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  • brendanmc6

    #1

    Lag/Game freeze/texture issues..

    I have posted on many threads in search for a solution to my problem,



    ^^ b6x has similar problem but not 100%, so im starting my own thread

    Heres whats wrong,
    I will start up a game of BF2 play normally with FPS around 40-50. my settings are high textures/ antialias, low terrain, medium light and shadows.
    (random i know but i could care less about blurry terrain, its the smooth textures i need). anyways i play for about 1 hr or so without incident, occasional stutters probably because of my processor speed and only 1 gig of ram. after what seems to be about an hour, massive lagg sets in, my ping shoots up, and sometimes textures begin to dissapear. symptoms as if my graphics card is over heating, or my computer is over heating, because when i re load maps or change servers right off the bat, the problems remain. but i check my temps and there normal. i forgot to mentions that it will get so bad the game freezes my comp and i have to press the dreaded restart button.

    This doesent occur every time after an hour, sometimes i will play for much longer but eventually it comes. i also noticed that it happenes usually on the second round of playing the same map consecutively

    i also have randome texture problems, coming occasionally. i will post screenshots when i figure out how.
    things turn black, not really anything in particular, it changes. for example i played one map and all the bridges would turn black from certain angles, sky turns black from certain angles, ground turns black etc.

    heres what ive tried in attempt to fix the problems.

    first off i re installed, lowered graphics settings too.
    then i downloaded latest graphics drivers, latest MOBO drivers.
    the mobo drivers helped alot(used to be worse than i have explained) but the problem remains. i have updated PB, and i know that every background program is turned off before i play.
    there was a period when i wasnt playing for about 3 months, because of this problem, and during then i have done defrags and cleaned up my hardrive.

    the drivers helped out the textures, but the lagg problem is mostly the same

    my system specs are
    XfX 6800gt
    AMD 3000+ ~2.2ghz
    1024 RAM.

    shouldent be my system specs but most likely a problem with my system itself?
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    heres a screenshot when looking from one angle its normal..


    then i move to the right a bit.... sky turns black



    heres an example of ground textures.., the black parts change depending where im looking from.





    keep in mind these screens are not when the lagg problem is occuring(the ping up, fps down, game freeze thing.)


    i really want to find someone who has has or has this problem. if you have the same problem please leave a post!

    for everyone else im extremely grateful for any help, comments, anything!
  • bigbossmatt
    Member
    • Aug 2006
    • 202

    #2
    Re: Lag/Game freeze/texture issues..


    Sounds a bit like my problem above,

    I have had no replies yet, however after thinking about it abit and talking to real life people, I think it could be due to the graphics card over heating.

    Not all cards have a fan, they sometimes only have a heat sink, this goes for new cards too.

    The reason I think it could be this is because it only happens after playing for a long time.

    Perhaps as soon as this occurs, quit bf2 and look at your graphocs card temperature, I think you will find it is quite high.

    Check your card for a fan and possibly install extra cooling devices.
    Hope this helps you.

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    • brendanmc6

      #3
      Re: Lag/Game freeze/texture issues..

      I changed some settings around, (turned off dynamic light), disabled EAX (not sure what it does) and im going to update my PB again and clear the cache to see if it helps out at all.

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      • brendanmc6

        #4
        Re: Lag/Game freeze/texture issues..

        well i was playing for a very long time i didnt track how long... it was pretty fun no problems at all but then eventually the lagg game, so i alt tab to check temps... GPU is at 70, just like when i checked last time it did this a few days back.

        but when i alt tabbed back the lagg was gone...
        so i was happy. but a few minutes later ti came back, so i alt tabbed again and then my desktop was all wacked out almost inverted colors and a resolution that seemed like 800X600

        so then i alt tab again instinctively... and it wont go back to the game its just a black screen... alt tab again does nothing... eventually a ctrl alt dlete brings up the task manager (freakin huge cuz of wacked out resolution) but it allowed me to go back to desktop. i logged out of the XP account and went to another windows account, and the colors/resolution was still messed up!!!1 the colors resembles almost what it looks like in the middle of installing a graphics driver as if the drivers have been deleted.

        but a comp restart brought everything back to normal, this all happened like 5 mins ago.
        i think BF2 is messing with my videocards settings... and when it changes them, the lagg comes.

        oh yah and i had high ping the whole game 150 but not really any lagg

        anyone have any ideas of whats wrong? i think its either vid card messing up cuz of bf2 or MABY some sort of internet thing because of my high ping?.

