Battlefield 2 - Graphics

[MONKEY050]

I am playing BF2 and BF2:SF on a Nvidia GeForce Go 6400, Sony OEM.
Sometimes areas in the screen go black along with barrel flashes, or just when you get your view at a certain small area in the map.

I know that the game was tested with 6 series cards so it should work.

Now I was wondering if it's because of Dynamic Lighting settings or what. I can't update my drivers because the only one Sony has out at the moment is one to fix an error while playing HD-WMV movies, so it's probably not worth the update.

Here's a screenshot of the worst case I can find. (Although yesterday at one point the whole screen flashed black when I was gunning in a helicopter.)

http://img105.imageshack.us/img105/5898/screen0030rr.th.png (http://img105.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screen0030rr.png)

If you know of a particular setting in video options that can reduce or eliminate this, let me know. I know there was a period of time where it completely stopped and I only recently turned dynamic lighting on low, so maybe that's it.

Any help is much appreciated.

[Lewiji]

It definitely looks like a shader problem, have you tried turning down shadows, pixel effects, etc? It could also be a heat problem. The only way you can really diagnose it as a particular feature is by going down to lowest settings and gradually working up as it were to find if it happens on a particular setting.

[MONKEY050]

I figure it's maybe dynamic lighting.

It's definitely not a heat problem. It's a laptop, but it's got plenty of cool. :rolleyes:.

I haven't used shadows ever.

And I don't know what's the equivalent of "pixel effects". I can get you a shot of the Video options.

[Bones]

Some sort of dynamic lighting rendering problem would explain it, with the area that's supposed to light up going black instead (haven't really noticed any "lighting-up" when I'm playing though, and thats with all settings maxed out). The easiest way to find would be to bang everything on lowest and gradually turn things up until something breaks I guess.

I'd think the pixel shaders might just be lumped under the 'effects' setting so you might wanna turn that down too, and it'd be a good idea to run it for a while and check the GFX temperature when a bad thing happens just to make extra sure, no such thing as a 'cool' laptop. ^^

Now go to sleep, way too late/early for anyone to be concious and it's making my leg hurt.. :nana:

[MONKEY050]

I don't have anything to check the temperature of my card. It's a Sony OEM Nvidia Geforce Go 6400.

And the Sony FS780/W is a very well ventillated laptop.

It has never warmed my hands.

And sometimes I wish it would. :(