OMGZ A BF2 THREAD!!!!1 AAAANYWAY... the graphics on my bf2 demo go all whack in a few different and exciting ways. FOR INSTANCE!when i zoom in with a weapon the screen goes black and all i can see is the hud AND THE CROSSHAIR AHAHAHA!! another thing it does is when i look at the scoreboard all the words go retarded and turn into black boxes and occasionally when i do this my computer will poo itself AND RESTART! this doesnt happen every time i play it. my system is AMD athlon 64 3500 wit a bigpimpin sapphire x800 graphical card. OK THANK YOU IN ADVANCE FRO HEPLING ME!!!!



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update drivers? u shouldnt b having any problems what so ever with that system.

ps. girls face looks f***ed up.

It's happened to me too, it's because of the textures missing. ATI has said something about it, and said that if the problems continue, go back to Catalyst 5.1

lol at funny post
i support your movement for strange capitalisation of letters

i barely ever update my drivers, i still use omega 2.6.05a.

I use to update everytime the new ones came out but some of the new ones made my computer run worse than it already was so i found one that worked good and im going to stick with it for a while :D

use the 5.1 drivers, turn off fast writes, disable VPU recovery.

Nvidia - The way its meant to be played :P

Speaking of problems does anyone else find the menu UI to be really f***ing sluggish? I don't see why it is... it looks like crap and is very very plain, I am running in 800x600 but still static menus should be able to scale a lot better than it is, the text looks absolutely horrible.

rubba I dont have any issues with text ect., but it has been reported on a few sites about the dodgy menu/GUI interface sluggishness. I'd say the game will be up for a few patches once its released. I hope they make the sniper rifle a s***load more powerful. :)

Considering it take my machine 3 seconds to load the menu from inside the game when the game itself runs absolutely fine, then I must agree that it's sluggish.

I find the scoreboard very easy to read, but try reading the damn console. Can barely make out any words, even at 1024x768!

Yeah, the UI is pretty sluggish for me, and for other people I've talked to as well.

And yes, sniper rifle needs more power IMO.

Sniper rifles are gay, get some skills and take the fight up close and personal.

And to keep on topic, I get some weird graphical stuff too, details (like grass) popping in and out, and the shadows are huge spastic rectagular blocks that cover way way way more than they should. I've heard this apparently means I need to install the newer drivers that came bundled with the demo, but I think that only 32 bit versions comes with the demo, and I'm running 64 bit windows, so it looks like its back to dual booting with 32 bit xp again for me.

Why do these developers refuse to embrace change and support 64 bit windows! Hell, I dont even care if the game doesn't officially support 64 bit windows, but at least bundle it with a 64 bit version of the drivers. Nvidia has 64 bit dets on their site so they're obviously capable of making them.

last edited by Khel at 17:00:19 15/Jun/05

I ended up turning off shadows because they looked ghey, and it doesn't make the game look any prettier either.

All in all, I'm unimpressed with the eyecandy. Had expected more due to various reviewers crapping on about how "real" it all is. That said though, the gameplay is pretty damn fun.

I've got it running on normal XP now, 1024x768 on high and its sweet as. Just out of curiosity I turned texture detail and something else I can't remember up to high (they're set to medium when you choose the 'high detail' profile), and it totally slawed my performance. Huge chunking and caching, flew one of the planes accross the map at about 1 fps, was like watching a slideshow flyover of the game map.

I'm also still getting weirdness with my sound, I'm thinking its almost time to bite the bullet and just get an Audigy. My fortissimo has been a great card but the support for it seems to be lacking more and more these days. For a start theres no 64 bit drivers (and after emailing Hercules I found out they have absolutely no plans of making any), and BF2 doesn't even seem to detect it as capable of hardware acceleration. Whenever I turn hardware acceleration on, even only on medium, the sound breaks up and goes to s*** :(

Alot of people are claiming less jerks and hiccups by turning up their "Graphics Aperture Size" in their BIOS settings to about 256MB.

If anyone has tried this, please post your opinion!

Khel I can highly recommend the Audigy 2 zs, sounds set to high/hardware with EAX enabled and its awesome. I had a fortissimo before and it gave me the same issues with BF1942 and BF:V.

I bought a logitech usb headset recently but when i had voice and in game sounds coming thru it, it crackled and farted a lot. So now I have the in game sounds and voice coming thru the Audigy and have the usb heaset mic round my neck just to broadcast and its cyrtsal clear on both. I look wierd but it works for now. I will be trying out a clip on mike for my Zalman headphones when they are in stock and have all sounds going thru the audigy. Listening to artillery coming from behind you, over your head and aircraft ect. is good. It also helps you pick up directions that heavy machinery is approaching from as well.


Parabol, I turned Dynamic lighting down to medium, with all else at high at 1024x768, 2xAA, 4X Ansio and is very smooth. My aperture size is 256 as well.


last edited by Psycho! at 00:41:42 16/Jun/05

Khel, this is from the readme file in the demo.

- We recommend Creative sound cards for use with Battlefield 2.

