i believe that some of have an advantage over others, so i would like to know what are your settings of your BF2, or your computer. what type of computer do you have, cpu, vid card, ram, type of cooling, etc. i'll start.

windows XP, amd athlon 3500+ over clocked to 2.2 gigahertz, 3 gig ram, 2 SLI nvidia 7600 gs, 200gb hard drive

my bf2 setting are vid = 1024 x 768 @ 70 Hz settings are set to med except texture is set to high with AA turned off view distance scale is 100% and my crosshairs is neon purple.

windows vista,AMD64 athlon 3800+clocked @ 2.4ghz,3GB of memory, nvidia 8400GS 512 MB,creative sound blaster platnuim audigy SC,450GB hard drive thay my game is on.


my bf2 settings are vid=1024 x 768 @ 60 Hz settings are all high with AA turned off veiw distance scale is 100% and my crosshairs are neon pinkish.

windows xp professional pentium dual-core cpue5200 @2.50ghz 3.19 gb of ram with a 9800 video card...


my bf2 settings are 1224x768 @ 75 Hz settings are all high with AA turned off veiw distance scale is 100% and my crosshairs are pink

Running a Pentium D, dual core 3.0 with 2mb cache per core. 8 GB DDR 2@667Mhz. Radeon X550 512mb card (crappy I know)

Dream is running an Athlon 6400+ quad core, 1mb cache per core, 1 GB of video (Nvidia something or other, dont remember what I upgraded it to) and 8 GB DDR2 @667Mhz

.......AND my croos hair is pink

My Gameing and Development Rig:

Manufacturer: Big Dog.
Computer Case: Giant Antec Silver Aircraft Aluminum Super Tower.
Motherboard: GIGABYTE EP-45C-UD3R (s775, 1512Mhz FSB, DDR2/3 2000, 8x Raid).
Processor: Intel Q6600 2.4 @ 3.40Ghz (O.C.'d) 1512Mhz FSB, 8Mb L2-Cache.
Memory: 4Gig OCZ 1600Mhz DDR3 timings 7,7,7,24.
Hard Drive: 5x WD 500Gig Raid Ready HD's in 1.9Tb Raid5 Array! (385Mbs Tx rate).
Video Card: ATI Radeaon 4870 x2 CrossFire: GPU's: 778Mhz, MEM: 3920Mhz (O.C.'d).
Physics Card: ageia PH1 PCI 733Mhz.
Monitor: 28" I-Inc. 1920x1200 5ms Flat Panel.
Sound Card: X-Fi Fatality1 Extreme Gamer PCI with 64Mb X-Ram.
Speakers/Headphones: 7.1 Logitech with Dual Subs, Fatality1 Gaming Headset.
Keyboard: Saitek Eclipse Red Backlit Gaming Keyboard.
Mouse: Microsoft Laser Mouse 6000 (extra light, extra fast, 2 extra buttons).
Joy SticK: Logitech Extreme 3D Pro
Mouse Surface: 36x14 continuous mouse pad area (2 corepads).
Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 3 (2600.xpsp_sp3_gdr.080814-1236) with Tweaks.

My BF2 setting are 1920x1200@60hz (command line), all "HIGH", No-Anti-Aliassing, 100% view distance. I peg 100fps on all bf2 maps. When I turn off the frame limiter I get 80-400fps varies by mods and maps. I use a bright green cross hair as it contrasts with most other coloring used in the game. Some very greened up maps I switch to bright red! I also take all my on screen objects to 35% transparency. I use Auto-Reload.

I use the following command line options to start my game!

+widescreen 1
Loads widescreen video support.

+szx 1920 +szy 1200
Overides video settings with 1920x1200 resolution.

+playerName myuser +playerPassword mypassword
Logs my user in without login screen.

+restart
Starts game as if it were re-launched from another BF2 mod like SF or AIX. Also prevents any front-end game movies from playing, cool!

I've placed these parameters in all my BF2 startup shortcuts including AIX and loaded them in the BF2SPCC loader, they all work for me!

If you going to make upgrades the following have the largest impact:

1. Video Cards: Pref. NVidia 9800GTX+, ATI 4870 or better. Card should have 512Meg Video Memory and have atleast a 500-550 watt power supply to run it!

2. Disk Drives & RAID: Install Raid 0 or Raid 5, these are very fast and Raid 5 helps protect your system and data. Raid greatly speeds up your whole system, so much so, it could be number 1 perf winner, but for BF2 and/or gaming it #2. Raid will load your game and maps faster, and will minimize periodic video studder caused by Bf2's segmental map loads durring game play. Read this on Raid.

If you just looking for fast try one of the (SSD) Solid State Disk Drives. Just one 64Gig SSD boot drive is as fast as "(3) Drive Raid 0 striped Array". Two or three of these can boot XP or Vista in less than 15 seconds. At about $ 150.00 per drive (at newegg.com) they aren't that expensive to make your entire PC seem 3-10 times faster (outside of video). Price varies only by the number of drives you want.

3. Processors: "Core 2 Duo or higher" or "AM2 Compatible or higher" either 2.0Ghz or higher. The faster the Front Side Bus the better. The faster the front side bus, the faster game and video data can move to and from memory and the processor.

4. Memory: DDR2 1066 or higher and try to stay with the lowest CAS(CL) Latency as possible. 2-3Gig is optimal Windows XP or Vista and for BF2 and most all of today's PC games!

