ATI Users

[Se7eN]

Please post here what card you are using and drivers you are using.


And also if having an issue crashing to desktop post here.


Got a fix that might help pleae post...

[SonicBoom]

ATI 9800XT 256
5.6 Cat's

Only porblem I have had is some gfx errors but that is sorted by restarting and its all good again.

Will let you know tomorrow ( Wednesday ) if there are any problems with the full game.

[imported_Espodude]

ATI 9800 radeon Pro 256 MB . The game freezes, the screen goes crazy and im forced to reboot or sometimes it reboots itself. Strangely the game hasnt froze once today so far , wich is a miracle. :laugh:
Drivers 5.6 cat's

[Se7eN]

51 hours on the demo LOL :D cheers m8 i wont get it here in the UK till thursday i hope but i have heard issues with crashing to desktop..

[imported_Robster]

Using a Radeon 9800 Pro with Cat 5.6 drivers. I crash to my desktop occasionally.

[ScarySquirrel]

X800 XT
5.6 cats,

only problems i have are the crappy shadows, ive had a couple crash to desktops but only 2 or 3

[gumby3d]

Hey, I've got a Radeon 9800 Pro and I'm running the 5.6 Cat driver. The game runs absolutely great save for the constant dumping to the desktop.

It's quite unbearable, I really would like it to work, I'm not particularily sure what the issue is. Sometimes I can't play for a minute and it will dump to the desktop sometimes I can play for twenty minutes. It's really aggravating.

On occasion I actually get error messages, I should write it down exactly but it's something along the lines of "Memory deallocating..." and it wants to know if you'd like to "Try Again" "Cancel" "Quit"... I dunno, it's driving me mad...

I was wondering what your "fix" is. I'm willing to try anything at the moment.

Cheers
gumby3d

[UnrealAlex]

im running 9800 pro on old drivers ^_^

No freeeze, crash, weird color or anything yet. its the new drivers screweing up i tell u.

[imported_Davis]

Part of the reason the client crashes is the amount of memory it uses. I have seen it consume well over 800mb of physical memory at medium settings. 2gigs may resolve most of your crashes.

[Se7eN]

im running 9800 pro on old drivers ^_^

No freeeze, crash, weird color or anything yet. its the new drivers screweing up i tell u.


What drivers are you using m8?

This looks an issue with the 9800pro i have that card as well :(

[BIFF EXPLODER]

running 9600XT on high smoothly and no crashes at all, the only prob is some shadows and once or twice a little texture corruption but nothing big.

running on cat 5.6

[WaCKo]

9200se, 5.6 drivers.... i changed the AGP to x4 instead of x8 and no more crashing

[[G]h()sT]

I've got a Radeon 9800 Pro and I'm running the 5.6 Cat driver

[Bunnyes]

I have an x800 xt and was recieving the corrupt texture bug when AA was enabled. I tried all drivers from 5.1 on, and am now on the 5.6 drivers. The texture corruption goes away when I take the texture quality down from high to medium. Still have not tried with AA enabled.

I have a random sound glitch as well that seems to be related to the video card drivers. At random times in the middle of a game, most of my sounds will just stop working (mainly the gun I am currently firing) When I go into the menu, I see texture corruption on the text. I am using the beta Creative drivers and an Audigy 2. If anyone has any suddgestions, some would be great!

[BWMASTER]

x300 and it crashes like mand after I connect to a game

[SonicBoom]

running 9600XT on high smoothly and no crashes at all, the only prob is some shadows and once or twice a little texture corruption but nothing big.

running on cat 5.6

Thats what I mean when I say gfx problems. The shadows feck up .. rebooting fixes it for few days then it happens again.

[[G]h()sT]

a fix yet?

[jmuduke]

X800 Pro 256. Turned my dynamic shadows off and run at 1024x768 with 4xAA and everything high except lighting which is at medium because when I turn it on high I get mad lagg. And sound set to software, no more crashes for me.

[Lethanialist]

Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB. It crashes to the desktop occasionally, but that's about it.

[Oompa]

ATi Radeon 9600XT
4.12 Cats

[Mazstermind]

9700 non pro...omega drivers 2.6.25a...Overclocked a bit with Radlinker Factory Cooled. I just ordered THIS tonight..

[musclehead24]

9800 Pro, 5.6 Cat

Stupid game keeps crashing to the desktop. Sometimes I can play for 10 mins and other times right when I click join it crashes.

Here are my specs.

9800 Pro 128mb
2.8 GHZ
512 ram

Is there anybody else with these same specs? Can you tell me exactly what your settings are so it doesnt crash? Maybe if I upgrade to 1 Gig ram it will stop crashing.

[enfo]

Ati x300, no probs atall, cat 5.1 drivers

[Thameth]

I'm running a 9800 Pro 128 straight from ATi on the 5.6 cat. I've only had two crash to desktops after playing for a good 3 hours on a 64 player server. Otherwise its doing great on mostly high settings with medium shadows and 4xx.

My computer specs are:

2.4ghz P4 HT 800FSB
1gb PC3200 HyperX

I noticed one time when the server browser froze on me and i cntrl+alt+del that it said it was using 964mb of ram at the time! Looks like i may have to upgrade to 2gb. I'm also wondering how the game will run once i transfer all this stuff to an exact same model computer except 3.2ghz that i have sitting here ready to go.

Can anybody recommend some other drivers or overclocking settings for the 9800Pro? Would be nice to get that little extra edge once its in the 3.2ghz rig. Would i need to get some more cooling? Its a Dell 400SC.

Thanx, Good luck!

[SirAskAlot]

ATi Radeon 9800 Pro 256
5.6 Cat's

[[G]h()sT]

i also use 1gig of ram x800 256 agp card

[owenneil]

i have a ati x800 pro on 5.5 and get blue screen and a reboot
i have over 2k ram

[Buttwipe]

Hello ! I have an Ati Radeon X800Pro with 256Mb. I am running the game in 1280x1024 and all settings are on high. At The beginning of the Week i only had 1 Gb main memory and the system often crashed onto desktop. Now I have 2GB main memory and everything is working fine. I use the Cat.5.6 drivers.



MFG

[Se7eN]

9800 Pro, 5.6 Cat

Stupid game keeps crashing to the desktop. Sometimes I can play for 10 mins and other times right when I click join it crashes.

Here are my specs.

9800 Pro 128mb
2.8 GHZ
512 ram

Is there anybody else with these same specs? Can you tell me exactly what your settings are so it doesnt crash? Maybe if I upgrade to 1 Gig ram it will stop crashing.

I nearly have the same spec but i have 1024 of ram..

Thanks for the feedback guys but when your telling us your card and drivers your using please post if you have problems..

This looks like an issue with the 9800pro card..

[evs_pete]

I have seen BF2 take 75% of 1 GIG RAM during play, probably more if I monitored more. If your running low ram, it might be a good time to upgrade to 1 GIG atleast.

[Jules Winfield]

I was also getting the crash to desktop problem

This is what i did to fix it until they come up with a patch:

Have the same problem also but I think I got it working (Only played on 3 server a couple rounds a piece to test it)

1. Uninstall BF2 (delete directory and temp files)

2. Uninstall 5.6 Drivers

3. Reboot

4. Use driver cleaner from http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=745

5. Reboot

6. try these tweak drivers from guru3d http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=1098

7. reinstall BF2

8. Play Game (Fingers crossed)

PS

I also tried this before the aboved steps

right click on your computer>options>advanced>performance tab. there u can change your swap file. but I had the same problem with the memory.dll error and if using maximum 3GB in swapfile size aint enough then nothing is heh. it's the game and ea who sucks really. best shot is to wait for their patch I guess..


My set up is:

P4 3.06 Ghz
1 GB of ram
Radeon 256 mb Pro

[|tHC|Skinless]

I'm running an ATI 9700TX (Dell OEM) w/Catalyst 5.1 drivers, 768MB of RDRAM, Turtle Beach Santa Cruz sound card, PV 2.4GHz and 19" Monitor running at 1600x1200@75 resolution. All settings on 'low' (including shadows) except for textures which I have set at medium.
The only problem I have discovered (on the demo, haven't yet installed the retail version) is that if I'm using my speakers INSTEAD of my headphones, the artifical in-game voices stutters (NOT THE VOICE OVER COMMUNICATION). Now, this is more than likely a settings issue involving my sound card or something not related to my video card but hopefully it won't exist with the retail version.

[Essau]

Club3d Radeon 9800XT
5.6 catalyst

No problems on all games, except some crashes with BF2 now and then.

[ERICQ89]

I have a ATI RADEON 9800SE 128mb
I have no Crashes
I am running 5.6 Catalyst drivers
but the only problem i have is that when i go into buildings or in the docking bay of the air craft caiier(inside structures to say it easily)I cant see where i am going and when i have the lighting on low everyhtin gin the buildigns are too bright and my charachters are dark as hell!
sumone plz tell me what is wrong

[Bobcat]

Sapphire X800 Pro
Catalyst 5.6
Blocky dynamic shadows
That's it

[UnethicalProctologist]

9800 Pro, 5.6 Cat

Stupid game keeps crashing to the desktop. Sometimes I can play for 10 mins and other times right when I click join it crashes.

Here are my specs.

9800 Pro 128mb
2.8 GHZ
512 ram

Is there anybody else with these same specs? Can you tell me exactly what your settings are so it doesnt crash? Maybe if I upgrade to 1 Gig ram it will stop crashing.

I am close

9800 (not Pro) 128 MB
2.8 ghz P4
2 GIG's of RAM

Not one crash to the desktop yet. Video settings on medium except light stuff at low. Also, I have the cat 5.6 drivers installed.

I think the RAM may be the key....

[Unix]

ATi Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB
Catalyst 5.6 Drivers

The demo seems to run fine on the highest resolution and all highest graphical settings.

[jimbo118]

x800xt pci-e
5.6s
runs fine but i get graphical corruption for the first few minutes after joining a game for the 1st time, textures will look weird on certain objects, almost as if they're liquid, like moving, mostly low lying brick walls, the squad selection screen and the squads characters names are just black blocks, the game then freezes and i get a black or corrupted screen with looping sound, after a few seconds the game comes back fine and plays fine with no corruption so i dunno what to do, i reinstalled a few times, demo and drivers.

