rainmx

Does anyone have problems with this game i cant even play it
it studders and hangs so much anyone know how to fix this?

dipstick

Make sure you have the latest patch installed, turn off hardware accel. in the sound options, and if necessary reduce the amount of sound channels used. Hopefully this will be enough

NaumoJR

Post your System SPecs please.

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rainmx

Specs
P4 2.4@2.8
Radeon 9700 pro
Asus P4T533-c mobo
256 800mhz rdram
DX 9

NaumoJR

What are your current settings in the game?

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rainmx

Well i first tried 1024x768 every thing set to max
then i tried defaults and still got the same results

NaumoJR

Try updating your Audio, and Video drivers.

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shuki

I've read that game had/has real problems with audio issues.... try dropping down sound acceleration in windows... And I'm assuming you have all of the latest patches for BF1942 right?

dipstick

Yep, there are some serious sound issues with this game. Make sure you turn off hardware accel in the game sound options. It have made a huge difference for alot

NaumoJR

That's weird, because turning on hardware acceleration has somewhat helped my performance.

No doubt that it has sound issues.

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Junk

click start > run > dxdiag > sound tab > move the slider to 'basic acceleration'

how large is your swap file? bf1942 seems to prefer atleast 512mb of ram..although i'm not sure if pc800 is an exception.

check out this tweak guide from TweakTown and give it a run through..

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jonis

I had extreme performance probs myself earlier w/ this game. Although, an update of my soundcard drivers fixed almost all of my stuttering issues. You really should consider looking into new drivers for soundcard if you have a Creative card.

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[color=yellow]P4 2.533GHz 533MHz | 2 x Samsung 512MB PC2700 (1GB) | Hercules 3D Prophet 9700 Pro | ASUS P4S8X (fw v1.005) | SB Audigy Platinum
WDC 120GB SE (8MB buffer) x 2 | M$ intellimouse Explorer 3.0 | WinXP SP-1 | DX 9.0c & CATs 5.10 | Viewsonic VP191b (19" TFT)[/color]

mneese

I had the same problem...First some info on my system (from Dxdiag) to give you a benchmark.
Operating System: Windows 2000 Professional (5.0, Build 2195) Service Pack 3
BIOS: Award Plug and Play BIOS Extension v1.0A
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) Processor, MMX, 3DNow, ~940MHz
Memory: 1024MB RAM
Page File: 207MB used, 2718MB available
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0a (4.09.0000.0901)
Card name: RADEON 8500/RADEON 8500LE (Omega 2.4.07a)
Manufacturer: ATI Technologies Inc. (Opt. by Omegadrive)
Chip type: Radeon 8500 AGP (QL)
DAC type: Internal DAC(350MHz)
Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_514C&SUBSYS_003A1002&REV_00
Display Memory: 128.0 MB
Current Mode: 1024 x 768 (32 bit) (100Hz)
Monitor: Dell M781s
Monitor Max Res: 1600,1200
Driver Name: ati2dvag.dll
Driver Version: 6.14.0001.6307 (English)
DDI Version: 9 (or higher)
Driver Attributes: Final Retail
Driver Date/Size: 2/28/2003 20:39:22, 272512 bytes
Mini VDD: ati2mtag.sys
Mini VDD Date: 2/28/2003 20:38:56, 576512 bytes
Video Accel: ModeMPEG2_D ModeMPEG2_C
Description: SB Live! Wave Device (emulated)
Default Sound Playback: Yes
Default Voice Playback: Yes
Hardware ID: PCI\VEN_1102&DEV_0002&SUBSYS_80401102&REV_07
Type: Emulated
Driver Provider: Microsoft
HW Accel Level: Emulation Only
Min/Max Sample Rate: 100, 100000
Static/Strm HW Mix Bufs: 0, 0
Static/Strm HW 3D Bufs: 0, 0
HW Memory: 0
Voice Management: No
EAX(tm) 2.0 Listen/Src: No, No
I3DL2(tm) Listen/Src: No, No
Sensaura(tm) ZoomFX(tm): No

I have read the sound files are known memory hogs.

I thought it was a video problem at first, but it's definitely a sound problem, because I have my video settings at max and it works much better.

Here are some things I did.

