Right ladies and gents, I firstly apologize for my first post been one seeking help but i don't know where else to turn.
When i try to run 2142 it starts to lag, so much to the extent its not playable. I am 100% sure its not my net connection. I took the overclock off my Q6600 back to stock which didn't make a difference so im near certain its not the CPU.
I then turned to my graphics (x850xt) which I piliged from my last system. Instantly remembering I hadn't updated the drivers, I went and downloaded the latest ones. Still the same issue arose. I know this card is fully capable of playing 2142 in XP at full settings as I have been doing for the past year or so.
So lastly I checked my RAM, which is 2Gb 1066Mhz stuff, while in game I opened task manager. To which it said my game alone was using 1.2Gb of memory
, along with the rest of the system resources this came to 1.96Gb. I can only presume that while in game that figure is breaking 2Gb.
Now on my old rig (take into account this was with windows XP, im now on Windows Vista 64), I could play the game fine with just 1Gb of RAM at 667Mhz speed.
Also in Task manager it says bf2142pace.exe*32? Does this mean its emulating a 32bit enviroment in order to play the game and hence eating up all my RAM? Also when in game the lag is more progressive, so for the first few minutes it will play okay (ish), then start to jerk a little, and then eventually become unplayable (after about 5 minutes).
Really need some input on this one please, prefrably not "go buy more RAM". Unfortunately I have no other games to hand at the minute to test on.
I will also add im a complete "noob" to vista. thanks in advance
When i try to run 2142 it starts to lag, so much to the extent its not playable. I am 100% sure its not my net connection. I took the overclock off my Q6600 back to stock which didn't make a difference so im near certain its not the CPU.
I then turned to my graphics (x850xt) which I piliged from my last system. Instantly remembering I hadn't updated the drivers, I went and downloaded the latest ones. Still the same issue arose. I know this card is fully capable of playing 2142 in XP at full settings as I have been doing for the past year or so.
So lastly I checked my RAM, which is 2Gb 1066Mhz stuff, while in game I opened task manager. To which it said my game alone was using 1.2Gb of memory
Now on my old rig (take into account this was with windows XP, im now on Windows Vista 64), I could play the game fine with just 1Gb of RAM at 667Mhz speed.
Also in Task manager it says bf2142pace.exe*32? Does this mean its emulating a 32bit enviroment in order to play the game and hence eating up all my RAM? Also when in game the lag is more progressive, so for the first few minutes it will play okay (ish), then start to jerk a little, and then eventually become unplayable (after about 5 minutes).
Really need some input on this one please, prefrably not "go buy more RAM". Unfortunately I have no other games to hand at the minute to test on.
I will also add im a complete "noob" to vista. thanks in advance