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  • J()sh

    #1

    Game freezes every few seconds.

    Well I uninstalled/reinstalled the game and now it starts to freeze every few seconds and then returns to normal for a a little then freezes again.
    6600gt OC pcie
    MSI ATI Radeon Xpress 200
    1gig ddr pc3200 RAM
    AMD Athlon64 3200+
  • kewl e-man

    #2
    play around wit ur video settings. also wht r ur fps exactly.... to turn on ur fps, press this---> ~ and put in this: renderer.drawfps 1 in the game. this happens to me too. it just started happening.

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    • imported_Chubz

      #3
      Originally posted by kewl e-man
      play around wit ur video settings. also wht r ur fps exactly.... to turn on ur fps, press this---> ~ and put in this: renderer.drawfps 1 in the game. this happens to me too. it just started happening.
      Sorry to go off-topic, but I just looked in your profile and... dude... you seriously need more RAM.

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      • J()sh

        #4
        Interesting development:

        So i took out one stick of RAM to see if it still crashed. I was able to play fine (albeit a little laggy) for a few maps before my game finally crashed to a blue screen. I did have to turn all of my video to low because of taking out the stick of RAM. But I didn't get any of that weird freezing stuff. Is it possible that my RAM is overheating?

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        • Sniper_13

          #5
          it happens to me too. i get around 60-90 FPS normaly then out of nowhere itl drop to 20 or 30 fps for like a second

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          • ChopperKill

            #6
            High textures is the setting that will give you most trouble if you have 512-1GB of RAM. Try turning it down them down to medium if you have them on high. Try shadows as well.

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            • J()sh

              #7
              But why would they give me trouble if I get 50 fps when they're on high?

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              • ChopperKill

                #8
                Originally posted by J()sh
                But why would they give me trouble if I get 50 fps when they're on high?
                Because the RAM on your video card isnt enough to take the higher res textures so it's swapping with your slower main RAM or worse still your hard drive causing a temporary stutter. This may not be what your problem is however but it's been the cause of a lot of stutters and freezes. It could be a lot of other things though. For instance.

                Try turning your sound settings down to low, from software to hardware.
                Go into your audio properties and turn audio acceleration down a notch.
                Shut down all background programs especially any downloads and antivirus. Turn off firewalls.
                Defrag your hard drive as the reinstall may have scattered the game all over your hard drive.
                Check your pings and only connect to servers below 150.
                Get ad aware and do a check for spyware.
                Try updating your motherboard, graphics card and sound drivers if you haven't got the latest ones.
                Try changing your AGP aperture size in the BIOS to 128MB and 256MB.
                Turn fast writes on and off.
                Enable triple buffering if available in your graphics card options.

                That's all I can think of for now.

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                • J()sh

                  #9
                  OK, I'll try some of those things. Should I change the AGP aperature even though I'm using a PCIe card?

                  I was just able to play for like 30 minutes before my game started freezing again. I still had the video settings on low.

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                  • J()sh

                    #10
                    Another thing, why is it only this game that i'm having problems with?

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                    • ChopperKill

                      #11
                      Sorry I didn't realise it was a PCI-e card. AGP aperture is irrelevant. If it's doing it with all your settings on low then it really doesn't seem like a RAM issue. I'd go for the sound settings first along with all your drivers. Make sure you disable all background programs and antivirus. BF2 is a system hog so it doesn't leave much for anything else.

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                      • J()sh

                        #12
                        Well I changed the sound acceleration thing to basic and it still started freezing. I am pretty sure I have all the latest drivers...except the nvidia ones, since I crashed with those too, but I'm going to try them again.

                        I do have a geforce 5200 in my other computer, I don't think it's supported by the game, i think i might try it though.

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                        • taowulf

                          #13
                          Originally posted by J()sh
                          Well I changed the sound acceleration thing to basic and it still started freezing. I am pretty sure I have all the latest drivers...except the nvidia ones, since I crashed with those too, but I'm going to try them again.

                          I do have a geforce 5200 in my other computer, I don't think it's supported by the game, i think i might try it though.

                          Try the new 77.77 Nvidia drivers and if that doesnt work, start working your way down the Nvidia driver chain. The only ones I could get to work decently was the 66.93 drivers that came when I got my 6800GT last year.

                          There are websites you can google that archive older drivers sets.

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                          • kewl e-man

                            #14
                            Originally posted by Chubz
                            Sorry to go off-topic, but I just looked in your profile and... dude... you seriously need more RAM.
                            this really nvr happened before and now all the sudden it goes crazy. maybe i will try deleteing the bf2 movies i have, c wht happens then.

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                            • J()sh

                              #15
                              OK, so I took out a different stick of RAM tonight, and put all of the video settings on low. I was able to play for about an hour before my game froze. But this time my computer didn't restart, the game just froze. I wasn't able to minimize or do anything. I could get to see the task manager, start menu, etc. I just couldn't click it.

                              Could this be bad RAM?

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