Re: How can I be getting such bad performance from this system?
Remember that what other people here describe as "smooth" might be unacceptable to you. One of my clan mates claimed that everything ran smooth for him so I asked him to turn on the FPS counter. He ran with 25FPS. To me that would be utter crap. Look at my sig, with that hardware I have only one graphic setting at high! I run terrain at high, the rest at medium except view distance 100% and texture filtering on high. I don't use antialiasing, instead I use 1280x960 resolution to make the pixels smaller on screen and get smoother edges that way.
I can still see jagged edges but not as annoying as with 1024x768. If I where you I would clear the cache folder in BF2, turn all medium except terrain and use a higher resolution if your monitor can handle it like 1152x864. Then see how that runs on Kubra Dam. Remember that the big dam on the Kubra map is real hard on the graphic card. With these settings my FPS still drops to 50 sometimes when the action is bad on 64 player maps.
Remember that what other people here describe as "smooth" might be unacceptable to you. One of my clan mates claimed that everything ran smooth for him so I asked him to turn on the FPS counter. He ran with 25FPS. To me that would be utter crap. Look at my sig, with that hardware I have only one graphic setting at high! I run terrain at high, the rest at medium except view distance 100% and texture filtering on high. I don't use antialiasing, instead I use 1280x960 resolution to make the pixels smaller on screen and get smoother edges that way.
I can still see jagged edges but not as annoying as with 1024x768. If I where you I would clear the cache folder in BF2, turn all medium except terrain and use a higher resolution if your monitor can handle it like 1152x864. Then see how that runs on Kubra Dam. Remember that the big dam on the Kubra map is real hard on the graphic card. With these settings my FPS still drops to 50 sometimes when the action is bad on 64 player maps.
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