All Vid settings on LOW&100% Viewing Distance - A legal "hack"

[Wiking44]

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Btw I wouldnt waste money on 4Gb of RAM. 2Gigs suffice at this point in time and from what I remember reading somewhere WinXP doesnt even support beyond 3Gigs.

This is true, though I've been told if you eliminate the hard drive cache it will make use of the 4th gig. In other words, XP will use 4 gig of virtual memory but typically there is a 1 gig cache on the hard drive. Setting that to zero would use the 4th gig of RAM. I tried this and didn't see any real difference.

I have 4 gig in my system and I'm not entirely sure I gained a whole lot. I do know in other games it doesn't take me long to load zones that I recently visited because they're still stored in the RAM.

I have a 3700+, 4 gig of RAM, 7900GT, a 7200 RPM SATA 2 HD, and a cable connection with DL speed of 8 meg. I'm usually one of the first 5 people to spawn on a map. But I can't tell you which part of my system is causing that. lol.

[Bullit_toof]

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Who on earth doesn't have viewing distance set at anything but 100%?

[USAF Thrifty]

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Me, because beleive it or not, it makes me lag.

[Papi4baby]

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Me, because beleive it or not, it makes me lag.

ok, explain please.

[CaptainBuck]

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i also have a crap *** computer. having money troubles. and in order to upgrade i need a PS,case,gfx,memory. ive even got a spare mobo and processor.

it looks like garbage but at least i can play a game that my squad does. ive tested everything and my best results came from higher res. with 100% view. that was the least laggiest and all i noticed with view distance was u couldnt see anything... no performance increase.

someone said something about sniping. ive been playing on basically the same settings the whole time ive played and i have never been sniped by someone out of my view distance.

[SmashMonkey]

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thats like when you run counterstrike source with a directx 7 card it cant render being flashbanged so its like a legal hack against flashbang gernades

[zuiquan1]

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I have everything on low with 75% view distance.....

If the OP doesnt want me to "hack" then send me a couple hundred bucks for a computer upgrade, but untill then Ill stick with my sh*tty view distance 15-20fps and crappy graphics...

....because I cant get my l33t points without it!

[|-TC-| NZSAS-Trooper]

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I have a $h!T computer (min specs) So I always play on low detail ad with view distnace on 100%, so I really don't get why people think it's a hack....

[SiRogue]

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People are still figuring this **** out.....omg.

I hope that new people join the bf2 servers everyday and get introduced to a game that we have been enjoying for sometime. Unfortunately, its "the world revolves around me" mentality like this that scares new players away from these boards- I am sure all of the new players are very sorry for asking questions and should apologize to you specifically for not hopping onto the BF2 bandwagon sooner and not know everything there is to know about BF2 right out of the gate.

[BulletToothTony]

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My setting are at mostly low. With effects on med and geometries on high. View distance set at 100%. I set geometries on high because I know it had a major effect on view distance in BFV. I don't see much difference in BF2 but I will keep it on high just in case. As it is I run these setting and get 50 fps on 64 servers. If I could get a better PC and run everything on high I would in a second. Another thing is, high settings have their advantage too. I have played with them on just to see what it looked like. Someone with high settings can see shadows of people on the roof above them or around the corner from them. You can see the smoke trail of a gl and tell where it came from. So it depends on the situation if high or low will help.

[Jemme101]

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@GI_Ivan , I would imagine that would be due to the amount of RAM availible.

@ all the other people in this thread, Click on that link to the BF2 Tweakguides for optimizing stuff on your pc. Even if it is low end.

[Venomous]

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I have everything max, except lighting, shadows. I use to have everything max, but like mostly everyone said, in the dark conners you can't see verywell, and people can hide, you run right pass them and bang your dead. But now there's no shadows or nothing so i can see every little nook as bright as day. Call it cheating if you like, but blame EA for it, they are the one that made it that way. It should probably be somewhat of the other way around, but oh well.

Dice made it...

[dtaker]

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@GI_Ivan , I would imagine that would be due to the amount of RAM availible.

@ all the other people in this thread, Click on that link to the BF2 Tweakguides for optimizing stuff on your pc. Even if it is low end.

Dunno if it's included in the tweakguide but in addition, I also use 'FSAutostart', it's free, and designed for Microsoft Flight sim 2004... But it can be used in other games too, all it does is you can launch games from there, automatically close programs and useless services, defrag RAM, before opening your game. you can also set your game to 'high priority' from there.

Well, it cured my lagging and stuttering problems for good as well as faster load times. It also allowed me to play medium-high settings and average 45fps. And only got low end setup, don't ask what.

[jdrou]

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Dice made it...

And who was DICE more or less enslaved by at the time? Hint: they just recently completed their assimilation of DICE.

I generally like the shadows but inside some buildings (e.g. TV Station stairwells on Sharqi) it's just way too dark. IRL you'd have either night vision goggles or a flashlight in an area like that.

[Jedi_Joe]

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and i thort i was the last one to figure this out