Post your specs and performance

[Battlefresh]

Apparently many people are having performance issues. I believe a lot of these are system configuration issues and not BF2's coding. Perhaps if we all list our PC's specs and how well BF2/ BF2:SF runs we can get an idea of how well our configurations should run.

My PC:

ASUS P4P800 AGP Motherboard
Pentium IV 3.4E (Air Cooled, stock speed)
2 Gig Corsair XMS PC3200 (Dual Channel)
ATI X800XT AIW
SB Audigy Gamer

My Settings:

1280 X 1024 @85Hz
All settings on high
4X AA
Sound set to Hardware and high (EAX enabled)

With this configuration BF2 and BF2:SF run fantastic. I used to run at 1600 X 1200 and would run BF2 at 60 fps average. I lowered the resolution because I actually like how it looks at 1280 X 1024 better, but there is no major notice in framerate drop when I go to 1600 X 1200. Although I would probably drop to 2X AA if I raised resolution just to balance.

[SK]

Re: Post your specs and performance

Athlon XP 3200+
6800 GT
1GB RAM

vanilla BF2 pre patch 1.12:
avg 30+ FPS

vanila BF2 after patch 1.12:
avg 15 FPS

SF:
haven´t tested it thoroughly yet, my gf bought it although I tried to talk her out of it.


I´m 100% positive that the cause isn´t system configuration (at least not in the sense of "it´s my fault"). I installed the BF2 demo again to test this. The demo runs 30+ fps on a 64 player Gulf of Oman server, while 1.12 BF2 seems to be magically capped at 15 fps. This is on 100% the same system configuration with equal settings, so it´s official: The patch sucks, something with the patch screwed a lot of people´s framerates. A friend is also complaining, he uses a ATI X800 XL (IIRC) and BF2 never stuttered on his comp, after the patch he now has times where it´s unplayable due to framerate drop.

Some screenshots of 64 player Sharqi on my system:
http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/7702/15fps19vb.png
http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/7874/15fps25da.png
http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/3883/15fps45nu.png
http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/9746/15fps51pu.png
Note the red 15.0 in the upper left, strange eh?

I also started a vote on the EA forums:
http://forum.eagames.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=10260

[Battlefresh]

Re: Post your specs and performance

In my opinion and experience I would say it is your 1 gig of RAM that is holding you back. You have a nice system and I would expect much higher framerates. I have played BF2 with 1 gig compared to my 2 gig's and it is a noticable difference. My system is not much better than yours and I can achieve 60 + fps @ 1600 X 1200! Of course that is with no AA. I understand your frustration...I went through this with BF:V, but I think it is more likely a compatibility issue than a patch or coding issue. Remember, the card series just below you (i.e. 5900) has to run on low just to be playable. Perhaps I'm just an ATI fanboy, but I would try an X800 and another gig of RAM.

[Eddy01741]

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In my sig, anyways, sound on med, no EAX. All high on 1024x1280, 6xaa, and 16xaf. About 60fps when using 1.03 patch, like 35-45 with the new 1.12 patch/xpack.

BTW, wrong section, hardware or support is where it belongs.

[SK]

Re: Post your specs and performance

As I said: The demo is completely playable on my system, the only difference between the demo and patch 1.12 is 4 new unlocks that have to be loaded, and the flashbangs. I don´t think that those together with my 1GB RAM can be made responsible for cutting my framerate in half and making the game unplayable.
I had 512 MB for a pretty long time btw, and the game was much more playable with 1.03 then, than it is with 1GB and 1.12 now.
What remains as a cause is some bad code deep in the 1.12 patch, that cripples framerates on certain computers (which combination of system specs+1.12 causes this seems pretty random and is unknown).

[Hephaistion]

Re: Post your specs and performance

Apparently many people are having performance issues. I believe a lot of these are system configuration issues and not BF2's coding. Perhaps if we all list our PC's specs and how well BF2/ BF2:SF runs we can get an idea of how well our configurations should run.

My PC:

ASUS P4P800 AGP Motherboard
Pentium IV 3.4E (Air Cooled, stock speed)
2 Gig Corsair XMS PC3200 (Dual Channel)
ATI X800XT AIW
SB Audigy Gamer

My Settings:

1280 X 1024 @85Hz
All settings on high
4X AA
Sound set to Hardware and high (EAX enabled)

With this configuration BF2 and BF2:SF run fantastic. I used to run at 1600 X 1200 and would run BF2 at 60 fps average. I lowered the resolution because I actually like how it looks at 1280 X 1024 better, but there is no major notice in framerate drop when I go to 1600 X 1200. Although I would probably drop to 2X AA if I raised resolution just to balance.

