bf2 memory error

[Suhre]

I get this every time I am loading up Mashtuur City at 47% I get this error :wallbash:

any ideas or suggestions would be great

[CassiusMelacor]

Have you done anything to the install (reinstall or patch)?

[Vapour]

is it only on Mashtuur City?
whats your pc specs, makes of parts if you know? might help later on

EDIT: ok i have found a couple of things that MIGHT help
this is linked to an install/patch

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this one is a differant error but something to try if you have a spare stick of ram laying around

Just a note for those who play Battlefield2 and are having errors.

It all started when bf3 crashed to a blue screen of death...This is my story in a nutshell.. I am a wannabe computer technician, i can build and administer all things pc related but constantly got errors when Bf2 was reinstalling. "MD5error" I tried everything possible, including new cd rom, reinstall windows, registry cleaners, all the forums and everything except get a divorce. Turned off all overclocking, checked for virii (sic) and you know what it was?

-------------- BAD STICK OF RAM --------------

took it out, went to 512 megs (swapped em both in and out) flawless install on the good one, errors on the second one.
Now i got another 512.. no problems at all. none. nada

though knowing if you had done anything between last playing and trying to load up again, will help

NEW EDIT(:lol:):
that error is running low on memory, try a restart and not running programs you do not need in the background. like msn,yahoo,webpages,ect

let us know if and when it has been fixed please

[Gruthar]

Um, looks like your map file is corrupted to me. As per the error, that is an INSANE block size for just loading a map!

Your RAM is probably ok, and you're not running low on memory. You'd be getting memory allocation or low on memory errors if this wasn't the case. Furthermore, you'd be having problems on all the maps, not just loading at 42% on Mashtuur.

So reinstall and repatch and you should be fine. Or if you have access to another BF2 installation, try copying and pasting the map file, overwriting yours.

You might also want to run scandisk after you resolve this to see if it turns up any other problems.

[Vapour]

Um, looks like your map file is corrupted to me. As per the error, that is an INSANE block size for just loading a map!

Your RAM is probably ok, and you're not running low on memory. You'd be getting memory allocation or low on memory errors if this wasn't the case. Furthermore, you'd be having problems on all the maps, not just loading at 42% on Mashtuur.

So reinstall and repatch and you should be fine. Or if you have access to another BF2 installation, try copying and pasting the map file, overwriting yours.

You might also want to run scandisk after you resolve this to see if it turns up any other problems.

i found on the EA forums that error code/ message is linked to the ram (the person restarted there pc and closed some of the background items that was not needed and that fixed it) message was the same apart from the other person had double the ram block size.
also its something to try before reinstalling, well it could save time and the pain of installing four games and downloading the patch

[Suhre]

thanks for the help guys :bow:

but i just restarted my computer and tried bf2 and everything seemed to be fine maybe I just overclocked my computer for too long or something :D

[Vapour]

thanks for the help guys :bow:

but i just restarted my computer and tried bf2 and everything seemed to be fine maybe I just overclocked my computer for too long or something :D

lol do you run alot of background programs?

[Gruthar]

It is RAM related - blocks (in this case) are basically what's loaded into RAM - but it's not because it's running out of RAM. There's something screwy happening with however EA determines block size. The reason I thought it might've been a corrupt file is because I thought the block size might be fixed, and thus able to be written to a file as the map required.

It could be a coding error on their part, something like accessing a mistakenly freed portion of memory as the program goes to retrieve a variable used in that calculation. Now if something overwrites that space in memory, since it's been freed, and BF2 does the calculation, you'll get a completely bogus value. Errors like these are a pain to detect, because if you have a larger amount of memory, the probability of it showing up is very low.

Another possibility is that the problem is some other program writing junk to random memory addresses without allocating the space. I dunno, it could be a lot of things. For all I know, it could be the OS at fault.

If you get other strange errors across the board (not necessarily with BF2), you might want to consider experimenting with your background programs. Clearing your RAM (ie restarting) is all you need to do whatever it is that happens.