Little tip for decreasing loading times.

[jimmy_396_jimmy]

Re: Little tip for decreasing loading times.

i turn this on when i play specila forces it helps a lot, no choppy gameplay!

[Jedi_Joe]

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umm when i hit Ctrl + Alt + Delete it dont work
it used to but now it dont

[Nanten]

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i set it too belownormal, now i get 2 to 3 second load times

The answer to this is rather simple.

it's not the BF that makes it slow. The client verification happens within the hard drive. Since, if you have somewhat ok computer, and the cpu can handle bf2 without problems (doesnt really need that much), setting it below normal, gives the cpu more assets to handle the client verification process (again, it's just a task where cpu has to find and verify certain files from your HD, wich takes hell of alot more from cpu than the game itself)

all-in-one, game itself doesnt need humongous amounts of cpu, it's memory and gpu mainly that it needs.. however, anything done inside the HD, uses cpu...

[Bald-Eagle11]

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Tried it , works for me . Thx man

[Jedi_Joe]

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I CANT DO THE CTRL + ALT + DELETE THING
please how come it dont work anymore

[pertti_pasanen]

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alt-tab out the game and ctrl-shift-esc or right click on task bar for task manager

[RotJ]

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This actually doesn't work for me, because my mouse and keyboard gets pushed down in priority. About 3 seconds worth. So when I hit forward, I'll start moving three seconds later.

[AlphaNut]

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I CANT DO THE CTRL + ALT + DELETE THING
please how come it dont work anymore

You have red nothing but the first post in this thread haven't you

[The_Misfit]

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Moving to a new HD gave me MAJOR increase in load times, with the same specs as before (athlon 2600+ running at 2.2ghtz, 2gb ram).

I also made 3 partitions on the drive. 1 for BS, 1 for windows/program files space, and a 3rd for my swapfile/pagefile use. I'm usually one of the first 5 or so in a 64 man full server.

[AlphaNut]

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You could go even further and create partitions on a second HDD where you have BF2 on partition 1 of drive 2 for example, and swap partition on partition 2 of HDD2.
I have this setup (bf2 is not installed in default "program files" dir. but on second HDD.)
My verification time is around 15 seconds. I am always one of the first or the first one to be on the map.

[lmimmfn]

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I OC'd CPU and GFX card of my old Dell 4600( CPU 2.4->2.8Ghz, GFX X850Pro->X850XT ), get about a 40% improvement all around

If you want to start this tinkering theres a lot more that can be done too:
- disable performance monitoring in XP
- pause the task manager
- turn off all unnecessary services
- end all process which are junk like cli.exe if you have an ati card and atitraytools or similar - for nvidia, processes like the helper ones for the X-Fi card
- switch off all virus checkers,spyware
- close down all apps( even explorer.exe, but leave taskmanager open so you can ALT + TAB back to windows if you need to do something or when you are finished BF2 )
- use PCI latency Tool if you have an AGP card and a PCI sound card
- delete your cache,defrag HD
- run Daemon tools with a CD image instead of having BF2 CD/DVD in the DVD Rom drive
- rename the BF2 movie files
- rename the BF2.exe( removes some crappy optimizations ATI and NVidia made for the BF2 demo which slows full game down ), similar trick works for F.E.A.R.

the list goes on and on and on
the above will also help on 512/1Gig machines as you'll be using less ram for services and processes

[Jedi_Joe]

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You can do the same thing using a Windows shortcut. For the default BF2 shortcut, replace the target field with:

C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /c start "runhigh" /high "C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2\BF2.exe" +menu 1 +fullscreen 1

For any other shortcut, just add

C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /c start "runhigh" /high

to the beginning of the target field.

when every i do this it says Another Program is currently using this file

[Venomous1]

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deleting the cache files in your bf2 folder in my documents, and deleting temp internet files seems to do wonders too. among keeping your hard drive defragged...

[Zefram]

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if you hit CTRL ALT DEL several times it helps too. It's like FPS booster for free

[AlphaNut]

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if you hit CTRL ALT DEL several times it helps too. It's like FPS booster for free

Yeah same thing happens if you pull the power plug several times. It will make your fps go shmooth