Battlefield 2 Crashing

Paolos · 2 Oct 2006 at 09:20

I posted earlier saying that the power on my newly built PC cuts out whenever I try to crank up the detail settings on BF2 (I can play on the lowest settings). Now it seems to just crash and go to the desktop, an improvement I suppose but still annoying! Could it be because I only have 512 RAM? How much would I need to run it on full detail? Here's the spec:

Connect3D ATI Radeon X1800 XT 256MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/
512mb (Kingston?) RAM (Borrowed 'cos the 2gig RAM I brought didn't work)
Intel Core 2 DUO E6300 "LGA775 Allendale" 1.86GHz
Gigabyte GA_965P_DS3 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
HD-079-SE Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB ST3250620AS SATA-II
SC-040-CL Creative Sound Blaster Audigy SE 7.1 Sound Card - OEM
CA-030-AN Antec TruePower 2.0 430W PSU (CA-030-AN)

ichabod crane · 2 Oct 2006 at 09:32

battlefield full settings needs 2gig of ram.

ins0mn1ac · 2 Oct 2006 at 13:06

512 ram is really pushing it with BF2, but it should still work at mediumish settings

silversurfer · 2 Oct 2006 at 15:57

I run bf2 using half a gig, it works but only after a lot of paging and most maps are too big to fit. It wont crash for that reason though, it'll just be a pain to play

Bad ram timings might do it

hyper_piper45 · 2 Oct 2006 at 16:09

Check you are giving your ram enough juice. Try upping the voltage a bit.

R3323 · 2 Oct 2006 at 16:48

hyper_piper45 said:
Check you are giving your ram enough juice. Try upping the voltage a bit.

Yeah give that a try, it was the reason i was geting similar problems with bf2
i just uped the volts by 1 on my ram and i have not had a problem since.

If there is any instability with your ram bf2 will find it and give you problems.

Paolos · 2 Oct 2006 at 17:58

Ah! Thank you! I'll try it ... There's no chance of the RAM blowing up (!) or being damaged is there?

elite · 2 Oct 2006 at 18:13

My mate had same problem, and the psu couldnt power the graphics card so it dumped to desktop.