BF2S Forums The top 10 tweaks for lag reduction

Wow, this is the most helpful thread I've ever seen. Thank you.

Thanks you very much

Really Helpful

This Deserves LOT'S of Karma

There are three things that I did to improve my gaming experience in BF2, with no problems. Quite often I'm in the top 10 on spawning. Many times I'm the first and able to capture a couple of flags or get into a position where I'm in a strategic location, even when I have a higher ping rate. Problem with this, my computer shows me as I'm the only one there on the map and also when I hit the tab key, but with a higher ping rate is it true?

The biggest difference that I have found was increasing my ram from 1 gig to 3 gigs and turning page file to 0. This will still give Windows all the ram that it needs to do what ever back ground processes that it needs to do and have your BF2 game running smoothly.
I have, also, bought the ATI Radeon X1600 Pro Crossfire (single card), and my phone company has increased my DSL speed from 1.5 megs to 3 megs.

I've tried a few of the tweaks this past week just out of curiosity and I'll list them:

Tip 1:

I've changed my punk buster checks to 500 seconds, I'm not positive but I think it reduced my ping rate by up to 7ms. I'm still ranging some place between 150ms and 80ms as before depending on the server. The only thing now I seem to be crashing to desktop as some of the other players in this forum. I'll need to play with it or change it back to default.

Tip 4:

I looked in the shortcut that the BF2 install did and the priority changes in this tip was already there. The desktop short cut for BF2 SF has it too.

Tip 5:

I did update punkbuster from its website, but now I'm wondering if this is what's making my game crash.

Tip 6:

This works great, getting to the login screen much faster , a few seconds, and getting to the screen after logging in is much faster too. When I quit the game and get back in it's almost instantaneous, when I reboot it takes a few second again.

Tip 8:

I've tried this and don't see any difference.

Tip 9:

I've tried this and don't see any difference.

Like I said in the beginning, if you can afford it, just get to at least three gigs of ram and your gaming experience will be much better. The game itself still requires a lot of strategy and know how, my co-worker has about the same global score with half the hours. This is the first on-line game I have played and I am not good at it, but getting better I think ... hope. :-))
For those that are curious about my computer. I have an HP Pavilion A752n, 3 gigs ram, Ati X1600 graphics card, and I use a Kensington trackball and of course needing all the help I can get I use the z-board.

Hope this helps some of you.

BryanHi wrote:

Like I said in the beginning, if you can afford it, just get to at least three gigs of ram

imho 2gb is all you need, also, disabling your paging file is not always a good idea, certain programs are coded to use the page file - even if you have enough spare ram

but hey, if it works for you, and you don't encounter any problems then that's all that counts

Do these work for 2142 as well?

um i didnt read the whole thread so srry if i double post, but another way to disable the startin movies is to right click on your shortcut to bf2>properties and in the box "target", there may be something like this; "D:\Program files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2\BF2.exe". simply type +restart after the last quote to disable.

Alright I did this and worked out good I tried to play BF2S last night and it would not load now. Do I need to do the same thing to BF2S if so where is the folder I could not find it? Thank you for helping this moron out!





Renaming the BF2.exe File


How does this work?


Although the exact reason why this improves the gameplay is unknown, but it is probably that Ati and Nvidia recognise the program BF2.exe as one of their own, so by renaming the file, you turn the game into a normal program, not a resource hungry dinosaur! In 90% of cases this has been known to cause some increase in performance in-game.


This fix turns off any special optimisation by ATI or Nvidia which uses unessercary system resources.


How do you do it?


Step 1: The first thing you do is find your game directory, the default is C:\Program Files\EA Games\Battlefield 2


Step 2: Once you have found the directory, locate the file BF2.exe, right click, and select properties


Step 3: You will then need to change the text in the white box which says "BF2", above the directory on the general tab, you can change it to anything you want! for simplicity, I changed it to BF21.exe once you have done this, CLICK APPLY!


Step 4: This tip is now officially done, but the shortcut on your desktop will now no longer work. To change this, delete the shortcut on your desktop, goto the game directory, and right click on the newly renamed file. Click Send To, then Desktop (Create Shortcut) and you will now have a working link your desktop!

I did the .bat file tweak, changed priority to High, and my ping [which is normally 10] jumped all the way to the 80s. Changed it back to the norm and it was a solid 10 again. And I have 2 gigs of Ram, there's no issue there.

Um, yeah, I just tried the pb_sleep 500 trick last night, and it made my lag WORSE...any idea why that is?
I sure as hell didnt save the settings but it still seems like its taking effect.
Wait will these work for 2142?

Last edited by Monkeyman911 (2007-07-01 10:51:08)

Bernadictus wrote:

http://bf2lag.com/top5tips.html

*cough*

Plagiarism?

IMO yes

I renamed my BF2.EXE to battlefield2.EXE and played the game and got all black artifacts on the mountains and terrain i thought it was graphic drivers as i did the tweaked drivers at the same time.

After i uninstalled the drivers and replaced them with standard latest Nvidia items i still had the problem then i just tried renaming the file back to BF2.EXE and then the black artifacts were gone.

Any1 else get this problem? This is on a 8600GTS.

I did the renaming thing too , and my mountains went black only when i lay prone
...but with sniper rifle i zoom the blackness was gone lol..
so i put it back to original name, blackness was gone...
seems to me that it only works for some ppl NOT all !!