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2006-09-03 16:08:09
wraithpilot
Member
+0|7027
I did a search, but thee weren't any posts regarding my issue.  It seems my gameplay gets very choppy while going in the direction of certain flags.  If and when I get to that flag, it's soo bad, the game is unplayable.  I really didn't have any issues until I bought a new HD because my other one was about to crash...you know, it was starting to sound like a dot matrix printer.

anyway I reloaded everything and ever since then I've been having this issue.  What else is weird, it doesn't do it on every map.  When I play Iron Gator, everything is fine, but I hate that map.  I have gone through all of my drivers and they are all up to date.  It's getting really annoying to play anymore .

Here's my system

windows XP
Gigabyte 939 pin motherboar
2.00 gigahertz AMD Athlon 64
128 kilobyte primary memory cache
512 kilobyte secondary memory cache
2048 Megabytes Installed Memory
NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS w/TweaksRUs driver
NVIDIA(R) nForce(TM) Audio
NVIDIA(R) nForce(TM) Audio Codec Interface

Can anyone give me a suggestion to try.  And yes, I have done all of those tweaks that are pinned on the front page,,,
2006-09-03 16:50:11
Twist
Too old to be doing this sh*t
+103|6826|Little blue planet, milky way
If it happened when you bought a new HDD, I'm guessing that you've transfered your files to the new HDD as a clone or something. If the blocksize on the NEW drive is different than the old drive, then the readahead is beingmessed up. I'm assuming you would have a similar problem if you had a DVD movie on your old drive and had copied that over. You would probably also experience that the movie playback was choppy.

My best piece of advice for this kind of situation: rename the old install dir and delete your BF2 cache. Reinstall, and repatch, then delete the old dir. Depending on a few hings, this aught to work.
2006-09-03 17:04:02
EricTViking
Yes, I am Queeg
+48|6854|UK
If you think it may be related to the new HDD then look at the following:

If the HDD is PATA and not SATA then make sure it is not running in PIO mode. To do this go to device manager and expand "IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers". Take a look at the advanced settings for each IDE channel. Your PATA HDD should be Ultra DMA Mode 5 or higher. If it is showing as PIO mode then uninstall the IDE channel and reboot.

If it is a SATA HDD it may be running in a transfer mode that is too high for your Mobo. Most HDDs these days come with a jumper on the back to reduce the transfer rate from 3.0Gb/Sec to 1.5Gb/Sec - you could try using the slower setting.

Try uninstalling nVidia IDE drivers if they are present. I have seen these fekk up a lot of PCs recently. The M$ IDE drivers are much more stable.

 

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