BF2142 running like a POS

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Just bought this game and its running terrible

Seems really jolty and laggy

AMD Athlon 2600 (Yer i know :( )
Radeon X1950 Pro
Gig and a half of ram
4mb Connection

I would have thought it would run decent with that, chip needs an upgrade but it should still cope

Can anyone recommend some settings changes?

Help meh please :)
 
Titan mode lags like anything for me, and my specs are a lot worse than yours. Conquest mode is fine however.

Maybe you just got a day where the EA servers are messed up, which unfortunately is far too often for my liking.
 
play smaller maps.

If your playing 64 man servers you will lag loads, keep it below 32. Turn down the display settings/lower res, no AA.

CPU is probably holding you back a lot and possable bottlenecking your GFX.
 
Runs like **** in singleplayer as well ill turn the textures down but i would have thought a card like mine would handle this sweet :confused:

Pain in the arse this is cant frag for **** at the moment

Thanks for the help though dudes :)
 
1) What res you running at and what CPU Ghz?
2) Overclock your chip to at least 2Ghz (Mine is a barton 2500+ @ 2.250 and runs sweetly)
3) I think as default Shadows and HDR are turned on. Try turning that and Anti Aliasing off. Then work up from there.
4) 1.5GB is a good amount of memory, I have worse at only 1GB and still is ok.
5) May be time to defrag your harddisk :)
6) What other stuff you got running in the background
7) Create another user in "Windows", and use that as a gaming profile. I found that my usual login was crap frankly, and I created another user and it cut out all the stuff from the last year and I half I didn't need, help it not be so jerky. Bit extreme, but Windows has NEVER been good with registry stuff and keeping it tidy.
8)Report back :)

I have a MUCH worse card than yours (Nvidia 6800LE) and it runs pretty good considering. I think I set it to run at 1024 though :( But is playable and I kill a fair amount of peeps. Titan mode, ESPECIALLY inside the titan may or may not be a nightmare depending on the server.

Reinstall your graphics drivers I would recommend.

Yeah all games and especially things that are Necessary to play like punkbuster should be auto update, but EA are not intelligent like that unfortunately. I bet some people stopped playing because they didn't know what to do to sort that :( So sorry you will have to hunt for that.

Matthew
 
I doubt it's your PC spec - I've run it on max (on vista 64) with an athlon 64 1.8 and an x1800xt.

You know you've been playing too much Eve when you read POS as Player Owned Station :)
 
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