Well, I will just have to wait for a patch, I heard from one of the developers of the game that decreasing the soundquality from 44KHz to 22KHz will improve gameplay up to 40%(!!!), this is a major bug in this game appearently, he also told me that this would probably just work with SB cards. I noticed another thing while running this game, it used up all of my RAM, in my opinion 256Mb should be enough for gaming.

Good, because I ordered a 512Mb PC2700, hoping it will fix the problem.

Mine runs great with 2x AA, 2x Anistropy, 1024x768x32, every video option maxed out, and every sound option maxed out.

New stats (Gotta change my sig.)

1.2 GHz Athlon T-Bird
512 MB PC133
Visiontek GeForce4 MX440 (270c/405m)
7200 RPM HDD
Windows ME

For some reason, BF1942 runs WAAAAAAY better than my buddy's overclocked GeForce4 Ti4200 with the same options above ... I think it might be a conflict with Windows XP ...

Well, the problem vanished when I changed my RAM from 256Mb PC2100 to 512Mb PC2700. This game had a frickin' memory leakage, as it seems now, cause I don't think it requires over 256Mb RAM...

Are you using some Gator software in the background while playing ??? 8)

Are you using some Gator software in the background while playing ??? 8)

Not really :)

Not really or not sure ?

Try Ad-Aware :wink:

I noticed another thing while running this game, it used up all of my RAM, in my opinion 256Mb should be enough for gaming.

That happened to me to i have 384mb of ram I close all background stuff except for my memory thingy and it tells me i have like 2mb of ram left when i load up the game.

Not really or not sure ?

Try Ad-Aware :wink:

Im VERY sure. Have been using ad-aware for a year. And as you can see some posts up, I fixed the problem, the game has a memory leak. =)

Memory leaks aside, this game HATES creative sound cards. I have almost identical specs and I can't run with sound hardware acceleration enabled. I have to run dxdiag and turn down the acceleration all the way before I can play without static and/or slideshow. If you have further problems run dxdiag from start--->run click on sound and move the slider all the way to the left. Just remember to turn it back up for your other games. :lol:

That's right, but I knew that before the game was released, I got a friend, that has a friend that works at DICE (Digital Illussions) that I spoke with about my problem, he didn't know about any mem leakage, only incompability with Creative cards, especially "Live!" cards, which are the most common I would guess, that's quite crappy.

My friend can't play because the game not start! He have:
Athlon XP 2100+
256MB DDR
GeForce 3 Ti500 (drivers up to 43.xx)
Win XP

and the last patch of Battlefield 1942 (1.31)

Sorry for my bad english :oops:

Hey, this game not so picky for me as it seems to be for you. Runs great on my main comp P4 2.53, 9700P, 1GB. I installed it on my P3 866, GF3 Ti500, 512MB and it works great, max detail @1024x768. Also installed it on slot-A T-bird 850, GF2MX400, 256MB. Ran like a pile of shit initially, updated to DX 9.0a and downloaded latest Nvidia drivers (wanted Omega's ones but mirror was down) and it's very playable at medium settings, 800x600. So my suggestions:

1. Update DirectX and drivers
2. Turn off all forms of AA and Aniso. AA, even from my 9700 Pro, makes BF1942 look like dog puke (text mostly, but noticeable elsewhere too)
3. @ Anonymous - SP1 is no problem for my slipstreamed install, but on my previous install I found a patch which made my system much more responsive. Not sure where I saw it (probably here!) but filename is "XPSP1speedfix.exe", filesize 549k. If you can't find it email me and I can send it to you (BadReligionPR@myeastern.com)
4. Turn of lightmaps as they are real disadvantage (inside building=dark. very very useful :roll: )

@ KennyKen - Does it crash or do you get the little black box and then go to desktop?

About the Creative problem - using Audigy 1 here, problem was quite noticeable when I was running Audigy 1 drivers. Supposedly using Audigy 2 drivers fixes this also - I have installed these and really like the quality!, but have yet to test with BF1942. Also old Audigy 1 drivers did not access center channel at all anyway.