[musclehead24]

I was also getting the crash to desktop problem

This is what i did to fix it until they come up with a patch:

Have the same problem also but I think I got it working (Only played on 3 server a couple rounds a piece to test it)

1. Uninstall BF2 (delete directory and temp files)

2. Uninstall 5.6 Drivers

3. Reboot

4. Use driver cleaner from http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=745

5. Reboot

6. try these tweak drivers from guru3d http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=1098

7. reinstall BF2

8. Play Game (Fingers crossed)

PS

I also tried this before the aboved steps




My set up is:

P4 3.06 Ghz
1 GB of ram
Radeon 256 mb Pro

Hey I downloaded the driver cleaner. Is it supposed extract to my temp internet files? Thats what the default is.

[Jules Winfield]

Hey I downloaded the driver cleaner. Is it supposed extract to my temp internet files? Thats what the default is.


You can chose where to extract it. Just create a folder and name it "video driver cleaner"


hope that helps

[Qba73]

Sapphire ViVo x800 Pro Modded to XT (16 pipes) 256mb
Cats 5.6
550/1100
1280x960 4aa 8af
All high
Dynamic shadows off (cause its blocky and buggy)
vsync on
Sound: hardware, high
22' NEC CRT set@ 100hz
baby smooth...

[menace-uk-]

9600 256MB WITH OMEGA 5.1 DRIVERS ALL ON HIGH EXCEPT AA(medium)runs smooth no crashes perfect :D


If you are crashing make sure you have no viruses i had 1 and made me crash to desktop every 5 mins :mad: all sorted now tho :D :laugh:

[| The Pensioner .h20 |]

Overclocked 9800Pro 128mb running cat 5.6 on anything from 1024 to 1280 rez on medium settings runs without issue, never crashed no shadows or any other issues I have read about others are experiencing :-) All up extremely happy with the full version (hrm maybe the server listing could be better as I refuse to use gamespy program) but as far as the game itself goes 10/10

[BIG_FREAK]

Sapphire x850xt PE AGP

UniAN Catalyst Unified Driver v1.1.56

Requirement
Windows XP above SP1
Windows Above 2000 SP3
Windows 2003 Server Series(WDM it does not support)
The DirectX 9 (being demanded)

Support language
Korean/English

Support product
ALL-IN-WONDER 9800/9700/9600/9500/9200/9000 series
ALL-IN-WONDER RADEON 8500DV/8500/7500
ALL-IN-WONDER VE
RADEON X850/X800/X700/X600/X300 series
RADEON 9800XT/9800/9700/9600XT/9600/9500/9550 series
RADEON 9250/9200/9100/9000/8500 series
RADEON 7500/7200/7000 series
RADEON IGP 320/340/9100 series
MOBILITY RADEON XPRESS 200
MOBILITY RADEON FIRE GL T2/9000/7500 series
MOBILITY RADEON X300/X600/X700 series
MOBILITY RADEON 9800/9700/9600 series
MOBILITY RADEON 7500/9000/9200 series
MOBILITY RADEON series

2005/06/18 (v1.1.56)
- Based on ATI Catalyst v5.6
- GLideWrapper v0.084d Inclusion
- D3D and OpenGL optimization (fractionation anger of option)
- ATI Tray Tools v1.0.2.690 inclusion
- Mobile support


these are working Great for me 70+ FPS most times very smooth
http://www.nemesis.pe.kr/L.K./UniANCatalyst1156a.exe

[Se7eN]

Sapphire x850xt PE AGP

UniAN Catalyst Unified Driver v1.1.56

Requirement
Windows XP above SP1
Windows Above 2000 SP3
Windows 2003 Server Series(WDM it does not support)
The DirectX 9 (being demanded)

Support language
Korean/English

Support product
ALL-IN-WONDER 9800/9700/9600/9500/9200/9000 series
ALL-IN-WONDER RADEON 8500DV/8500/7500
ALL-IN-WONDER VE
RADEON X850/X800/X700/X600/X300 series
RADEON 9800XT/9800/9700/9600XT/9600/9500/9550 series
RADEON 9250/9200/9100/9000/8500 series
RADEON 7500/7200/7000 series
RADEON IGP 320/340/9100 series
MOBILITY RADEON XPRESS 200
MOBILITY RADEON FIRE GL T2/9000/7500 series
MOBILITY RADEON X300/X600/X700 series
MOBILITY RADEON 9800/9700/9600 series
MOBILITY RADEON 7500/9000/9200 series
MOBILITY RADEON series

2005/06/18 (v1.1.56)
- Based on ATI Catalyst v5.6
- GLideWrapper v0.084d Inclusion
- D3D and OpenGL optimization (fractionation anger of option)
- ATI Tray Tools v1.0.2.690 inclusion
- Mobile support


these are working Great for me 70+ FPS most times very smooth
http://www.nemesis.pe.kr/L.K./UniANCatalyst1156a.exe

Wow thanks must try this out dont get the game here till 2moz UK thanks for that and welcome to the forums..

[[WDT]Torgo]

X800 XT PE 256MB AGP
5.6
Run's fine, no crashes, no glitches except for the blocky shadows, and thoose don't really bother me.

Running at 1280x1024, 2xAA 2xAF for now

[(DFF)Demarco]

Yo Guys , problem is solved :D
www.dffclan.nl

DFF SOLVED IT (link) (http://www.dffclan.com/)


http://dffclan.com/images/stories/header.png


:evil: :evil:

[jizzmirk]

Yeah - I'm getting VERY poor framerates with my computer. Screen included - framerate is in the upper left corner (used console command "RENDERER.DRAWFPS 1").

I've got:
3GHz P4
2 Gigs of RAM
X800 Pro (running 2 screens)

For the life of me, I can't seem to figure out why everything is running so slow. It's hasn't crashed to desktop (yet), but my framerate will start out in the high 20s and go down from there. I've run the game at both high AND low settings and it'll dip down to 15 fps on both and STAY at 15.0. It never dips below.

I had the game running with the Task Manager on the other screen and CPU usage indicates that I'm running no more that 60% usage with plenty of memory to spare.

I've checked the suggested (by ATI) IRQ conflicts and resolved those to no avail. I've also run a Disk Cleanup and a Defrag as well.

Anyone else running into this issue?

-j

http://www.smirkfamily.com/trublemakers/JJ/images/poor_framerate_BF2.jpg

[mrm3300]

The demo seemed to have worked fine, but the retail version either crashes 5 seconds after I open it with the desktop icon, or lets me get as far as starting a multiplayer or singleplayer game and then crashes to the desktop. I havent been able to play it yet!

[Se7eN]

I think am gonna cry and not sleep 2nite am just hearing so many issue's


My spec is

Pt4 2.8
1024 ram
ati 9800pro

:( :( :(

[Hotiron]

issue crashing to desktop in multiplayer....but this is only occasionally.

Gigabyte 6600gt 128MB pci express
GV-NX66T128D NVIDIA 7.7.3.0 Driver Date : 5/12/2005
any info would be helpful
thanx

[Carbon]

ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 256.Cat 5.6 drivers.No problems ...........yet!

[Grudge]

I'm running a 9800 pro 256mg with older drivers (not sure which ones) and have only had one crash so far (aside from occasional freezing when refreshing). Seems like 5.6 drivers on these cards should be avoided.

[Qba73]

Yo Guys , problem is solved :D
www.dffclan.nl

DFF SOLVED IT (link) (http://www.dffclan.com/)


http://dffclan.com/images/stories/header.png


:evil: :evil:

i can vouch for it, it fixed my prob with crashing to desktop after a round :D

[antiocx5]

i have a radeon 9250 256mb pci

[Tunnis]

Asus 850XT PE 256Mb HDTV PCI-E, 5.6 Catalyst (Control Panel).

Runs like a charm, high, 1600x1200@85Hz, 4x AA.

Don't forget the rest of your system it's of equal importance to how your game will run.

My specs, ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe (Nforce4 performance mobo), AMD 64 4000+, 2Gb PC3200 400DDR Dual Channel (4x Corsair 512Mb's).

Only "problem" is dynamic shadows has really blocky edges up close, don't know if this is by game design or an ATI problem.

Be sure to turn off TRUFORM as this can cause problems. Also turn of VPU Recover, it's nice on paper but it can also cause crashes rather than prevent them.

[[G]h()sT]

i can vouch for it, it fixed my prob with crashing to desktop after a round :D

mine stopped, but now it crashes after i die, i click done or spawn and it stops. I think its the sound. WHats ur sound settings
wat should mine be

[LastRite]

Im running a heavily overclocked Radeon 9700 pro which runs real smooth with the latest omega drivers on high settings.

[| The Pensioner .h20 |]

Be sure to turn off TRUFORM as this can cause problems. Also turn of VPU Recover, it's nice on paper but it can also cause crashes rather than prevent them.

True that, I didnt mention that earlier, also good idea to turn fast write off has little too know impact on performance (as I explained in previous thread) Has long known to cause problems with the gaming fraternity

[SSGT Allred]

OK, one of my kids had the crashing to desktop problem, and he is the only one in the house with an ATI card (9800 Pro). The rest of us have NVidia 6600 cards and we were not having that problem. He tried different driver versions (5.6, 5.4) to no avail. His fix was to disable hyperthreading in the BIOS. WHY???? I don't know, but the combo of Battlefield 2 + ATI drivers + hyperthreading is bad. Hope either EA ot ATI fix it. (It's not Intels fault!!!)

[| The Pensioner .h20 |]

hyperthreading is bad. Hope either EA ot ATI fix it. (It's not Intels fault!!!)
Reply With Quote

Had a little chuckle at this not for the reason of your sons dilema mind you, but either in this forum or another i can't remeber which now there was some kiddie doing the intel is better than AMD thing ...again, telling everyone how terrible AMD's were and how you would have no trouble at all if everyone just bought an intel because AMD are rubbish.... damn wish I could remeber where it was. Can't rubbish intel myself, never owned one so I have no comparison but will say im extremely happy with every AMD i have owned in the past and presently!

