Battlefield 1942 is choppy

heburnll · #1 08-05-2003, 02:59 PM

I have more than what the game reqs but it still runs choppy on my system can someone help me?\

op system: windows me
CPU: 1395 MHz
Mem: 768
free Mem: 476
Video card: RADEON 9700
sound card: Creative SB Live! Series (WDM)
direct X: 8.1

LooseChippings · #2 08-16-2003, 01:18 AM

Are you running the game from Hard Drive / CD / DVD / LAN / WAN?

chrisinthesun20 · #3 08-29-2003, 04:30 AM

depends what kind of choppy you mean - consistently slow, or periods of jerkyness.

Try adjusting your sound setting - and turning HW sound on and off - sound is a big issue with BF1942, as it does not like some chips...

Drazhar · #4 09-28-2003, 09:02 PM

Right click > Properties > Compatibility > Windows *

* = Whatever Windows version you want.

I had the best luck by putting it on Windows NT mode

IneRtia dRaft · #5 09-29-2003, 07:49 PM

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Originally posted by chrisinthesun20
depends what kind of choppy you mean - consistently slow, or periods of jerkyness.

Try adjusting your sound setting - and turning HW sound on and off - sound is a big issue with BF1942, as it does not like some chips...

i thought i was the only one hearing funny noises from battlefield 1942

Newbian · #6 10-01-2003, 07:11 PM

i to have battlefield 1942 and i run it on a amd xp 2400+,512 ram,geforce4 ti 4400 128mb 8x agp, and all the other goodies but the game runs choppy at sometimes. the only lil tweak i did to make it somewhat better was to download the newest drivers for my card and that helped a lil but still thers load time /lag /chops could be the game has a patch but i havent tried that yet . maybe u should?

lordSauron · #7 11-25-2004, 05:16 PM

I use BF1942 and it hates my sound card as well... that was off topic.

Try turning down the texturing details to around 75 %. 75 is still exceptional quality, though I did it and it sped up quite a bit. Also, if you're getting killed constantly (as in, an enemy sniper turns around and in 0.00001 milliseconds he has a bead on your head and has shot), try turning down the CPU time given to the AI. I remeber dying many times because the CPU cheated! It sucked. then I blew out their crotch with a bazooka (that felt better).

Schmorgasblab · #8 08-19-2005, 02:49 AM

Hello,
In Battlefield 1942 thae game is choppy, it has short periods of jerkyness I tried to disable the soulds and play around with them but that didn't work and it is still jerky when I have the video settings set as low as they can possibly go. Can someone help me, anyone have a solution? :

Overclocked Doc · #9 08-19-2005, 08:21 AM

A little system info would go a long ways here!!!!!!!!

Battlefield 1942 is a major resource hog! The requirements as listed on the box are basically null and void.

The first and foremost thing to do when playing BF 1942 is "turn down the bots". That in of it self seems to be the worst offender when trying to run the game smoothly.

If you are trying to play online however, that's another story.

Schmorgasblab · #10 08-19-2005, 01:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Overclocked Doc

A little system info would go a long ways here!!!!!!!!

Battlefield 1942 is a major resource hog! The requirements as listed on the box are basically null and void.

The first and foremost thing to do when playing BF 1942 is "turn down the bots". That in of it self seems to be the worst offender when trying to run the game smoothly.

If you are trying to play online however, that's another story.

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Okay,
Uh sorry about not giving you any specs but I didn't have any time, Anyhow I am running a Nvidia GeForce 4 MX Integrated GPU with 2.17 GHz 512 DDR Ram with windows XP Service pack 2 I thought I might be a Internet thing because I was playing online so I will give you mu connection, lol it's cable I am running a D-Link router. I think It may be a firewall thing because of all of em a router, windows service pack 2 I have Norton and microsoft Antispyware. One other thing happens when I try to play on punkbuster supported servers It says Mulitple d3d8.dll loaded when it boots me and it boots me for 0 minites. WTF kinda screwd. Anyway, helpfull help would be great
Schmorgasblab

Overclocked Doc · #11 08-19-2005, 03:10 PM

Just for the record, I do play BF 1942 regularily, infact I have my own "Dedicated server" set up. Any how, The specs you give unfortunately are just not up to snuff for that game on line. Your video is not capable of doing what you ask of it (atleast very well). Your ram is another problem, the game really needs 1GB. to work well. Your CPU is most likely the other. You don't actually say what it is, other than size.

I have a 2800+ AMD machine with an G force MX 480el. The machine will play BF online reasonably well, as long as there are few players. Otherwise it just becomes laggy and "choppy".

My main computer has a P4 3.0 @ 3.6 with 1gb of ram and uses an FX 5700U3 video card. I too had issues with the game that were not resolved until I upgraded to my current system.

According to game specs. you shouldn't need much, but personally I think that it's load of "crap" and just a selling feature.