Okay, here's the thing. Myself and 7 of my buddies only play BF2 in a LAN environment. We all have very similar computers (AMD 3ghz 1GB RAM, medium range graphic cards), but for some reason 2 of my friends have a horrible time with BF2 lag. Oddly enough, last week only one of them had the problem, but this week it's two.
We are all IT professionals so the problem is not with needing to upgrade or repair our computers. We realize what the requirements are for BF2, and we've tried things like defragging, making suire PIO mode is turned off, clearing the shader cache, etc., but for some reason the game is copletely unplayable for two of my friends. It lags and spikes every 20 or 30 seconds for them. It also takes about 3 or 4 minutes more for them to load the game than it does for everyone else.
I know it's not a hardware issue because one of the guys who has this problem has a system that is virtually identical to mine every single way, with the exception that he has a better graphic card than mine (I have a Geforce 6600 and he has an Radeon 800). However, even with all his settings on "low" he still gets horrible, horrible lag, whereas I can play on medium and I get perfectly smooth gameplay.
Does anyone have any suggestions for us? Could it be that the problem is patch 1.3, because when we played BF2 a few months ago with an earlier patch this problem didn't seem to exist.
We are all IT professionals so the problem is not with needing to upgrade or repair our computers. We realize what the requirements are for BF2, and we've tried things like defragging, making suire PIO mode is turned off, clearing the shader cache, etc., but for some reason the game is copletely unplayable for two of my friends. It lags and spikes every 20 or 30 seconds for them. It also takes about 3 or 4 minutes more for them to load the game than it does for everyone else.
I know it's not a hardware issue because one of the guys who has this problem has a system that is virtually identical to mine every single way, with the exception that he has a better graphic card than mine (I have a Geforce 6600 and he has an Radeon 800). However, even with all his settings on "low" he still gets horrible, horrible lag, whereas I can play on medium and I get perfectly smooth gameplay.
Does anyone have any suggestions for us? Could it be that the problem is patch 1.3, because when we played BF2 a few months ago with an earlier patch this problem didn't seem to exist.
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