Player/Vehicle Draw Distance

[G-Snake]

Ok, I'll try to keep this short and sweet. With my current hardware/driver setup I have this re-occuring fairly annoying issue. I'm not sure if this is a game issue, or if this is just my setup/luck. I have never gotten a clear answer from any other bf2 players, so I'm hoping someone here can clarify this for me. When in game, I cannot view a player model that is farther than 150 meters away, and vehicles about 200-250 meters. When a player model is beyond about 150 meters, they sort of 'dissapear'.

Now this is NOT the fog causing this, because I can still see trees, buildings, terrains around where the dissappeared player model is. I know it's not a bug since the player models fade in once they come closer. I'm planning on upgrading my computer to fix this problem, but I wont bother upgrading if this is an issue with a good number of people. Can anyone confirm that they can see player/vehicle models from far distances (at least beyond 150 meters?).

Here are my comp specs...

AMD Athlon +2000
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128 MB (5.1 Cat right now, tried 5.8 no results.)
ECS K7S5A Mainboard (Never buy from ECS)
2x256mb DDR Ram
Windows XP Pro

Any help would be appreciated.

[tjr1973]

Re: Player/Vehicle Draw Distance

I've had a similar problem with my setup. When I'm in a tank and aiming at a vehicle that is just about out of visual range, it will disappear when I put my sights on it. Move the sights off of it and it reappears. Haven't checked it out since I upgraded to Cat 5.8's but I think it's something to do with ATI and video drivers. It hasn't been too big of a deal since it only happens on rare occasions. I'm usually on foot doing some ground pounding.

My specs:
Intel 3.4 Northwood
Intel 875 Motherboard
Saaphire X800Pro 256
4x512 3200 Corsair XMS Pro Series Ram
Audigy LS Sound Card
2 WD Raptor HDD's in a Raid 0
Antec Truepower True 550 PSU

[C11.Nemisis]

Re: Player/Vehicle Draw Distance

is your view distance set to 100%

[tjr1973]

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Dunno about his, but mine is. I have everything set to high, 6X AA, with vertical synch turned on.

[Poxypriest]

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Yeh i get teh exact problem altho i've noticed that i can see the nme firing at me and i turn to look at them and even thru a sniper scope i can only see the flashes of his gun and not the nme themself makes it really hard to do anything except run and hide, killed alot of times because of that

[MindBlowing]

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Yeah annoying, you are getting shot but don't know from where excatly. Sometimes I'm in a chopper and see that I'm near to be destroyed while I didn't see any ennemy around me nor did I hear or sence any hits .... This thing has to be corrected, on some maps it's just crazy

[Ghost-Three-Four]

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I'm set to 100% too and the same thing happens. It usually occurs more on the Dragon Valley map.:hmm:

[imoody]

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I get exactly the same issue - and it wouldn't appear to be a hardware one, as I will relate the specs of the rig I'm using.

Asus A8N-SLI Premium
AMD FX-57
Soundblaster Audigy 4 Pro
2 x BFG 7800 GTX
4 x 512mb sticks of Corsair CMX512RE-3200LL (CAS timings of 2-3-2-6)
2 x Western Digital 75gb Raptor

I'm using the latest BIOS release - 1006, as well as the latest sound card drivers, the latest Nvidia chipset drivers, 6.66, and the latest Nvidia videocard drivers - 7.77. I'm running the game with all the ingame setting on max, with the exception of ultra high sound, as I'd need an X-Fi soundcard to use that. The viewdistance is set at 100%. This would appear to be a bug in the game, and an extremely annoying one at that.

[G-Snake]

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I have my draw distance set at 100%...

It definately is not a performance thing they added since imody has a more than recommended hardware setup. Hopefully this issue is resolved with Patch 1.03.

[IRONxMortlock]

Re: Player/Vehicle Draw Distance

I get exactly the same issue - and it wouldn't appear to be a hardware one, as I will relate the specs of the rig I'm using.

Asus A8N-SLI Premium
AMD FX-57
Soundblaster Audigy 4 Pro
2 x BFG 7800 GTX
4 x 512mb sticks of Corsair CMX512RE-3200LL (CAS timings of 2-3-2-6)
2 x Western Digital 75gb Raptor

I'm using the latest BIOS release - 1006, as well as the latest sound card drivers, the latest Nvidia chipset drivers, 6.66, and the latest Nvidia videocard drivers - 7.77. I'm running the game with all the ingame setting on max, with the exception of ultra high sound, as I'd need an X-Fi soundcard to use that. The viewdistance is set at 100%. This would appear to be a bug in the game, and an extremely annoying one at that.

HOLY BAT TURDS! That is one awesome computer you've got there!!

I get this also, I think it's just the way the game is.

[yuliang01]

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I'm set to 100% too and the same thing happens. It usually occurs more on the Dragon Valley map.:hmm:

Exactly! It ALWAYS happens for me in that valley!

Sometimes when i point to some enemy tank/apc 100-300m away, they just disappear, but there's still red icon(player names) at the cursor.

Red ghosts in dragon valley.

[A$$a$$ination]

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yeah happens to me too, can get annoying

[dark-eye]

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yeah well here's one for ya once on karkand as an anti-tank an apc drove off not noticing me, so i launch rocket at it but i drove away till a corner and disappears... wait no it comes back uhm at least i thought cause i could only see its name come back. and also when it was like 20 metres away from me i just saw the name, i could damage it though.

[freefall]

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It is definately a ATI driver problem. I had catalyst 5.6 when I startet playing BF2. With 5.6 no problems like this occured. Then I updated to 5.7; had those problems. And they´re not fixed in 5.8 as well. Actually I haven´t seen any changes with 5.8 concerning BF2 at all. They talked about flickering textures... still have some with 5.8. ...

[FLYWAYchat]

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U all try some read of this... it can help...

http://www.tweakguides.com/BF2_5.html