BattleField 2 makes me mad!

**Mels_Smileys45** · September 11th, 2005, 11:47 PM

OK, I bought this game knowing my current video card would have problems but I got it anyways as I figured I could just lower the rez and suffer a bit till I got my new card. Boy was I wrong. It shuts down as soon as I try to play it. I've heard of a few people hacking their way into getting older cards to run it but I doubt its worth it. Ive read even the best cards can not run the game with all setting set to high with out getting hit hard in the frame rate catagory. This week I'm gonna go ahead and get me an ATI x850 xt to play this awesome game that they seem to have only made to sell more video cards! I can't wait to blow my wad!

Anyone else have this game and if so, what video card are you running it with?

**Roamerick** · September 12th, 2005, 12:44 AM

Originally Posted by Mels_Smileys45

I'Ive read even the best cards can not run the game with all setting set to high with out getting hit hard in the frame rate catagory.

BF2 needs a serious rig to run well. I'm running it flawlessly at max res with all the goodies turned on, but this is on a P4 3.0GHz with a 6800GT and 2GB of RAM. The memory is very important, with 1GB I experienced a lot of stuttering when textures were loaded, but with 2GB it's smooth as silk.

Was it worth it? Yes :) BF2 is an amazing game if you're into the old Battlefield series.

**.:sp00ky:.** · September 12th, 2005, 12:52 AM

hmmmz im surprised it crashes my mate got it running on a old celoron 512ram and a gforce 5200 it looked like shit but still played ok..he got a new computer though ater seeing it run on myn im running it on full and i have

6600gt overclocked
3200+64 overclocked
and 1.5gig of ram

does it crash when its loading the menus of straight away?

**Mels_Smileys45** · September 12th, 2005, 12:58 AM

I have an AMD 64 3000+ but Ive read the CPU is not so important with this game. From the info I got, all the load is on the GPU and the tests with faster CPUs showed very little difference. It did say that 1 gig of ram was plenty but with the textures turned all the way up thel frame rate takes a hit, like you say. I have only one gig of DDR 3200 ram so the texture will be set to medium. But the bench mark tests I saw showed that the 6800GT did not run the game flawlessly, no cards have yet to do that. Even with some major gaming rigs the frame rates tend to drop in heavy action. Maybe its not a big enough deal to notice but this game is made for cards that are not out yet.

**Krell** · September 12th, 2005, 01:00 AM

Go in to your BIOS

Look for the setting called AGP APERTURE SIZE

Increase it to the highest possible.

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**Mels_Smileys45** · September 12th, 2005, 01:11 AM

Originally Posted by .:sp00ky:.

hmmmz im surprised it crashes my mate got it running on a old celoron 512ram and a gforce 5200 it looked like shit but still played ok..he got a new computer though ater seeing it run on myn im running it on full and i have

6600gt overclocked
3200+64 overclocked
and 1.5gig of ram

does it crash when its loading the menus of straight away?

It doesnt crash. Battlfield is designed to kick you back to your desktop if it doesn't support your video card. I read a lot about it here http://hardware.gamespot.com/Story-ST-x-2147-x-x-x There are a lot of bench mark test here. You will see that no system runs it flawlessly. You may not notice it right off, but it is so.

I have an old Geforce4 4000 I robbed from my old PC till I get my new one. Its way to old to run this game and wouldn't be worth the trouble to even get it up and running. I'll just wait till Friday.

its already set to auto which would be 8x for me

**Mels_Smileys45** · September 12th, 2005, 01:16 AM

Originally Posted by gamespot

While using high-end video cards like the Radeon X850XT and the GeForce 6800 Ultra, we noticed that even though the video cards scored well, we'd rather play with lower settings to maintain frame rates during taxing situations. You could probably get away with 1600x1200 and high quality, but we'd recommend using these cards at around 1280x960, with high-quality settings, to get the best image quality and overall performance. The Radeon X800 XL, which is slightly slower than the Radeon X850 XT, also performs well with a resolution of 1280x960 and high-quality settings. In general, the rule of thumb to take away is: If you have a 16-pipe card, you can crank up the settings to your heart's delight, but you still have to watch the resolution and disable antialiasing.

The story changes once we drop down the 12-pipe GeForce 6800 and Radeon X800 Pro, Trying to run these cards at high resolutions with high quality settings produced poor frame rates. Shifting down to medium quality solved our problems, and it even let us raise the resolution to 1600x1200. You could also reduce the lighting and shadowing settings, and leave other settings at high, to get better image quality and performance.

If you set the rez lower it should be no problem to run the game with the other setting high. What rez are you guys playing in?

**.:sp00ky:.** · September 12th, 2005, 01:18 AM

ahh ok geforce 4 is kinda old :P

with your new GC it should run fine it can drop frame rate a little in close combat if their are loads of players around but not enough to ruin anything.

fear the jets ^__^

**.:sp00ky:.** · September 12th, 2005, 01:27 AM

I have myn set to 1024x768 I run all my games at that rez it gives you abit of room to put effects up on high without losing too many frames.

**Mels_Smileys45** · September 12th, 2005, 01:45 AM

I'll have to join a battle with you next weekend. I don't usually set my rez all the way up either. I would rather run smooth than herky jerky. I really can't wait to get a nice video card. Its been so long, as you can see by what I got.

**Roamerick** · September 12th, 2005, 05:34 AM

Originally Posted by Mels_Smileys45

Maybe its not a big enough deal to notice but this game is made for cards that are not out yet.

Sorry man but that's just not true. A high-end card will run it fine, IF it's on a system with enough memory and possibly a fast HD as well. The game does highlight any bottlenecks in a system, true, but it's not all down to the GPU. on a pure graphics side, a 6800GT will do just fine, but of course not with 8xAA and 8xAF turned on at 1280x960. You will however get by comforably with 2x of 4x AA.

**Sephiroth** · September 12th, 2005, 06:43 AM

I can run it with a Geforce 6600 GT. My problem is what the stupid game loses connection to the server every 10 minutes.. The patch that was suppose to come out at the end of August is coming out at the beginning of October.

**Mels_Smileys45** · September 17th, 2005, 03:22 AM

Originally Posted by Roamerick

Sorry man but that's just not true. A high-end card will run it fine, IF it's on a system with enough memory and possibly a fast HD as well. The game does highlight any bottlenecks in a system, true, but it's not all down to the GPU. on a pure graphics side, a 6800GT will do just fine, but of course not with 8xAA and 8xAF turned on at 1280x960. You will however get by comforably with 2x of 4x AA.

I was mainly going by the bench marks posted on Gspot, where if its not running at 100fps, its just not enough, lol. I didn't mean to say that the cards would not run them but that there will be much better performing cards for this game later on.

I got my Radeon X850 pro (not the card I was going to get but I made a last minute choice and its nice) today and I'm running most of the setting on high except for textures and its very amazing. It only belches every now and then but then again that may be server lag. These grafix are amazing!!!!!

**Krell** · September 17th, 2005, 03:24 AM

Gspot reminds me . . . have you seen Jessica tonight?

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**Stownplayer** · September 18th, 2005, 09:34 AM

This game just owned my system! I think i need to upgrade as i can't stand not being able to play a new game. I thought doom 3 was supposed to be bad but this just froze my computer up!