Unplayable Lag Since 1.21

[Johannès_de_Nova]

Admittedly, I hadn't played this game in two months, so 1.21 is the first time I've played since 1.12. However, now I can barely play at all! I have a 2.8 Ghz Pentium 4 w/HT, 512 MB RAM (weak I know), 128 MB ATI Radeon Mobility Pro.

I set the game to everything as low as possible except viewing distance (I leave it at 75%) and resolution (1400 x 1050). It used to work just perfectly, but now I can't even play it. It lags like mad. Every two or three seconds the screen just stops for a split second. It really makes the game unplayable.

So what do I do? Am I screwed because this new patch messes up 512 MB RAM users? Or is there some setting that can help?

[Kamikaze™]

Re: Unplayable Lag Since 1.21

i'm guessing it's either the graphics card needs upgrading or the memory. I played it on a 6600 GT with 1 GB Kinston Hyper-X (sucks) and it ran on all medium with 100% viewing but in any type of gun fight, light or heavy there was terrible lag. Now I play on Everything on high except for the dynamics (shadow and light) at 1280 x 1024 with no lag. But I also got 2GB Corsair XMS and a 7800 GS. Just some things to look into.

[Johannès_de_Nova]

Re: Unplayable Lag Since 1.21

Hmm... just right now the game was having interesting graphics issues.

First off, the 3D map icons would ghost and spread across the screen. Then the game crashed after going into a weird multicolor display. Any suggestions?

[ThoughtForm]

Re: Unplayable Lag Since 1.21

If the last time you played was V1.12 amd now at 1.21, did you patch to 1.2 before installing the 1.21 patch?

[Johannès_de_Nova]

Re: Unplayable Lag Since 1.21

No because I got the full install 1.21, the 367 MB one.

[t.Grumpage]

Re: Unplayable Lag Since 1.21

You could try running a defrag. Installing the patch may have caused some files to become fragmented which can cause delays in disk access.

The patch may also make BF2 more demanding on memory due to extra features. With only 512MB you're really at the limit of the minimum spec required to run the game. I expect your page file is being accessed fairly regularly which will effect performance.

I've had issues with my ATI graphics card. When there are alot on screen effects e.g Artillery strike, I notice some lagging. I updated my graphics drivers and this seemed to eleviate the problem slightly.

[Johannès_de_Nova]

Re: Unplayable Lag Since 1.21

I updated my graphics card driver to the 6.3, but since it's the mobility version (I own a laptop), it's different than the one regular 9600 users get.

I figured they just may have made the game more RAM intensive. It's just a tad discouraging that I can't play like I used to. I plan to buy more RAM to put in my laptop though, so that might help.

[evil.rusk]

Re: Unplayable Lag Since 1.21

I forget where I saw it but somebody posted that apparently the new patch (1.2) uses 200Mb more ram than before due to how it caches shaders etc. I have noticed on all high settings my PC is using around 200Mb more than before. This may be your issue?

[Johannès_de_Nova]

Re: Unplayable Lag Since 1.21

Perhaps. Everything is on low settings on mine though, and I'm not sure but I think I may have turned off shaders (well, whatever options that are off in the default low setting).

[Annihilator]

Re: Unplayable Lag Since 1.21

Admittedly, I hadn't played this game in two months, so 1.21 is the first time I've played since 1.12. However, now I can barely play at all! I have a 2.8 Ghz Pentium 4 w/HT, 512 MB RAM (weak I know), 128 MB ATI Radeon Mobility Pro.

I set the game to everything as low as possible except viewing distance (I leave it at 75%) and resolution (1400 x 1050). It used to work just perfectly, but now I can't even play it. It lags like mad. Every two or three seconds the screen just stops for a split second. It really makes the game unplayable.

So what do I do? Am I screwed because this new patch messes up 512 MB RAM users? Or is there some setting that can help?

yeah i got the same problem, have not played 3 months and now it lags like hell.
my spec is better and still lag.
6600GT
1.28GB RAM
amd 3000+