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I have old MB... 2.1 Athlon / 6600GT 128 / SB Live / 1.5GB Ram (1GB + 2x256)
Game was crashing to desktop at end of rounds 3-4 times per night. Went and removed hardware accelleration in dxdiag stopped the crashing to desktop but started audio pauses with game stutter and connection dropout. Put sound to 'low' didnt help. Replaced SB Live with an Audigy2 card... put the sound to 'hardware' and quality 'high', put back dxdiag settings..no crashes no stutter no nothing. Well worth the upgrade $$. Sounds so awesome on high audio settings!
Other troubleshooting done:
1. Ran 'cpuz' to get RAM settings, adjusted BIOS to match.
2. defrag HD
3. put another fan blowing right on the vid card
4. updated all drivers
Money spent so far on BF2:
New video card $160
New sound card $70
Game $50
Total so far : $280
Considering:
More RAM : $120
Video card trade up: $150
Game was crashing to desktop at end of rounds 3-4 times per night. Went and removed hardware accelleration in dxdiag stopped the crashing to desktop but started audio pauses with game stutter and connection dropout. Put sound to 'low' didnt help. Replaced SB Live with an Audigy2 card... put the sound to 'hardware' and quality 'high', put back dxdiag settings..no crashes no stutter no nothing. Well worth the upgrade $$. Sounds so awesome on high audio settings!
Other troubleshooting done:
1. Ran 'cpuz' to get RAM settings, adjusted BIOS to match.
2. defrag HD
3. put another fan blowing right on the vid card
4. updated all drivers
Money spent so far on BF2:
New video card $160
New sound card $70
Game $50
Total so far : $280
Considering:
More RAM : $120
Video card trade up: $150
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