Choppy graphics...

[Five1nine8eight]

Hello, Im new here, and I have a noob question (I think). I searched, but only found out that I should update my drivers, and they are updated.

So I bought a new graphics card to play Battlefield 2. Its just to hold me over 'till christmas when I might get a new computer. I "upgraded" from a Gerfore Ti 4200 128mb to an ATI R. 9550 256mb. The install went smooth, and I played battlefield 2 for a few days, and I noticed it was always choppy. Like when I would turn, it was choppy, but when I move slow its not that bad. After playing only CS:S for a few months, I got really used to aiming for the head... and being able to quickly. Now on BF:2 Its so choppy, when I try to aim at some one, it almost seems to lag, and I attempt to move the crosshairs on the enemy, but its so choppy I can never get it on them with one move of the mouse. I have to repostition like 3 times cause I overshoot or undershoot from the "lag" of the screen.

I was thinking BF:2 was that demanding of a game, so I put in BF:V and had the original setting on high for my geforce4, and it was worst than BF:2. I put BF:V on the all low settings and 1024x768 res, and it worked fine unless I was in an area with alot of activity, then the lag came a little. My gerforce ran fine on high setting and 1024x768.

I then noticed HL:2 lagging too, I kept the original settings of med. gfx.

My BF:2 settings are on low, and screen resy is 1024x768@70hz.

System specs:
P4 2.8
512ram
ati 9550 APG8x 256mb
hp f70 monitor set at 70hz refresh rate

Any other info that you need?
Thanks in advance.
Note: No other programs running while I play. Im testing in single player.

 

[15357]

Hello, Im new here, and I have a noob question (I think). I searched, but only found out that I should update my drivers, and they are updated.

So I bought a new graphics card to play Battlefield 2. Its just to hold me over 'till christmas when I might get a new computer. I "upgraded" from a Gerfore Ti 4200 128mb to an ATI R. 9550 256mb. The install went smooth, and I played battlefield 2 for a few days, and I noticed it was always choppy. Like when I would turn, it was choppy, but when I move slow its not that bad. After playing only CS:S for a few months, I got really used to aiming for the head... and being able to quickly. Now on BF:2 Its so choppy, when I try to aim at some one, it almost seems to lag, and I attempt to move the crosshairs on the enemy, but its so choppy I can never get it on them with one move of the mouse. I have to repostition like 3 times cause I overshoot or undershoot from the "lag" of the screen.

I was thinking BF:2 was that demanding of a game, so I put in BF:V and had the original setting on high for my geforce4, and it was worst than BF:2. I put BF:V on the all low settings and 1024x768 res, and it worked fine unless I was in an area with alot of activity, then the lag came a little. My gerforce ran fine on high setting and 1024x768.

I then noticed HL:2 lagging too, I kept the original settings of med. gfx.

My BF:2 settings are on low, and screen resy is 1024x768@70hz.

System specs:
P4 2.8
512ram
ati 9550 APG8x 256mb
hp f70 monitor set at 70hz refresh rate

Any other info that you need?
Thanks in advance.
Note: No other programs running while I play. Im testing in single player.

It could be connection problems for BF2. what is your connection? edit: nevermind

try defragmenting. Or some more RAM.

 

[Drackard]

Yeah, a lot of people have been saying that BF2 does play pretty badly unless its on at least 1024mb RAM, well thats what i've gathered from old threads anyway.

 

[Five1nine8eight]

I defragged, and my system runs smoother, but my games are still bad. The problem is im getting choppy graphics with all my games. Im going to re-install all my drivers tonite and see if that helps.

 

[giant384]

try playing in 800x600 if that helps and isnt usually chopping in games caused by cpu throttling

 

[Five1nine8eight]

Thats it.. thanks for your help everyone. Now BF:2 is fun.