Not performing well as it should.

[Schalldämpfer]

I have...
Asus K8V SE-Deluxe
A64 3200 Newcastle
1 gig of RAM... I think Corsair and Kingston or Centon
AIW X800XT.
With every possible eye candy at 1024x768 with 4 AA, my FPS isn't consistently high... what could be the problem?

[Crille]

Well, hundreds of people have this problem with BF2, even when they don´t have problems with other games. Download ATI tray tool and tweak around with the options. Turn off geometric instancing for example.

[shotgun2theface]

Shut down any Anti virus programs such as McAffe or anything else.

[Schalldämpfer]

What do people usually get FPS-wise with a high-end system?

[tomster2300]

Mine isn't considered very high end anymore, but I get between 40-100 fps with everything on medium, 4x AA and a forced resolution of 1280 x 1024. I stay within a consistent 50-60 fps when playing and never dip below 30.

I have tweaked my rig, raised my AGP aperture to 256, and turned off AGP fast write and have noticed a significant performance increase. I also uninstalled my Norton Antivirus 2005 and saw an immediate boost. You should try doing this before anything else.

This site has a wonderful tweak guide for not only Battlefield 2, but also for ATI and Nvidia video cards. I would follow these guides first and see if anything helps.

http://www.tweakguides.com/BF2_1.html

Also run your antivirus, spybot programs, and then finally defrag your system and reboot.

[NoSoup4You]

I get 60+ FPS with my video card....if it stays cool enough, lol.

3.4Ghz P4
1GB DDR2-5400
Saphire X850XT PE
Audigy2 ZS
(2)74GB WD Raptors RAID-0

[Schalldämpfer]

Please keep in mind I'm running this at 1024x768, so X800XT should be able to perform very well... but it doesn't... Oh, and did I mention that the texture corruption bug is really annoying? At least it randomly happens, allowing me to play most of the time.

[Schalldämpfer]

Aye or nay?

[BryanG]

Well, hundreds of people have this problem with BF2, even when they don´t have problems with other games. Download ATI tray tool and tweak around with the options. Turn off geometric instancing for example.

Since you brought this up I am going to try it but what I'd like to know, if you can explain, what is geomaetric instancing?

[HavanaAffair]

More RAM?

[jmuduke]

I've got 2 gigs of pc3200 memory and I get framerate drops too. More noticeable in 64 player servers.

3.2ghz P4
2gig PC3200 Corsair
X800PRO 256