1) GET THE Omega Drivers for your ATI video card! Fantastic! (not for this problem, but get them anyway!
2) Set Audio Hardware Accel to Basic or off.
3) Edit a file located (for me anyway) at:
C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 1942\Mods\bf1942\Settings\Default.con
There is a line which contains:
Sound.soundBufferCacheSize 200 <-- MOST IMPORTANT
Begin increasing the CacheSize by 100 increments until the problem is alleviated. Mine is at 800...
4) Decrease the voice limit and otherwise reduce the audio setting.
5) Run DXDIAG to note any other problems or recommendations
6) Ask the guys on this forum for help!

I hope this helps! I'm pretty sure it will...

If anyone reading this has other suggestions, then please respond and/or write:
Chaos
games@innergears.com

Thanks!

Dyre Straits

Man, I finally got ahold of this game and it plays GREAT on my system (listed in sig.)

I've played the SP missions: Battle of Britain, Battle of Midway, and Battle of Berlin, so far.

They all play and handle great. I haven't seen any stuttering as described above.

I have installed the latest patch and I do have an SB Live! sound card. Although, the one I have is about 4 years old now and is not an Audigy card.

I had a lot of fun working out how to win in Berlin. There's some really tight fight scenes in that one.

In the Battle of Midway, I got into a couple of planes and tried flying them. Need more practice in order to do any good at it, though.

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Renegade[CSR]

Try purchasing 256 mb more of ram. The amount of ram in your system is almost directly correlated with the amount of stuttering in BF1942. The higher the amount of ram, the smoother the game will run.

When I went from 256mb to 512mb of ram, almost all stuttering within the game disappeared and it ran extremely smooth in comparison to its previous performance.

As for the system hangs, I believe that's a driver issue, either related to the video drivers or audio drivers as others have mentioned within this thread. Simply ensure every driver you have is up to date and does not have any known issues with BF1942.

Dyre Straits

I'd only add to this to make sure your sound card and video card aren't sharing IRQs with other devices....and especially not with one another.

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Dyre Straits

My younger son is interested in buying my Radeon 8500 128 MB card. He has a really nice P-4, 2.3 Ghz system but it has a crappy SiS onboard video adapter with it. BF 1942 runs like a slideshow on his system.

So, he loaned his game to me to see if it ran OK on my system and the 8500.

Well, all I can say is, W O W ! ! !

I'm running it at 1024 x 768 x 32 with just about every piece of eye candy on and the game is just fantastic!

Granted, I'm only playing so far in SP, but, with all the AI and activity going on on the screen, there's not even one hiccup.

I do have a question though, for those who've played:

In the campaign mode, I've completed successfully the first campaign and gone to the second one. At one point, I had over 100 men still active with only about 40 enemies active. Suddenly, I started losing men by the dozens!

Is there some kind of indication as to where the largest gathering of enemies is? Is this done by voice instructions? If so, I'm going to be whipped too much to play it this way because of my deafness.

Just a little help, please.

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tsdc

Dyre, which sound drivers are you using?

Right now here's my setup:

P4 1.7Ghz 400fsb
D845HV Mobo
512mb PC133
Radeon 9100 128mb (250/200)
SB Live! Value

XP Home (all the updates)
DX9b
Omega ATI Leaked Drivers (3.85?)
Latest Sound Card Drivers
Latest BF1942 Patch

And it can get really choppy, below 25fps... only get decent fps in open terrain.

Dyre Straits

The driver version I'm using for my SB Live! MP+ is: 5.12.2.252 dated 7/24/2002

Anytime I've tried using the ones that Windows Update prompts me to use, things mess up. Instead, I got these direct from Creative Labs.

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Dyre Straits

I was playing the Battle of Britain earlier this evening and had a real surprise. To all you veterans of the game, it won't be.

But, I took position at the AA guns near the river. Shot down a bomber. The pilot bailed out with a parachute that passed right in front of me. I had to leave the AA gun for a little bit and go shoot him.

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tsdc

How'd you disable sb16 emulation? prolly a newb question... heh

Dyre Straits

That's a good question. This part of my sig info should have been deleted when I moved from 98SE to XP Home.

Thanks for the question....and the heads up.

Actually, it was done rather easily under 98SE by selecting the SB16 Emulation in Device Manager. Then it was just a matter of Disabling the device.

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