Glad too hear your son fixed the issue though Allred, I hope too that the problem is fixed properley for you by the responsible party... happy fragging :-)

[SSGT Allred]

That was Battlefield 2 + ATI drivers + hyperthreading is bad not hyperthreading is bad. I think we would also see the same issue if we were using any of the dual core chips (either AMD or Intel). The problem is likely in the ATI drivers. But I don't want to bash ATI. The real cuprit here is EA. I cannot believe this did not show up in testing! I feel confident EA knew about this bug. It really peeves me that they chose to release the game knowing there was a combatibility issue with the ATI drivers. (Of course, considering all the other problems with this game, it doesn't suprise me.)

Anyway, I refuse to buy the full version until at least patch #2 comes out. My foolish kids may buy it, but not me!!!

[Se7eN]

That was Battlefield 2 + ATI drivers + hyperthreading is bad not hyperthreading is bad. I think we would also see the same issue if we were using any of the dual core chips (either AMD or Intel). The problem is likely in the ATI drivers. But I don't want to bash ATI. The real cuprit here is EA. I cannot believe this did not show up in testing! I feel confident EA knew about this bug. It really peeves me that they chose to release the game knowing there was a combatibility issue with the ATI drivers. (Of course, considering all the other problems with this game, it doesn't suprise me.)

Anyway, I refuse to buy the full version until at least patch #2 comes out. My foolish kids may buy it, but not me!!!

At least 2 patchs? See you summer next year then :hmm:

[deb]

a64 3000
via k8tpro
9800 xt

Complete system lockups that seem to be random.

[| The Pensioner .h20 |]

Anyway, I refuse to buy the full version until at least patch #2 comes out. My foolish kids may buy it, but not me!!!

AH come on Allred dont let it beat you mate, we need more old fellas playing to keep these young whipper snappers inline ;)

Whats the alternative? sitting on the couch with the missus? LoL j/k

Seriously though Allred im sure with all the people having issues with it there is sure to be some sort of patch that will make the game more "friendly" across the board...lets hope for yours and others sake anyways..:-)

[imported_Charlie]

AMD Athlon 64-Bit 3200+ @ 2.2Ghz
1024MB DDR400 RAM
9800 Pro 128MB
Omega 5.4 Catalysts

Some dynamic shadows look just damn wierd. Apart from that I run everything on Medium, couple of things on High (Geometry, Texture Filtering) @1280x1024. Would push it to 2xAA, but I get stuttering while flying, so I live without it. I run at a solid 40-50FPS, and only get any real slowdown if a fat-*** firefight begins (we're talking 80 Bots on screen here). Had fun trying to play on my home hosted server with 128 Bots on the demo map. 2FPS rocks :laugh:

[Qba73]

h()sT']mine stopped, but now it crashes after i die, i click done or spawn and it stops. I think its the sound. WHats ur sound settings
wat should mine be

my sound hardware, high

as for you what soundcard you have, it depends

[Qba73]

AMD Athlon 64-Bit 3200+ @ 2.2Ghz
1024MB DDR400 RAM
9800 Pro 128MB
Omega 5.4 Catalysts

Some dynamic shadows look just damn wierd. Apart from that I run everything on Medium, couple of things on High (Geometry, Texture Filtering) @1280x1024. Would push it to 2xAA, but I get stuttering while flying, so I live without it. I run at a solid 40-50FPS, and only get any real slowdown if a fat-*** firefight begins (we're talking 80 Bots on screen here). Had fun trying to play on my home hosted server with 128 Bots on the demo map. 2FPS rocks :laugh:

dynamic shadows are fubared with the current ati drivers. Ati will most likely fix its issues with bf2 in 5.7

[Se7eN]

Well its one thing after another game not starting fixed that played online for 15 min then had a memory issue went online again connection errors when online again CRASHED TO DESKTOP!!!! and i new i was getting it as am an ati user am p***ed off..

Tried all sorts still nothing...

[JIGA]

AMD 64 2800+
Asus K8N
2 Gigs PC3200
1x160gig SATA 1x120 SATA
Sapphire Radeon X800XT PE (5.6 CATS)
Audigy 2 ZS Gamer

In about 4 hours of playing I had the game crash on me 3 times. Once right when you click JOIN the map comes up. I also hit tab to see the players when this map was coming up and it crashed.

2nd time it crashed I was coming down a hill and hit shift + space bar and the game crashed... weird

3 time I was just flying and it crashed.

Part of the reason the client crashes is the amount of memory it uses. I have seen it consume well over 800mb of physical memory at medium settings. 2gigs may resolve most of your crashes.
I run 2gigs, it does not resolve the problem I have been seeing.

Other than that, the game looks and runs great when it doesn't crash. Though my shadows are all blocky with the all settings on HIGH.

[Biggbrother]

I have:

AMD 64 3500 (Venice)
SOLTEK SL-K8TPro-939
1GB Dual Channel PC3200 Corsair Ram
ATI Radeon 9800 PRO 128
Audigy Gamer

I was getting some ugly freezeups. Everything is at Medium and screen resolution is 1024x768. Running the Cat 5.6 drivers.

I don't just crash to the desktop though, the entire screen fills with wavey garbled lines, some really bad feedback in my headphones, and I have to physically reboot by pressing the Reset button.

I lowered my Textures and Texture filtering to Low and made sure Sound was set to "Software" and I didn't crash in 2 hours of play last night.

[Krundor]

X800XT-PE (256mb)
ATI Catalyst 5.6 drivers

No graphical problems, excellent performance in SP

[| The Pensioner .h20 |]

I have:

AMD 64 3500 (Venice)
SOLTEK SL-K8TPro-939
1GB Dual Channel PC3200 Corsair Ram
ATI Radeon 9800 PRO 128
Audigy Gamer

I was getting some ugly freezeups. Everything is at Medium and screen resolution is 1024x768. Running the Cat 5.6 drivers.

I don't just crash to the desktop though, the entire screen fills with wavey garbled lines, some really bad feedback in my headphones, and I have to physically reboot by pressing the Reset button.

I lowered my Textures and Texture filtering to Low and made sure Sound was set to "Software" and I didn't crash in 2 hours of play last night.

I have a very simialr setup to you there biggbrother and have no issues at all running any resolution upto 1280 on medium settings (no AA) however running 1280x1024 (using tweak) I run smoother than 1024. this I believe is due to my monitor (Sony 21 inch Flat screen CRT) running this resolution (1280x1024) and it being its optimal res.

If you haven't already turn off your Fast Write, VPU Recovery & Truform and she should run smooth. (40-60fps) Also make sure you turn any programs off that are not needed for the game to avoid softwae 'clashes'

Happy fragging

[Sinful]

x800pro/cat 5.6
1024 w/ everything on high except shadows & something on medium

day1- game crashed once or twice after initial install (in mid 1st map)& had me panicing, but seems stable after a reboot w/o any further related issues for 6 hours of playing

[Zyraki]

Shuttle SN25P
AMD 64 4000+
2GB RAM
Raptor 73GB HDD
X850XT PE using Cat 5.6

No Lockups or crashes in game. Everything set to max, and at 2xAA. Providing I can get in to the game. The server browser is the only time I get a crash.

[Biggbrother]

I have a very simialr setup to you there biggbrother and have no issues at all running any resolution upto 1280 on medium settings (no AA) however running 1280x1024 (using tweak) I run smoother than 1024. this I believe is due to my monitor (Sony 21 inch Flat screen CRT) running this resolution (1280x1024) and it being its optimal res.

If you haven't already turn off your Fast Write, VPU Recovery & Truform and she should run smooth. (40-60fps) Also make sure you turn any programs off that are not needed for the game to avoid softwae 'clashes'

Happy fragging
OK Thanks. I was wondering about FastWrite, as other games have recommended turning it off. Do I need to turn FastWrite of in the BIOS as well?

And I will try running 1280x1024. I have a 20" Dell 2005FPW LCD so it should look better.

[Spears]

i have a radeon 9250 256mb pci

I got the same thing, except 128mb. Is the game working for you cause mine is just black when it starts up. I have the catalyst 5.6 driver. Anything I can do to get the game to work?

[suicidesteve]

I Have a radeon 9800 pro 256 also and i have no problems with my game

[| The Pensioner .h20 |]

OK Thanks. I was wondering about FastWrite, as other games have recommended turning it off. Do I need to turn FastWrite of in the BIOS as well?

And I will try running 1280x1024. I have a 20" Dell 2005FPW LCD so it should look better.

You can turn it off in the bios if you wish or in the ATI settings, if you wish to just disable it for BF2, obviously turning it off in bios will disable it alltogether. Fast Write will make absolutely no difference with your performance so I would suggest turning it off in the bios.

As for the resolution, as I mentioned i think mine runs better on 1280 due to it being my desktop res and also my monitors optimal setting, I suggest you findout what your monitors optimal display settings are and then run the game in that resolution also. If you need to alter the preset BF2 resolutions and dont know how to the easist way is to just add a line to your shortcut properties (I know there is other ways I just find this simpler)

add 1 +szx 1280 +szy 1024 to your shortcut target line (right click on shortcut/properties) so for example your target line would then look like "F:\Battlefield 2\BF2.exe" +menu 1 +fullscreen 1 +menu 1 +fullscreen 1 +szx 1280 +szy 1024"

I dont see a huuuuge difference in the apperance of the ingame graphics, for sure it is noticeable though

Hope this helps anyways mate, good luck with it and happy fragging :-)

[TO 004]

ati 9250 PCI 256mb ram dell 2400 2.53ghz 1gig ram ...go to hit the single palyer or multi player tab and screen goes black...crash to desktop with VPU error ...help.

[| The Pensioner .h20 |]

ati 9250 PCI 256mb ram dell 2400 2.53ghz 1gig ram ...go to hit the single palyer or multi player tab and screen goes black...crash to desktop with VPU error ...help.

I realise you asked for help to get the game to play T0 004 but even if you do get it working it isn't going to be impressive at the lowest res and settings. Your video card isn't going to be upto the job im afraid to say :( If your finaces allow go for a high end card something like a 6800 or x850xt if not pick yourself up a midrange card the 6600GTs are quite reasonably priced these days I have a few fellas I play with daily with them and they breeze through on 1024 rez and medium graphics. Cheaper still hit ebay, I picked my current card up cheap (cheap by Australian standards that is $AU245) even came with a thermaltake heatpipe cooler (which is collecting dust in the garage) LoL and ram sinks.