5. Mouse and Keyboard: Get an "Extra Light Weight", "High Res" Mouse. Basic laws of phisics say's you have to accellerate the mass of the mouse, so a lighter one can be and will move faster and more accurately. Get a mouse with 600 DPI or higher, and lasers really do track better. Get a back-lighted keyboard like my Saitek so you can see the keys in a dimmly lit room, conditions which are useualy best for gaming.

6. Sound Cards: Get a good PCI card with good sound quality. (PCIe sound cards can actually slow your system down!) Most sound card can't speed your video frame rate up much and are poor performance upgrades.

7. Defrag Your Drives Regularly: I use SmartDrefrag it's Free and Good! I defrag my "BF2/XP System Drive" once a week! General Windows and BF2 load performance can improve 5-20%.

8. Tweak Your Settings Lower: This is the one no-one wants to do but game play should be favored over visual quality. Reduce your "View Distance" and the first 5 Video settings. One exception is if you do have a higher end card and are getting poor frame rates, try a higher ressolution. The newer video cards, like the reccommended nV(800GTX's , are actually optimized for widescreen and resolutions of 1280x1024 32bit or higher! Also try using the lowest available scan rate say 60Hz rather 85hz or 100Hz. The faster the card's refresh rate the more often it access it's main video memory slowing down rendering and frame rates!

9. Use A Services and Memory Optimizer Like GameBooster: GameBooster uses a simple on/off type one button interface to shutdown unneeded services and programs while playing your games! When these services are disabled the CPU has more processing power available and it frees up valuable memory (usually used for more disk cacheing). GameBooster does both these things then defrags the newly free'd RAM, to give your game the best possible memory environment to run in. GameBooster's shutdown of so many services has in some cases allowed games to run that would not run before! You can get GameBooster in the BF2 and Windows Downloads Post in our General Discussions Thread.
Hope this is what you wanted!

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amd 3500+, 2gb ram, nv7900gto ,28" monitor 1920x1200res , medium settings , cross hairs off or no color, comcast cable internet

I think the monitor has improved my game the most. It simply makes the enemy larger and easier to hit although you may also want to increase your mouse sensitivity. Controls like changing your parachute to q, com to f, Cycle weapons I don't use. The control that most improved my game is mouse roller off, and just use the numbers 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 to cycle weapons

Quenzer uses an amd 3200+, 1.5gb ,ati 9800pro 256mb, med. setings , brite red cross hairs

I also highly recommend editing your bf shortcut target line , like big dog explained above!!

i feel like a cave man haha

Since Fear hasen't recieved it yet, I thought I'd put his new PC spec's up for the soon to be ;

"Ex-Caveman"!

Fear's New Fast Gameing Rig:

Manufacturer: Big Dog & NewEgg.com.
Computer Case: Gloss Black Mini-Tower with Blue Lighted 250mm side fan, 2x 120mm case fans, and upgraded Logisys 575 watt 2 fan SLI Power Supply.
Motherboard: GIGABYTE EP-45C-UD3R Motherboard (Socket 775, 1600Mhz FSB, DDR2 1066, up to 8x Raid).
Processor: Intel E6300 2.8Ghz Wolfdale w 2Mb L2-Cache. Running @ 3.20Ghz (O.C.'d with 1600Mhz FSB vs 1066). (Very Fast!)
Memory: 2Gig G-Skill 1066Mhz DDR2 gaming memory with timings of 5,5,5,16. (Very fast!)
Hard Drive: 3x WD 160Gig HD's in 320GB Raid5 Array! (145Mbs Tx rate HD-Tach - Very Fast!).
Video Card: XFX GeForce 9800 GTX+ (OC) 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 GPU:738Mhz, MEM:2200Mhz (factory O.C.'d, Very Fast!).
Physics Card: ageia/nVidia Physics in 9800GTX+ Video Card.
Monitor: 17" 1280x1024 Flat Panel.
Sound Card: AC97 - EAX - HD 7.1 CH Surround Sound (on motherboard)
Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 3 (2600.xpsp_sp3_gdr.080814-1236) with Plus XP and multiple Tweaks.

What makes it special?

VIDEO, this PC plays BF2 @ 200-400 FPS, Crysis @ 40-60 FPS and gets a 13,700 mark on the 3DMark06 Benchmark. The video system has performance to play any of todays modern games and will play BF3 nicely when it comes out! (BF2 frames rates were messured using the "game.lockfps 0" console command and FRAPS99 in Strike at Karkand.)

RAID5, since disk performance is 2-3 times a normal single SATA disk drive (in the 250-750gig range) this PC boots over twice as fast as normal PC's and loads Games, Applications, and "In Game Maps" over twice as fast.

This PC boots XP and is at the windows desktop ready to use, in less than 45 seconds.

This PC has a "Fault Tollerant RAID5 Disk Configuration", this means if any one of the "3" drives in the array fails, the PC will continue to work and give you time to replace the failed drive while still using your PC and the other working drives! This is important as Disk Drives, Power Supplies & Fans, and CD/DVD Drives all have higher PC component failure rates and when your drives fail they'll traditionally take everything with them, meaning all your data and programs.

TWEAKING and TUNNING, all the parts of the PC's are matched and tuned to work at peak performance with each other. Windows and all other programs have all been tunned for peak gaming performance! Tweaking and Tuning includes BIOS Tweaks , Windows and Registry Tweaks, Game Tweaks and Additional 3rd Party Utilities.

PRICING, this box runs about $875.00 (without flat panel) and is faster than the Alienware Armada basline gamer priced @ $799.99. This PC has faster video, over twice the disk performance and has a "Fault-Tollerant RAID5 Disk Array".


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Man I wish that I had $875.