DCon DesertShield=LAG

[Switchblade]

Was playing Dcon tonight on my laptop, which runs BF2 on low pretty well with 1GB ram. I loaded up Dcon, went to Gazala and everything played just fine on a 64 man server almost full. Then it went to El Alamein and things were still a little choppy but bearable enough to play. But as soon as it hit DesertShield....LAAAAGGG like no other. My FPS was 85, but my Hard Drive activity was nonstop. I figure it's just lack of RAM on such a large map, but I was wondering if anyone else experienced the same.

I haven't played much other maps besides those 3, as the recent "home server" I found is a rotation of those 3. I played Inshallah Valley, and it was good. Somewhat choppy like the others but not to the point where I almost couldn't move.

[Wallpaper]

I experience this on most of the maps... Cept, my FPS gets on the down low too. But Lost Village (I think...) doesnt... Dunno why though

This is also why I dont play Chinese maps in regular BF2

[Teck]

Set your terrain textures to med or low...

The maps havent been optimized...

[Dopefish]

If you exceed your RAM, the game will start using your swap file. The swap file is located on your harddrive (typically the Windows drive). This causes a lot of harddrive activity and slowdowns. Hopefully your game is installed on another harddrive. Also, as Teck said, lower your textures in game to lower the RAM usage.

[NoobToast]

ya i need more RAM for mine too...

[BLOODED-1]

I rarely play it anymore . I experience the same thing with 2GB's .

[Teck]

I heard that one of the problems was they used some BF2 Beta models/textures with like a billion polygons or something like that and they should only have like 10 million... dunno... The next release should be much better

[BLOODED-1]

I'm looking forward to playing the completed mod .