One last question before CPU purchase

[Dethred]

I have:

2GB DDR400
P4 2.01
6800GT

The only problem I am having is with larger player maps. I get hella good frame rates on 32player or smaller maps but the 64 player maps lag (not studdering but low low frame rate) when a lot is going on. Will going with an AMD 3500+ help this at all or will it be pointless?

[$G-MONEY SMITH$]

Re: One last question before CPU purchase

get a amd 64 3200 venice and oc it to 2.4 or 2.5 ghz and youll be alright

[Dethred]

Re: One last question before CPU purchase

But will it assist in the FPS drop during intense battles? What will it help with? I have heard that a CPU won't do squat for this game and I have heard that my system's bottleneck is the CPU in there right now.

[Gulf_War_Syndrome]

Re: One last question before CPU purchase

The Pentium 2.0 GHz CPU you have at the moment is your current bottleneck, no doubt about it!

get a amd 64 3200 venice and oc it to 2.4 or 2.5 ghz and youll be alright

Yep, if you get a decent motherboard and ram, overclocking the 3200+ will be no problem at all. The $$$ difference between the 3200+ and 3500+ is not a huge amount though.
If you can, overclock whatever Athlon64 you get - it's well worth it!

[ChopperKill]

Re: One last question before CPU purchase

There was a good test done by a good site not long ago showing the difference between different CPU's running BF2. There really wasn't a lot in it at all right from a 2Ghz all the way up to an FX-55. You will get better frame rates but how much better it's hard to say. One thing though is that the 6800GT is probably being held back in general by that CPU and if you only get problems on 64 player maps then it's likely your CPU is the culprit.

Have look here at a test gamespot did on different CPU's. It doesn't show much difference in fps but they say they found they had problems on 64 player maps with low end CPU's. http://hardware.gamespot.com/Story-S...body_pagenum=4

I have an XP3200+, 1.5GB DDR400 RAM and a 6800GT. Everything on high, 4xAA and 16xAF and I only get about 25-30fps. It may get rid of stuttering and chugging upgrading your CPU but don't expect 100fps or anything.

[Dethred]

Re: One last question before CPU purchase

There was a good test done by a good site not long ago showing the difference between different CPU's running BF2. There really wasn't a lot in it at all right from a 2Ghz all the way up to an FX-55. You will get better frame rates but how much better it's hard to say. One thing though is that the 6800GT is probably being held back in general by that CPU and if you only get problems on 64 player maps then it's likely your CPU is the culprit.

Have look here at a test gamespot did on different CPU's. It doesn't show much difference in fps but they say they found they had problems on 64 player maps with low end CPU's. http://hardware.gamespot.com/Story-S...body_pagenum=4

I have an XP3200+, 1.5GB DDR400 RAM and a 6800GT. Everything on high, 4xAA and 16xAF and I only get about 25-30fps. It may get rid of stuttering and chugging upgrading your CPU but don't expect 100fps or anything.

Excellent post! I don't mind getting that kind of frame rate, I just want some of the slow down to go away. I don't think I have the "Studdering" that other people have described as freezing for a up to and over 1 second and then resuming gameplay, my FPS just go way down into the high single digits when there is an air strike or a squad vs. squad encounter. I really think I am going to get the AMD 3500+ and a new mobo... my only problem is I just bought a new 6800GT AGP card and am screwed with the new PCI-express interface coming out.

[Dethred]

Re: One last question before CPU purchase

There was a good test done by a good site not long ago showing the difference between different CPU's running BF2. There really wasn't a lot in it at all right from a 2Ghz all the way up to an FX-55. You will get better frame rates but how much better it's hard to say. One thing though is that the 6800GT is probably being held back in general by that CPU and if you only get problems on 64 player maps then it's likely your CPU is the culprit.

Have look here at a test gamespot did on different CPU's. It doesn't show much difference in fps but they say they found they had problems on 64 player maps with low end CPU's. http://hardware.gamespot.com/Story-S...body_pagenum=4

I have an XP3200+, 1.5GB DDR400 RAM and a 6800GT. Everything on high, 4xAA and 16xAF and I only get about 25-30fps. It may get rid of stuttering and chugging upgrading your CPU but don't expect 100fps or anything.

Excellent post! I don't mind getting that kind of frame rate, I just want some of the slow down to go away. I don't think I have the "Studdering" that other people have described as freezing for a up to and over 1 second and then resuming gameplay, my FPS just go way down into the high single digits when there is an air strike or a squad vs. squad encounter. I really think I am going to get the AMD 3500+ and a new mobo... my only problem is I just bought a new 6800GT AGP card and am screwed with the new PCI-express interface coming out.

[Shamus]

Re: One last question before CPU purchase

I say don't worry too much about buying an AGP motherboard, you'll be good performance wise compared to a PCI-E system. PCI-E still has about one or two more years of maturing left before it really can stretch it's legs and blow the doors off a properly configured AGP based system.

It is true we should all purchase a PCI-E based system if building from new because we will all be forced into the upgrade sooner or later.

[ChopperKill]

Re: One last question before CPU purchase

Yeah don't worry about ditching AGP quite yet. PCI-e is the future but benchmarks tell the truth and PCI-e is no faster yet and won't be for a couple of years.

[Snake101]

Re: One last question before CPU purchase

I currently have an AGP board and don't intend to upgrade until late next summer :)