Battlefield 2 Problems

[Jab316]

Hey pe3ps
Ooook i love BF2, But i got a few problems

1. When i try to login it takes around 45 seconds and for some reason it automaticlly connects to a server....
Does anyone else have this problem??? any thoughts on how to fix this?

2. when i connect to a server, the % bar fills up in like 10 seconds BUT "loading complete, getting player data" takes almost a minute to load
and when i join, the map laggs for another minute...I dont think its soppose to be like that *shadow and lighting are both set on low*

I got:

AMD64 3400+
1GB Ram
ATI 9800 256mb

[dbodenheim]

It takes me 45 seconds to load map, another 30 seconds of waiting for the join button to come up. If the map is in the middle of a game I will stutter for about 2 seconds while I synch in. I think your experencing pretty much what everyone else is.

[Jab316]

But the thing is, when i finally join i see people a mile away and their allready capturing bases

[Drayu]

Yeah, I have LOTS of hard drive activity and lag for about the first minute after my long load time. This is a far cry from where I had my rig tweaked for BFV, I was always the first in, with no lag, I have to fix this! When i figure it out, I will post back.

[wihadmin]

1. When i try to login it takes around 45 seconds and for some reason it automaticlly connects to a server....
Does anyone else have this problem??? any thoughts on how to fix this?


When BF2 installed itself, it made 2 icons on your desktop: 1 for bringing up BF2 and 1 that brings up BF2 and connects to a random ranked server. I suspect you are using that second icon. Just use the icon that saids "Battlefield 2" and not the "Online" one.

[Jab316]

1. When i try to login it takes around 45 seconds and for some reason it automaticlly connects to a server....
Does anyone else have this problem??? any thoughts on how to fix this?


When BF2 installed itself, it made 2 icons on your desktop: 1 for bringing up BF2 and 1 that brings up BF2 and connects to a random ranked server. I suspect you are using that second icon. Just use the icon that saids "Battlefield 2" and not the "Online" one.

HAHA Sweet thx alot man :D
And Drayu please lemme know if you find a way to stop the lag and the long loading

[Jekyll24]

Yep, I'm experiencing the same thing. Also in the middle of the game (particularly the Daqing oil fields map) I will get a lot of HD activity with makes the game very choppy. I think I may need better ram or something. My set up is:

Athlon 64 2800+ w/Nforce3 MB
Nvidia 6600GT AGP 128
1GB of RAM (the generic stuff though)

Do you guys think getting a GB of corsair low latency RAM would help this problem? I have my settings on medium at 1024x768, low light and shadows, high terrain, effects and buffering. The frame rates are great when I'm playing but it seems like after a while my computer starts accessing the HD more offten and really slowing the game down :dunno: CPU temp never goes above 55 C and I have great cooling... I'm at a loss here.

[Drayu]

I have:

athlon64 3200xp
1 gig Corsair Ram 2.5-3-3-6
fx6800 GT
120 gig maxtor w/8mb cache hard drive
audiy 2 ZS platinum sound card

my bf2 settings are:

1024x768x32 @85hz
low settings for light
dynamic light and shadows are off



AND I still get lag, not sure why though. I have optimized my services.msc and oc'ed both my processor and video card. All run within acceptable temp limits. I think that I might need another 512meg of ram for a total of 1.5gig b/c my hard drive is being accessed alot, which I am thinking is the swap file being used a lot (this also causes my hard drive to be fragmented, so I defrag often). I know that there are some tweaks out there, so here are the ones that I suggest using to start:

http://www.tweakhound.com/xp/xptweaks/supertweaks1.htm (very good)
http://www.tweaktown.com/document.php?dType=guide&dId=682
http://tweaks101.info/content/view/36/2/ (very good to start with, just be careful about what you disable, somethings will have an adverse affect on system looks)

[Grim_Scythe]

Anyone get this problem where the game just crashes to desktop?
Its pissing me off.


My specs:

AMD Athlon 2700xp 2.16 Ghz
ATI RADEON 9800 Pro (all updated software)
1.0 G RAM

[Jab316]

I got all the extra stuff disabled
But the demo was perfectly fine, there was no +1 min loading client data and there was no lag at the beginning of the game
Most of the servers have 3 rounds on every map, well only the 1st round it laggs like hell, but the other 2 rounds are all nice and smooth and there are no slow downs
theres gotta be a way to fix this

[Drayu]

probably just the bf2 client, cause I have the same problem. The demo was alot smoother.

[Jekyll24]

Thanks Drayu, I'll try some of those tweaks. I had tried some of them before from your other guide (the virtual memory stuff anyway) and it seemed to help, but I still get a lot of HDD accessing which pisses me off. The game runs smooth as butter most of the time then lags quite a bit when it accesses my hard drive. The demo ran much better for me as well, both with connection lag and with my computer.

[Krunkert]

Anyone get this problem where the game just crashes to desktop?
Its pissing me off.


My specs:

AMD Athlon 2700xp 2.16 Ghz
ATI RADEON 9800 Pro (all updated software)
1.0 G RAM

For some reason there is one map that I can play fine but when the map ends I always crash to desktop. I keep meaning to write down the maps name but I always forget.

My specs
P4 2.4 Ghz Oc'ed to 2.54
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro Oc'ed
1.5 G ram
10k RPM HD

Everything set to Medium @ 1024 X 768

[The Needle]

I have had a few crashes to the desktop including one which wiped out all my saved custom controls. I ended up uninstalling and re-installing. Joy.

[Grim_Scythe]

So just try to reinstall the game?