Topic: Battlefield1942 lag/choppy

[alienzero]

Hi,

I have a P4 1.6 gig / ati radeon 9600 pro 256mb / 768 megs of ram, i thought it would b enough to run battlefield 1942 at high graphics with choppyness or lag, but when there is a simple explosion or passing by a building with a plane or something theres 90% of time lag/ or goes choppy, i tryed playing online and offline does the same thing...do u think i can do anything to solve this ? because i run max payne 2 / generals zour hour / unreal tournament 2003 / full graphics at 1024*768 and i never get any problems like that

here is my dxdiag

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[Doc Nyar]

Have you tried playing at lower settings to see if that would solve your problem ?

[RotteVis]

Hi,

I have a P4 1.6 gig / ati radeon 9600 pro 256mb / 768 megs of ram, i thought it would b enough to run battlefield 1942 at high graphics with choppyness or lag, but when there is a simple explosion or passing by a building with a plane or something theres 90% of time lag/ or goes choppy, i tryed playing online and offline does the same thing...do u think i can do anything to solve this ? because i run max payne 2 / generals zour hour / unreal tournament 2003 / full graphics at 1024*768 and i never get any problems like that

here is my dxdiag

Your cpu & mem combination is the problem. First your memory is SD-Ram it ainīt enough to feed the bandwith hungry P4 and second you got a 1.6, one of the first P4, any P3-1,13ghz performs better. Only thing you can do is keeping your drivers up-to-date and run in a lower resolution. And keep in mind that BF1942 is very CPU intensive, more than Max Payne & Zero Hour

[Atomic Mitten]

Now that! is interesting to know.

[alienzero]

it's possible,but now i even put down my graphics to medium and resolution of 800*600 and still like its weird...its not like normal choppyness/lag its just like if it jams or something for 2 seconds. and its weird cuz i dont recall having that problem before, and i dont recall installing something new or changed some settings, oh well i dont know, maybe it was there before but never really noticed it

[Atomic Mitten]

You could try opening your mouse in control panel and see if there is an option disable mouse acceleration in games, if so put a tick in the box.
It's a long shot, I think Rottevis is right and the P4 is creating a data bottleneck, due to your having sdram.

Also check the game CD for fingerprints or smudges, this can also cause the Cd not to read fast enough.
Again it's a long shot, but maybe worth trying.

[number6]

Battlefield 1942 is a memory bandwidth hog and you really need fast DDR/RDRAM memory to play this game without choppiness.  Even changing the resolution may not help. You may also want to get an Sound Blaster audio card instead of using your motherboard's onboard sound chip . Those integrated sound chips offer poor performance for modern PC gaming.