A battlefield2 thread

maxipax said:
Hi,
When playing BF2 on a online server, wgen the match has finished/been won BF2 closes down and returns back to windows. So then have to start game up again. Is this a comon problem, and if so is there a way round it??
Thanks for any help in advance
Regards Maxi
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This is a known issue that happens with all Linux servers... ATM I'd stick to non Linux servers.

Weapons you need to play on a ranked server for a certain amount of time/get a certain amount of kills. AFAIK You get them when you level up a rank.
 
maddog said:
Do i have to play on EA servers to unlock weapons or any server??

cheers
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Any servers with the rank insignia next to it (Cpl - Two stripes) which are EA, GameSpy, BoomTown etc.


OzZie said:
How do you unlock the extra weapons in MP? Is it a server side option?
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As above bu some servers allow the option where they have hacked it, but i doubt they would advertise it in there server name because they could be removed by EA again from the server list.
 
i am about to buy another 512 ram stick, i am currently running at 1024 ram, would it be worth buying another 512? would it make much diffrence to BF2?
 
mickw said:
i am about to buy another 512 ram stick, i am currently running at 1024 ram, would it be worth buying another 512? would it make much diffrence to BF2?
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Are you running max settings i.e. max textures, lighting, res?

If you are experiencing slow game play because its having trouble catching the texture there is an easier way which may cure your problem.

Clear the system page file then defrag and re-enable the page file - its helped allot of people in our clan, if you can keep the defrag as close to 1.00 then the faster and easier it will cache the textures.

But yes it will make a difference but it isn't always necessary.
 
Even better if the pagefile itself isnt fragmented and again if it's on a drive seperate from the game.
 
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"This is a known issue that happens with all Linux servers... ATM I'd stick to non Linux servers.

Weapons you need to play on a ranked server for a certain amount of time/get a certain amount of kills. AFAIK You get them when you level up a rank."

Thanks for that, how do you know if it is or isnt Linux server?
 
BadManEdmundo said:
Are you running max settings i.e. max textures, lighting, res?

If you are experiencing slow game play because its having trouble catching the texture there is an easier way which may cure your problem.

Clear the system page file then defrag and re-enable the page file - its helped allot of people in our clan, if you can keep the defrag as close to 1.00 then the faster and easier it will cache the textures.

But yes it will make a difference but it isn't always necessary.
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i have defragged both my primary windows drive, c, and the drive the game is on, d. what do you mean by clear the system pagefile?
at the moment my pagefile on C drive is initial 1536mb maximum 3072mb max registry is 54mb. the drive BF2 is on, (D drive) doesnt have a pagefile
here's an image to help.
pagefile.jpg
 
atpbx said:
All the guns are woefully inacurate, anything over musket range (50 yrds) and the bullets just go anywhere, whether you spray, single shot, 3 round burst.
I've tried the SAW, the M4, the m-16, all dreadfull.
the only rifle in there that is even vaguely acurate is the AK-47 which when i played a couple of rounds as MEC i suddenly was shooting up the rankings with.
Its this which put me off desert combat and BF1942 in the first place.

Trying to play it after joint ops where the guns actually kill people is a nightmare, on that you sight up on someone tap-tap-tap and they are dead, on this, you walk up to someone open up, and mabye, mabye not after 20 or thirty rounds have hit them, they may, may die.
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I can't say I get this problem. I seem to have no problem taking people down in 2 or 3 shots from massive distances with just about all the rifles.
 
TheOtherOption said:
You've got to play on "ranked" servers - which i believe 50Klicks is ?

btw gord whats the barret like ? has it got a multi stage zoom or is it one click ?
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nah, its still one zoom, AFAIK......but you can shoot through glass and other items with it...such as on the heli's etc, i unlocked it last night, then went to bed and havnt played it today, so my only experience with it was from the demo....but its a damn cool gun

btw, you get to unlock one item when you reach lance corporal. extrapolating this knowledge id assume youd get one unlock every 2 ranks gained

btw btw, if you see someone using an unlocked weapon, such as the G36, SA80 or otherwise and you dont have it unlocked, you can swap kits with them and you get that unlocked weapon, until you die and you get a standard kit back......which is quite cool as Frosti found out last night while some american commando had a G36C and Frosti stole it...
 
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Any one find the game is slightly jerky when turning around fast and strafing??

I've got a 6800GT Ultra and AMD 3400 , 1GB Ballistix with all settings to high except textures and dynamic lighting (medium) i get around 80 fps (1280X960).

It just doesnt seem as smooth as HL2, Counterstrike , COD etc.
Is there some setting I,m missing or is yours slightly jerky too?

Its the same in single player mode so its not lag. And it is fine when running in a straight line, its only when turning and lining up my sights etc.


Ferret
 
gord said:
btw btw, if you see someone using an unlocked weapon, such as the G36, SA80 or otherwise and you dont have it unlocked, you can swap kits with them and you get that unlocked weapon, until you die and you get a standard kit back......which is quite cool as Frosti found out last night while some american commando had a G36C and Frosti stole it...
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I had something similar occur in that i was revived and when i got up i had the M4 but i was on the MEC team lol i was wondering wtf was going on but then i was killed not long after by artillery so didn't get much use out of it :p
 
Man am I getting annoyed with this frikkin interface! Didn't they learn from the previous series how hideous the interface is :( Why oh why did they use such an annoying server browser.... I've just spent the past 20 minutes trying to get the server browser to search for particular servers. As soon as I boot up it can find them easily, hit refresh a couple of times to check their player level then bam! it decides to completely mess up and stop displaying either anything, or the servers searched for... then it proceeds to completley lag out and takes ages to respond :(

Is this a common complaint or just me??
 
I've only been playing on ranked servers,there are some decent ones out there just the majority aren't very good(why didn't they add the ability to add servers to a favourite list too?pffff)
Been messing around on my own,shame friendly fire is on most servers you can get some awesome air with c4 :p :

Joys of c4
 
Just spent 40mins trying and failing to get onto a ranked server with a ping<100... EA really need to get more Euro servers up...
 
Had some ******* **** annoy me today, just started a new map and was running for a plane. As I reached the plane I saw this rocket wizz past my ears and blow the plane up, turned round to see the nob who fired it running towards me. I did what I fet right (shouldn't have really) and shot him in the head killing him when he was about to run past me. God I hate the little tossers who feel they have the right to get thier knickers in a twist because someone is getting something they wanted.

All in all im enjoying my playing time...just wish people would use the teams correctly and all join a team and hang around in it HELPING OUT YOUR SQUAD LIKE YOUR MENT TO....you know....what the game/team function was designed to for.
 
atpbx said:
All the guns are woefully inacurate, anything over musket range (50 yrds) and the bullets just go anywhere, whether you spray, single shot, 3 round burst.
I've tried the SAW, the M4, the m-16, all dreadfull.
the only rifle in there that is even vaguely acurate is the AK-47 which when i played a couple of rounds as MEC i suddenly was shooting up the rankings with.
Its this which put me off desert combat and BF1942 in the first place.

Trying to play it after joint ops where the guns actually kill people is a nightmare, on that you sight up on someone tap-tap-tap and they are dead, on this, you walk up to someone open up, and mabye, mabye not after 20 or thirty rounds have hit them, they may, may die.
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totally agree and its not related to the lag either. happens in offline mode aswell.
 
i love racing people in buggys. 3 of us where rallying around on a hillside when 1 of them hit a rock and spun it over the edge. ha ha
 
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