X850 crash to desktop & Lag spikes

[joeyslucky22]

So I FINALLY decided to buy a new graphics card!

Original owner of a GeForce 4 4200 Ti, I decided to upgrad to a Radeon X850 XT and now, I am finally able to play this god forsaken game...

But alas, the problems still presist..


I set all my graphics to medium (which looks god awful for the type of card I have) and am able to play for about 2 or so minutes, and everything crashes to my warm desktop. Sometimes this happens even when I'm just loading a map! (Which takes forever by the way)

Also, during gameplay, I will experience 'stutters', like internet lag spikes, only my connection is perfectly fine, It just seems like the game has to load something every other second... Really annoying...

I am unable to play the game on all high settings because it will just crash to the desktop every time while loading a map, or reset my computer....


This is really starting to **** me off.. I want to play this game so F-ing bad, I mean.. I LOVE the battlefield series and its a shame they made this one require so much $$$$...

Here are my specs as of right now:

Pentium 4 2.5 Ghz
Radeon X850 XT 256mb
512 mb DDR ram

I have the latest drivers too.

Someone... please answer my plea for help!

[[DC]M4guy624]

id recommend more ram, 512 doesnt cut it for BF2

[joeyslucky22]

Yeah, but It sounds like alot of other people are doing just fine with 512.

Plus 2 1 gig sticks would easily be another $200 I'll have to spend with my tight budget..

I'm going to try disabling Hyper Threading for Pentium 4's in my bios, see if that does the trick.

[Ashram]

Ok where should I start? (Read everything here in its entirety before you start doing anything.)

1) First off, there is no such thing as an X850 XL. There is, however, an X850 XT, which is the same card I have. Excellent card btw.

2) Make sure you have every driver updated, this includes, Operating System, Motherboard, Videocard, Sound, etc. whatever hardware component resides within your case, make sure it gets updated.

3) You will never play on all high settings with 512 MB of RAM. I'm sorry to say, but it is simply an impossibility. This game was horribly programmed and requires too many resources. Having said that, if you still insist on playing with every setting on high, you will need atleast 1.5 GB (that is 1500 MB just in case ;) ) .... but even with that, I think your cpu is too "weak" for the job.

4) Make sure that you erase the files in your cache folder, located in the BF2 folder, which is in the my documents folder. ;) This will force your game to reoptimise the shaders just in case something funky happened on the initial optimisation session (knowing BF2, there's a high chance of that happening).

5) I suspect that perhaps your old nvidia drivers are conflicting with your new ATI drivers. In order to solve this potential problem, you will have to uninstall your current graphics drivers, and download a program called driver cleaner pro from www.driverheaven.net. It's free, and it's pretty intuitive on how to use. But basically you will run that program, and clean all remnants of the previous drivers still located on your system from nVidia, and hell do it for ATI as well, and then reboot, and install your ATI graphics drivers again.

Hope this helps. :)

[NoSoup4You]

Check the drivers. And like was said, you either have an X850XT or possibly an X800XL but there is no X850XL.

[joeyslucky22]

Excelent! Thank you!

I'll let you know what happens!


Yes yes sorry, I meant XT :P

[NoSoup4You]

Excelent! Thank you!

I'll let you know what happens!


Yes yes sorry, I meant XT :P

I have the X850XT PE and I'm running the 5.10 Cats from ATI. I have no issues.

[joeyslucky22]

I have the X850XT PE and I'm running the 5.10 Cats from ATI. I have no issues.

Whats your processor and how much ram?

[NoSoup4You]

3.4 P4
2gb Ddr2-533