Sorry I can't be of any help getting your current card running, purhaps some of the other lads can be of assistance here :-)

I hope you get it sorted though, im sure most will agree when I say it is a great game (when its running smoothly)

[SSGT Allred]

AH come on Allred dont let it beat you mate, we need more old fellas playing to keep these young whipper snappers inline ;)

Whats the alternative? sitting on the couch with the missus? LoL j/k

Seriously though Allred im sure with all the people having issues with it there is sure to be some sort of patch that will make the game more "friendly" across the board...lets hope for yours and others sake anyways..:-)

Actually, I am being forced into buying the currently released version against my will. The kids have it now and they are playing it instead of the demo. None of them will play the demo with me anymore! That's the thanks I get for helping them workaround the bugs.

[| The Pensioner .h20 |]

Ah yes todays thankless youth hahaha But what are dads for if not to use and abuse Allred...wait till they hit the mid teens they wont want a bar of you at all!! LoL remember when you were young mate...enjoy them wanting your help now while it lasts mate :-)

Bloody kids...who would have em hahaha

[monkeyb]

I suspect the problem i have is that I only have 512 of meg at the moment, but I will choose a server (once I have got through the crappy server list) and the game will load, once it gets to the "verifying client" bit of the load it waits a while and then crashes to desktop.

I am going to get myself 2 meg of memory soon, but I think having to fork out 150 quid to play one game is a bit of a pi** take.

I ran the demo fine so wtf is wrong with loading the full release?

Not a happy bunny in any way whatsoever and feelings toward EA and Dice a verging on homicidal!

[Savethehumans]

ATI 9800pro 128meg card
p4 2.6
1012 kinston 400ddr ram
had omega driver, disable HT, still booted me after about 15 mins of play, installing ati 5.6

also my AA is off

[monkeyb]

ATI pro 128meg card
p4 2.6
1012 kinston 400ddr ram
had omega driver, disable HT, still booted me after about 15 mins of play, installing ati 5.6

also my AA is off

Apparently 5.6 can make problems worse for some people. This game has some big issues!

[Savethehumans]

yah, 5.6 didnt work bootedfrom 2 servers about 15 minutes in, in middle of gameplay.

trying 5.1....

[Savethehumans]

I suspect the problem i have is that I only have 512 of meg at the moment, but I will choose a server (once I have got through the crappy server list) and the game will load, once it gets to the "verifying client" bit of the load it waits a while and then crashes to desktop.

I am going to get myself 2 meg of memory soon, but I think having to fork out 150 quid to play one game is a bit of a pi** take.

I ran the demo fine so wtf is wrong with loading the full release?

Not a happy bunny in any way whatsoever and feelings toward EA and Dice a verging on homicidal!


i HEAR ya, i ran demo fine as well. I have 9800 pro and 1024 ddr400 ram..so im not thinking ram is the issue.

Since the game was designed with Nvidia, im sure nobody could have stuck in a piece of code that would make ATI cards run like crap, NoooOoo they wouldnt do that.

[Savethehumans]

5.1 driver didnt work

HT off /AA off/lighting low

i guess ill go get fan and see if it happens at 21C.


Now i know my my buddy laughs at me, and brags about how he just inserts a cartridge and it works. Damn EA releaseing have betaed games. I should have learned from BF:V.

what BS.

Why cant another company make a good vech/flight/boat/infantry game??

Ohhh how i hate EA, thank god there are modders to fix everything, and add imagination to this game, but thats a diff issue.

[NedStar]

[QUOTE=savethehumans]
Why cant another company make a good vech/flight/boat/infantry game??

QUOTE]

Well enemy territory quake wars is on the way, looks better cooler vehicles and not made by ea :D

[Kordain]

I changed my card to AGP 4x from 8x and all the problems, artifacts, CTD's etc have gone away and I see very little change in preformance if any!

K..

[Snazy30]

i have a radeon X800 pro, why can i only go up to 4x agp and not 8x. it says 8x/4x on the box

[Dragunov]

Hercules 3D Prophet 9800XT 256MB, cats 5.6

demo: cats 5.5, worked great

retail: cat 5.5, didn't work as good as demo, 5.6, same problem

Greetz

Dragunov

[Bathazar]

Does anyone get really crappy looking shadows with their ATI card. Will it be fixed?

[jaxskins]

im running 9800 pro on old drivers ^_^

No freeeze, crash, weird color or anything yet. its the new drivers screweing up i tell u.

Here to I'm running a 9800 pro as well and its the 128mb/256 bit with the original drivers from the cd it came with.

I have no problems no hitches no nothing. I'm running 1024x760 with mostly medium with a few high settings on textures and landscape. Also have AA turned on at 2X as well. I can probably go high on some others if I wanted.
But reaaly have no need since everything looks great and smooth.

If your having problems crashing to the desktop then its not your video card its your system memory running low. the game uses Memory allot of it. I currently run 2 gig in my PC and have no issues.

AMD 2500 Barton
Asus A7V8X-X
Gigaram - (2) 1 gig Ram Sticks PC2700 - 2.5,3,3,6
ATI - 9800Pro

[Savethehumans]

ok, so i put in the 5.4 omega drivers...still boots me, this time 2 minutes in.

my current agp speeds is X8 and fast writes off.<--always has been

aa=off/ht=off/core temp 22C vid card 23C

ati9800 pro 128 meg
2.6 p4
1024 kinston ddr400

Anyways i get booted like 2 minutes in.

ALSO i have uninstalled and reinstalled twice.

[WingNutz]

running a X800Pro with 5.6 driver only (read: NOT CATALYST CONTROL CENTER). i do not advise downloading the larger 32 meg driver file which contains the control center. it is useless and is a ram hog.

my system is an athlon xp 2.1Ghz, XP Pro, gig of corsair xms ram, windows is installed on a western dig. raptor sata drive, BF2 is installed on a Raid 0 array consisting of (2) western dig. 80 gig sata drives. i am using Nforce sound and network (on the motherboard). everything runs fine, no graphics issues or freezing/crashing - so i guess i'm lucky. i agree with the comment about problems being associated to system ram and not the vid card. make sure you remove all the useless little programs that load during startup, you are defragged, etc. etc. run some adware/spyware removal tools and tidy up your system services, etc.

[ShadowStalker]

Hi.

Randomly get crashes, that seem to only happen on the larger of the 2 demo maps. Crashes to desktop and says. 'Query dos device Failed, innsufficient resources to complete requested task'.

Never had any probs with other games, but BF2 just doesnt seem to agree with my system. Im running:

P4 3.0GHz
1gb DDr
X800 XT PCI express

Cant think of why its crashing, tried with and without aa, and texture filtering, but still seems to crash. Surely i cant need 2Gb of ram to run this damn game do i? lol
Weird thing is, it alt-tabbed me from the game to give me the message then i can reenter the game, and its as smooth as ever, even with everything on full. However i just have no hud or writting on the screen. lol

Any help gladly recieved. Cheers

[| The Pensioner .h20 |]

It has probably already been posted on the forums before but this is quite a good article on 'tweaking' BF2 and getting it running smoothly, so for all you fellas with issues grab a cuppa (or beer) and sit down and work your way through this hopefully it will solve the issues some of you young blokes are having Tweaks (http://www.tweakguides.com/BF2_1.html)

Good luck and happy fragging :-)

[FLIPINOM4D]

When will ATI release the new Cataylst Drivers?

[SylentSnipe]

Im running a 9550 256 mb. No problem what so ever have everythign at medium. full AA
my system specs are

P4 2.66 overclocked to a 3.10
1gb ram

[| The Pensioner .h20 |]

Very soon I should imagine...couldnt resist commenting on your "Gaming Rig" Flipinomad hehe...thems some "serious" spec you have there mate...think you will need more than new drivers to play BF2 though buddy (seen PDAs with better spec than your gaming rig) LOL

[FLIPINOM4D]

lol thats good, well I got rid of it because people are always talking about it and stuff so yeh, I changed it. When I get my new custom gaming machine up (keep the alienware case hehe) then I will show a pic of the old crappy pc, and the custom gaming pc

[Crazy_sam]

I have a Radeon 9200 graphics with 128 MD VGA, and every time i start the game i can watch the opening movie, but right when it ends i hear "Welcome to duty" or something like that, then it just freezes when it brings up the single or multiplayer choice. I can still move the mouse, and i can crt + alt + del out of the screen, but the game is just frozen. I also get the message "VPU Recover has reset your graphics accelerator as it was no longer responding to graphics driver commands." Has anyone else had this problem, and is it fixable?

[Sir. Elxx]

Im running a 9550 256 mb. No problem what so ever have everythign at medium. full AA
my system specs are

P4 2.66 overclocked to a 3.10
1gb ram

Same specs and card as you, except my P4 isnt' overclocked, but my 9550 is. Running a few things on High too.

[Alfar]

Does anyone get really crappy looking shadows with their ATI card. Will it be fixed?

Yes, a lot of people (or even everyone with an ATI graphics card).
I can live with crappy looking blocky shadows from the Playstation 1 era,
but I can not live with crashes to desktops every few minutes.


Tried it with a Radeon 9500 Pro and a Radeon X850XT.
Keeps crashing to desktop.

[eliteguard]

running 9600XT on high smoothly and no crashes at all, the only prob is some shadows and once or twice a little texture corruption but nothing big.

running on cat 5.6

my r9600pro suffered dammage due to the demo being too much i think. it had lots of corruption artifacts all over the screen , in the game it's even worse as the surrounding textures are corrupted and in windows all the icons are corrupted and when you move the mouse over it it goes back to normal and back to being skrewed up after 1 second. the bios text and boot screen is hosed as well. i think the bf2 demo overloaded the ram on the card and fried it. the 9600pro card still works, but it's only good as a testing card now. i think the bf2demo killed my 9600pro because my card worked flawlessly before i started to play the demo... tested it on 3 different pc's and same s!@# happens. now i'm running off my ti4600 untill i can buy a sutible replacement for my 9600pro. any one got good ideas as to replacement for the 9600pro thats in the same price-range?

[| The Pensioner .h20 |]

Bad luck with the 9600 mate Fried my 9600XT few months back but that was due to overclocking LoL If you check on ebay you will be able too pick up a 9800Pro probably better yet a 6600GT for under $AU250 )Buy now price New from ebay shop)

Good luck mate hope you get up and running quick and back into the action.

