Bye bye ATI...HELLO NVIDIA~!!!

[Sir. MatDef]

Re: Bye bye ATI...HELLO NVIDIA~!!!

I had a Geforce FX 5500 and that thing was able to run bf2 on everything low at 800x600 no AA and 100% draw scale and it would'nt lag but then i just got a ATI X850XT and i OC'ed to PE speeds and it runs bf2 on verything high woithout any lag but lags only when hella PING but nvidia gave up on AGP so thats why ATI has an advantage over them is cause ATI made the X850XT PE AGP and that thing compares to a 7800GT almost so ATI is the way to go for AGP but if you have the $$$ then get a 7800GT or GTX ut be warned you have to have a Hella Good Processor to get max advantage from the card so Goodbye Nvidia!!!:p

Damn, talk about a run-on sentence, you do know about punctuation, right? Anyway, a x850 anything does not compare to a 7800gt, it compares to the 6800 series. A 7800gt is much, much better than a x850vt.

[Russki_Sniper]

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OK well Anyways dont know if this will help or not but. I have 1.6CPU, 1GiG Ram, Nvidia 6600GTOC Im running everything on high except terrain and AA is off and All the lighting and my Graphics look like crap but the game runs smooth. I just bought this board last night ASUS A8R-MVP ATX AMD CrossFire Motherboard, and Im gettin the ATi Sapphire X850XT PCI-E PLus Two 2gigDual Channel Corsair XMS Memory sticks I cant wait PLus im getting Athlon 64 3500+ 2.2GiG Proccesor :) all should be here by the end of Jan.

[bloodbrood]

Re: Bye bye ATI...HELLO NVIDIA~!!!

Pre patch 1.12 I had everything on high with fps up to 100 at 1280x1024@70hz and 2xAA... Since patch 1.12 I run at:

1280x1024@70hz
2xAA
Lighting high
Dynamic Lighting medium
Dynamic Shadows medium
Geometry high
Terrain high
Effects high
Textures high (if you only have 1GB ram, try medium first)
Texture Filtering high
View Distance 100%

Bloodbrood, consider trying any or all of the below:

1. Uninstall your drivers using Driver Cleaner PE.
2. If you've changed graphics cards, uninstall BF and reinstall. If you don't do this, at least reset your in game settings and delete the contents of your BF2 gfx cache - \My Documents\Battlefield 2\mods\bf2.
3. Install Coolbits so you can unlock control panel settings and overclock your card. (core at 400, memory at 1.05 should be attainable without any issues)
4. In your display/6800GT control panel applet, move the Performance & Quality settings slider to Performance and set both anti aliasing and anisotropic filtering to Application Controlled.

thanks il try this. I overcocked my video card by using "detect optimal" button and im at 406/1.11 speeds. hmm...but do you realy recommend i einstall my BF2? is there any other thing i can do besides reinstalling because it takes so much time.

oh and what d you recommend i put my vertical sync and triple buffering at? currently my vsync is on nd triple buffering is off. ad what should my image settings be? highest quiality?

[bloodbrood]

Re: Bye bye ATI...HELLO NVIDIA~!!!

my game just crashed with those clock settings...what should my clock settings be because i dont have any cooling solutions for this.

[Flares]

Re: Bye bye ATI...HELLO NVIDIA~!!!

Leave the card at 400/1.0 and see if you have crashes. Leave vsync and triple buffering off. As stated in my previous post, turn your quality settings to "performance".

[MWHRowdee]

Re: Bye bye ATI...HELLO NVIDIA~!!!

6800 gt...or gt oc? Big difference. Gt gives you 12 pipelines. Gt co gives you 16...like the ultra. It also oc's like a mad thing. The best thing about it? Its not an ATI card. Good boy.....biscuit?

[kd123]

Re: Bye bye ATI...HELLO NVIDIA~!!!

rename ur bf2.exe file and watch ur fps treble

[aeroshot]

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First, I think your CPU is a big bottleneck for your video card, get an AMD64 3500+ and it should go well.

Second, which settings are you running it at? Don't expect to get 150 FPS on 1600X1200 all on high 6X AA. Tell us your settings.

I have a 3500+, 2GB of RAM and I can run BF2 all on High, 4X AA, 1024X728.

[Flares]

Re: Bye bye ATI...HELLO NVIDIA~!!!

6800 gt...or gt oc? Big difference. Gt gives you 12 pipelines. Gt co gives you 16...like the ultra. It also oc's like a mad thing. The best thing about it? Its not an ATI card. Good boy.....biscuit?

6800s have 12 rendering pipelines, 6800GTs and Ultras have 16.
The only major differences between 6800GTs and Ultras are the factory core and memory speeds at 350/1.0 and 400/1.1 respectively. A 6800GT OC will usually be clocked at 370/1.0 out of the box.
Most, if not all 6800GTs will overclock the core to at least 400 and memory to 1.05, which is why pre 7800 series, they were such a good deal compared to Ultras - Overclocked 6800GT = Ultra performance at a much cheaper price (and less power consumption).

6800GT reviews and benchmarks:

http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/pny_verto_6800gt/default.asp

http://3dgpu.com/archives/2004/07/19/pny-verto-geforce-6800gt/

http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1656

http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NjM3

Bloodbrood did you find your sweet spot yet?

[Eddy01741]

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First, I think your CPU is a big bottleneck for your video card, get an AMD64 3500+ and it should go well.

Second, which settings are you running it at? Don't expect to get 150 FPS on 1600X1200 all on high 6X AA. Tell us your settings.

I have a 3500+, 2GB of RAM and I can run BF2 all on High, 4X AA, 1024X728.

Oh, good golly god, here we go again. So many times i have stated this, teh CPU is not th ebottleneck. A CPU will most likely not bottleneck a GPU if ur running on high with 1280x1024 with 4xAA. It will only hold back potential if ur going for pure speed, as in all low with low res and no AA and AF. THe difference between a 3200+ and a FX-57 are less than 1fps when playing on all high 1280x1024, and with 4xaa. But, if ur playing for pure speed, that would be a lot different.

[bloodbrood]

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first of all my card has 16 pipelines watever the hell that means

my settings:
-100% view
-medium everything EXCEPT texture filtering which is at high
-medium for both dynamics (low is UNACCEPTABLE)
-1024 x 768
-2x AA

FPS = 30-40
Ive cleaned all of the ati drivers and installed forceware 82.12

you know I even get 20fps in strike at karkand when you first start out in the street below if you're USMC IT DROPS TO 20fps BELOW on a 64 player map. PATHETIC.

[Blak_Phoenix]

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Try re-naming the BF2.exe file.. it should help to increase your FPS.

[bloodbrood]

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I did and it doesnt at all help. How do i post screenshots? I want to show you guys. Imageshack?

[Sir. MatDef]

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Imageshack.us

Just dump the screens there, and post the links here.

[modifierLE]

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damn what a shame.....i have gone with Nvidia 4 years now, and its never failed me.....so far my 5900XT still plays BF2 at all medium settings with 4x AA and 4x Aniscopric Filtering.

I hope these next-gen video cards dont have a flaw, cause my new PC i plan on having a Single 7800GTX and later on getting another GTX in SLI