Petition - Optimise SF maps for better fps

[GunSlingerAU]

Hi guys

I've got a nice gaming rig:

2 x 7800GTX in SLI
nForce 4 mobo
Creative X-Fi
2GB DDR400 mem
Athlon 64 3800+
Win XP Pro (fresh formatted recently)

Yet most maps in the special forces pack still chug pretty bad, and not just the Iron Gator. It's not a memory leak, it's not any new bugs - it's quite simply the over the top detail found in the SF maps. Don't get me wrong, I love the way they look... but it's not worth the performance hit. And if I'm struggling with the fps, I bet a lot of you guys are doing even worse. The only thing that will fix this is if the devs remove some of the detail in the maps - I honestly don't think anything else will do it.

So if you're in agreement, and are fed up with SF's poor framerate, please sign this petition. I have to say that it's a shame such an obvious problem got past Dice Sweden - although I'm doubting they even got to test it that much if they didn't notice these issues.

[PREDATOR-SK]

Re: Petition - Optimise SF maps for better fps

1 thing that will do it is setting lighting to low now this is gonna get rid of the shine on guns and cars and stuff and some thing will look realy Fd up but this will make it run better and in some cases reduce ur client data verifcation time eg mine was upwards of 5 min when i first installed sf but since turning lighting to low it takes 2-2 and a half mins

[WarGimp]

Re: Petition - Optimise SF maps for better fps

The obvious question is, have you tried turing your detail settings down?

That's opimization right there!
It doesn't kill me too bad most of the time and I have a machine that I'm too embarased to list specs for. :p

Then again, ANY preformance hit kinda sucks when your taxing resource limits on LOW!

[GunSlingerAU]

Re: Petition - Optimise SF maps for better fps

So am I the only one unhappy with the performance?!?

[Digital-Boy]

Re: Petition - Optimise SF maps for better fps

I play with all low settings and still it plays like crap. >_> Well, yeah, my comp sucks, but I thought if the core game ran, the expansion pack would too, right?... Right?... right?

[gungho]

Re: Petition - Optimise SF maps for better fps

With a sweet rig like that you should not have problems. PPL are always going to say "turn your settings down", but the point is you should not have to ! Has there been any details of MAX system requirements, to run everything at highest levels ???

[Drum]

Re: Petition - Optimise SF maps for better fps

So am I the only one unhappy with the performance?!?

freak no, i gota alright system and run bf2 beautifuly on all medium and i run SF like ****... heres my specs:

athlon xp 2800 barton
ati x800XL 256mb (overclocked)
1gig ram
creative audizy 2 zs sound card

i run bf2 at around 40-45 avg hitting 65+ everynow and then hardly ever going below 25, and sf im lucky if i avg 30 and i often get below 15............ wth lol?

i had to lower my settings jsut to play sf =(

[Darkfox3889]

Re: Petition - Optimise SF maps for better fps

Well I agree with the fact that the new maps need optimization, I can run vanilla BF2 on max settings no problem, but in SF its like a slide show sometimes .

[Eagle-NmF-]

Re: Petition - Optimise SF maps for better fps

i was having major pr obs too until i did a full format,the job lot now i can have everything on full 1280x1024@75hz,2xAA and get no less than 50fps on iron gator on 64 player servers,worked for me but as some have tried doesn't work for all
AMD 64 4000+
ASUS A8V DELUXE
XFX 6800GT(81.95)
X-FI EXTREME MUSIC
2 GIG DUAL CHANNEL GEIL PC3200
ANTEC 550W PSU

[GunSlingerAU]

Re: Petition - Optimise SF maps for better fps

Unfortunately reformatting Windows made no difference in SF performance on my machine.

[BGB Slayer]

Re: Petition - Optimise SF maps for better fps

The maps lag for me when I enter the buildings. Other then that they are fine. But it is pretty freakin annoying considering a good deal of the action takes place inside the buildings, LOL!

[tsh2005]

Re: Petition - Optimise SF maps for better fps

I bought SF about 8 days ago and I have not even played it yet. FPS drops 20s all the time.

x1800xt/3.6 and 2gs ram

Drops are just annoying so I dont even wont to mess with it.. Why does almost everything ship then patch??? I Buy a game and it doesnt run

[Raxor]

Re: Petition - Optimise SF maps for better fps

could it be something to do with SLI? as in the drivers could be buggy for this game, and what res are you playing at?

[imported_Foxen]

Re: Petition - Optimise SF maps for better fps

The maps lags terrible for me. And Warlord is the worst! Watch my "rig" in my sig, i don't expect a game to run this poor at highest settings with this specs. :/

[Archibald]

Re: Petition - Optimise SF maps for better fps

amd ahtlon 3200+, xfx geforce 6600gt, 1g ram.
Been playing vanilla with almost all set on low (performance>looks) but the leap from vanilla to SF is really annoying concidering performance. Plus i got that damn black graphics glitch unless i set my terrain textures to medium atleast, which hogs even more fps
Nightmaps and Iron Gator are pure horror.
And yes i agree that they could remove some details to make maps run bit smoother, or atleast do something...