BF2 bad framerate?

[t3h m00kz]

Okay, so I just got BF2. I've heard good things, decided to try it out. It's absolutely epic.

Now, to the point. I've got a pretty reasonable rig. IIRC I should have my specs up in my profile. XP SP3, 8800GT, AMD Phenom 9500 Quad-Core, 2.21 GHz, 3 GB ram. I get into Battlefield 2, and I get 20-30 frames, usually regardless of what I set the level of detail.

Anyone know of any incompatibilities or whatever that may be causing this?

[Phopojijo]

Yeah I don't trust BF2's framerate counter. Is it smooth for you?

[Daishi]

Mate, with that rig, you should be sailing through that game smoothly. I have similar specs and can run project reality (a much more taxing modification of bf2) on full specs 60+ fps. Something's up if your framerate is visibly lagging.

[t3h m00kz]

I know, the shit's fucked up. I play Crysis at a better framerate. Phopojijio: I've checked with Fraps as well, definitely 20-30.

[Phopojijo]

I know, the shit's fucked up. I play Crysis at a better framerate. Phopojijio: I've checked with Fraps as well, definitely 20-30.Perhaps you're CPU bound?

Battlefield 2 is an ASS with CPU usage... and it's also not multi-threaded... and if you have something else eating cpu cycles then...?

<shrugs>

Here's an idea... open BF2 then go into the task manager and set BF2's processor affinity to like CPU 3 (and preferably everything else to other CPU #'s that's NOT 3). See if it gets magically faster.

[t3h m00kz]

I switched the affinity from cores 1, 2, 3, 4 to 3, 4. I'm seeing an improvement in framerate, it's gone from 20-30 to 30-50. That's definitely better. I'll mess around with it and see what I can do

E: The improvement seems to be very minor. After about 10 minutes of playing the framerate drops back to 20-30.

[Phopojijo]

Did you make sure to move other applications to other CPUs than the one BF2 is on? The major point isn't forcing BF2 to 1 core (though that could help) -- it's to ensure it's the ONLY thing on that core.

[t3h m00kz]

Yeah, I've tried that as well with all the programs I could, same results.

[Phopojijo]

Well at least we pretty-much know its problem... just finding a solution that works.