BF2

[Guest]

I have Bf2 installed and works except its very very chopper nad i am using
the same settings as in xp and it ran great. is there any reason for this or
anything i can change or is it just cause its vista? anyone else have this
problem?

 

[Guest]

my best guess is that it works slow because the drivers is not as good as the
one for XP yet...

the Aero Glass could also take some of the computer power... and don't know
if Vista takes more ram than XP

 

[Pendragon]

I did an "upgrade" install of Vista, I had all sorts of problems with BF2. I
uninstalled BF then reinstalled the lot, BF2 SF and AF. It all works fine
now in fact I recon that I'm getting an extra few FPS now under Vista. I
have the latest nVidia drivers for the main nVidia site. I doesn't like
Alt-Tab'ing bake to desktop so I recon I'm not going to be admin'ing the
server for the clan now, but I recon I'll get that sorted soon enough...

 

[Stephen Sobchuk]

Hmmm..here's my problem with BF2. I installed it on Windows XP Pro x64 and
Windows Vista 64. They both run great with little to no problems. SO now I
go and try it out on my Vista x86 which should be no sweat and it won't
work. I had done the upgrade so I figured I'd uninstall it and re-install
everything. Nope same deal, it trys tro load and crashes. Even when I use
all the compatiblity modes. I don't get why it works fine on something it
wasn't written for, plus on a dual core system, but on a P4HT 3.4GHz machine
running a 32-bit version of Vista and not 64-bit, it won't work at all. Any
help would be greatly appreciated. By the way it wouldn't run with it's
shipping version or patch 1.3 so I'm at my wits end, I spent 5 hours
installing and defraging and so on for no results.

 

[Trinity]

I have also installed BF2 in the Vista x86 and found that it runs but it
runs very poorly. It's like having a lot of lag when online. The conclusion
I have reached is that we are running DX9 hardware and DX10 is trying to
drive the hardware harder than it is able to accomidate. The solution here
would seem to be a video card upgrade to one that supports DX10.

 

[Clark]

I am running it on the 32 bit version and it seems to be running fine--now.
I installed the Nvidia 88.61 drivers for Vista and it helped, but I still
had a lot of hard drive activity slowing down the game. I installed another
gig of ram and the game now runs just like it did in XP, no more slow downs
waiting for the hard drive.

So, if you have the urge, add some memory and check. I'm running an GeForce
6800 GT.

Clark

 

[Trinity]

Thanks, Clark. I will have to get another 2gigs of memory soon. I aam
suffering withdrawl symptoms from not playing BF2.

 

[LittleBokey]

BF2 plays now... loaded the Nvidia 6.14.10.8798. Sometimes it exits without
warning when starting an on-line game. Single player works well now. Slow
play is relative as the whole system is slower than XP Pro was... like you
guys I was having withdrawl.

Running Athlon X2 3800, 2 GB RAM, Nvidia 6600 PCIE.
Steve B