Performance Issues

I put some money into my aging computer. A new video card, and some more ram. I noticed no increase when upgrading from 512mb to 2.5gb. And I bought a new video card 7800, yeah I know not the greatest, and I still get lag. I've only tryed it on BF2, and BF2142

P4 3.0ghz

2.5gb ram

7800gs oc 

500w PSU 

I have it at 1152x864, all settins maxed, tryed it at 4xAA, and 0xAA. Still lagged hard in both. VD Scale at 100%. Do I have to have my normal monitor setting at that to? or noo?

 and yeah, up-to-date drivers.

Have you been keeping up with system maintainence, keeping background stuff turned off and all that stuff?

I put some money into my aging computer. A new video card, and some more ram. I noticed no increase when upgrading from 512mb to 2.5gb. And I bought a new video card 7800, yeah I know not the greatest, and I still get lag. I've only tryed it on BF2, and BF2142

 

P4 3.0ghz

2.5gb ram

7800gs oc

500w PSU

slipknot-maggot

Dunno what kinda drive I've got, two years old though. Did the defrag and reinstalled drivers. Noticed some improvment.... Still lagging bad enough that its effecting game play.slipknot-maggot

I put some money into my aging computer. A new video card, and some more ram. I noticed no increase when upgrading from 512mb to 2.5gb. And I bought a new video card 7800, yeah I know not the greatest, and I still get lag. I've only tryed it on BF2, and BF2142

P4 3.0ghz

2.5gb ram

7800gs oc

500w PSU

slipknot-maggot

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I put some money into my aging computer. A new video card, and some more ram. I noticed no increase when upgrading from 512mb to 2.5gb. And I bought a new video card 7800, yeah I know not the greatest, and I still get lag. I've only tryed it on BF2, and BF2142

P4 3.0ghz

2.5gb ram

7800gs oc

500w PSU

muppet1010

Did you install your motherboard's AGP driver?

I had problems with BF2, a bunch of slowdown and stuttering. But once I installed the GART driver on my nForce3 board, it became smooth as a whistle.

Come to think of it, I don't think I've installed any drivers for my mobo.

So when I go to SiS.com and go through the step by step  do I go Win  Xp-> AGP(GART) Driver -> AGP(GART) Driver ?

 

Come to think of it, I don't think I've installed any drivers for my mobo.

 

 

So when I go to SiS.com and go through the step by step do I go Win Xp-> AGP(GART) Driver -> AGP(GART) Driver ?

slipknot-maggot

Yes, that probably would work. But just to be safe, I would go to your motherboard's website, and download the AGP driver from there. 

Considering everything else, the problem might not be so much your computer, but the Battlefield games themselves.

I know a couple of friends on X2 3800+'s that have heavy stuttering issues with the game, to the point where it is unplayable. Everything else runs perfectly fine for them, though.

Try some other games and see if you have similar results.