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Demo tweak guide and benchmarks.

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  • 13-06-2005 8:21pm
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    KdjaCL
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    Tweakguide
    Account Issues: The first time you go to start multiplayer in BF2, you will have to create an online account. However you may find that once you enter all the details and click the Create Account button, it may sit at the 'Creating Account' stage forever. If that's the case, simply exit the screen, restart BF2 and click the 'Retrieve Account' button using the same details - hopefully your new account will be loaded up. Further note that at the start of the game, if you keep pressing any keys to skip the intro movies, these keystrokes will be recorded in your Password box, thus when you click the Login button it will say you have an incorrect password. Either don't press any keys during startup, use the skip intro movies tweak on the next page, or clear the password box and re-enter the correct password each time you start the game just to be safe.
    In-Game Lag/Freezes: Most people experience a lot of in-game lags, pauses and several-second freezes. Aside from optimizing your system as per my guides in the Essential Optimization section, and the tips in this guide, it is quite clear that BF2 requires a lot of memory to operate. Basically the pauses/freezes are usually related to loading information from the hard drive, and for those of you with only 512MB of RAM this will happen very often, particularly at the start of a match and whenever new areas/items are encountered. Even with 1GB, there is a lot of loading, so clearly BF2 would benefit from 2GB of RAM. More importantly, graphics cards with 128MB of Video RAM will also experience more pauses as textures are loading into/out of Video Memory. I will try to find more tweaks to help with this situation, but it is clear BF2 is very memory-intensive and hence almost always relying on your hard drive.

    More in above link.


    Benchmarks
    At these low quality settings, the visuals were actually very similar to those of an earlier game in the Battlefield series, Battlefield Vietnam, which was released over a year ago. With graphical eye candy enabled on the 5700LE, performance slumped to under 20 frames per second, well below the 30 to 40 FPS necessary for playability. Some of the effects, such as dynamic shadows, simply didn't work on the 5700LE. Nvidia's new budget chip, the GeForce 6200, produced slightly better results, but still struggled to show the game in all its magnificence.


    Kdjac


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