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06-23-2005, 08:19 PM #1
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System Specs, BF2 Settings & Performance
I wanted to start a thread for people to post their system specs, BF2 settings and evaluate the performance they are getting. Try to follow the format listed below and stay on topic.
System Specs
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Motherboard: Asus A7N8X-Deluxe
CPU: AMD 2500+ Barton (Overclocked to 3200+ 2.2GHz)
Memory: 1 GB PC3200 (2x256mb dual channel; 512mb)
Hard Drive: SATA 37 GB 10000rpm
Video Card: Gigabyte 6800GT 256MB (77.30 drivers)
Sound Card: onboard sound
BF2 Settings
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Resolution: 1280 x 1024 @ 60MHz
Terrain: High
Effects: Medium
Geometry: High
Texture: Medium (was high)
Lighting: Medium (was low)
Dynamic Shadows: Off
Dynamic Light: Low (was off)
Anti-Aliasing: 2x (was off)
Texture Filtering: Low
View Distance: 75% (was 100%)
Audio Renderer: Hardware
Sound Quality: High
EAX: No
Performance Evaluation
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I recently upgraded to the 6800GT from a FX 5700 Ultra. I was hoping to be able to get slightly better settings than I do now. The game looks great with everything maxed out, but it's unplayable. These current settings seem to offer the best I can get that is playable. I'm averaging over 50 fps with these settings on a 64 player server. I haven't been in a super heated battle yet to see if I have video lag or not.Last edited by asch; 06-25-2005 at 02:43 AM.
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06-23-2005, 08:29 PM #2
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Re: System Specs, BF2 Settings & Performance
Cool what does my system allow me to put my settings at?
System Specs
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Motherboard: Chaintech S1689
CPU: AMD 64 3200+
Memory: 1 GB PC3200 (2x512mb dual channel; Low Lat; CL2)
Hard Drive: EIDE 40GB 7200rpm Maxtor
Video Card: XFX 6800 128MB
Sound Card: Chaintech PCI 7.1 Audio
Expected BF2 Settings
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Resolution: 1024 x 768 @ 60MHz
Terrain: High
Effects: Med
Geometry: High
Texture: High
Lighting: Low
Dynamic Shadows: Off
Dynamic Light: Off
Anti-Aliasing: 2X
Texture Filtering: Low
View Distance: 100%
Give me a day and ill edit/post with evaluation.Oyee
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06-24-2005, 06:17 AM #3
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Re: System Specs, BF2 Settings & Performance
Textures on High are your biggest performance killer asch. BF2 is the biggest memory hog in the history of PC games. It requires 2 gigs of ram to use high textures on the big 64p maps. No matter how good your GPU/CPU combo is 1 gig simply cant do the job. With "only" 1 gig the game runs out of space and starts digging into virtual memory and the HDD gets thrashed. Thats what causes the "hitching" and "laggy" stalls in the middle of the action. Textures are being pushed through the much slower hard drive.
I also have a 6800 GT and 1 gig of ram, but a faster CPU (4000+ A64) and get awful hitching with high textures. I bumped textures and shadows down to medium and now the game flies with no hitching whatsoever. I average between 50 and 75fps and rarely get a dip below 45 even during intense battles. The GT handles high geometry and lighting just fine so dont worry about having to bump those down.
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06-25-2005, 02:47 AM #4
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Re: System Specs, BF2 Settings & Performance
I made some adjustments to my BF2 settings (see first post for changes). With these settings the game looks much better while still preserving a decent framerate. I was weary of downgrading the view distance from 100% to 75% but I realized that even that 76-100% view distance that I lost, I would never be able to shoot that far and rarely even have to look that far.
So I'm much more happy with these settings... the game is beautiful and only once in 5 hours of high action 64 player gaming did I experience the slightest of lag.
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06-25-2005, 08:20 AM #5
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Re: System Specs, BF2 Settings & Performance
I've got...:
P4 2.4C
1024MB PC3200 in dual channel
6600GT
...and that's about all that's worth mentioning.
Onboard sound, Maxtor 7200RPM 40GB harddrives.
I play just fine with overall set to high (which is everything on high except for two, shadows and dyn. lighting which go to medium I think?), I had AA on 2X, but one game it was quite choppy, although it could have been Xfire; does anyone notice that there's noticeable slowdown running that with your games?
Oh, and resolution's just 1024x768.
Nick
......then again, after reading some of these posts a little more (at all ;D), I dunno. I guess it's been a while since I played a game with high framerates, maybe I've been spoiled. I'll turn textures down to med-ish and see how the change is.
Last edited by nick.spacek; 06-25-2005 at 08:35 AM.
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06-25-2005, 04:29 PM #6
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Re: System Specs, BF2 Settings & Performance
Spec:
Thermaltake Lan VM2000A Silver - Case
P4 530 3.0GHZ HTT 800FSB 1MB LGA775
Coolermaster Hyper 48 CPU Cooler
Maxtor10 160GB 7200 SATA150 8MB
ASUS P5AD2 Premium MotherBoard P4 LGA775
Hyper Silent 525W PSU
Corsair XMS5400 1GB (2x512MB) 533Mhz PRO x2 = 2GB System Memory
Creative Sound Blaster Live! 24-Bit
Asus Geforce 6600 256MB PCI-E
Samsung Syncmaster 710v 17" TFT Monitor
Altec Lancing 2.1 Speakers
.... and a partridge in a pear tree.
