Bf2 Load Times

Post by **Nellyboy** » Fri May 11, 2007 1:36 pm

Me mate Megazone who some of you know is having problems with slow load times in BF2. I thought I would pass his spec by you lot to see if it is glaringly obvious where the problem is.

Intel pentium D 920 (2x2.8ghz) 800mhz fsb/2x2mb cache
Asus P5LD2 se board
Corsair 2048mb (2x1gb stix) DDR2-533 PC4200 mem
Geforce 7600GS 256mb pci express.
All at stock.

He gets in game when me & eagle have got the first flag so about 45secs to a min behind us.

Thanks for lookin.

Nellyboy.

Post by **mcmav** » Fri May 11, 2007 2:45 pm

Could be anything from where bf2 is installed on his hdd to how fragmented it is to anything. The spec he has should be fine.

Post by **Trig** » Fri May 11, 2007 3:05 pm

Fragmented, all on the same drive, gfx set too high..

I've got my BF2 on a seperate drive thats just got my games on, it gets defragged often and I've been thru the tweak config on t'internet...

Post by **Claw** » Fri May 11, 2007 4:05 pm

Just to add to the above suggestions, I would also recommend running the likes of Adaware SE and Spybot, just in case something is chewing on his bandwidth.

While playing the game, I've always dropped my firewall (Kerio) and AV (AVG) from running in the background. In fact I'm going to kick Kerio into touch for the way it messes with my bandwidth - but that's another conversation. What BB connection does he have incidentally?

As has been said also, loading times are affected by higher graphics settings. This was a big thing for me, so I dropped the peg on some settings, didn't really notice a major difference visually, but had improved loading times.

In the past emptying the cache in your My Documents BF2 mods folder has helped solve some issues.

My Documents\Battlefield 2\mods\bf2\cache

<a href="http://www.evenbalance.com/index.php?page=pbsetup.php" target="_blank">Manually update punkbuster</a> before playing - only takes a moment.

Will hopefully join y'all tonight... but don't let that put you off

Post by **madman045** » Fri May 11, 2007 5:33 pm

Mine takes minutes to load the connection to a server for the first time, map changes arnt much better, but im putting it down to Vista.

It was really quick with my P4 rig and a pair of old 36gb raptors.

My rig now is x2 4400, 2GB, x1900xtx, 2x250gb raid 0, SB X-Fi

Usually is down to heavy fragmentation.

Post by **Legthigh** » Fri May 11, 2007 7:03 pm

Anti Virus kills BF2 load times, also hows his pagefile? and as mentioned defrag, I recommend Diskeeper.

Post by **madman045** » Fri May 11, 2007 7:24 pm

Inoshishi wrote: Anti Virus kills BF2 load times, also hows his pagefile? and as mentioned defrag, I recommend Diskeeper.

Running NOD32 here and I will be sticking perfectdisk on it and running that...

Will try it wish NOD disabled..

Post by **Dangerous Bob** » Fri May 11, 2007 7:28 pm

Run Diskkeeper and let it defrag files all to the outside of his drive like....

Worked wonders on mine

Post by **Hammer** » Fri May 11, 2007 11:28 pm

What HD is he using? This will probably be the limiting factor.

Post by **Nellyboy** » Fri May 11, 2007 11:31 pm

Thanks for the replies guys, I will point him at this thread and he can answer for himself.

Cheers, Nelly.