Talk:System Requirements

Anyone have any ideas if BF2 supports dual processors? Can you start two instances on each processor? -- Wizzler

• The server isn't really all that threaded, if that's what you're asking. It's going to be doing the majority of its work on one CPU. If you want to relegate it to a single CPU or a set of CPUs, you'd need to set the process's affinity. You can use the taskset program in Linux, and you can set affinity from the task manager under Windows. If you want to automatically set the affinity of a process when you start it under Windows, you'll need to find a program to do that.
  
  Most of these programs take a bitmask value for setting affinity. If you absolutely don't know what that is, you can use the Windows calculator to get hexadecimal and decimal values for bitmasks. You'll have a binary number where each digit corresponds to a CPU. To set a program to CPUs 0 and 1, you'd probably want "11", which is 3 in decimal and hexadecimal. To set it to 2 and 3, you'd use "1100", which is 12 in decimal and C in hexadecimal. --Dackz 16:43, 4 Nov 2005 (MST)

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It seems like BF2 (64-bit version) has linux kernel 2.6.19 incompatibility issue on Intel Core 2 Duo Platform. Problem is server fps drops to 25-26 even on completely free server, and "o:" number (near Average FPS string) constantly raising. On other platforms (I've tested Athlon64 and AthlonXP) on kernel 2.6.19 everything goes fine. With Kernel 2.6.18 on Intel Core 2 Duo BF2 works also fine without any problems. --Redbaron 00:41, 21 January 2007 (MST)