WOW .. Still Laggy .. WTH?

[Mackaveli420]

I experience really bad lag playing BF2. Mostly on 32/64 player maps but even on 16 player maps if i fly a jet ot heli. i just upgraded my vid card and still lag even on low settings. is it just me , like a problem w/ my pc or is this normal for my pc specs? Its Very frustrating.The only time the game runs half way ok is with everything on low ,and all shadows/lighting off and 800x600.
but it will still lag on 32/64 player maps and if i attempt to fly.im starting to think there is a prob with my pc or something lol.



Heres my specs


Road Runner Cable Internet
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ASUS P5P800 Motherboard
New 470 Watt Power Supply
Pent. 4 - 3.0 Ghz
2 - 512 sticks dual ram ( 1024 )
New ATI Radeon X1600 512 MB AGP

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If I get another gig of ram would it help out? Its really frustrating to lag so bad, especially after getting a new card. i know the x1600 isnt a very fast card but i have to say im very disapointed after buying a new card and its not that much better than my old Radeon 9550 i used forever to play CounterStrike Condition Zero.

thx

[DOGGiE52]

Re: WOW .. Still Laggy .. WTH?

Those specs should run fine, in fact very fine.

What you need to do is format your computer and put XP or Vista on it again, and of course install the correct drivers.

[Mackaveli420]

Re: WOW .. Still Laggy .. WTH?

thx for the reply ( and for checking out my site also )

i just reformatted my pc b4 i installed my new card.i have the latest drivers also.. hmm..

[imported_Ph1L]

Re: WOW .. Still Laggy .. WTH?

If you run some grapichs in high, you need 2 gigs of ram dude

[Mackaveli420]

Re: WOW .. Still Laggy .. WTH?

my prob is it happens on low also..

[-Shifty-]

Re: WOW .. Still Laggy .. WTH?

I guess its your connection? But I know nothing about that!

[Mackaveli420]

Re: WOW .. Still Laggy .. WTH?

nope.. it happens offline also

[-Shifty-]

Re: WOW .. Still Laggy .. WTH?

Well I'm sorry I can't help you.

[Mackaveli420]

Re: WOW .. Still Laggy .. WTH?

i am basicaly just putting this out there to see if anyone else w/ my specs have had/or is having this problem also.

[mills7777]

Re: WOW .. Still Laggy .. WTH?

ok allso up date your system drivers i dont know what motherboard chipset you got but i updated mine nforse4 and it help's

[megawhompertoo]

Re: WOW .. Still Laggy .. WTH?

Do you have antivirus/anti-spyware/firewall running in the background?

If so, have you tried turning them off and just seeing if they are hogging up too many resources?

Your situation is weird. If you've updated your mobo, gpu, and sound drivers, then a 3.0ghz, 1gb and a x1600 is plenty to play on on mediumish--view distance 100% and geometry to high. Turn off the dynamics and turn off shadows, put it to 1024x768 (or, if you're running an LCD, then whatever your native resolution is), turn off AA and see how it goes.

What about audio? If you're using onboard, it should be set to "software" and "medium" or "low".

Good luck.

[cikbik]

Re: WOW .. Still Laggy .. WTH?

i have just about the same specs as you except my video card is an x1600pro PCI Express and im having the same exact problem. Sometimes the rendering of graphics are fine, but my mouse stops responding and when i just tap a key on my keyboard it moves my guy like 10 feet. In other words, its running horrible, but yet i can run HL2 on max settings with no problems at all

[fighterpilotx]

Re: WOW .. Still Laggy .. WTH?

Maybe ending some unessary background tasks using the task manager might help

[cloakster]

Re: WOW .. Still Laggy .. WTH?

Have you tried running on all medium?

[Shaqan]

Re: WOW .. Still Laggy .. WTH?

does you CPU has hyperthreading? Try turning it off if it exists.. I dont know about logical processors but dual core cpus have trouble with bf2 sometimes and you have to set then affinities of BF2 process to single core only..