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I dont play games that often. But for some reason bfv runs bad on my system now when it used to run very smooth. Now just runs choopy even on the lower settings. I tried updated to the latest cat drivers but that didnt seem to work. I have a 3.0 ghz p4 with 512 drr ram. I have a 9800 raidon graphics card. Anyway love any help u can give me.

If you didn't change anything with your system specs or game settings, try the usual:

defrag your drives

scan for spyware etc... with ad-aware Spybot spywareblaster .

scan for viruses.

what are you running in the background?

Whats your internet connection? ISP? Location in relation to the server your playing on? Time you play could be something also seein as how most of the gaming community plays in the afternoon and night along with half the world online. Are you maintaining any other computers on the network or router you may have hooked up? anything else accessing the internet while you are playing? Is it running fine in Single player mode?

got current version of directX installed?

Looks as if everyone covered the common issues. BFV will use up to 250-300 MB of resources. WinXP, depending what you have running in the background, will take as much as 190 MB leaving you very little play with after all that. Try disabling whatever that you're not using in the background along with all the suggestions above to free up some system resources. The shuttering sounds like either spyware or you are hitting your page file alot due to lack of resources available.

Ya i will try to put more ram in see if that helps. It shutters even on single player.

RAM is a biggie, going to 768, or 1024 megs...def helps. I've seen some maps go well past 500, even 600 megs of RAM use, when playing online with lots of peeps.

Also whatever antivirus program you use, as some suck up more resources than others,...try disabling real time file protection when playing (just don't forget to turn it back on when you're done).

Latest vid card drivers, sound, chipset.

ok cool also i got the 9800 is the cat 4.11 drivers the latest??

sentra8777 wrote:ok cool also i got the 9800 is the cat 4.11 drivers the latest??

4.11 are the latest official drivers. 4.12 are the latest Beta drivers that fix an issue with PunkBuster.

sentra8777 wrote:I dont play games that often. But for some reason bfv runs bad on my system now when it used to run very smooth. Now just runs choopy even on the lower settings. I tried updated to the latest cat drivers but that didnt seem to work. I have a 3.0 ghz p4 with 512 drr ram. I have a 9800 raidon graphics card. Anyway love any help u can give me.

Soooooo....let me be the one to ask the big question...what changed since it used to run good?

now that i think about it i think i never realy played bfv with norton. I think even if it is disabled i guess some of it still runs in the back ground. I think i just need to add more ram which i have. I have enough to make it 1500 megs of ram.

sentra8777 wrote:now that i think about it i think i never realy played bfv with norton. I think even if it is disabled i guess some of it still runs in the back ground. I think i just need to add more ram which i have. I have enough to make it 1500 megs of ram.

Some of any antivirus program will still run in the background if you disable real time file protection...but the real time file protection is the big performance hit. Other stuff like update manager and control panel for it barely use any resources. Just right click that icon in your systray...disable...and see how the game plays. The newer retail/consumer versions of NAV are indeed heavy resource hogs.

ok with norton how do u disable real time file protection??

sentra8777 wrote:ok with norton how do u disable real time file protection??

right click, disable auto-protect