BF2S Forums AMD Dual Core Problems! (I think)

Sometimes get the few seconds freeze without x2 - AMD Athlon 64 4000+ 2.4GHz.

I had a similar problem  (of which around the forum, a lot of people seem to experiance this particular one) when like Tunacommy, the game would freeze mid round for a few seconds then crash all together with the sound looping the last 1-2 seconds, eventually outputting really corrupt sound.

I couldn't understand what was going on and thought that the recent round of patches might be causing it but this even happened on a new machine I'd built, again similar kit to Tunacommy. It's a,

1 x AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4200 512k Cache per core (2.2GHz) Skt 939 Retail inc.fan (3 yr.warr.)  @ £214.50(252.04) each.
1 x Corsair® Value Select 2GB DDR PC3200 Kit (2 x 1GB) (VS2GBKIT400C3)  @ £91.80(107.87) each.
1 x Shuttle SN25P Mini Aluminium Barebone system for AMD Socket 939
1 x XFX 256Mb 7800GT @ £214.99
1 x Western Digital Caviar 320GB S150 8mb 7200rpm @ £75.99

This smashed the pants off my Tower but still this problem remained <cue anger management classes>. So I took the Bull my the horns and sent a support question to EA 19 April, of which I've not had a reply yet. The only thing similar of the two machines apart from Win OS & BF2, was that I was using AVG Anti-Virus and after 3 painfull months of Drivers, hardware, formats and general pissing around, I disabled the AV and I managed to spend 3 blissful hours kicking ass and was rewarded with a sweet Vet Sniper too ;-)

I've rambled on and seen others with a similar problem, so if this helps anyone....well then Yay!! all round.

Tunacommy is this applicable to you?

The_Radge wrote:

I had a similar problem  (of which around the forum, a lot of people seem to experiance this particular one) when like Tunacommy, the game would freeze mid round for a few seconds then crash all together with the sound looping the last 1-2 seconds, eventually outputting really corrupt sound.

I couldn't understand what was going on and thought that the recent round of patches might be causing it but this even happened on a new machine I'd built, again similar kit to Tunacommy. It's a,

1 x AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4200 512k Cache per core (2.2GHz) Skt 939 Retail inc.fan (3 yr.warr.)  @ £214.50(252.04) each.
1 x Corsair® Value Select 2GB DDR PC3200 Kit (2 x 1GB) (VS2GBKIT400C3)  @ £91.80(107.87) each.
1 x Shuttle SN25P Mini Aluminium Barebone system for AMD Socket 939
1 x XFX 256Mb 7800GT @ £214.99
1 x Western Digital Caviar 320GB S150 8mb 7200rpm @ £75.99

This smashed the pants off my Tower but still this problem remained <cue anger management classes>. So I took the Bull my the horns and sent a support question to EA 19 April, of which I've not had a reply yet. The only thing similar of the two machines apart from Win OS & BF2, was that I was using AVG Anti-Virus and after 3 painfull months of Drivers, hardware, formats and general pissing around, I disabled the AV and I managed to spend 3 blissful hours kicking ass and was rewarded with a sweet Vet Sniper too ;-)

I've rambled on and seen others with a similar problem, so if this helps anyone....well then Yay!! all round.

Tunacommy is this applicable to you?

Hey man - yes, I did have BitDefender running in the backround - although I disabled the NVidia firewall.  I will close out the antivirus and see if this helps.  I am hesitant to disable one of the cores - it seemed like the added core helped performance - although most people say it does not in BF2...and it did not seem to help the problem anyway.  I will disable to virus protection and see what happens.....thanks....

ReVmAn wrote:

It's posted her before. Just use imagecfg (not sure about the name). You can use it to let BF2.exe run on only 1proc. Probably fixes your problem.

http://forums.bf2s.com/viewtopic.php?id=12120 look at D.Beeson's post!

thanks - i will check that out and try the one processor again.....

splixx wrote:

I am not sure if this was posted or not but I have a AMD X2 4400 and had those similiar problems. Once again I apologize if this has been posted I am at work and do not have the time to read through all the posts.. I skimmed but here is what I have for you... AMD has drivers out there just go to this link and download them and this fixed all my crashing and network disconnects:

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/Tec … 18,00.html

thanks splixx....this was mentioned above and I will definately try it.  Actually, I download and installed this one last night:

AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual Core Processor Driver for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 Version (exe) 1.2.2 -

but have  not played since......

I heard that Windows has one too.....

Glad it worked for you - similar processor - hope it works for me too!

you can either use that hotfix or you can use a program called powerstrip in order to set processor affinity to one.  I have the same/similar problem thoug with my single core, so I doubt that is the cause.  Strangely enough I too have AVG installed, maybe taking that off may fix my problem :-/

The hot fixes did not work completely.  I did not get dumped....but still had some freezes....damn.

I played for an hour with one of the cores turned off however and it worked fine.  so I guess I will be doing that from now on.....kind of annoying.....