[Dirtbiker]

GeForce 6800 Ultra (newest official drivers)
winXP sp 2
pentium 4 2.8GHz
1.5gb ram


so, my computer could run BF2 for a few days just after yesterday, when all the sudden, i was loading a ranked server, BF2 crashes to desktop just before loading to the spawn menu ingame. so i hav'nt been able to load any maps since.

anyone else have any problems while loading maps?

[SaladFork]

SAPPHIRE ATI Radeon 9600 XT 256mb running Dual Monitor mode. Driver of "Microsoft Windows Hardware Compatibility Publisher", though the publisher is "ATI inc.". Unable to find specifics really.

Running on mostly High, with a few Mediums, crashing is very rare.

~Salad

[Alabaster Slim]

X800 Pro 256

I had major stuttering issues until I turned textures to Medium and set Dynamic Shadows to low. Now I don't have any problems at all.

Cat 5.6

[Gnukenpaver]

X800 Pro 256. Turned my dynamic shadows off and run at 1024x768 with 4xAA and everything high except lighting which is at medium because when I turn it on high I get mad lagg. And sound set to software, no more crashes for me.

X800XT AGP 8X.

I cannot get anti-aliasing of any kind to work. No issues with other titles. Occasional crash to desktop.

System:

X800XT 256
Asus K8VSE A64 3400+
1GB DDR400
2x 76GB SATA 10K RPM Raptors on RAID 0

Should be fast enough.

[imported_DANK]

ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe Socket A
AMD Athlon XP 2600+ Barton 333MHz
512 MB CORSAIR ValueSelect 512MB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200)
AIW 9800 Pro
Latest drivers whatever they are; 5.6...

It runs alright but i think i could use some more ram, which I am (256 MB more). As long as i have a decent ping it will run pretty good and that is with everything at low.

Edit: I also have 1or2 occasional crash to desktop a day, but that seems to be during loading a map towards the end and i hit a key maybe which sends it getting all wacky.

[| The Pensioner .h20 |]

It runs alright but i think i could use some more ram, which I am (256 MB more). As long as i have a decent ping it will run pretty good and that is with everything at low.

You are correct you definately require more ram, 256mb wont be enough ontop of your existing 512 get yourself another stick of 512 matey, BF2 uses in the vacinity of 800mb of ram.

[TO 004]

i have a radeon 9250 256mb pci
did you find a fix.. I have the same card ....i need help!

[-FPBMOD-DudeManGuyBro]

X700 here with Radeon Omega Drivers 2.6.25a no problems with gameplay at all.
P4HT 3.6EE
Intel D915 PBL
ATI x700 PCI-E 256MB
TWIN2X1024-5400C4PRO
2X RAPTOR 74GB SATA HD
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Gamer

[Cpt_Chris]

9600 pro agp 256 mb
5.6 cats

no problems just have to run no AA, somethings are high some low some medium

1024x768 @ 75hz
athlon xp2600+
640 ddr
80 gig sata
Soundblaster Live! value

ps: got some gradution money circle one...

RAM HDD Sound card

[fwhpinky]

9600 pro 256 megs using catlyst 5.6no problems in game. Never had a problem after I formatted my hard drive.

[KSJNX]

All 8 of my systems with P4's and Radeon x700s (256mb ob ram) are crashing to the desktop. 5.6 cat installed. It seems to me that they rushed this release. one of the install cd's was missing in one of the copies i bought, They included updated graphics card drivers for Nvidia, and some of the installation seems to be "hurried along". perhaps they should have worked out the bugs first.

[VladimirBolshevik]

I have a Radeon 9250 PCI 256 MB card, my RAM is 512, and im having an issue with running the program, I get the message "VPU recovery has reset your graphics accelerator as it was no longer responding to your graphics driver needs". that message will appear as soon as i get to the account selection screen.

[Lethanialist]

Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB with the Unian drivers. Never crashed once. And I get the preconfigured High settings with it, too, when the 9800 Pro was only rated for Medium :D

[theguy]

I'm using a Sapphire Radeon 9800pro 256mb. I've set it at medium with dynamic lighting and that other dynamic thing set to low (I haven't started tweaking every setting yet).

The game does kick me to the desktop sometimes from the map loading screen and in the game itself. The game minimizes for some reason, but it's still there so I just maximize the screen again, I have no idea why it does this.

[| The Pensioner .h20 |]

Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB with the Unian drivers. Never crashed once. And I get the preconfigured High settings with it, too, when the 9800 Pro was only rated for Medium

I have been using ATi Cat 5.6 drivers up until very recently but have changed back to the old UNian 1.1.5.3 version drivers, they score higher on 3DMark 03 for myself and I was having slight pixilation issues on the Elephants on 3DMark 03 but this is resolved with the UNian drivers...BF2 runs same for me (never had any issues with the ATi Drivers) but it maybe worth a try for others using latest Cat versions with 9800Pro and XT GFX cards. As the UNian driver official website is in Asian language i have taken the liberty of posting a link (http://www.mvktech.net/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=26&func=fileinfo&parent=folder&filecatid=1001) for those wishing to try the UNian drivers out. As mentioned earlier they use the older Cat 53 driver. If anyone else has found later version of UNian drivers please let me know would like to give them a crack also...I think that these however are the last UNian made for the Cat series though :confused:

Hope this may help some people out anyways, Happy fraggin youngins....beware | The Pensioner .h20 | <-- He is older but still a danger hahaha

[MaffO]

i'm usiing

radeon 9550 256mb
AMD 2500xp
1 gb ram
all settings at medium, no AA, shadows
5.6 cat drivers

the game runs well the only issue is a bit of stuttering for the first 2mins but after that its fine.
maybe this is a pb issue i know in CoD pb takes screenshots in the first couple of minutes on't know wether its the same for BF2

[SgtSoso]

Cat 5.6 (ATI)

X800XT PE Saphire.


Getting lots of stuttering-frame locks.
At times, when there is about to be an explosion I get what appears to be a crash-dump (screen goes black for two seconds or so) then I am back...but real heavy stuttering for several seconds.

Have tried all kinds of settings and adjustments but frame locking, stuttering and occasional dumps and crashes.

http://members.dslextreme.com/users/jinglee/military%20sig.gif

[Xpress]

C3D ATI 9800 pro 128mb
AMD 2400mhz
1gb ram
catalyst 5.6
=
10 min + - to destock

[RossC0*CTA]

I bought a Radeon 9800pro so I could play this game and it kept crashing in game - the max I played was for 2 mins! - very annoying!

Tried the latest CAT 5.6 drivers, Unian drivers and some other tweaked drivers - no joy.

Reinstalled WindowsXP - SP2 and downloaded the 5.6 drivers again and now the game works a dream! No crashes (apart from when I'm driving ;) )

[Girn]

whoever has a 9800 pro like me.. uninstalled ur cat 5.6 drivers and install the omega drivers and you will notice about a 75-100% decrease in stuttering.. and it might fix CTD but thats never happened to me so I dunno.. but its worth a try!

[Xpress]

I reinstall xp sp2 and all patchs and run =, i have the last omega 5.6, i tested cpu & ram, underclocking gpu, set all options possibles and get the same problem, 10 min. max to destock, VPU recovery or blue dead screen.
I dont have this problems in other games (UT2004,DOOM3,HL2...).

[| The Pensioner .h20 |]

whoever has a 9800 pro like me.. uninstalled ur cat 5.6 drivers and install the omega drivers and you will notice about a 75-100% decrease in stuttering.. and it might fix CTD but thats never happened to me so I dunno.. but its worth a try!

Nice that it has solved some issues with yourself but others are running same drivers and still have problems

The release of the up and coming patch will hopefully resolve the majority of the problems encountered (crossing fingers for you fellas with problems)

I have read numerous forums (including this one) with people freshly installing XP and SP2 then installing the game and appropriate drivers and being able to run the game well. This obviously isn't how it should be, but does lead one to presume it is software confliction issues with other installed programs IMHO Again im often wrong and more likely than not am on this occasion. As i have mentioned several times I have no issues with the game and its performance (other than I would LOVE a better gfx card LoL) But my BF2 installation was done on a very near fresh install of the OS (was just coincedence)

Get into em Girn :-) Happy fragging...one problem addressed and solved...100000 to go LOL

[TheDragon]

i have x300se (came with computer)
how can i deterime if i heven have the catalyst drivers - nothing revealed by searching

graphics issues - none
have p4 3.0ghz
1.5mb ram
run all settings low
aa and shadows off
1024x768x75hz
lcd native rez=-1600x1200
fps online = constant 44
(dsl 1.5/.340)

[imported_StormForce]

ATI Radeon X800 XT, I have never had any problems I turn the settings all the way up and the game runs smooth as silk.

[imported_Disturbed]

Radeon 9800 Pro/256 using 3.8 CATS, came with my card..

Less flickering and stuttering than 5.6 CATS.. no hang ups YET.

[at3k-]

9800 Pro, 5.6 Cat

Stupid game keeps crashing to the desktop. Sometimes I can play for 10 mins and other times right when I click join it crashes.

Here are my specs.

9800 Pro 128mb
2.8 GHZ
512 ram

Is there anybody else with these same specs? Can you tell me exactly what your settings are so it doesnt crash? Maybe if I upgrade to 1 Gig ram it will stop crashing.

yes m8 i have same specs , running all on medium sept for shadows which are off . 2xaa , res @ 1024x768 75hz. game looks mint but i do get stuttering quite alot , especially for the first 5-10mins of starting a game. Dont really have the crashing to desktop problem , only a couple of times. another 512stick for me soon aswell :) should stop stuttering i hope.

[JohnnyTurk]

Ever since i installed BF2, my computer now resets when i'm playing ANY game or using a software that is 3D intense. I am completly blaming this on the BF2 programmers who wouldn't even make the mouse icon '2' spin around all the way!!! Anyway i will leave my flaming of BF2 programmers somewhere else...

Abit Board K7e
P4 2.6 Ghz 800 Mhz HT
1.5 GB DDR400 Ram (Dual Channel)
Radeon 9800 Pro

[zio_234]

im runing a ati celestica 9600XT and 5.6 cat and played probaly close to 20 hours and have absoulutly no porblems at all

[unisole]

Radeon 9200 256mb

I put the BF2 CD in i rnu it, the EA game icons appears etc. the BF2 movie plays after the movie some music plays and my screen goes blank and stays like that, but says its stil responding

Anyone help me please

[zymyo]

I am aiming to buy a x700 pro... will that do the job at high with no problems?

