Recently upgraded GFX Card

Joined: Nov 24, 2005 Posts: 161 Location: Bolton

From what you've got Dockers, everything should be fine - the only weakspot I can see are the Hard Drives. Because the data required to play the game has to be retrieved from them, their speed is vital in smooth running.

My current PC when it first arrived had a slower CPU (P4 3.0Ghz), ! Gig RAM, a 'vanilla' Dell 6800 card (nowhere near as fast as your 6800GT) and still ran well on BF2 - BUT I was using two HDD on a RAID system (7200 rpm). So I would suggest that it's your Hrad Drives that are the problem!

Have you defragged them? What about running an anti spy programme such as Ad-Aware? Because data miners will dramatically slow down your internet connection for BF2 Evil or Very Mad

Joined: Jan 10, 2006 Posts: 120 Location: Kings Lynn

ya gfx card is easily capable enough to play bf2 on settings other than low - another gig or ram would help for sure and i dont think you need to consider overclocking anything tbh.

maybe there is some random crap on ya machine - installed with other programs etc. or maybe you just surfing too much porn and the dialer software drags ya system down Wink

trying to find out what/where/when and why can be a nightmare if not impossible especially when you have no benchmark to comare against.

my advice is maybe a clean install of windows on a freshly formatted harddrive - make sure bios/chipset and gfx drivers are all current and only install what you need - then if you still get laggy performance, it must be your system configuration.

Joined: Jul 29, 2005 Posts: 428 Location: Weymouth

Hi Dockers

1. Go to nvidia.com and download latest drivers http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_downloads_rel70betadriver.html then reboot your system
2. As it boots up hammer F8 until you get the boot menu choice and select 'safe start up'
3. You'll get a Windows XP type desktop at low resolution but this means you haven't loaded any 3rd party drivers.
4. Go to Control Panel and Add/Remove programs, find nvidia drivers and remove them
5. Reboot system, when you get into Windoze it will start the old 'found new hardware' routine, cancel this.
6. Navigate to where you downloaded the drivers from nvidia and run the program
7. Reboot and go download coolbits from http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=815
8. Run coolbits which will create a new folder called forceware\Guru3D.com\setup on your hard drive. Double click on the coolbits icon and hit 'yes' to add to the registry
9. Now go back to your desktop, right click anywhere, choose properties, then the settings tab, then the advanced button, then the GeForce 6800GT tab, then when the new little window pops open look for the setting on one side called 'clock frequency settings'
10. Click on this, find the 'manual overclocking' button and select, then from the drop down menu choose Performance (3D) and note down the current settings.
11. Find the Detect Optimal Frequency button and click it, your system will now overclock itself to find the maximum stable overclock.
12. When it finishes manually decrease the core and memory by about 5-10 each to be safe.
13. Click 'Test Settings' and then 'Apply These Settings At Startup' which you need to tick

Ok all the way back to the desktop and you're done!

Then in BF2 check out the following advice - http://www.tweakguides.com/BF2_5.html

This should see your frame rate improve!

And like the man says, 2GB RAM does help ......

Cheers.