#Battlefield 2 driver
#Battlefield 2 pro

RyanSmithAT: I updated my personal rig from to 21H1 this evening.

Just a thought and maybe something to pass along to nVidia. Considering the 256MB parts are handling high resolution/AA settings better, maybe an optimization limiting memory to local and faster caching/clearing of the local frame buffer would be the fix?

#Battlefield 2 driver

It looks like the 8-series driver isn't correctly handling the 320 GTS' lower local memory limitations and handling its memory like a 640 or 768 GTS/GTX, so the additional requirements are being dumped into system memory, drastically decreasing performance. I'm no video card/driver expert but I'm thinking a simple driver optimization could improve the 320 GTS performance dramatically. System memory/page file is getting slammed on the 320MB GTS at higher resolutions/AA settings. If you go through the benchmarks, they all tell the same story. What's interesting to note is they used some utility (someone said RivaTuner) to track memory usage at each resolution. Noticed you said you were going to take a closer look at the 320MB's poor performance at high resolutions, especially considering how the 256MB X1900 parts performed better with AA in some instances.Д®arlier today a Polish review was linked on AT. chizow - Monday, Februlink Derek, great review as usual.Until I ran some benches of my own I had also convinced myself that 512MB video RAM would be better for MMOs. I can't tell you how many times I've heard people think they need to spend more $$ on a card with more video RAM for an MMO. Is there any difference on Non-Ultra?ДЄny video card review dealing with memory size needs a mention of MMOs. I really think you need to go back and run 1280x1024.ДЄlso what is up with Quake4 'ULTRA', from what I remember with Doom3 and Quake4 ULTRA mode was specifically for cards with 512MB or more of video RAM due to the uncompressed textures. I don't think anyone would fault you much there. Ignoring 1280x1024 in an 8800GTX SLI review. ESPECIALLY with any video card products focused on price. The bottom line is there are too many people looking for 1280x1024 to ignore it. On a 30' LCD, I want World of Warcraft to run smooth at 2560x1600 with some AF and light AA, but am happy to get smooth Oblivion at 1280x768. Also the 30' LCD crowd likes to see 1280x1024 to get an idea of how a nicely scaled 1280x800 will run.

these have usable 1280x720 or 1280x768 wide screen modes for most games. There are plenty of people running Large 27'-32' LCD TVs as gaming monitors. The large screen segment is also interested in 1280x1024. There are also people that might save a little on the display and get a 19' WS 1440x900 in favor of more RAM or better video.

VooDooAddict - Tuesday, Februlink While I agree that NEW systems will probably be pairing the 8800GTS 320MB with a 22' 1680x1050, there is a still a large % of people very happy with their 19' 1280x1024 displays.

We will certainly be digging into this issue more in the future. This means that the impact of memory size comes in to play with the hardware itself or NVIDIA's driver while running Battlefield 2 at high resolutions with 4xAA. Battlefield 2 with 4xAA isn't specifically limited by memory size, but the 8800 GTS itself has trouble running the game at these settings with less memory.

#Battlefield 2 pro

It is quite interesting to note that both the X1900 256MB and the X1950 Pro both have 64MB less than the 8800 GTS 320MB. The game becomes unplayable at our highest resolution test, and the impact of less memory in this situation is incredibly clear. Scaling of the 320MB 8800 GTS is simply atrocious, moving from third out of eight at 16x12 to dead last at 2560x1600. With 4xAA enabled, the story takes a dramatic turn. For gaming without AA, the GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB knocks it out of the park here.

As far as BF2 players are concerned, 90fps is plenty: EA/DICE cap performance during gameplay at 100fps. We see identical performance at 16x12, which is nearly CPU limited, with the gap between the cards slowly widening to about 12 percent at 2560x1600. Our first tests show that the GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB is very capable of keeping up with the 640MB version in certain scenarios. First up we will look at performance at high quality with no AA enabled. Our benchmark is a recording of a game played in the Daqing Oil Fields and if fairly stressful as far as BF2 action goes. We use a subset of the output in order to avoid problems benchmarking load screens. Our Battlefield 2 test is run using the 1.3 version of the game and is based on frame data generated by a timedemo feature.