My challenge to you

[bigbossmatt]

Can you tell me why after about 2 hours of playing BF2 the game gets laggy?

-Not laggy due to internet connection: no one else is on my network, the ping is around 30
-the laggy problem actually freezes the computer, i cant tab to look at scores, i cant escape to menu, i cant enter to spawn screen, i cant alt+tab to windows, i cant do anything. It's like it were to say not responding in task manager - if i could look at it.
-the lag occurs for about 3-6 seconds at a time, about 5 of these per cycle, and another cycle will srat about 10 minutes or less since the last one. This all only starts to occur after an hour or more of playing.

-i get the feeling it is ram related, due to the symptops I described above. I will post my specs at the end all together
-is it to do with punk buster checking every 500 seconds? ( I have done pb_sleep500, pb_writecfg)
-is it to do with the drive needing to defrag after and hour or two?
-Could it be power related? I have 400 Watt supply

2x 1gig Corsair DDR400
AGP Nvidia Geforce 6200 256mb
AMD athlon 3700+ @2.2 Ghz
ASRock A8X-M Motherboard
I think thats all you need to know.

I appreciate any help, I have searched here, other forums and no one can help me, I just got this new pc, and there is no reason why I shouldn't be able to play the way I do for an hour or so, everytime for at least a lot longer.

Another reason why this is annoying to the point of me feeling soo annoyed at buyign this pc, is that restarting, deleteing bfs cache, and defraging doesn't fix it,

also I have my graphics set at medium for texture, geometries etc, and off or low for everything that should be that way: AA, lighting etc :P

Matt

[-[MDS]-Stormy]

Re: My challenge to you

Almost sounds like something is overheating (cpu or vid card). Can you post the temps at idle and when running the game.

[Talus]

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I would agree...run some temps.

Try downloading SpeedFan and having it graph your temps while you're playing.

http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php

If your temps are good, then it is likely a memory leak. Simply close down BF2 every so often and reboot.

[bigbossmatt]

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cool, this its great feedback, ill let you know how the grpahs go, and if there is a memory leak how do i fix it?

personally, i close explorer when playing, and having only teamspeak on.

I don't have any firewalls or ANY other programs. im cool.

is a memory leak hardware or software?

[Talus]

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Some people believe that Battlefield has a memory leak...personally, I do not. I think it is something else. And since you aren't running many other apps, it is unlikely a memory leak with one of your running applications..so my money is on temps.

[-[MDS]-Stormy]

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One thing with Speedfan, take a quick trip into the bios and make note of the reported temps and voltages. Then match those readings up with what Speedfan reports as some of the readings in Speedfan will most likely be phantom readings.

[ThoughtForm]

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In your motherboard BIOS options, do you have CPU thermal throttling enabled?

This option is usually enabled by default but it would be strange for it to kick in only after 2 hours of playing time.

Then again, maybe the heat is accumulating inside the case enough to push it over the thermal throttling threshold after 2 hours of playing..

[bigbossmatt]

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After 4 and a half hours of my pc idling, the speed fan says that the pc sits on 38 degrees
after playing about 30 mins
the harddrive stayed the same (makes sense)
the temp 1 went to 45
the temp 2 went to 50
as i shut down the game, temp 2 went down to 45 in about 1 minute again then decreased steadily from there

What does this tell you??

Also I can't find out what temp 1 and two refer to, i expect temp 2 is the Graphics card temp

[TGL|Badlizzard]

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those temps don't seem excessive. Are you sure you don't have some spyware? It wouldn't explain a 2 hour issue, but an overall slow down/stall of a system. Have you run SpyBot Search and Destroy and do you use a virus scanner?

[SKIDM4RK]

Re: My challenge to you

I would agree...run some temps.

Try downloading SpeedFan and having it graph your temps while you're playing.

http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php

If your temps are good, then it is likely a memory leak. Simply close down BF2 every so often and reboot.

I get the same problems, but mine happen immediately. I know it's not heat related. I've posted numerous threads (as have many other people) regarding this problem in hopes that folks would realize it is in fact a problem with EAs patch and something EA needs to address so folks can stop wasting time misdiagnosing it as something other than patch related. Unfortunatly Forum Moderators will lock those threads and keep others from voicing a strong opinion on how EA needs to address this. At least it was only locked and not deleted so hopefully EA will still see it.

[TGL|Badlizzard]

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Amazing how a few people with problems think that the world must be having problems because they are having issues. People who do not have any problems come here to try and help figure out why your systems are not running right.
Bashing EA doesn't help to figure out why you are having lag in the game, trying to compile data and try different solutions is how these things if they need to be fixed by EA get done.

Rants don't help, the sooner you stop that and actually get down to trouble shooting this problem the better for all involved. I am not saying that the patches haven't introduced other issues by any means. But saying "EA sucks" crap doesn't do anything to solve the problems.

[SKIDM4RK]

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Open your eyes and take a look around...it's far more than a "few" people with this problem Einstein.

Troubleshooting? Problem found - it's the patch. Those of us with the problem really appreciate all (and there has been a lot) of the suggestions as to the possible problem. But all that has ran it's ground and the problem is clearly linked directly to the patch, therefore it's EA's responsibility to fix it.

I think our biggest frustration is that EA has yet to come on board and acknowledge the problem. It's not your responsibility Mr. Moderator Man to get the specifics to solve this problem it's EAs.

You call it a rant I call it a very large sect of the BF2 population that haven't been able to play for weeks.

Trust me pal, I'd much rather spend my time playing the game than "ranting"!

[bigbossmatt]

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Amazing how a few people with problems think that the world must be having problems because they are having issues. People who do not have any problems come here to try and help figure out why your systems are not running right.
Bashing EA doesn't help to figure out why you are having lag in the game, trying to compile data and try different solutions is how these things if they need to be fixed by EA get done.

Rants don't help, the sooner you stop that and actually get down to trouble shooting this problem the better for all involved. I am not saying that the patches haven't introduced other issues by any means. But saying "EA sucks" crap doesn't do anything to solve the problems.

To be honest I don't know what you're talking about. I wasn't bashing EA, and I thought I was being plain and getting to the point of describing my symptoms et cetera.

That being said, the guy who responded to you seems to have taken off with the idea in the above quoted post, and I think maybe some bizaar server error has occured and has put external posts replies into this post.

If I am wrong, explain what I said to make you say that.

Thanks for all help so far, it's been great.

Amazing how a few people with problems think that the world must be having problems because they are having issues.

On a side note, I agree, some people tend to think that since it happenes to them, it happens to everyone. They get annoyed at the system and become hackers, instead of trying to resolve any realistic conflict.

[SKIDM4RK]

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I think you guys are missing the fact that this isn't something that a few select individuals are affected by. Take a look at the large amount of threads started regarding the issues with lag and stuttering posted throughout this website and others. This is affecting a whole lot more folks than you think.

To use your own philosophy back on ya...Some think that if it isn't happening to them, it isn't happening. Consider yourselves luck gang! It's affecting a lot of folks.

Keep in mind we're not complaining because we can't bunny hop, or jump and throw C4...we can't play.

[bigbossmatt]

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I just put on speed fan and played bf2 for ages, when this laggy freeze problem occured, ie now, i alt+tabbed out and looked at the graph and saw that it was stil at 50 like before, when playing bf2 normally (when the error doesn't occur.

So yeh, any guesses at the problem?