Choppy graphics, unplayable!?

[m.olennick]

Firstly I'd like to thank everyone who has provided help in the past. However this time I find myself in a unique situation. I have previously been playing under server 2k3 and enjoying bf2 quite nicely. I'm running:k

P4 2.533 (478)
Asus p4t533-c
1 gig pc 1066 rdram (lol)
ati 850xt pe
creative audigy 2 platinum

this combo held together quite well under server, however as I just reformatted back to xp pro, I cannot play bf2 at all. the graphics are terrible, beyond terrible. Maybe 5 fps, maybe. I am positive I have the latest drivers for everything, and am clueless as to why the change of OS would so negatively inflict gameplay. Any ideas?

[AlphaNut]

Re: Choppy graphics, unplayable!?

Have you gone to Asus homepage and updated all your motherboard drivers, and bios? Make sure you have the newest INF chipset update. Also do you have SP2 on windowsXP, or are you running a previous version?

[Talus]

Re: Choppy graphics, unplayable!?

Well..your system seems kickass (I'd never even heard of 1066 rdram before now).

Soooo...I'm hoping it's just an optimization issue.

-update motherboard drivers and BIOS (http://support.asus.com/download/dow...Language=en-us)
-update sound card drivers (http://us.creative.com/support/downl...ame=Windows+XP)
-use driver cleaner (www.driverheaven.net) and update video card drivers (https://support.ati.com/ics/support/...questionID=640)

If performance still isn't up to stuff, then it's tweak time:

-vsync off
-AA and AF set to application-controlled in ATI panel
-disable unneeded services (http://majorgeeks.com/page.php?id=12)
- http://www.tweakguides.com/BF2_1.html
- http://gear.ign.com/articles/626/626714p1.html (Tune XP is described in this one)

[m.olennick]

Re: Choppy graphics, unplayable!?

Thank you both for the suggestions. I'll give them a try today!

[NoSoup4You]

Re: Choppy graphics, unplayable!?

Textures need to be set to medium as the "High" textures in this game use approximately 1.5GB of RAM.