[netsniper]

9700 pro..newest omega drivers..

i hear everyone talking about how the game is crashing to the desktop constantly..it rarely happens to me. i get it maybe once or twice a week..thats it

[audiomind5]

I had originally played with Catalyst 5.6 Drivers and there were blocky jacked up looking shadows particularly around the helicopter and the gun that you are holding it works fine for like 1 min and then it messes up. I went and rolled back to catalyst 5.1 and everything runs very smoothly and till today I haven't had a problem ever since. i'm sure ati's working on a fix for the game right now

[xNytramx]

I have a Radeon 9200 graphics with 128 MD VGA, and every time i start the game i can watch the opening movie, but right when it ends i hear "Welcome to duty" or something like that, then it just freezes when it brings up the single or multiplayer choice. I can still move the mouse, and i can crt + alt + del out of the screen, but the game is just frozen. I also get the message "VPU Recover has reset your graphics accelerator as it was no longer responding to graphics driver commands." Has anyone else had this problem, and is it fixable?

exactly the same problem for me any1 know how to fix it pleaseeee

[[Rk-C] Kaj]

i have a Radeon 9500 AGP and im trying different drivers so right now i have Omega 2.6.05a and the game lasts for 10 minutes and either crashes to desktop or restarts my computer.Could you please help me I have been looking everywhere for a solution :confused: , Thanks

[Private Waxa]

The thing that stopped all of my crashes with all of my games was setting my AGP setting to 4x in stead of 8x.

There isn't any difference in performance whatsoever and is easily done in your advanced ATI display settings or you can go into your BIOS and make the one change there. Its easy and it solves ALOT of problems.

I use a Radeon 9800 Pro 128mb on my p4 3.0ghz 1 gig-ddram PC. Hope you guys who haven't tried this test it out and report back with success.

:)

[Murtey]

ATi radeon 9800PRO 128MB. Have tried both the Catalyst 5.6 drivers and Omega 5.6 but for some reason the Catalyst seem to work better for me.

[Kordain]

Further to my earlier post I have got a hold of the Omega drivers based off 5.6 and they work absolutley fine, no problems and now back on agp 8x.

you can get em from here, http://www.omegadrivers.net/
dont forget to totally remove your old ATI drivers using the special ATI driver deleting tool !!!!!!!! before you install the new ones. you should always use that tool even when updating to newer ATI drivers.

K..

[Murtey]

Further to my earlier post I have got a hold of the Omega drivers based off 5.6 and they work absolutley fine, no problems and now back on agp 8x.

you can get em from here, http://www.omegadrivers.net/
dont forget to totally remove your old ATI drivers using the special ATI driver deleting tool !!!!!!!! before you install the new ones. you should always use that tool even when updating to newer ATI drivers.

K..

Indeed that's what i did earlier :)

[BOBSONATOR025]

X800 pro VIVO....everything perfect....runs high with 6xAA on 64 servers noo lagg :D :D

[joetomic]

X700 here with Radeon Omega Drivers 2.6.25a no problems with gameplay at all.
P4HT 3.6EE
Intel D915 PBL
ATI x700 PCI-E 256MB
TWIN2X1024-5400C4PRO
2X RAPTOR 74GB SATA HD
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Gamer

p4 3.4
9700 mobility
1gb ram
xp sp2
everything on med
no AA
runs great w/ping 40-100 - catalyst 5.6

[Oompa]

Just got a 9800Pro. Flashed it to a 9800XT. Works fine. Omega 5.6's

[jeftep]

ATI 9600xt, 1g 3200 ddr, AMD 3000+

I JUST reformatted days ago to ensure a clean system.

Drivers
-------
-tried ATI catalyst 5.5
-tried ATI catalyst 5.5
-tried ATI catalyst 5.6
-tried OmegaDrivers 5.5
-tried OmegaDrivers 5.6
-tried uniAN 5.6

800x600 and everything set to LOW.

Game crashes to desktop on loading, joining a server, if I manage to get into a game, it crashes within minutes or the next map change.

[BIFF EXPLODER]

Radeon 9600XT 128MB
AMD AthlonXP 2000+
RAM:786MB

i'm running it on the cats 5.6

800x600 High settings

running perfectly and i think its runing even better now with the new patch :D

[liongreek]

ok, P4 3.20
1.25Gig RAM
ATI RADEON 9600 pro 128mb
omega drivers last edition, everything runs smoothly at medium settings in 1024x768 res
:p :p :p

[zymyo]

I am running:

2.6ghz intel (HT, if it makes a difference)


1GB ram (3200)

Ati radeon x800XL

runs BF2 1024 x 768 all settings high AA 4x very smooth...

I forgot the catalyst version but I know its not the 5.6 since I had my friend tweaking it to perfection... well all I can see that running at 1600 x 1200 its ok with some settings at medium and ocassionally stutters, but I use the same resolution in windows than in games...

[C77.Meyer]

p.4 2.60
1 gig ram @3200 I BELEIeve it is.
9800 pro radeon 128 mb.

using cat 5.6 i think is the newest ones.

game runs great i have all settings on low in order to get the best possible gameplay.dont care much for looks just playability.

[nyy]

9600se
omega 2.6.42
dont seem to be having any real graphics issues, most of my problems are with connection

[tjr1973]

Sapphire X800 Pro 256 AGP with Cat 5.6's. I've had two CTD's in about fifteen hours of play. I turned off shadows because they look like crap and have AA at 16X in my ATI Control Panel and everything else on or cranked to the max. In game settings are all set to high and AA is as high as it will go also. I read something about refresh rates causing CTD's so I changed the resolution to 1600X1200 60htz and haven'd had a crash since. (Time will tell) The rest of my system....Intel 3.4 Northwood, Intel 875 Motherboard, 2 WD Raptors in Raid, 2 Gigs of Corsair XMS Memory, Antec Truepower 550 PSU and an Audigy LS sound card. Runs just as smooth at 1600x1200 as it did at 1280x960. Patch made the game much better than before also.

[| The Pensioner .h20 |]

game runs great i have all settings on low in order to get the best possible gameplay.dont care much for looks just playability.

Playability is what its all about but if you can have looks as well it makes the playability side even more enjoyable ;-)

[| The Pensioner .h20 |]

Sapphire X800 Pro 256 AGP with Cat 5.6's. I've had two CTD's in about fifteen hours of play. I turned off shadows because they look like crap and have AA at 16X in my ATI Control Panel and everything else on or cranked to the max. In game settings are all set to high and AA is as high as it will go also. I read something about refresh rates causing CTD's so I changed the resolution to 1600X1200 60htz and haven'd had a crash since. (Time will tell) The rest of my system....Intel 3.4 Northwood, Intel 875 Motherboard, 2 WD Raptors in Raid, 2 Gigs of Corsair XMS Memory, Antec Truepower 550 PSU and an Audigy LS sound card. Runs just as smooth at 1600x1200 as it did at 1280x960. Patch made the game much better than before also

Might want to give 1280x1024 a bash mate its the res I use without issue...just add +szx 1280 +szy 1024 to your target line in your BF2 shortcut and it will start the game in that rez.

Hope this helps ;)

[Bramski420]

Im running a hercules 9800pro 128mb
omega 2.5.97a drivers ( I think they're a few months old)
athlon xp3200+
2gig Ram
1024x786 res
medium settings
100% draw distance
no AA

I get highs of 80+fps and lows of 30, occasionally dipping into the high 20's when there's a LOT of action happening but .

I do feel that it's not really the hardware that's letting the FPS drop waaay down though, more a case of unoptimised game code. I feel that we may see a big increase in performance in the mid to low range machines in about a months time when a new patch or 3 has been released.

I've found that my machine performs best only once I've set my video settings and they have been optimized. Even if I optimize them and then go back in and change something and then play the game, decide I don't like the new setting and go back and change it to the old preferable setting, it is choppier. I also delete my cache files every few days and allow BF2 to rebuild them.

Seems to be working for me at present anyhow and I'm getting a good gaming experience, but it's made me realise that it's time for a major upgrade. I consider myself a serious gamer and if this is a taste of things to come then I'll have to get a 64bit system on the go with one of the new r520s when they come out. I won't be limping through the plethora of good titles that will be released this year.

[thedude]

Specs are in my sig. I run it at 1024x786, all medium settings with draw distance at 100%. I usually get around 60-70 fps but it will sometimes drop to 40 fps during 64 player maps.

[BOBSONATOR025]

read the sig....lol no catalysts installed...to afraid of damaging my perfect gameplay.. :p

[Insane]

read the sig....lol no catalysts installed...to afraid of damaging my perfect gameplay.. :p

how do you do that man, i have a AIW x800xt and it runs at 20-30 on 32 player servers and 15-20 on 64 player servers. i have textures on high, texture filtering on low, dynamic lighting off, lighting on low and the rest on medium.

my specs
Asus p4p800deluxe mobo
intel 2.6 ghz processor
1.25 gigs of ram
case power supply is 350 watts
x800xt AIW 256mb.

[| The Pensioner .h20 |]

how do you do that man, i have a AIW x800xt and it runs at 20-30 on 32 player servers and 15-20 on 64 player servers. i have textures on high, texture filtering on low, dynamic lighting off, lighting on low and the rest on medium.

Something seriously wrong there buddy that card should whip BF2 on high

[Insane]

im using catalyst drivers right now and im currently gonna install omega ones.

can the problem be the power supply not being enough for the card? and i remember someone saying i have an unusual amount of ram (1.25gigs, which is three 256 sticks, and a 512 stick).

i currently thinking of buying a new PSU.

[| The Pensioner .h20 |]

can the problem be the power supply not being enough for the card?

I would think anything under a brand name 400 WATT PSU would be under powering the card, quite possibly could have a little too do with it

[***tim***]

hello :) im new to this forum but i have a slight problem
after i play like 10 or 15 min my screen turns black ;'(
it is very annoying couse i cant play properly
my specs are :
p4 3.2 ghz
1024 mb DDr 400mhz
ati x740xl
medion 19" screen

could anyone help me plz ;(

tnx in advance (k)

[Ev0]

Radeon X300 ...seems to work fine on most settings on meduim.. few on high but it eats my 1Gig memory for breakfst.. stupid patch ain't helping cuz now my CS won't work... gotta sort out that memory leak

[TheEn|gma]

ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128
5.6 cats

used to get CTD before patch haven't had a graphical problem since 1.01 came out.

