BF2S Forums High Ping and video jumping

Its called Lag and EA hasn't addressed it. Atleast not yet. Its a shame because I was hoping the new Patch would have fixed it but it doesn't appear to be fixed.

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I just did this Friday, after I read it on a Forum on Fileplanet for BF2.

I couldn't tell you all the details, maybe someone else will explain this better, as I don't know all the tech stuff, but...

in your BF2 file change the .exe file name to BF2***.exe Then the same name for your desktop shortcut if you use one. You don't have to keep BF2, you can name it 100.exe, ZYX.exe, what ever...

It has to do something with DX9/ATI or Nvidia,(which ever you use). It brought up my FPS by at least 12-25fps.

I was very leery of this but it doesn't change anything in the actual game files (Punkbuster is always watching) only your Video card settings. In that  Forum some said that your details like Dynamic shadows would be degraded, but you can compensate that by raising your settings in-game.

** Also, one of the main reasons stated was to reducing lag, I don't know how, but my ping was like 9 on every server I hooked up to.**

Yeah I'm confused too.... How does changing a filemname compensate for crappy performance, I mean, it may, but I can't see how.
Since the update, I too have had really bad lag/chops, despite low pings.

Could you eleborate a little more, assuming you've already got the latest drivers, DX drivers and so on, is there something else I'm missing?

Doh I'm such and Idiot, I did a clean install and forgot to turn off my Anti Virus, so it was scanning everytime I got in a vehical or pulled out a knife, shut down now and much smoother, thing is it was'nt showing up on my ctrl alt del list.
Thanks for your help guys.

Stoned_Smurfz wrote:

Well i fail to see how by changing the file name can change any of these issues?. But then again i cant see how deleting your account and retrieveing it fixes keyboard issues, so EA only knows!!! maybe it could work *shrugs*

This is where I read about this tweak...

http://forums.filefront.com/showthread. … did=217620

I Figured that out eventually - but it actually doesn't need to be 3 Char. it can be any number of Chars.  it just needs to change the file so that ATI / NVIDIA can't associate it to a certain profile run by the Graphics Card company using higher quality shaders etc... and then it just runs it in "Default" so to speak making it smoother but not as clean looking.

I figured it out.

thanks

cheers for the info, I'll give it a go

Yup, I was just looking at that... under Video settings -> settings -> advanced -> GeForce ******, there are application profiles there are lists of programs (and their .exe's) to apply different settings (such as whether or not to use AA, anistrophic, etc.    For most settings, in most games the value is "application-controlled", but not all.  There is an "Image Quality" setting, with a slider, High Performance on one end, High Quality on another.  You can probably do exactly the same as this trick from here (or somewhere similar for ATI) by adjusting the BF2 settings (if available), creating a BF2 profile, or adjusting the global profile.

Lazarus Tag'lim wrote:

Yup, I was just looking at that... under Video settings -> settings -> advanced -> GeForce ******, there are application profiles there are lists of programs (and their .exe's) to apply different settings (such as whether or not to use AA, anistrophic, etc.    For most settings, in most games the value is "application-controlled", but not all.  There is an "Image Quality" setting, with a slider, High Performance on one end, High Quality on another.  You can probably do exactly the same as this trick from here (or somewhere similar for ATI) by adjusting the BF2 settings (if available), creating a BF2 profile, or adjusting the global profile.

I always thought you had to switch to those if you wanted the settings to take effect. Mebbe not...