Battlefield 2 performance sluggish?

My Battlefield 2 games are VERY sluggish.  If I leave textures on High, my hard drive is thrashing for almost the ENTIRE match, making it impossible for me to even simply turn around without having the textures load.

Thing is, I thought my system was quite adequete for this:

Athlon 64 3400+ at 2.36 ghz
Geforce 6800 GT 380/1.12
1 gig of RAM, my HTT is at about 218 or so, limited because of my RAM, but I wouldn't think this is terrible RAM.
PLENTY of cooling

Is there simply something wrong with my system, or is this more of a horrible case of an inefficiently coded engine?  With a 6800 GT, I really should've be getting anything lower than 60 fps, but even when my disk ISN'T thrashing, I sometimes can dip into the 20-30s.  WHY??

Should've = shouldn't

because your system can not handle the game at that setting

kindly set it down to medium, and you will be fine

oh and before you say your system sucks mine is

Intel Pentium 4 3.2Ghz
1Gb PC 4200 RAM
XFX Geforce 6600GT

goodbye

Anyone with a GeForce 4 card CANNOT RUN THE GAME - yes there are fixes, but the textures and shading that come with them are screwed, so don't think about buying BF2 if you have a geforce 4, aside from RAM...

since someone replyed i meant to your = my in the 4th post

and with my specs i run the game on minimun

Is your harddrive SATA?

I have a P4 2,53 GHz , Radeon 9000 Family Edition and 512 Mb RAM and it runs fluently (all settings exept Sound on low)

>>5
NSIST on Nvidia

NVidia loses get ATI

atm imo Nvidia is better than ATI

Go for a low ping server or reduce the graphics settings, even if your card and RAM dominate.

EA/dice suck shit, that's why.

Anyone hyped for BF4?

>>14
only ur mum

>>15
ur mama have flat tits

>>13
I can only imagine what this Anon thinks about EA and Dice now.