- The following sound cards do not support the Hardware Audio
Renderer option:

Altec Lansing ADA70 USB Speakers
AOpen AW-320
AOpen Phantom 3D AW-724
ASound Express II
Aureal Vortex
Aureal Vortex 2
Aztech A3D
Creative Labs SB 16 PCI
Creative Labs SB Audigy 2 NX
Creative Labs SB Audigy LS - (5.1)
Creative Labs SB Extigy
Creative Labs SB Live 24-bit
Creative Labs SB Live
Creative Labs SB Live PLATINUM
Creative Labs SB Live Value
Creative Labs SB Live X-GAMER
Creative Labs SB Live X-GAMER 5.1
Creative Labs SB MP3+ USB
Creative Labs SB PCI 128
Creative Labs SB PCI 512
Creative Labs SB PCI 64
Diamond Monster Sound II MX300
Diamond Monster Sound MX400
Diamond Sound Impact S90
Ensoniq Audio PCI PNP
ESS Canyon 3D
ESS Canyon 3D-2
ESS Maestro-2 3D Audio
Hercules DIGIFIRE 7.1
Hercules Game Theater XP 7.1
Hercules Gamesurround Fortissimo III 7.1
Hercules Gamesurround Muse Pocket USB
Hi-Live PCI
Hi-Live PCI SC4000
IOMagic Storm Surge
M-Audio Sonica
M-Audio Sonica Theater 7.1
M-Audio Transit USB
Microsoft Digital Sound System 80 USB
Nvidia nForce Audio
Nvidia nForce2 Audio
Philips Acoustic Edge
Realtek ALC861 audio
Siig Soundwave Elite 2000
Siig Soundwave Pro PCI
SoundMAX 3
SoundMAX
SoundMAX Cadenza (Intel 845)
SoundMAX Cadenza (Intel 850)
SoundMAX ADI AD1980 CODEC
Turtle Beach Montego A3D Xstream
Turtle Beach Montego II
Turtle Beach Montego II Quadzilla
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz
Yamaha Xwave-192
Yamaha Xwave-512
Zoltrix Nightingale Value

I'd say thats why the Herc is giving you wierd sounds ect..

Khel I can highly recommend the Audigy 2 zs, sounds set to high/hardware with EAX enabled and its awesome.

I've got the same card and it's damn awesome for games, especially this one. Sound is amazing, can't recommend these enough and the cost of them is like a dime-a-dozen. Chicken feed to buy one.

8-)

Sniper rifles are gay, get some skills and take the fight up close and personal.

Rubbish, sniping is a skill in itself.

Is the Audigy 2 ZS poverty pack version the same quality but just without the fancy packaging, or do you need to go for the full retail thingie?

I bought the boxed version, but that was full of useless games and cables and s***. Just grab the card if you can.

So the Audigy 2 Value ($90) is a different card than the Audigy 2zs ($150)?

The $150 A2zs is about the only 'poverty pack' I can find.

do audigy 2's suffer from the same s***acular reliability as other creative cards? windows errors n s***? my 5 year old game theatre is still going strong, my 2 sblives and audigy are sitting in the shed.

Man, you guys and your poverty cards. Why don't you save up a bit more money and get a much more powerful card:

http://homepage.powerup.com.au/~boldajis/images/sb16.jpg

do audigy 2's suffer from the same s***acular reliability as other creative cards?

I've had three creative cards and not one has given me problems.

Picked up an Audigy 2zs from CA today, just the standard one without the front panel IO thing and all that s***. I swear though, this sound card came with more free games than any bundle I've even got with new video cards. I got full versions of Raven Shield, Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness, Hitman: Contracts, and Thief: Deadly Shadows.

Khel, make sure you use the 'autoupdate' feature from the creative site to get all the driver patches ect...EAX4 and such. Hope you like it as much as I do mine.

Khel, that's the bundle that came with mine. I still haven't played any of those games yet.

8-)

so would it be worth getting one of these audigy 2zs 's if ive got an audigy 1 ? Sometimes the game does lag up but im not sure if its the graphics or sound

also howcome I can post from work but not at home on this account :/

and id like an answer to missions question too

last edited by darius at 10:25:48 17/Jun/05

So the Audigy 2 Value ($90) is a different card than the Audigy 2zs ($150)?

I would also like to know. I have a value card and want to know if it is worth updating?

I think the value is a different card, because the drivers I grabbed for the 2zs said dont install these drivers for the Audigy 2 value card.

This is a really sweet card though, thanks for the tip Psycho. Apart from running awesomely in BF2 now, it also just seems to have better clarity and fuller sound than my Fortissimo did. There used to be a background hiss of static always coming through my headphones previously, I assumed from interference from other bits of the PC, but now thats totally gone. Also, when I used to listen to music that had really extreme low ranges or high ranges, the speakers in my headphone would crackle a little. I thought it was a problem with my headphones, but now with the audigy it doesn't happen anymore, so that rocks too :)

Also, theres 64 bit drivers for it! Happy days! Still doesn't quite have the same level of support as the 32 bit variants, so I think I'll keep dual booting for now and use 32 bit xp for games, but at least I now have a working sound card under 64 bit windows.

last edited by Khel at 14:37:29 17/Jun/05

WTF!!

I was the one that said to get one. Psycho was just along for the ride.

8-)

Ok, you can have some mad props as well Rev, for positively reinforcing the recommendation.

I've had three creative cards and not one has given me problems.

Well the fact youve had 3 cards leads me to the asumption that there has been problems with your cards otherwise you would still be on your first card!

Wrong, my negress.

Upgrades.

8-)

If theres nothing wrong with them why need an upgrade...your just a slave to advertising!!

Why bother upgrading the computer if it's working fine?

yea...thats my point!

I'll upgrade you in a minute if you don't watch yourself. I know where you live.

I still have a celeron 300 that works fine, why aren't I using it?!?!?

I've had three creative cards and not one has given me problems.

Swing us one :P

last edited by JigZie at 18:40:21 17/Jun/05