ATi Users Rejoice!

[Pendarus]

Re: ATi Users Rejoice!

1.2 I had bad lag and crash to desktop on startup. Got the latest Omega drivers for ATI, totally smooth and no crashes. The stock Catalyst Drivers are a problem for me.




Now:
AMD XP 2700+
1Gb
X850pro AGP Soft Modded to X850XT PE
Gigabyte KV7N 400 Pro Ver 2.0
SB Audigy 2

Soon to be:
AMD64 37000+ Overclocked to FX55 Specs
1Gb
Epox 9NDA3+
X850pro AGP Soft Modded to X850XT PE
SB Audigy 2

[Maasawa]

Re: ATi Users Rejoice!

I just installed the update, upgraded my video drivers from Catalyst 5.9 to 6.3. The result: After playing online for about 10 minutes, lagging seems marginally better, but I'm still getting the annoying stutters. They seem to occur every 5-10 seconds or so.

Maybe I should do more testing before drawing any conclusions? Maybe there's some setting that needs to be tweaked? :hmm:

-- Dasharatha

Playing BF2 1.21 at 1600x1200x32@85Hz

Intel Pentium 4 640 HT 3.20 GHz
Windows XP Pro SP2
1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz (2x512M)
256MB PCI Express x16 ATI Radeon X850 XT PE
Catalyst 6.3 drivers for Windows XP
DirectX 9.0c
ViewSonic P95f+ 19 inch Ultrabrite CRT Monitor
Sound Blaster Audigy2 ZS
Creative I-Trigue 2.1 3300 Speakers
Logitech MX 518 Optical Mouse
Saitek Gamers Keyboard USB
Thrustmaster Top Gun Fox 2 Pro USB joystick

[Tk-421]

Re: ATi Users Rejoice!

I just installed the update, upgraded my video drivers from Catalyst 5.9 to 6.3. The result: After playing online for about 10 minutes, lagging seems marginally better, but I'm still getting the annoying stutters. They seem to occur every 5-10 seconds or so.

Maybe I should do more testing before drawing any conclusions? Maybe there's some setting that needs to be tweaked? :hmm:

-- Dasharatha

Have you tried setting your PCI latency to 64? This worked for me. I have an AIW X800XT AGP. Try downloading ATI Tray Tools if you don't have it already. You can set your PCI latency from there.

[MooneyBravo]

Re: ATi Users Rejoice!

x800 Pro here and I have had zero performance issues since the game came out, it has never noticeably changed from patch to patch.

Am I just lucky? Or is it that I put the game to the right settings for my computer and have not tried to overdo it and stress things out?

[sgt-Sander-NL]

Re: ATi Users Rejoice!

I have an AMD athlon 64 3200, radeon 1600pro and 1 gb ram, have always ran BF2 on highest settings, 1024x768, never had problems :)

[Maasawa]

Re: ATi Users Rejoice!

Have you tried setting your PCI latency to 64? This worked for me. I have an AIW X800XT AGP. Try downloading ATI Tray Tools if you don't have it already. You can set your PCI latency from there.

Thanks for the tip. That gives me some hope at least, that and the option to try the Omega drivers.