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bf2 slows my machine down after about an hour and a half...

Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 7:16 pm
by Burrito
of playing.

likewise if I have my machine on for a while then start the game, it gets really choppy. It plays smooth as butter after a fresh reboot, but that only buys me about an hour and a half of time before it starts getting choppy again. I'm thinking it's something to do with a memory leak, but wouldn't have the slightest idea how to confirm that.

anyone have any suggestions?

Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 7:28 pm
by AKA Panama Jack
Yes, have 2 gig of memory.

BF2 is a huge memory hog and even with 1 gig of ram it will use about 1.5 gig of swapfile space. Your slowdowns are because of all the swapfile access.

The more maps you play the more swap file space gets used. And if you start after you have been using the computer for awhile the swap file is probably fragmented and it takes longer to access.

You can lower your resolution and all graphic settings to the minimum and it won't be so bad either but the game looks like crap.

Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 12:34 am
by m3mn0n
That happens on some other games, too.. depends on the map and how many you play so that's why I tend to play on servers that have just 1 map. In CS: Source it's de_dust2 only servers I like and CoD 2 it's Carentan only servers I like.

That way this sort of issue doesn't come up.. since I hate rebooting and I think my voluntary reboot was a few months ago. :P

Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 4:04 am
by onion2k
The game is telling you to play something better.

Counterstrike never slows down.

There's a lesson right there.

:wink:

Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 3:37 pm
by daedalus__
Red Orchestra, ftw! I never thought I would play a game I thought was better quality than Call of Duty, but I did!

Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 4:06 pm
by Burrito
onion2k wrote:The game is telling you to play something better.

Counterstrike never slows down.

There's a lesson right there.

:wink:
I figured I'd get some responses like this so I hit up planet battlefield.

that optimizer seems to have done the trick.