[Stryker20000]

I am noticing a huge trend in the 9250 class PCI cards, and sadly I have the same card. If you read the read-me thats included with BF2, it will tell you every card that BF2 can play on. And, apparently, only those cards. Heres the list:

Battlefield 2 only supports the following video cards:
Radeon X700 (PCIe)
Radeon X600 (PCIe)
GeForce 6600 (PCIe)
GeForce PCX 5900 (PCIe)
GeForce 5800 Series (AGP)
ATI Radeon X800 XT Platinum Edition
ATI Radeon X800 PRO
ATI Radeon 9800 Series
ATI Radeon 9600 Series
ATI Radeon 9550 (RV350LX)
ATI Radeon 9500 / 9700 Series
ATI Radeon 8500 Series
ATI Radeon X300 Series
NVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra
NVidia GeForce 6800 GT
NVidia GeForce 6800
NVidia GeForce FX 5950 Series
NVidia GeForce FX 5900 Series
NVidia GeForce FX 5700 Series

Besides the PCIe cards, does any one know if any one of these cards are just a plan old PCI card?

[vrslider]

got a club3d 850 XT 256 DDR 3, no problems running the game ;-)

[Soldat44]

Dell 8400
1024 GB DDR2 533mhz
3.02Ghz
5.6 Ati drivers

Runs great!
Medium settings

[| The Pensioner .h20 |]

Besides the PCIe cards, does any one know if any one of these cards are just a plan old PCI card?

Besides the PCIe cards the rest are all AGP

[=~ATF~=Comatoast]

i dont know if u heard of this yet but i have a 9800 pro 128 and i was crashing also go into your ati controll panel goto smart gart turn the 8x to 4x and it worked for me

[[Rk-C] Kaj]

i dont know if u heard of this yet but i have a 9800 pro 128 and i was crashing also go into your ati controll panel goto smart gart turn the 8x to 4x and it worked for me

Are you sure it wont mess up my computer cause it is my bros and i dont want him gettin angry with me.

[[Rk-C] Kaj]

The problem I have is with ATI as most other people do.So I have a Radeon 9500 AGP and I have Catalyst 5.6 right now. The game lasts for 10 minutes and either crashes to desktop or restarts my computer.

It once gave me a "Unhandled Exception Error" message and closed so I dont know what that is? and a while ago it gave me a memory error message but that was with the demo so I dont know.So if someone could help? that would help me a lot.

[Se7eN]

Try and not use the no cd crack as it crash's you

[neepneep]

I found that the ATI Utility seems to reveal more about one's video card (such as it's BIOS info and chipset info.)

You can download it on the http://support.ati.com website (look on the left hand side bar for the 'Utilities' section which is somewhere closer to the bottom)

My results are here (screengrab) :
http://www.neepneep.com/temp/ati_details.jpg

And my game does NOT function right (I have invisible tanks and weapons which is pissing me off so much!)

Anyone else care to share their details ?? (I'm more interested in anyone with a Radeon 9600)

[Braxton-Hicks]

I get poor performance at any resolution. Even after clearing the shaders.

Everything is set to max, FSAA 4x and Ansio 8X. Main resolution 1024x768 (to enable all the eye candy)

My config: Asus A7N8X Deluxe / Athlon XP 3000+ / 1GB dual channel Corsair DDR 3200 / Audigy 2 / X800 XL 256 AGP

Running Cat 5.6. Would using the Omega or any other driver inhibit the use of the ATI tuner?

[BGB Slayer]

Does anyone know when the new drivers will be out?

[Braxton-Hicks]

Catalyst 5.7 released. Some mention of BF2

Battlefield 2: Geometry corruption or missing textures maybe noticed when playing the game for an extended period of time under Windows XP with an ATI Radeon® X800 XT installed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-19709

https://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894&task=knowledge&folderID=27

[Stryker20000]

I noticed on the support forum while looking for the system specs again that BF2 can run on an ATI Raedon 9200 with updated drivers and firmwire... whatever firmwire is... Think the new drivers might work for my 9250? Lets see...

[voLcar]

ATI radeon 9800 PRO crash crash crash also cat's 4.6..... what was the solution for my prob?

[Mo-Fo]

X850XT.

Cat 5.7's.

No crashes.

Oh... ^^the guy above me^^.... 4.6????

update!!!!

You also need the latest drivers for ur sound card ppl so go do it.... old sound drivers can also cause all sorts of problems. It's not ALL about ur graphics card. ;)

[imported_Espodude]

I stutter alot and i dont know why, i turn firewall/anti virus off and i just reformated my computer so you would think the game will run good but no. I should be running this game perfectly on medium i dont know why my gameplay is so crappy. Dont tell me to update something on my comp, the game should run perfect on this system specially when the grapichs are on medium.


AMD Athlon 64 3000+ 1.00 GB 2.00GHz
ATI 9800 Radeon Pro 256 MB DDR
Catalyst 5.6
Settings all on Medium No AA

[Kordain]

ATI radeon 9800 PRO crash crash crash also cat's 4.6..... what was the solution for my prob?

Have you tried the Omega Drivers v5.7 worked fine for me when ATI's drivers caused no end of hassle

K..

[-TSF-Gen. Romano]

saphire radeon 9800 pro 128mb
catalyst 5.7's

The problem is when I load a map it freezes at sound at 27/28/29% and i dont know what to do

[RomanyBlack]

I had the same problems with my ATI 9800 Pro,crashes and lock ups.
I found this site http://www.tweakguides.com/ATICAT_1.html and got it working good by truning down the AGP speed to4x.I didn't seem to lose any performance.

[Der Fuhrer]

9600pro 256mb, cat5.7


Sweeeeet

[NoSoup4You]

X850XT PE

Cats 5.7 w/ATI Control Panel (not control center)

No problems.

Also since we are all ATI users, might I remind you to DISABLE VPU Recovery.

[Kelloggs]

x800xt
Cat 5.7

Kicks / drops to desktop, when i initially can get in before being kicked from server for having unmodified content BS

[Republican]

Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB VRAM, 5.6 Cats, CTD rarley

[Blayde]

ok guys im new in this forum but i have some questions i think you guys can answer...i love bf2 except..like a few of you..im havin issues..i have a intel celeron=to a pentium 3...1.1 ghz,ati radeon 9550,and im not sure of the catalyst,but i know 5.7 dont work..i get real jumpy play and a lot of lag,i know i can barely play in this game but im already a lance corporal so i dont have major problems,i just need some tweaking advice

[Xirtronic]

FireGL T2 - 6.14.10.6497

No problems thus far.

[jmuduke]

My framerate drops into the 30's with 64 player servers. Also my framerate drops into the 20's if I'm commander and come out of the commander menu. Dunno why it does this.

3.2ghz P4
2GIG PC3200
X800PRO 256

[Kordain]

I recently put my settings up to high for textures n geometry and had the texture problem come up again. Turned them back to medium and they were ok again (had to reboot before they went though) .

This just made me realise that ATI havent put anything out to fix this yet, possibly one of the most active games out there and they havent announced anything.

Have i missed something or am i right and correctly suprised?

Cheers
K..

[tk471138]

just got my radeon x700 pro using a 250 w ps untill i get my 500w ps but it works much better than my ati radeon his 9550 se 128

[Kordain]

Apparently ATI have just releasaed their catalyst 5.8 drivers, havent found a fix list yet but fingers crossed.

K..

[El CapitaN]

X850XT, no crashes, just lot lot lot lot of lags :hmm: I think it's because of my VGA getting too hot...83 celsius...anyway ATI Silencer is on the way, hope it'll help it :)

[Mr. ADHD]

Dude...I have 3.0 with only 1 gig of ram running with a ATI x300...prior to upgrading from 512 to 1 gig, it CTD maybe 1nce or 2wice. With the Gig (yesterday), no stutter and I'm running with Med all (except for shadows light and I think texture) anyway...100% distance. and my AA was 4X.

It was golden...the only problem...is that occassionally people would be "moonwalking". Feet don't move. Anyway...I have to adjust but I'm sure I can run all on med with 2x AA.

I haven't checked my fps yet, but before with 512 it was around high 20's to 30's.



My framerate drops into the 30's with 64 player servers. Also my framerate drops into the 20's if I'm commander and come out of the commander menu. Dunno why it does this.

3.2ghz P4
2GIG PC3200
X800PRO 256

[someguy86]

Studders now and then, and my fps drops quite often below 30 to 24. Overclocking seems to have increased my fps a tad bit, however I get funky graphics once in a while. I

Is that normal? I overclocked it by like... 20 or 30 MHz's. Both the core and the memory.


AMD 3000+ 64bit
Ati Radeon 9600 PRO 256 DDR
1 Gig of 400MHz DDR.

[Sniper_13]

AWI ati 9800 pro. runing 5.8 drivers. no crashes after i reformated PC

[Spectral-Bored]

The ATI 5.8 Driver is out for all you X800 owners...I have a 9800 Pro and I have no issues what-so-ever and I was using the 5.6 and older....now updated to the 5.8

[imported_DANK]

After a week of use on my reformated comp with AIW 9800 Pro, 5.8, 1 gig ram, 2.1 Ghz almost all on Medium settings and the game has been running like when I first installed it. No crashes anymore, no losing connection anymore(was terrible before) and no lag whatsoever. The game runs like butter, is how I like to describe it when everything is perfect.

[DU_is_good_4U]

Radeon 9800 pro 128mb . 5.8 drivers- no problems

[imported_Chubz]

X800 XL
Catalyst 5.8's (Control Center version - sadly)

Every other Catalyst I tried would cause my PC to freeze every now and then, but with the 5.8's it has yet to freeze.

No problems at all.

[Carbon]

ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 256
Catalyst 5.6 drivers. No probs.

[HaXoRShunT3R]

ATI Radeon X850 XT PE

5.8 Drivers

Running on these drivers since they came out, no problems at all.:D

[DeathFromAbove]

X800XL 5.8 never hada problem.

9800pro omega 5.6 never had problem.