In Game Settings:
Resolution: 1280x1024 @ 60
Terrain: High
Effects: High
Geometry: High
Texture: High
Lighting: High
Dynamic Shadows: On
Dynamic Light: On
Anti-Aliasing: 2X
Texture Filtering: High
View Distance: 100%
Audio Renderer: Hardware
Sound Quality: High
EAX: yes
Issues:
well i tried raising the AA to 4x but in situations with many players and alot of action, i get alot of system lag, but the game does look real nice, even though i lowered it to x2 it runs perfect now and the only lag i get is server lag. All other settings are fine and done cause probelms.
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06-28-2005, 10:06 AM #7
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Re: System Specs, BF2 Settings & Performance
Spec:
ASUS A7N8X Deluxe Mobo, FSB 400
AMD Athlon XP 3200+
2 GB Corsair DDR 400 RAM
eVGA GeForce 6800GT 256 MB DDR3 RAM
160 GB Western Digital SATA HD
In Game Settings:
Resolution: 1280x960 @ 75
Terrain: High
Effects: High
Geometry: High
Texture: Medium
Lighting: High
Dynamic Shadows: High
Dynamic Light: High
Anti-Aliasing: 4X
Texture Filtering: High
View Distance: 100%
Audio Renderer: Hardware
Sound Quality: High
EAX: yes
Issues:
After experimenting, I found the above settings provide the best experience for me. I find that even with 2 GB of RAM, the game still occassionally stutters/pauses when textures are set to high. BF2 is a monster! On medium textures, the game runs like hot butter with everything else maxed.[volun]
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06-28-2005, 10:17 AM #8
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Re: System Specs, BF2 Settings & Performance
Hmm... we seem to have a similar setup, however I'm not able to hold those settings. I wonder how much RAM has to do with it... that and I probably need a good old reformat/reinstall of the machine. Eventually I'll try this and update my experience.
Originally Posted by TG_PolishBoogieman
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06-28-2005, 11:14 AM #9
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Re: System Specs, BF2 Settings & Performance
Asch, I think you have a bottleneck somewhere - you should be in better shape with that setup. If I were you, I'd nuke your hard drive and start over, getting the latest drivers for everything. Make sure you get the newest unified driver from nVidia for the chipset, plus newest drivers for the video card. Get version 1008 of BIOS from ASUS. Our setups are damn near identical, feel free to ask me questions if you got 'em.
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06-28-2005, 12:41 PM #10
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Re: System Specs, BF2 Settings & Performance
i just added more ram which makes me up to 1gig and it runs so much smoother, i was able to up my graphics a bit so it looks nicer......
more ram the better!that sounds like a good idea trooper.
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09-10-2005, 08:00 AM #11
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Re: System Specs, BF2 Settings & Performance
Motherboard: ?
CPU: p4 3.0
Memory: ddr2 sdram 1gb
Hard Drive: SATA
Video Card: ATI radeon X800 XL
Sound Card: soundblaster ?
Can anybody tell me whats the best settings for my computer or if someone is running a similair system can they give me there specs
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09-10-2005, 11:56 AM #12
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Re: System Specs, BF2 Settings & Performance
System Specs
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Motherboard: Asus P4C800-Deluxe
CPU: P4 2.8GHz (Overclocked to 3.0GHz)
Memory: 2 GB OCZ PC3200 (4x512mb dual channel)
Hard Drive: 2 x SATA 120 GB 7800rpm
Sound Card: Sound Blaster X-Fi (Thx Bubba!)
Speakers: Klipsch Pro-Media Ultra 5.1
Video Card: Ati X800xl 256MB AGP 8x (Catalyst 5.8)
Display: Viewsonic N3000w 30' Widescreen HDTV LCD
BF2 Settings
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Resolution: 1024 x 768 @ 60MHz
Terrain: High
Effects: High
Geometry: High
Texture: High
Lighting: High
Dynamic Light: High
Anti-Aliasing: 2x
Texture Filtering: High
View Distance: 100%
Audio Renderer: X-FI Hardware
Sound Quality: Ultra-High
EAX: Yes
Lan: Cable/T1
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09-10-2005, 12:02 PM #13
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Re: System Specs, BF2 Settings & Performance
System Specs
COOLER MASTER Centurion 530 RC-530-SSN1 Black Aluminum Bezel, SECC Chassis ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
ENERMAX Noisetaker EG495P-VE SFMA ATX 485W Power Supply
BFG Tech nForce 4 Ultra Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra ATX AMD Motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ Venice 1GHz FSB Socket 939 Processor Model ADA3500BPBOX -
2 CORSAIR XMS 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Unbuffered Dual Channel Kit System Memory 2 GIG Total
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Fidelity Sound Card
MITSUMI FA404A/404M 8-in-1 USB 2.0 Digital Card Reader/Writer W/FD INTERNAL
Maxtor DiamondMax 10 6B200P0 200GB 7200 RPM IDE Ultra ATA133 Hard Drive -
2 PLEXTOR Beige IDE DVD Burner
BFG Tech BFGW68256GTOCXV Geforce 6800GT 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card
Microsoft Windows XP HOME Edition With Service Pack 2
BF2 Settings
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Resolution: 1280 x 1024 @ 60MHz
Terrain: High
Effects: High
Geometry: High
Texture: High
Lighting: High
Dynamic Shadows: High
Dynamic Light: High
Anti-Aliasing: 2x
Texture Filtering: High
View Distance: 100%
Audio Renderer:Creative X-Fi
Sound Quality: High
EAX: OnLast edited by Bubba; 09-10-2005 at 03:25 PM.
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09-10-2005, 12:03 PM #14
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Re: System Specs, BF2 Settings & Performance
Originally Posted by TG_Trigger
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09-10-2005, 12:06 PM #15
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Bubba..Turn ON EAX and ultra high quality sound brother.
Also you should be able to get 2x AA with that rig. AA make a huge difference
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