Forcing 8xAA in BF2

I always found on the ati card i had you had to have aa set on application control option in the control panel and enabled in the game or it never worked.
 
I've got them all set to medium. I don't want lag so I left them all on medium because even though my gfx card can handle maxed out I only have 1GB of RAM. So if anyone can tell me what I can put up without it affecting RAM usage too much?
 
To the OP, have you tried using ATITrayTools?

I have always found that having AA set outside of the game, makes the in-game text (i.e. chat) look blurred/blocky and hard to read.

Personally I use 4xAA in-game and 8xAF via traytools.

Scort.
 
ah no i havent - tray tools only goes up to 6xAA......i know nvidias can go to 8x, but it looks like ATI cant then

I might shove the AF up tho - what does BF2 have as its max AF setting - it just has high medium or low?

Tom
 
Ati cards can only do 6x its the new 8800's that can do upto 16xaa which i run bf2 in nicely on mine.
 
thecremeegg2 said:
ah no i havent - tray tools only goes up to 6xAA......i know nvidias can go to 8x, but it looks like ATI cant then

I might shove the AF up tho - what does BF2 have as its max AF setting - it just has high medium or low?

Tom
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Iirc, without loading it up (sorry too busy now), I think mine goes up to x6 in game, along with x2 and x4.

Scort.
 
Macabre said:
I've got them all set to medium. I don't want lag so I left them all on medium because even though my gfx card can handle maxed out I only have 1GB of RAM. So if anyone can tell me what I can put up without it affecting RAM usage too much?
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You pretty much can max out everything but you'll have to leave texture size on medium, then it'll work ok...




To the op: Ati cards only support upto 6x I think, just use max ingame AA setting...
 
snowdog said:
You pretty much can max out everything but you'll have to leave texture size on medium, then it'll work ok...
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Lighting to medium is a must also, iirc that is a heavy hitter on performance, in fact, I have that set to medium on my system, as it cuts the loading time somewhat.

Scort.
 
Scort said:
Lighting to medium is a must also, iirc that is a heavy hitter on performance, in fact, I have that set to medium on my system, as it cuts the loading time somewhat.

Scort.
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Sorry but i think thats not true, ive always used most high possible lightning settings (@ 1024x768,2xaa,16xAF and all maxed but textures) in battlefield 2 even in the time i had 1 gig and a 6600gt (beacuse in all games i find lightning far far more important that all other stuff), no probs whatsoever with it still between 30 and 40 fps.

On my current card (6800gs) when i just had 1 gig all that bf2 did was stutter for the 1st 2 minutes, but once played 2 minutes, not even a single stutter the whole game with 1600x1200 res and everything maxed ingame including AA&AF.

His pc sohuld easely handle bf2 on higher options, just try to shut down as many processes as possible before launching the game, with medium textures there shouldn't be lag at all...

6800 ultra was the fastest geforce card around when battlefield 2 came out, and the game definatly ran smooth on pretty much all 256 mb 6800 series ( 128 mb card will cause lag when on high textures and when turning aorund ) so a 7900gto should handle the thing smooth.
 
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snowdog said:
Sorry but i think thats not true, ive always used most high possible lightning settings (@ 1024x768,2xaa,16xAF and all maxed but textures) in battlefield 2 even in the time i had 1 gig and a 6600gt (beacuse in all games i find lightning far far more important that all other stuff), no probs whatsoever with it still between 30 and 40 fps.

On my current card (6800gs) when i just had 1 gig all that bf2 did was stutter for the 1st 2 minutes, but once played 2 minutes, not even a single stutter the whole game with 1600x1200 res and everything maxed ingame including AA&AF.

His pc sohuld easely handle bf2 on higher options, just try to shut down as many processes as possible before launching the game, with medium textures there shouldn't be lag at all...

6800 ultra was the fastest geforce card around when battlefield 2 came out, and the game definatly ran smooth on pretty much all 256 mb 6800 series ( 128 mb card will cause lag when on high textures and when turning aorund ) so a 7900gto should handle the thing smooth.
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lol as a person going from a 6800GS with 1Gb ram to a 7800GS with 2Gb I find the above statement impossible as will many others me thinks. :)


Whoop
 
3500+
2gb geil value ram ddr 400
asus v9999GE 6800 256mb gddr3 256bit card
audigy 2 zs

Bf 2 max settings, 4x aa max af. SMOOTH at least 30-50fps. Bf2 is easy to get good smooth high fps out of with good hardware.
 
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I have

DFI ultra-D
Opteron [email protected]
X1800XT 256mb
2gb Gskill HZ
Audigy 2zs

with all highest settings and only 2xAA at the start of maps it runs really crappy, like very jerky/laggy but at a really high fps.

what up with it?
 
geeza said:
I have

DFI ultra-D
Opteron [email protected]
X1800XT 256mb
2gb Gskill HZ
Audigy 2zs

with all highest settings and only 2xAA at the start of maps it runs really crappy, like very jerky/laggy but at a really high fps.

what up with it?
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your systems like 6 months outdated dude, time for an upgrade and to get FOLDING!

Folding makes games work better FACT*
 
geeza said:
I have

DFI ultra-D
Opteron [email protected]
X1800XT 256mb
2gb Gskill HZ
Audigy 2zs

with all highest settings and only 2xAA at the start of maps it runs really crappy, like very jerky/laggy but at a really high fps.

what up with it?
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Sound like ** ram is filled with junk instead of battlefield files, makign it use virtual ram from hdd instead.
Slow hdd = caused by fragmentation
Clean ** ram to get more ram space free for gaming...
When you alt tab out of battlefield, what ammount of ram is used?
 
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