Help setting up Battlefield 2

The Pat · 25 Aug 2006 at 19:52

Installed it, registered it, registered my EA account and installed the 1.3 patch. The single player works fine, but when I try to play online it says create online account, which I do but I always get a message saying server has refused the connection, can anyone help?

Also since I installed the 1.3 patch before the game loads up (before the EA intro) the screen goes black and it looks like I have dead pixels on the screen, but after a while it just loads it.

The Pat · 26 Aug 2006 at 20:28

Anyone?

Luke · 26 Aug 2006 at 21:08

Have you opened up all the required ports on your router/firewall?
BF2 requires quite a few opened before you can play online.
It's all in the game manual.

robertgilbert86 · 26 Aug 2006 at 22:05

Try a different username?

Welcome to bf2 though, don't be too put off by the strange happenings and crash to desktops, there is much fun to be had!

Insanity · 27 Aug 2006 at 07:35

Dont use the "Play BF2 Online" shortcut, it's crap and never works right.

Use the other one, you wont get any connection issues to their servers then.

ins0mn1ac · 27 Aug 2006 at 12:57

Insanity said:
Dont use the "Play BF2 Online" shortcut, it's crap and never works right.

***. Also, enjoy random server crashing love that comes with 1.3, all negatives aside BF2 is well worth the pain to begin with!

.Griff. · 27 Aug 2006 at 13:16

emailiscrap said:
Have you opened up all the required ports on your router/firewall?
BF2 requires quite a few opened before you can play online.
It's all in the game manual.

Doesn't require any ports opening to play the game. That's only required if you want to host a server.

jaric · 27 Aug 2006 at 15:39

Are you using PeerGuardian or something similar that could be blocking connections to GameSpy ?

The Pat · 27 Aug 2006 at 15:39

Insanity said:
Dont use the "Play BF2 Online" shortcut, it's crap and never works right.

Use the other one, you wont get any connection issues to their servers then.

I'm not using that one, not tried to sort it yet will probably have a bash at it tomorrow.

Insanity · 27 Aug 2006 at 16:09

Thats very very strange, but then again, so is EA.