Xfire and Battlefield 2

Gunslinger42 · Post by **Gunslinger42** » June 29th, 2005, 13:11

It seems that xfire reduces performance when playing BF2 (it may do with other games, but I haven't checked). I read somewhere on teh vast interweb that exiting xfire will increase framerates in Battlefield, and sure enough, it does. Not only that, but it seems to have gotten rid of a stuttering problem that Lee had.

Here's a topic on the xfire forums about it that Lee found: http://www.xfire.com/xf/modules.php?nam ... ic&t=27360

Turning off ingame messaging also seems to give the same performance boost as completely exiting xfire.

Post by **TezzRexx** » June 29th, 2005, 13:13

I think Xfire has something to do with the random crashes that also keep happening...

Woo Elephant Yeah · Post by **Woo Elephant Yeah** » June 29th, 2005, 13:22

Yep, your best bet is to turn off in game messaging in any game you have issues with whilst using Xfire

Personally I haven't found any games that have issues whilst using in game browsing, but then again I don't play that many games

Lee · Post by **Lee** » June 29th, 2005, 13:25

I wish i hadve thought to turn it off earlier, i might be able to up my graphics settings a bit now :D

Jinxx · Post by **Jinxx** » June 29th, 2005, 14:06

makes a big difference here too, just had a go, much smoother to play and i can follow the action in a big barney :D

Post by **TezzRexx** » June 29th, 2005, 15:49

I played without Xfire on for a little while. It's slightly smoother, but the huge difference more me is the loading time. Still takes me ages to get into the game for some reason, but the map, shaders and the like load tonnes faster.

Gameplay is still isn't perfect, but I'm pretty sure it's my sucky radeon 9550.