Battlefield 2142 Problems

[D4nnyM]

I'm getting some annoying recurring lag.

The lag seems to be happening in a particular recurring pattern in which the games runs fine for around 2-3 minutes, and then suddenly starts to lag unplayable for around 30 seconds. Then it continues to run fine, and then the lag comes back exactly 2-3 minutes later.

I've tried various things to try and sort it out, but I thought maybe it could be something to with my graphics card.

I have an Ati Radeon Xpress 1100, which I know is not the best card ever, but it used to be able play BF2142 fine. So maybe is there any settings I should look out for and possibly change?

Other than that, I've tried many different things such as updating all my drivers, closing background applications and reinstalling punkbuster, but no luck what-so-ever.

Also if theres any other information that you think I should tell you, please just ask.

Any replys would be great because I really want to get playing again. Thanks!

[pharoah]

hello welcome to tsf.have a run through the follow these steps first link in my sig.if nothing there helps post back.

[D4nnyM]

Thank you for the welcome :)

I've gone through all the steps either before or just now.

Here are my system specs:

* Power Supply – Delta Electronics Inc, Model: SADP-65KB D, Input: 100-240V 1.5A, Output: 19V 3.42A

* Motherboard – Acer Aspire 5100, ATI Radeon Xpress 200M AMD Hammer

* CPU – AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology MK-36 Socket M2/S1G1, 2.0GHz

* RAM – DDR2-533, DDR2 SDRAM, 1024MB, 266MHz

* Video Card(s) – ATI Radeon Xpress Series, 128MB, ATI Radeon Xpress 200M (RS482M)

* Hard Drive(s) – TOSHIBA MK1234GAX (111 GB, IDE)

* Operating System - Windows XP MCE

[pharoah]

try speedfan post back the temp readings.

[D4nnyM]

It says:

HD0: 50C
Temp1: 61C
Core: 55C

[pharoah]

those are some fairly high temps.maybe you should look at the bottom of that laptop,and see if the fans on it are clear of dust.also be sure the fans are working.