Hardware upgrade in need?

[Kylee!]

So, I'm running a 6600 @ 2.4 ghz, 2 GB of RAM, and a 9800GTX. I have to play with all my settings on low and it still likes to get pretty laggy, especially in 32 player games.

Should I upgrade my hardware? (New GFX card, more RAM?) Or is something wrong here...

[Rambo]

Re: Hardware upgrade in need?

I have 4 GB ram and even a worse card"see bellow" graphic are fine on medium and even ok on high(but i did go back to meduim)for now

if only i could fix my internet issues!spikes kicking me?

but i would say Ram first mate then a card?

make sure its not just lag your dealing with

[[Expletive Deleted]]

Re: Hardware upgrade in need?

So, I'm running a 6600 @ 2.4 ghz, 2 GB of RAM, and a 9800GTX. I have to play with all my settings on low and it still likes to get pretty laggy, especially in 32 player games.

Should I upgrade my hardware? (New GFX card, more RAM?) Or is something wrong here...

I don't know what's going on. I have a Q9300 @ 2.6 GHz(basically one little step up from the Q6600), 4GB RAM, and a GTX 280. I'm getting between 30 and 40 FPS on LOW settings at 1920x1080. It's still playable but can feel jerky from time to time. I'm hoping a driver update or a patch will help. Either have it use more RAM, more CPU cores, or something. I can't imagine a reason for it to run and look worse on this PC than my Xbox 360 demo...

[Kylee!]

Re: Hardware upgrade in need?

Expletive the last Driver update for the Nvidia cards is supposed to help BC performance a ton.

EDIT: And it definitely does. Just tried it out, definitely better performance... not really where I want it to be though.

[[Expletive Deleted]]

Re: Hardware upgrade in need?

Expletive the last Driver update for the Nvidia cards is supposed to help BC performance a ton.

EDIT: And it definitely does. Just tried it out, definitely better performance... not really where I want it to be though.

The Beta driver or the latest official driver?

[Scinto]

Re: Hardware upgrade in need?

I found this elsewhere may help.

You need to run the game in DX9 mode.

My docs>BFBC2Beta>Settings.ini

Change DXVersion from Auto to 9

Close save.

A very nice fps increase.

[GothicDevil]

Re: Hardware upgrade in need?

I have a:

Intel® Core™ 2 Duo E8200 2.66GHz 6MB Cache 1333MHz FSB

Alienware® 750 Watt Multi-GPU Approved Power Supply

256MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8600 GTS

2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 800MHz

Alienware® Approved NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI Motherboard

and its running very sweetly

[Kylee!]

Re: Hardware upgrade in need?

The Beta driver or the latest official driver?

The Beta driver.

[cableguy619]

Re: Hardware upgrade in need?

Tirn off AHBO in advance video settings and if having issues do this:

HUGE performance boost
This has been posted all over the internet but just in case...

<path to documents and settings>/BFBC2Beta/settings.ini


In there, if you change:

DxVersion=auto

to

DxVersion=9

The game will use Direct X 9 instead of defaulting to 10.

[vanilla]

Re: Hardware upgrade in need?

Will switching DX10 to 9 make the look and feel of the game different? Of course it does, but what I'm asking is the significance of the difference.
Will it look BF2'ish or still have the nice look you'd expect from a new game?

[Kylee!]

Re: Hardware upgrade in need?

Tirn off AHBO in advance video settings and if having issues do this:

HUGE performance boost
This has been posted all over the internet but just in case...

<path to documents and settings>/BFBC2Beta/settings.ini


In there, if you change:

DxVersion=auto

to

DxVersion=9

The game will use Direct X 9 instead of defaulting to 10.

I did that after Scinto posted the same exact thing...

It didn't help my performance that much.

Anyone think I need to upgrade yet? Or is there something else I can do to up my FPS? Because the laggyness is really annoying...

[Vreki]

Re: Hardware upgrade in need?

I did that after Scinto posted the same exact thing...

It didn't help my performance that much.

Anyone think I need to upgrade yet? Or is there something else I can do to up my FPS? Because the laggyness is really annoying...

When does one need to upgrade? Sure you would benefit from it, but BC2 is hard on both CPU and GPU so you are looking at a major investment if you want to make the system BC-proof.
Try running this: http://www.yougamers.com/gameometer/10372/

And you could also have FRAPS benchmark while you are playing, to make sure that its not the server itself that is lagging.

[Kylee!]

Re: Hardware upgrade in need?

When does one need to upgrade? Sure you would benefit from it, but BC2 is hard on both CPU and GPU so you are looking at a major investment if you want to make the system BC-proof.
Try running this: http://www.yougamers.com/gameometer/10372/

And you could also have FRAPS benchmark while you are playing, to make sure that its not the server itself that is lagging.

Need to? When the game gets to 32 players, or if I'm in a hectic situation the game becomes almost unplayable. All on low settings. And I ran the "game-o-meter" and it says that I can't play the game because apparently I have 2030 MB of RAM, and the game requires 2048. Would that really make a difference? lol.

Also I'm positive its not server lag, its straight FPS lag at its finest. I always play on US servers too, and on the East coast.

I realize an upgrade at this point could be costly... but I built the computer 3 years ago. *shrug* I feel like my CPU needs an upgrade more than anything else, as my GPU is somewhat up to date, and definitely not running at its full potential.

[[Expletive Deleted]]

Re: Hardware upgrade in need?

According to that YouGamers thing, I should be able to rock the game on High settings. That is totally not the case.

It still looks great at the lowest settings, but I'm not used to not being able to go with high settings in a game with this PC.

[Mavrik347]

Re: Hardware upgrade in need?

DO NOT BUY ANY HARDWARE


This is an unoptimized BETA. The LOD models are near practically copies of LOD0. Your FPS will be way lower than it should. Wait for the demo, then decide if you need an upgrade.