I installed the full patch and had no problems, but what i do find funny is EA has had to take down all there UK forums, not sure if the EA.com forums are still up this was there reason, made my chuckle
"Given that it is Battlefield 2 patch day we are redicting all EA UK forum visitors to this page. This is to alleviate the very heavy forum traffic that tends to overun the forum server on such occasions. We will restore forum access when possible though that is unlikely to be today, in the mean time we apologise to those of you who use this forum for games other than the Battlefield series, however these measures are currently unavoidable.
It should be noted that we are aware the forum has outgrown the server it runs on, an upgrade is currently being worked on and we will have further news on this in the future."
you would think one of the biggest games publisher if not the biggest in the world would have adequate forums to support "such occasions", cowboys

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