BF2:SF

[Carr0t]

Originally posted by Dewey@Jan 9 2006, 10:45 PM
Hi Wordan, SF is known to be make considerably more demands on your system than BF. First thing I would recommend is get 2 GB or ram, even BF2 uses 1.5 meg and you will notice an immediate and considerable increase in frame rate and the speed at which you get into the game.

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If you go from 1.5*Meg* to 2*Gig* then I certainly expect you will  

[Dewey]

Originally posted by BlueBall@Jan 10 2006, 03:02 PM
His point is, Dewey, that your original comment (below) suggested that SF was more memory hungry than BF2 and that going to 2 Meg would help alleviate the extra drag of running SF. Thus if you had to upgrade your memory to get SF to run OK then it is in effect costing more than £15 to upgrade. I have made bold your particular words below so you don't have to refer back to the original comment. If I have misunderstood your use of English then please excuse me but it looks pretty clear to me.

Oh, and for the record

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BB you've misunderstood.

What I actually said  is -

SF makes more demands on your system than BF2

. Which as we know, it does.

First thing I would recommend is get 2 GB or ram, even BF2 uses 1.5 meg

ie regardless of whether you play SF or BF2 I'd get the memory upgrade.

The fact remains that  BF2 needs a 2 Gig upgrade regardless of whether you have SF - its probably the most effective upgrade you can make to get BF2 running quicker.

By now I think we all know there are dMwer's who don't like SF, aren't going to buy it and have probably never played it and have been vocal in that fact. Fair enough. But lets bear in mind that the majority of BF2 dMwers do play SF and this guy is asking for help on SF related issues so lets try and keep on topic and help the guy.

[Anonymous]

PM sent

[Liberator]

Originally posted by BlueBall@Jan 10 2006, 05:34 PM
PM sent

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Nooooo, thats our little secret!

If they don't know from the hints we've been dropping then thats their fault!

 

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by Liberator@Jan 10 2006, 05:38 PM
Nooooo, thats our little secret!

If they don't know from the hints we've been dropping then thats their fault!

 

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It's still out little secret

[DogMeat]

Originally posted by Dewey@Jan 10 2006, 05:03 PM
By now I think we all know there are dMwer's who don't like SF, aren't going to buy it and have probably never played it and have been vocal in that fact. Fair enough.

Just for the record, I don't have any issues with SF (well, maybe 2GB memory requirements for a little-better-than-average FPS does tickle the cynicism meter).

I am, however, beginning to have issues with people who either consistently misread, or wilfully misinterpret posts. :eyebrow:

That is all.

[Liberator]

Originally posted by DogMeat@Jan 10 2006, 07:08 PM
Just for the record, I don't have any issues with SF (well, maybe 2GB memory requirements for a little-better-than-average FPS does tickle the cynicism meter).

I am, however, beginning to have issues with people who either consistently misread, or wilfully misinterpret posts. :eyebrow:

That is all.

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What do you mean "We all smell of cheese!".



I'm outraged.

[Wordan]

lol

well just a quick note if anybody is interested, today BF2 seams to have eradicated its occasional input lagging on a local server, after I  erased the shader cache. BF2:SF still performs badly, Warlord is particularly unplayable, occasionally grinding to a hault.

Infact I think I just noticed the stalling is coinsiding with the HDD light, which is flashing quite a bit, and the tast manager says BF2:SF(single player running Warlord) is running at ~450MB(I have 1GB of ram), which can't be right, and page file usege is 1.3GB?? im pretty certain iv never seen that before. I dont undestand teh page file, so I dont know if this is off. Sorry to waffel, but im just hoping, perhaps somebody will read this and recognise the problem.

It decided to randomly reoptomise the shaders (I didn't change anyhting. honest. it has happened a few times) and now its using ~700MB and performing considerably better (Warlord, Singleplayer). Again apologies for the waffeling

[Wordan]

Well I guess it is some kind of memory problem, 800*600 on low settings works good where the page file went down to about 800MB, besides looking like shit (espically at a non native resolution on a TFT). Thats redicilious, requiring 2GB of ram to play the game, it specifically says on the back of special forces box that the specs requirments are the same as the original, which happens to be 512MB.

Whats more,  the online computer hardware retailers I know insist on a surcharge of £15 or more for Northern Ireland customers; to ship a few grams of memory? And I'm not imployed  :blush:

[Apoc]

Originally posted by Wordan@Jan 11 2006, 03:25 PM
Whats more, the online computer hardware retailers I know insist on a surcharge of £15 or more for Northern Ireland customers; to ship a few grams of memory? And I'm not imployed :blush:

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http://www.mplex.com

shops in Belfast, Bangor, Lisburn, Coleraine, Newry, Portadown and Banbridge

[sulky_uk]

Originally posted by Apoc@Jan 11 2006, 05:03 PM
http://www.mplex.com

shops in Belfast, Bangor, Lisburn, Coleraine, Newry, Portadown and Banbridge

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didnt you used to work for them "cowboys"  apoc :wink:

[Apoc]

Originally posted by sulky_uk@Jan 11 2006, 05:50 PM
didnt you used to work for them "cowboys" apoc :wink:

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Cowboys!!! Never!!!

Did really good prices on a lot of stuff, especially blank cd's/dvd's, used to go collect them from a factory up the road 10,000 at a time :huh:

[Wordan]

An extra GB of RAM did the trick. No more flashing black hillsides, tanks disapearing when looking from a helicopter, I can crank up the graphics again and minimise performs excellent too. Mind you most of that stuff worked before I installed special forces...

Didn't purchase from the cowboys, they were far to expensive for memory.

[Apoc]

Originally posted by Wordan@Jan 13 2006, 08:08 PM

Didn't purchase from the cowboys, they were far to expensive for memory.

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Where did you go then? Always on the lookout for decent places to get stuff

[Wordan]

I ordered from overclockers.co.uk, I forgot about them and they don't have a delivery surcharge for NI. At least not for a bit of memory.