Battlefield 2 problem! please help!

I got battlefield 2 and it works perfect on high - medium settings. Weirdly when I got 2gb of RAM it allowed even Oblivion to play on medium settings with no lag on my x200m. So I put BF2 in and install it, and it works great on single player. When I play multilayer though its a whole different story. The gun goes up and down, ex:the motion when your sprinting. It keeps going to that sprinting motion then back to the normal gun holding position. I downloaded the 1.4 patch before I played it so I dont know if thats the cause. Please help, I just got frustrated with Quake 4 finding out it doesnt work on vista, so any help would be thanked!

Here is how it runs on single Player. As you can see I dont really lag.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=5x6Bj2M5zCI

 

please stop posting your problems in the news and reviews forum. please place them in the appropriate topic forum. this is the second time this week you have done this. next time will result in an infraction.

 

Dang, I looked it up on google and couldnt find the problem. Yes its the 2nd question, but arnt 1/2 the people on here asking questions? I dont think it would bother anyone since the fact there are 1000's of threads anyhow.

 

Ex: Should I buy a tv? What laptop should I get? Why are you only picking on me?

 

i am not picking on you. but you are a forum regular and should know by now not to post a gaming problem in the news and reviews section.

 

I think it's a connection problem, sounds to me that you are lagging badly. To you evventually get kicked out of servers? How is your ping?

Edit: Forgot to mention that you can edit video settings for single player/multi player seperatly. Maybe on multiplayer, you forgot to turn something off.

 

ive had the exact same problem on my desktop with a x700. just alt+ctrl+del and kill anything that says ati.

just out of curiosity, are you running atitool?

if that doesnt help, just search "bf2 keyboard lag" which should give you some other options

 

Battlefield 2 on high-medium settings with an X200 - yes, indeed. I think maybe you meant to type 'All low'. And if you are trying to run BF2 on high-medium settings, no wonder you're experiencing problems.

 

I didn't even know such a graphic card could run BF2.

 

It can, but only at the lowest settings....some people cannot even get it to run properly at all on lowest settings even, while others just about get by. So anybody claiming to run it at medium-high settings either has a very distorted view of what actually constitutes 'medium-high', is outright fibbing or is thinking of a different game...

 

My old ATI Radeon 9800 PRO could barely run it, I wonder how the X200 can, maybe you mean X2000 if such a card even exists ^^.

 

well If you want a video on how it runs on single player mode I can show u. It does run lag less in fact for some reason oblivion runs lagless on medium settings also. Thanks for the tips and I will try to see how I can fix this problem.

 

Well the mystery is solved.....the review shows the screens of Battlefield 2 - running at anything from 12-24 FPS - When Idle!!

If you actually consider that playble, then fine by me....but 99% of people wouldn't. If you're getting that crap a frame idle, can you even imagine what'd happen when there was alot of action on screen? I don't even want to think...

Very misleading posting here saying you can run BF2 'great' on medium-high settings when in reality they are running at those settings, but on the verge of practically choking up...anybody could do that. Technically any card, can run any game at maxed settings, but it's the framerate that dictates how good it is

 

Does sound somwhat linked to a bad connection or just too much going on, online for your computer to handle. Try to turn the bob off in the options and see if it fixes it.

 

My friend has a theory about this, or at least a somewhat similar problem.

He had an X200M UMA model in a machine with single channel DDR2 533 memory. It could play single player adequetely, but he got huge lag in all multiplayer games, even locally hosted 16 player ones. The graphics settings didn't seem to be especially important, but when he got 2 new sticks of DDR2 667 running in DC the problems dissapeared.

Since SC DDR2 533 will starve even the lowest end GPU much of the time, he thought it was just about managing in SP, but in MP games a combination of a crap very CPU dependant network adaptor and BF2 having clunky and inneficient netcode which were starving the GPU even more than normal.

Also, it might be worth looking at these:

http://bf2lag.com/
http://www.tweakguides.com/BF2_1.html

Even if they don't address the problem directly, tweaking your install and eliminating every other possible bottleneck might help overall performance somewhat.

 

Ihad this, it's lag. Do you connect through a wireless network? If not there really isn't much you can do... You could contact your ISP to see whats going on? They may have started strangling your internet, do you use p2p programs like limewire or ares?

 

Here is the video concerning the lag. Its on single player not multiplayer so Its not doing the weird keyboard glitch.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=5x6Bj2M5zCI

 

Ok = )
lol

 

Threads like this dis-advertise what a notebook graphics card is capable of. I've heard enough about the x200 and its ungodly ability to outperform many other dedicated cards out there.

Stop trolling around and posting misleading reports and claims. One more, and it is a big time infraction.

Case closed.

 

X200s can run Battlefield 2 adequetely with tweaking, or at least in some configs. But a 9800 Pro eats BF2 up at lower resolutions and a X300/9550/9600 is capable of pretty good performance on a tweaked install.

 

I would say an FPS of 45+ is for me playable and that when not idle.

 

He posted a video in an attempt to back up his claims that it ran great.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=5x6Bj2M5zCI

In the video we can see how absolutely god awful the game is running, dropping into what looks like single digits when he's shooting at even only about 2 or 3 people, let alone a big area filled with guys. The aerial combat scene is running at about 5fps and looks like a slideshow.

Therefore - in all honesty, it has to be a troll. His own video shows how crap it runs yet he thinks it's proof of the game running great.

 

Is it my computer or is the video really slow? I wouldn't say laggy but really slow, the gameplay isn't fluid.

 

HavoK says it all..

 

If what you claim is correct, your card should run the game as fluid as on this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtmBbnevc3M

 

Do you guys have a clue what fraps does to your game?!? Go try out Fraps right now with and see how much it cuts your FPS by. Cmon you guys just love to give the people with the x200m a hard time. If you dont like my thead, than you dont like my thread. You dont have to prove otherwise.

 

Fraps does not impact my FPS at all in any games I play, give it up filipinocrzy, there's only so far you can take your wild exaggerations, seriously, no-ones giving the X200 a hard time for being the card it is, but it's justifiable to give someone who's posting wild and inaccurate claims and notions said time.

The X200 cannot run BF2 well on medium-high settings, end of story, there is no argument - or else you are the lucky recipient of a magical X200 from the magical land of...magic. But then again that's not very likely seeing as your own video and even screens disprove your claims - FRAPS video can impact FPS but taking screenshots DOES NOT. Just give up the fight.....not even ATI, the manufacturers, dared to make the claims you are.

 

Please just drop it. I was talking about the Fraps video recording and everyone knows Fraps video recorder gives your FPS hell in trying to run.

 

Drop it Filipinocrazy...you are bordering on trolling.