BF2S Forums WTF?!! help me out here.

S4INT05 wrote:

i just got me another gig of ram, which makes 2gigs of PC3200 400mhz.. but anyway, also put in my new processor, a 3.4ghz prescott pent. 4 w/ HT, and i still get bad frame rates on BF2 when running medium settings?! hell, i've got a shitload of free space on my HDs, and i'm on an nVidia BFG Tech GeForce 6800 GT OC. what the hell? i just benchmarked and scored a 2870, and i'm wondering what the hell is wrong. why am i getting bad framrates and a low score when i just upgraded a shitload and formatted lastnight?!

3.4ghz prescott intel pentium 4 w/ HT
2 gigs PC3200
P4 Titan GA-8IPE 1000 mobo
160 GB total space, 10GB free

what could be done to improve the framerates at the best possible graphics? i was almost positive i could run at medium settings but when shit gets intense, it lags up and i get 4-5 frames/sec. what the hell?! also, any of you nVidia 6 series + users, what profile are you using when running BF2 and what are your settings on the profile?

1. Hard to pin point without further info but I would free up some HD space and then do a defrag of your drive.
You state that you just did a reformat so I assume you reinstalled Windows? - Windows makes a mess of your drive and it will be heavily fragmented - Download a free trial of Diskeeper 10 if you don't own it - much faster than windows built-in defragger.

2. Check and increase your Virtual Memory Paging File size - people often forget to adjust this

3. Check background services/processes that are running and get rid of anything you don't need - always disable virus scanner when playing

4. I know you just reformatted and reinstalled but make sure you have not reinstalled some sort of Adware/spyware - SpyBot is good

5. Make sure Indexing is OFF in services as this will kill your machine no matter what hardware you have

6. If you made a full format and reinstall of soft and is still slow, then you MUST think it is a hardware problem.

Check all connections including electrical are ok. Check that you have a good neutral conn. Check power supply
Check if the new processor fan is functioning ok.  Is it a new fan or the one off your old processor?  Is it any good - heat kills!

If checks are ok and you do not find problems on HDD or fans, then try the RAM on other machine. If it's ok, then the problems are on motherboard.

Thats about all I got.

This all assumes that it is NOT your internet connection and that you are not trying to play with a dial up connection

Last edited by Leatherface-TCM (2005-12-19 07:07:03)

nah, i installed all drivers early yesterday morning. i didn't sleep until everything was up and running. my connection is DSL, 256k+ i believe.

my fan is the stock intel fan that came with the processor. i used arctic silver 5, and the damn thing still runs hot. i checked in bios the other day and it was at 90C. i know i need a new fan, i did buy an arctic cooler fan, but it didn't fit the brackets.

but, i'll try these out. hopefully i'll get full performance after this, if not - i'ma be real pissed.

Do you have case fans? 90c is dangerously high, I'm surprised your not blue screening. Do control alt delete, and see what if anything is using your cpu resources.

i am still getting low scores. i do not understand what the hell is wrong here. my friend has a similar setup and he scored a 5000, which means i should atleast get a 4500, and after a full format and OC the video card, i still cannot get above 3,000. shitty! what the hell?!

Even that is very hot for a CPU. My AMD runs at 28c idle on air cooling. I use a thermaltake CPU fan, I also have 5 case fans, they help alot. As for water cooling, there are some good all in one packages that are fairly cheap, but have gotten good reviews. As long as your not an avid overclocker it will suite you fine.


http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications … mp;CatId=0

He probably mounted the cooler in some wierd way or something like that. But still running at 60+ is not good, even for a prescott as someone said. You should have really considerd a AMD, my runs at 19c idle on stock air cooling. Around 40c in load. Also look in your BIOS and check so that your processor dosen't throttle becuse of heat.

prescotts have the hottest cores around. i am for sure invest in some different heatsink/fan. maybe even that water cooling system you sent me.  i'll just have to wait until next paycheck or gather some christmas funds. surely it will come before my roommate and i pitch in for a server, check this deal out:

AMD 64bit 2.2Ghz
1GIG DDR2 or 3, don't remember.
forgot the video card, but it can run anything we throw at it,
200GB SATA

$350, we're going halves on the mofo. it's a steal.

It's not external water cooling. It will fit in two 5.25 inch drive bays. I've read a lot of reviews on it, all were good. The only thing they mention is that it's not for avid overclockers, but for the money it's a very good all in one system.

http://www.frozencpu.com/ex-wat-20.html?id=uXnAxmiR


That would be a good setup for overclocking. It will also cool your video card and chipset at the same time.