FPS issues

[ian60]

i have three computers and one is a laptop and i host dedicated servers on it and play on my to desktops and wut i want to know is y the dedicated server is running 30-35 FPS. I went out buying a network cable thinking that would solve my problem it helped but not much


The laptop is dell B130 Inspirion 512 RAM and 128 Integrated video card with 1.8 GHZ processor centrino

Desktop 1 dell dension 3000 with 512 ram and nividia geforce fx 5500 and 2.8 ghz p4

Desktop 2 some hp and 512 ram 2.4 ghz p4 with 64 mb intergrated video card

[Caslon]

Your measly memory ram and intergrated video card, I suspect.

I've seen only one or two ppl that can barely run any BF franchise game at all with
an integrated mb vid chip.

[ian60]

ok so my ram but because i have a dell i can't upgrade my vid car can i

and wut u mean by franchise game we are talking 2 people playing hear nothing real intense




ohhh by the way my laptop runs bf 1942 just fine

[faker_phil]

Originally Posted by ian60

ok so my ram but because i have a dell i can't upgrade my vid car can i

Correct.

Originally Posted by ian60

and wut u mean by franchise game we are talking 2 people playing hear nothing real intense

"BF franchise game" means any game having the name Battlefield in front, thus being one of the games in the "Battlefield Series".

Originally Posted by ian60

ohhh by the way my laptop runs bf 1942 just fine

Wonderful to hear that, but unfortunately, BF2's requirements are just a tiny bit higher than those of 1942.

[ian60]

so i know but i kinda want to know still is there a way without spending alot of money to just like get the video card to work better with the server and get the most fps

[NavalLord]

Put everything on the lowest settings and close all unnecessary programs.

[Caslon]

I've never had to close down everything to run a game, but if you're really determined, here's EA's BF2142's primer text on closing all backround tasks. XP.
I don't think it's worth the hassle. You may have to fiddle with what to STOP.
Upon rebooting, everything will be as it was.


To close unnecessary programs and processes on Windows XP, do the following:

Hold down Ctrl,Shift and ESC keys on your keyboard at the same time, select windows task manager.

1. Click on the Processes tab to view the list of active processes.
2. Click the User Name column header to organize the processes by login.
3. Select an item with a user name but do not close any processes running under
SYSTEM, LOCAL SERVICE, or NETWORK SERVICE. Click End Process.
4. Repeat the previous instructions until all programs associated to your Windows Login are closed except for the following two:
1. TASKMGR.EXE
2. EXPLORER.EXE


I've checked out the task manager/processes area but didn't go thru with changing it There may be some services that need to run the game besides just taskmgr and explorer.exe (my opinion). It's pretty much a harmless procedure tho, as rebooting will revert back any changes.