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Tweaking Battlefield 2 Graphics Options

So I decided to mess around with Battlefield 2 some more, to make it run worth a crap on my system. First of all, if you have a Nvidia graphics card, make sure you use the drivers on the CD! Before I got done downloading the Battlefield 2 demo, I took the liberty to make sure my Video Card drivers were the most recent. I took a stroll over to Nvidia to download my drivers, according to them, their latest official driver is 71.89 so I got and installed them. Anyways it turns out the Battlefield 2 demo has 77.?? Nvidia Drivers. Anyways, make sure you use the drivers on the CD if you do not already have the 77.?? Nvidia Drivers.

Once you fire up the game, you’ll now want to navigate to the Options -> Video section. Once there you’ll be able to tweak your game for performance. If you’re running a low-end machine, (1.8GHZ or less, 64mb Card, 512mb Ram or less) I would recommend setting your settings all to low, and make sure shadows are turned off, Draw Distance to 50%, and you’re video resolution is at 800×600.

If you’re running a mid-range machine (1.8GHZ to 2.4GHZ , 128mb Card, Gig of Ram) I’d recommend leaving everything on Medium, however turn your geometry and texture settings to high. Once again, make sure shadows are turned off, the shadows really seem to kill machines with 128MB cards. The good thing about turning every thing to medium, except Texture and Geometry, and Shadows off is you can have the game with MOST of the Eye Candy and still get decent performance, make sure you’re resolution is at 1024×768 and 50-60% Draw Distance.

High-end machines (2.4GHZ and UP, 256MB Latest Generation Video Card, Gig or More of Ram) get to take advantage of all the eyecandy Battlefield 2 has to offer. Turn everything to high, crank your AA up a bit, and set your resolution to 1280×960 and frag away. You’ll get to see Battlefield 2 the way it’s suppose to be played, HOWEVER, all computers will differ on performance so mess around and give it a try.

I tried all the above settings out on two different boxes I have and these are what seemed to work the best. I didn’t do any Scientific Benchmarking or anything, however these settings gave me the best performance based on hardware. If you have any recommendations feel free to leave a comment for everyone to see.

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