[Widkidone]

Using Catalyst 5.8 (CCC) on my X850XT 256mb AGP

[pureair23]

Using ATI X850Xt 256mb AGP, 5.8 cats. Never had a problem once I jumped my ram to 1.5 gigs and boosted the power supply to 550w.

[imported_Draven]

ATI x850XT 256 mb PCIe, Cat drivers 5.8 CCC version, and my system would lock up hard if I start a game, or connect to a server, then hit ESC to go to menu's. Tried many different tricks, reformat/reinstall of everything, still no help. Got tech support from ATI, they gave me some things to look at no help. On a whim, I installed the Omega drivers, based on Cat 5.8, and so far, no lockups.

/Draven

[dk.swifttank]

Same specs and card as you, except my P4 isnt' overclocked, but my 9550 is. Running a few things on High too.

Ok, well I have this same card and I keep losing signal completely from my vid card. The light on the moniter goes from green to yellow, and my comp just freezes. I figured it was a problem with my system being over loaded, and I got some more ram so now i've got a gig's worth.

I'm not sure if this problem is with my vid card or my comp. It just locks up when I'm in game and stops sending a signal completely to the mon.

i got an amd 3200+

[Cicchetti]

X850XT Drivers 5.6 runs great never had a problem with ati and this is my 3rd card

[Karl]

Cicchetti, is the X850XT All its cracked up to be ? Im thinking of getting one but im getting mixed opinions from people

[imported_Wasp]

I'm using NGO optimized CAT 5.8 drivers on my X800XT. I have a few graphic bugs and some textures missing like I did with the standard 5.8. BF2 crashes to desktop sometimes but not often. Running with terrain high, the rest on medium, texture filtering high, no AA and resolution is 1280x960 @85Hz. My FPS is usually in the 70 - 99 range.

[GreatWhiteShark]

Please post here what card you are using and drivers you are using.

:D x850xt pro ati cat 5.8 all settings set to highest no probs here!:D




And also if having an issue crashing to desktop post here.

Got a fix that might help pleae post...

Get to know your PC how it works in-depth.
Make sure that all the parts are matched (eg. the correct kind of RAM for your MoBo) motherboard) with the part you are going to fit it too.
Check that your BIOS is up to date.
Alter and "optimise" your BIOS to your pc hardware specs http://www.rojakpot.com/default.aspx?location=9 (http://www.rojakpot.com/default.aspx?location=9)
Partition your HD.
Keep your OS operating system (windows ETC) in one part your user programs like word, Adobe TS ati cat controller in another partition, games + videos, music in another and a mirror image of the drive you have your OS in another by using a program like "Ghost" in case your windows goes tits up.
Use all of windows update tool.
Always put installations into new renamed files.
Keep your pc HD "clean" (Ad-Aware SE Personal, AVG Free).
Use regularly Disk Cleanup + Defragment HD after installation of programs.
Check and fix your registry (TuneUp Utilities 2004, RegistryFix).
Keep "all" your drivers up to date check the manufacturers web site periodically and use there "firmware" or DriverMagic.
Go through all your "drivers" clean them up use a tool like Driver Cleaner Pro.
Use a RAM optimising tool like TuneUp Utilities 2004.
Keep an eye on heat of Vid card and CPU.

"THEN" and "ONLY THEN"

"IF", you get an issue with a particular program like say BF2 and you have done all the above, then go to the programs support forum with the safe knowledge that "so far" you have done all you can to prevent any problems from arising (to save you backtracking fixes) and can look in-depth at the program that is causing you issues.

BTW Don't go blaming a program for not working because you haven't set up your PC correctly.

DON'T LISTEN TO "BS", DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH & MAKE, YOUR OWN, INFORMED DECISION.

Have i missed anything?

Sharky

[DOCC]

x850 XT platinum edition
5.8 cats
Had some serious problems but it turned out to be a bad PSU
Only had a few crash to desktop

[ToBbErT]

Hi guys
Im using a 9800 pro.
Try these DNA-drivers: www.dna-drivers.com (http://www.dna-drivers.com)

im using this version,and im absolute stunned about the performance:DNA-drivers 3.5.4.12-LITE

[Cicchetti]

Cicchetti, is the X850XT All its cracked up to be ? Im thinking of getting one but im getting mixed opinions from people

yeah i think so anyways i have had it for alittle more then 6 months and not one problem yet so i would say its worth it

[Bushers]

I'm on an ATI X850 XT PE running 5.8's. No problems now but i did with AA and performance for a while. I changed the settings to no AA as it didnt make any difference graphically from 4x! Then i switched back to 4x, it 're-optimised' and now the game runs real smooth and the gfx are as they should be!!

So for anyone having simular issues with AA and performance, go in and change/save new settings and it may just sort out your performance issues...

Specs:
A64 3700+ (Thermalrite XP-90)
Abit AN8 Ultra
Corsair XMS 3200 C2 Pro (2x512)
Audigy 2 ZS
Sapphire X850 XT PE 256mb (PCI-E)
WD Raptor
Antec True Power 550w

[Cicchetti]

nice comp crosair xms is the best memory lol

[stevezz1]

Hi,
I am a relative newby to this game.
I run a X800PRO 256MB graphics card and over the week end had a blue screen crash with stuttering sound........
Now i am unable to join a mission, everything loads up ok but when i hit the 'join' button that is as far as i can go. The curser does not move and i am unable to any thing, all i can do is ctrl/alt/del to escape...........:confused:
Any help is greatly apreciated.
I have H/L 2 and that runs ok.

Steve.

[Bushers]

Posting your specs might help?! Have you got a sound card, if so is hardware acceleration enabled??!....

[imported_Gergnoodle]

I know this is a farily old thread but time after time i read about more ctd's.
People seem to think if they throw more ram or more bigger graphics cards it will fix it up. BF2 is a computer intensive game, most problems can be trying to do much at the same time. There are speed bottlenecks all over the computer.

Learn how to shut down the processes shutting off virus scanner wont hurt while playing the game, reboot before a game, hit the cntrl alt del and start closing some processess off, if it has been long time since you have formatted the hard drive think about doing that.

most errors are not hardware in nature if you want to check to make sure ,run a benchmark program, do a stress test. not all problems can be solved by throwing money at it

[mrbucket]

X850Pro w/ cat 5.10. I Love my card! Best one i've ever owned, 0 issues. Graphics high 1280x1024@75mhz on 2x17" samsung Syncmaster 730b w/ ext. desktop. Put Artic Cooling on it w/ artic silver 5 on GPU, never goes over 52c. I altered the fan settings per temp.

[adonis]

dam.. i dont think im gonna buy a 9800pro anymore if it always crashes for other ppl...

ive got 1gig,
pentium 4, 3GHz

[imported_Gergnoodle]

dam.. i dont think im gonna buy a 9800pro anymore if it always crashes for other ppl...

ive got 1gig,
pentium 4, 3GHz

mine went titsup casue the fan died cooked the chip

i think it is wise if u are handy enough to get 3rd party cooling fan and put it on but i loved the gameplay when it was working i was always first to load in to game

spec amd2500 oc to 3200
1 gig ram
ati 9800 pro (ram;d see above) running 9600 pro omega drivers 5.9 (they rock)
also get a fast hard drive i run sata 190 seagate barracuda

[sicdeath]

I have Sapphire 9800PRO with Omega Drivers 2.5.97A which are very stable for me and haven't had any problems at all. Plus it runs BF2 pretty smooth on Med settings with 4AA if I remember correctly.

I love this card and it was worth every penny :)

-rahul

[bigkid90]

Hey guys today i bought the ATI All In Wonder 9600 with 5.11 CATALYST drivers I cannot het B2 to load as soon as i start up it goes black...Flickers and then crashes to desktop..Belive it or not i had a NVIDIA 5200 before this card..When i installed B2 with the 5200 i could play B2 but as soon as i restarted my pc that day i could no longer play it any more... This card is supported..I have a fealing that i need to put my AGP speeds higher because doesent ATI give a default of 1x AGP? and you need 4x AGP to play the game ..i think?:confused: Any help would be greatly appreiciated! or however you spell it :P

[[STO] Killer Dragon]

9800 Pro 128mb on the 5.6 Drivers, No prob here.

[amstyle]

9700 pro 128mb
5.9 I think
ATI tool.......open case with house fan 1024/786
I rarely crash anynore...I used to alot

[bigkid90]

Processor: Intel Pentium 4 2793MHz
Display Card: ATI RADEON 9600 Series
Memory: 512MB
Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP
Free Disk Space 30.84GB
Display Card Memory128MB
Display Driver Version6.14.10.6583
DirectX Version9.0c
Optical Drive: CD/DVD
Sound Card: SoundMAX Digital Audio
5.11 Drivers
Its making me soo made when i was able to play it, it was an amazing game but now its just suck not beeing able to play the game i most wanted to paly :(

[mrbucket]

Rig Specs:
P4 Prescott 3.2HT(o.c.'ed to 3.4)Zalman 7000 (56c Load)
Abit IC7-g w/active NB cooling
2 Gigs Corsair XMS 3200 matched (o.c.'ed to CPU)
250 Gig Seagate Barracuda
ATI Radeon X850XT PE (570/1200) w/ Artic Cooling
Maddog 500w PSU
Antec Lanboy Case (modded for extra intake and exhaust)
Artic Silver 5 on everything.

[imported_Gergnoodle]

Hey guys today i bought the ATI All In Wonder 9600 with 5.11 CATALYST drivers I cannot het B2 to load as soon as i start up it goes black...Flickers and then crashes to desktop..Belive it or not i had a NVIDIA 5200 before this card..When i installed B2 with the 5200 i could play B2 but as soon as i restarted my pc that day i could no longer play it any more... This card is supported..I have a fealing that i need to put my AGP speeds higher because doesent ATI give a default of 1x AGP? and you need 4x AGP to play the game ..i think?:confused: Any help would be greatly appreiciated! or however you spell it :P

not great idea to post a computer problem and jacking a thread most people will only read first and last thread

best bet is to start your own thread unde rhardwar problems most likey someone will have had same problem and be able to help you out

as for my advice make sure you have all current mobo drivers as well as sound card drivers too

[NooBeD]

i have a question about my card. Will An " Ati Powercolor 9250, 256mb, 128bit run bf2?

[Gasoline]

X850 XT. newest driv