        NEED HELP !!!

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        • fil3337l

          #5
          Re: Lag/Game freeze/texture issues..

          same for me all the problems you discribe i get aswell although i get the snow effect insted of black sometimes.
          i like you have to restart after 2-3 hours play and its a right pain .
          there is a lot of info about this problem on all bf2 fourms so in conclusion i personaly think its down to game code (inbuilt problem -ea dice).
          I have to defrag hard drive reg and as you said keep everything up todate i also have graphic settings on med with no aa or af at a res of 800 x600 crap i know but it gives me extra play time and thats what s important . i have a 6600gt128mb with 1 gig of mem on p4 2.8 with 120 hard drive also x-fi sound card thats ment to improve fps (fuk) but i can run all sound settings on ultra high with out any loss of fps so thats one thing .
          good post on forum 2 hours ago ref slowdown and a lot of ref to memory leak and having looked in to this it might be the problem but author has a 7800 graphics card with 2gb of mem so again the problem as i said before i think is in the game code (another patch needed hopefully next one will do it ) . Like me no doubt you get very pished of with these problems but think about the guys who own top of the range cards and mem and still get same problems i thankfully have not upgraded system yet to solve my bf2 probs and will wait for next patch hopefully to solve problems .

          post a reply if you can think of anyother way of improving things i will look around further for solutions and let you know
          cheers phil.:)

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          • brendanmc6

            #6
            Re: Lag/Game freeze/texture issues..

            thx im glad to see someones looking at my post.. have you ever tried doing the official tech support from dice or EA who ever runs it.. im thinking i might look into it maby they have delt with this problem before?

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            • brendanmc6

              #7
              Re: Lag/Game freeze/texture issues..

              and btw the black textures have kinda gone away but the lagg/crash after time thing still exists<thats the worst thing

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              • brendanmc6

                #8
                Re: Lag/Game freeze/texture issues..

                should i try lowering AA and seeing if that prevents the lagg strike? would that even do anything?

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                • brendanmc6

                  #9
                  Re: Lag/Game freeze/texture issues..

                  I DLed NFORCE drivers for my audio and it messed up and now i have no sound and my cd drive is broken too. i installed a new mobo driver that i had before cuz it had sound files on it but it didnt over write the bad ones?? and i dont kno what to do. help!! me fixing bf2 is just making my whole computer mess up!1

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                  • Painl3ss.NL

                    #10
                    Re: Lag/Game freeze/texture issues..

                    The fact that it happens after an hour and the stops for a short moment after alt-tabbing does point to a temperature issue. So you may want to also check your CPU temp. Someone in this forum underclocked their CPU (so it runs cooler) to see if it ran more stable. Your ram may also be a bit temp sensitive. I don't think the ram has temp sensors, but you can run some memtest for an extended time to make sure its fine.

                    Just a check, you don't run anything OC'd do you (CPU, GPU, memory)

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                    • Dethred

                      #11
                      Re: Lag/Game freeze/texture issues..

                      I am having the same problem and its definitely not a temp issue.

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                      • brendanmc6

                        #12
                        Re: Lag/Game freeze/texture issues..

                        nothing over clocked

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                        • fil3337l

                          #13
                          Re: Lag/Game freeze/texture issues..

                          yea had the same problems last night ie fps stuttering to what seemed like 1-2 fps white and black textures so did a restart but 10 -15 min later same again ! WHAT A ****ER.
                          THIS WAS AFTER 1-2 HOURS TROUBLE FREE PLAYING .
                          I have seen posts that blame it on ram i myself only have a 128mb 66gt so maybe thats it but thinking again 7800gt seem also to have the same problem . lets blame it on the developers and start sending them posts on how their code is consuming our lives !

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                          • brendanmc6

                            #14
                            Re: Lag/Game freeze/texture issues..

                            lol yea this is a real pain....


                            well heres an update: i installed a new sound driver, and like usuall when you think you found the fix it !@#$'s up ur computer even more. it broke my sound and somehow my cd drive
                            so i re installed the latest mobo drivers that came with audio- didnt fix. the next day i tried them again and it worked??? but i havent tested BF2 since before i did any of this.

                            i dont like having to play 1-2 hrs just to see if it messes up again :-/

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                            • brendanmc6

                              #15
                              Re: Lag/Game freeze/texture issues..

                              i fixed it after installing motherboard drivers twice, and re installing graphics drivers, plus the new bf 1.21 patch

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