weird freezing whenever a map starts

[dmmchenry]

Hi, I've had BF2 for about a year and it has worked fine (for the most part) until now all of a sudden, without any hardware or software changes at all, the game semi-freezes whenever a map is finished loading and i see the menu. The mouse just refuses to move (being stuck in the center of the screen), but *behind* the screen the battle rages and i see and hear people playing just fine. I tried restarting, but it didn't help, anyone have any ideas to help??

[|CBW|Simon]

Defrag and do a general check for newer drivers on your vid and sound cards. If you haven't defragged in all that time, it will do you a world of good. At the same time, you may want to purge your video cache and let it re-optimize all of that.

Simon

[dmmchenry]

ugh, it didn't work. i tried reinstalling the game and that didn't even work! so now I dont know. actually it all started after the game hard froze (had to restart the comp). when i tried to play again i got this problem. anyone other ideas?

[|CBW|Simon]

a complete uninstall first and then reinstall to insure any corrupted files are gone.

EA uninstall writeup (http://support.ea.com/cgi-bin/ea.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=8986&p_created=1119312427&p_sid=l-NohRfi&p_lva=&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9zb3J0X2J5PSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX 3Jvd19jbnQ9NSZwX3Byb2RzPTcsMTM4OCwxMDAzJnBfY2F0cz0 1NjYmcF9wdj0zLjEwMDMmcF9jdj0xLjU2NiZwX3BhZ2U9MSZwX 3NlYXJjaF90ZXh0PXVuaW5zdGFsbA**&p_li=&p_topview=1)

[ConscriptVirus]

so ur mouse is stuck?

try resetting ur controls in options to default again

[dmmchenry]

Ok, I went to the help page at ea.com for battlefield 2 and it turns out that when I deleted the battlefield 2 file in My Documents it fixed my problem (just had to set all the video options again). Thanks everyone for your help though, cheers.