BF2S Forums A bottle of whiskey for some tweakin advice:)

Lawk, kill explorer.exe? Seriously? Play nicely. ;-)

Sinn, try this. My machine kinda blows too and these tweaks helped quite a bit. In your video options within BF2, set Overall Quality to Low, then make sure that Anti-Aliasing is turned Off. That will help quite a bit. The two other most important settings are View Distance Scale and Geometry. These two control how far away you're able to see vehicles, troops, etc, and will make a huge difference on big maps like Kubra Damn or when you're in a heli or jet. Set View Distance Scale to 100% and Geometry to Medium. Keep everything else on Low. The other things like Dynamic Light, Geometry and Shadows just make the game pretty. Personally, I get more enjoyment from a higher score than from nifty looking shadows.

Read yas comments, gents i'll put a proper reply together when i get back frm pub.

Jodah3 wrote:

It sounds like you're doing everything you can with your current hardware setup. 

Quick answer to one of your initial questions:  Everything in task manager in your user name group besides explorer.exe can be ended.  Leave the system and networking processes alone.

This was mentioned before, but I'll reiterate the steps as well: Start->Run->msconfig.  Then 'Startup' tab and click either 'Disable All' or choose manually.  This will basically prevent most of those processes from starting automatically each time you boot up and save you from going into task manager each time.  You can always manually start them later.

Just a tip for your future upgrading, see if you can get your hands on XP pro.  XP home is horrendous in comparison.  Happy gaming.

I wouldn't use msconfig if I were you.  Use services.msc instead. Trust me.