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System Specs:
Amd Athlon 64 X2 4600+
Abit AN9-32x Fatal1ty
2x BFG 7800GT OC in Sli mode
2gb Corsair XMS2 PC6400
Western Digital 200gb SATA
Nvidia 163.71
Windows Vista Ulitmate 32bit
Windows Onecare
ADSL 3mb/768k
Problem i am having has only started in the past 4 weeks. I can fire up battlefield 2 with zero problems. I can play single player for hours without any problems. However in the past 4 weeks if i connect to a multplayer server after about anywhere from 1 to 5 mins my hard drive light will start flashing a lot. Then go pretty much solid. My FPS doesnt drop (seen via renderer.drawfps 1) however the game starts to just get choppy. Sometimes so bad that it almost looks like its rendering one frame a second. Its almost like lag but it isnt. It will eventually stop but sure as rain it will come back soon enough and start all over again. Its almost like either the ram is being ate up and its having to cache to the HD or PB is just scanning and bogging me down at times.
What i have tried to solve this:
1. I used pbsvc to remove the service.
2. Went into every directory on my hard drive finding anything PB related and deleted it.
3. downloaded pbsetup to reinstall punkbuster
4. tried different nvidia graphics drivers.
5. tried different nvidia motherboard drivers
6. Reinstalled windows vista
7. reinstalled the game
8. tried intalling the game before installing any antivirus
9. disabled superfetch
10. disabled windows defender
11. tried pb_sleep 500
12. Tried pb_system 0 (pb trouble ticket gave me that)
13. tried a pb trouble ticket (no real help other than the copy/paste FAQ they have)
14. ran prime95 to stress test the cpu, memtest86+ for the ram, 3dmark06 for the video card. did this for 24 hours
What is odd that this problem doesnt happen at all under XP. It works great there. Just happens under vista. However like i said, prior to 4 weeks ago bf2 worked great on Vista. The only thing i can think of is thats when PB services was forced upon us.
If anyone has any help i would really appreciate it. I have searched all over the web and i have found some others having this issue but no one has solved it. I like Vista and it runs things great for me. Id hate to go back to XP just because the Multiplayer BF2 has this issue (which i think is a pb problem).
I could be way off but it seems thats what is causing the problem. I havent been able to test this out by playing online with a non pb server because either those servers have high ping, are locked with a pw, or no one is on. However if the single player works flawlessly then im just assuming its PB under the multiplayer.
Amd Athlon 64 X2 4600+
Abit AN9-32x Fatal1ty
2x BFG 7800GT OC in Sli mode
2gb Corsair XMS2 PC6400
Western Digital 200gb SATA
Nvidia 163.71
Windows Vista Ulitmate 32bit
Windows Onecare
ADSL 3mb/768k
Problem i am having has only started in the past 4 weeks. I can fire up battlefield 2 with zero problems. I can play single player for hours without any problems. However in the past 4 weeks if i connect to a multplayer server after about anywhere from 1 to 5 mins my hard drive light will start flashing a lot. Then go pretty much solid. My FPS doesnt drop (seen via renderer.drawfps 1) however the game starts to just get choppy. Sometimes so bad that it almost looks like its rendering one frame a second. Its almost like lag but it isnt. It will eventually stop but sure as rain it will come back soon enough and start all over again. Its almost like either the ram is being ate up and its having to cache to the HD or PB is just scanning and bogging me down at times.
What i have tried to solve this:
1. I used pbsvc to remove the service.
2. Went into every directory on my hard drive finding anything PB related and deleted it.
3. downloaded pbsetup to reinstall punkbuster
4. tried different nvidia graphics drivers.
5. tried different nvidia motherboard drivers
6. Reinstalled windows vista
7. reinstalled the game
8. tried intalling the game before installing any antivirus
9. disabled superfetch
10. disabled windows defender
11. tried pb_sleep 500
12. Tried pb_system 0 (pb trouble ticket gave me that)
13. tried a pb trouble ticket (no real help other than the copy/paste FAQ they have)
14. ran prime95 to stress test the cpu, memtest86+ for the ram, 3dmark06 for the video card. did this for 24 hours
What is odd that this problem doesnt happen at all under XP. It works great there. Just happens under vista. However like i said, prior to 4 weeks ago bf2 worked great on Vista. The only thing i can think of is thats when PB services was forced upon us.
If anyone has any help i would really appreciate it. I have searched all over the web and i have found some others having this issue but no one has solved it. I like Vista and it runs things great for me. Id hate to go back to XP just because the Multiplayer BF2 has this issue (which i think is a pb problem).
I could be way off but it seems thats what is causing the problem. I havent been able to test this out by playing online with a non pb server because either those servers have high ping, are locked with a pw, or no one is on. However if the single player works flawlessly then im just assuming its PB under the multiplayer.
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