Battlefield 2 - Lag Issues

[Fuzzi0n]

At random moments I'll freeze for a couple seconds and the go again. This only happens only, not single player. And other games are fine online, any ideas? Also nothing else is using bandwidth.

 

[krazymate]

jus lower your screen resolution maybe or
lower the texture quality in video options

 

[Fuzzi0n]

Didn't even try that, as for one I said single player plays fine. Besides it was pb.

 

[krazymate]

well

well in multiplayer mode it lags more becauser of the texture quality
soo just lower it down in multiuplayer mode and it should run smooth

 

[Fumz]

... Also nothing else is using bandwidth.

That's not entirely accurate. Windows 7 has a service called the multi-media class scheduler; it reserves bandwidth. Many guys have noticed big ping spikes because of this service. The way around is not to disable the service; but rather, to limit the amount of bandwidth 7 reserves:

Leave the multimedia class scheduler service running, but disable its network throttling "feature":

• Open regedit
• Go to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Multimedia\SystemProfile
• There will be an entry for network performance throttling, default value is 10; set it to FFFFFFFF hex (willl look like 0xFFFFFFFF to the right of the entry)
• Reboot