BF2 Help

[Siberian Bear]

Recently I reinstalled windows because BF21 was taking about 3 mins to verify the cleint data, however when it did the game was running fine.

Now I have what appears to be hardware lag, however the odd thing is that sometimes I manage to fix it (once it was the speaker wizard, the other time it was changing to cat 5.6 drivers) - however when I restart the computer it is back to showing signs of hardware lag.

I know that's quite confusing but I don't know how else to put it. I don't have service pack 2 (I have service pack 1 installed). My specs are : AMD 2600XP, 1 Gig 3200 RAM, Radeon 9800 pro, and on board sound.

I'm reluctant to e-mail EA since from past experience they haven't helped.

Thanks in advance.

[spartan015]

that rig is fine to play, even mine plays and it doesnt take 3min for client, any how try updating the ati graphic card drivers, so not the cat thingy but updating it overall, its really common to have problems like that, and if that doesnt maybe try updating the mobo drivers and what not... corrupted direct x maybe? what do other ppl think?

[Siberian Bear]

It's the bizarre thing where I fix it, restart and then it's back to not working that's really got me puzzled.

EDIT: Just tried playing Half Life 2 - it's running completely fine.