Wow a gamer that still uses a Pentium? Strange.
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ 939 Clawhammer
2GB of Kingston Hyper-X DDR400 CL2 Memory Dual-Channel
Maxtor SATA-150 200GB HDD
Power Color X800GT 256MB DDR3 PCI-E
ASROCK DUAL 939 SATA2 Mobo
Creative Audigy 2 Sound Card

[Battlefresh]

Re: Post your specs and performance

Wow a gamer that still uses a Pentium? Strange.
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ 939 Clawhammer
2GB of Kingston Hyper-X DDR400 CL2 Memory Dual-Channel
Maxtor SATA-150 200GB HDD
Power Color X800GT 256MB DDR3 PCI-E
ASROCK DUAL 939 SATA2 Mobo
Creative Audigy 2 Sound Card

I'm sure there are many of us still running Intel processors out there. My 3.4E has treated me very well and I see no need to change complete motherboards/processors and re-install windows just to use the "gamers" processor. I'd consider an AMD San Diego core in my next system, but with quad core Intel chips on the horizon I may just stay with them.

[imported_Calibre]

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P4 Prescott 880Mhz FSB 1MB Cache (HT enabled)
Gigabyte Mobo
2GB Corsair XMS3200
256mb Sapphire X800XT PE (540/1.4Ghz) Cat5.12 (AGP)
Audigy 4pro
WD Raptor raid0 HD

since new patch i've had to drop everything to medium except for geometry and terrain which is high @ 1280 x 1024 2xAA + adaptive AA enabled & 4 X AF


er.. no...actually it doesn't

[scott123]

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Specs below

1280x1024 / 4x AA / 8x AF / all settings to high and set to Creative X-Fi for high quality sound. In BF2 I run anywhere from 45-90fps, in SF its anywhere from 26-90fps.

I don't agree with your opinion that there isn't a coding problem. I've built well over 100 computers in the last 10 years, and I do know how to properly configure a rig. There is no excuse for what Dice did with SF.

All reviewers agree there is a serious problem with SF that should be fixed, and that is why the so-called expansion pak is getting poor reviews.

[Digital-Boy]

Re: Post your specs and performance

Question: is there a conveniant way to gather all the specs for your system?

If not, how do I know what processor I have?

[Battlefresh]

Re: Post your specs and performance

Question: is there a conveniant way to gather all the specs for your system?

If not, how do I know what processor I have?

Download Sandra SR5. It will tell you more than you need to know about your system. Or you can find out manually, but I assume you wouldn't ask if you knew how to do that. Download here..it's free:http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/

[Digital-Boy]

Re: Post your specs and performance

Awesome

Let's see...

Intel Pentium4 Processor (2.80GHz)
512MB DDR-SDRAM
ATI Radeon 9200 AGP

Is that bad? Because it runs rather horribly. :P

[IndianScout]

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P4 2.4c @ 3.0
Abit IS7-E2
2G PC3200
NVIDIA 6800 Ultra AGP
Audigy

1024x768
everything on high 2x AA


who says you need an A64 to play the game..

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ght-vision.jpg

[AgentOS]

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Inspiron 8600 Dell Laptop 1.8GHZ Pentium M Processor
1 GB standard RAM
Radeon 9600 Turbo 128 MB Graphics Card
Lapcool 2 laptop fan with 4 port usb (very important since games heat this sucker up)

I have never had issues running BF2 and SF on LOW settings with NO AA or Dynamic Lighting. When I raise anything to medium the game will lockup in about 30 minutes since it heats up so much it cannot handle the stress. The only beef I have is how low the FPS are during Night Vision. Otherwise I am very satisfied running on low and my stats are pretty good to boot.

[TLancaster]

Re: Post your specs and performance

AMD Athlon 64 3500+ 939
GeForce 6800 Ultra 256 MB PCIe
2 GB GeIL PC3200 DDR RAM 400Mhz
Albatron K8SLi ATX AMD Motherboard
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS
Western 80GB Serial ATA 7200RPM Hard Drive w/8MB Buffer

This is the computer that I'm currently building. From what you guys have posted, it looks like it will run the game just fine