

It's not AGP, it's PCI-Express, and I did delete the cache after installing the new hardware...I remember that problem from back in the day before they fixed that problem with a patch (still don't trust it).

[Sir. S.A.S]

Re: Issues since CPU + RAM upgrade

If its the only game with the issue try reinstalling BF2