beginning of the round lag?

[12:oc7ock]

WTF happened to this site? They just wiped all of the threads since the release of battlefield2 and now only store threads a month or less old? Anyway, Since I can't do a search on this, ever since the release of the latest patch every time I jon a round for about 2 minutes my game lags real bad every like 2 seconds so I have to go hide somewhere and wait for it to subside. It's quite annoying and happens with both my vid cards and all the different drivers I try. Anyone else have this problem? Any fixes? Thankss.

[AmericanDad]

Re: beginning of the round lag?

Same problem here. Look at your hard drive LED, if it flickers when you lag, you need more ram.

[12:oc7ock]

Re: beginning of the round lag?

Hmm, well if I was playing COD mw2 I'd believe that but it's BF2 and I'm playing with the same amount of RAM I've been playing with for awhile which is 2.5gb. I know that's not a whole lot but it's more than enough for BF2. And this didnt start happening until the latest patch.

[jesus]

Re: beginning of the round lag?

Vista: 1GB
BF2: 1GB - 1.5GB

If you're playing on certain maps & servers, BF2 can use 1.5GB. Combining both Vista & BF2 you'd be hitting your 2.5GB limit and your computer would start using the pagefile as RAM which would cause you to lag at the beginning of the round.

[AmericanDad]

Re: beginning of the round lag?

Regardless of whether it used to lag before or not - HD led flicker + lag = need more ram. Maybe you changed the settings up a notch since last time and now it needs a whole lot more memory than it used to.

[12:oc7ock]

Re: beginning of the round lag?

Who said I was on Vista? LOL, I would never run Vista for my gaming machine. I'm on XP

[[GCA]Tim270]

Re: beginning of the round lag?

You want at least 2GB of ram, I used to have this when I ran with only 1.

[signa]

Re: beginning of the round lag?

I would try setting your page file to a fixed size 2x the amount of ram. also try defragging.