How is it possible?

[Dethred]

How on earth can they work on a booster pack when more people I know have rampant Crashes and other issues with the game.

I tried playing tonight and I had several crashes, Cerbere landing still gets a memory sanity error check, every 3rd restart of the program I can actually join a server without a "You have failed to connect to the server" message, they haven't added ALT/TAB support for the game even though server admins have to leave the game and rejoin the server just to kick someone, you have to reset your controls every startup if you use a mouse button for movement, there is still a crash every once in a while while deploying a squad becon... what gives? I know that was an extremely long sentence but that is a point in case.

Does EA really think we're stupid enough to buy this crap when most people are having serious bugs in their game? I am sure they have a small insignificant staff working on fixing things but they need to fix thier damned product. I know of at least 5 people who refuse to buy the original 2142 game because of the issues they neglect fixing.

Of course there are going to be thousands of drones that go out and spend their money on something to enhance a program that causes them major headaches getting to work properly.

[Vikaman]

How on earth can they work on a booster pack when more people I know have rampant Crashes and other issues with the game.

I tried playing tonight and I had several crashes, Cerbere landing still gets a memory sanity error check, every 3rd restart of the program I can actually join a server without a "You have failed to connect to the server" message, they haven't added ALT/TAB support for the game even though server admins have to leave the game and rejoin the server just to kick someone, you have to reset your controls every startup if you use a mouse button for movement, there is still a crash every once in a while while deploying a squad becon... what gives? I know that was an extremely long sentence but that is a point in case.

Does EA really think we're stupid enough to buy this crap when most people are having serious bugs in their game? I am sure they have a small insignificant staff working on fixing things but they need to fix thier damned product. I know of at least 5 people who refuse to buy the original 2142 game because of the issues they neglect fixing.

Of course there are going to be thousands of drones that go out and spend their money on something to enhance a program that causes them major headaches getting to work properly.

I answer for some people.

Yes.

[Leemus]

2142 works fine for me.
Havent had a CTD for AGES!
And none of these bugs you speak of occur to me.
And as I assume that you are one of the 99% of the population of poeple that dont listen to what dice says. You go off on a who knows what fueled angry forum troll without actually listining to the 5 billion times they have stated that the development of expansion is separate from patches.


Meh.

I will be getting the expansion.

[Aegis001]

I dont get this crap, well only if i dont play Shuia Tiaba for 2 rounds in a row, but the map sucks *** in my opinion anyway.

And some other stuff Leemus said too :D

[Kalo]

Your PC must suck =P.

[The Gatekeeper]

they haven't added ALT/TAB support for the game even though server admins have to leave the game and rejoin the server just to kick someone,

Why ALT+tab when you can:

1) Get a special patch (yes, somebody made it, but it's un-official)
2) Press the Start button (under WASD)

Simple!

Cerbere works fine, so your PC sucks. So does your internet connection (if it disconnects all the time). Most of these bugs are rare anyway, so why call them rampant if I don't see them? Patch 1.01 was the dogs b******* for me, and so is 1.10, so they fixed a hell of alotta bugs!

Sure, I had problems with BF 2142, which I recently found out and could finally install and play, but I've played before that, and my heart is set in gold for the Battlefield series.

PS: The problem with me not being able to play was my DVD drive (it was faulty).

[RedDot]

Last CTD = Previous patch (!)

[Erhardt]

How on earth can they work on a booster pack when more people I know have rampant Crashes and other issues with the game.
Like Leemus already said: different development teams. What's the problem here?

I tried playing tonight and I had several crashes, Cerbere landing still gets a memory sanity error check, every 3rd restart of the program I can actually join a server without a "You have failed to connect to the server" message, they haven't added ALT/TAB support for the game even though server admins have to leave the game and rejoin the server just to kick someone, you have to reset your controls every startup if you use a mouse button for movement, there is still a crash every once in a while while deploying a squad becon... what gives? I know that was an extremely long sentence but that is a point in case.
Well, assuming the game hasn't aggravated you beyond the point of caring, ( can only assume it hasn't, else why post here at all) you might want to consider a complete drive format and reinstall. I think your rig definitely has some issues because one of mine had a similar problem with Cerbere in single player (no problems joining that map in multiplayer, though). It was time for a format and reinstall anyway (I typically do all my computers at least once a year), and after I got a fresh OS and drivers and reinstalled the game, the problem was gone.

Does EA really think we're stupid enough to buy this crap when most people are having serious bugs in their game? I am sure they have a small insignificant staff working on fixing things but they need to fix thier damned product. I know of at least 5 people who refuse to buy the original 2142 game because of the issues they neglect fixing.
Define "most"? Does the game have bugs? Yes. Are they show stoppers? Apparently not, since the servers are always busy and populated. I daresay the number of people who scream about bugs, and the number of people who scream about bugs and actually refuse to play "EAs bug-ridden POS software", are wildly different numbers.

Of course there are going to be thousands of drones that go out and spend their money on something to enhance a program that causes them major headaches getting to work properly.
And even thousands MORE that go out and spend their money on something to enhance a program that they're already enjoying quite a bit and aren't having trouble with.

Seriously man, try a complete format and reinstall. If nothing else comes of it, it'll be good practice for you, but hopefully it'll clear up some of the problems you're seeing as happened with one of my computers.

[MouseNo4]

People here are so stupid.

The guys creating the booster pack HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH PATCHES!

And vice versa. They have ONE job and one job only. They come to work and do their job and nothing else.

[A5ko]

And vice versa. They have ONE job and one job only. They come to work and do their job and nothing else.

The Booster Pack team need to stop pretending extra maps are worth cash.

[Dethred]

You guys are right, a Core 2 duo at 3.2ghz orthos stable for over 24 hours, 800mhz DDR2 stable in memtest for over 24 hours with no errors, a perfectly fine dvd drive, 2 Sata 2 3.0ghz 250gb drives, a 7900GT at 700mhz/1700ghz stable in ATi tool for 2+ hours, a constant 16-25 ping on a 5.4mbit connection that is only a hundred miles from the server, means I have a crappy PC.

Maybe since everyone I know has most of the problems, and there are multiple threads concerning Cerbere landing, crashes when deploying a spawn beacon, walker sliding issues, ALT/TAB crashes despite the independent patch, etc.

I knew that DICE had separate dev teams, which is my point, why not scrub the dev team and have every possible person focus on bug fixing until the major bugs are fixed?? And after speaking with over 30 people that have the game in multiple clans, they all have multiple bugs and errors. The game is a joke at this point.

If you don't see any logic in this or are calling me a troll, get back to studying Freshman High School classes and spare your time.

PS: These problems are occurring after my 3rd format and reinstall of windows. No one I know has an error free game, unless they're playing it on the lowest settings and camp in the same areas for entire matches.

[netwrok]

2142 works fine for me.
Havent had a CTD for AGES!
And none of these bugs you speak of occur to me.
And as I assume that you are one of the 99% of the population of poeple that dont listen to what dice says. You go off on a who knows what fueled angry forum troll without actually listining to the 5 billion times they have stated that the development of expansion is separate from patches.


Meh.

I will be getting the expansion.
hence your avatar

[Deesies]

problem is, people will glady be treated like 2nd rate trash.

[gamefoo]

Some people never crash or experience major issues. For the other 98% of us, we are boned.

[iDash]

Last CTD = Previous patch (!)


Never CTD until Patch!


"I knew that DICE had separate dev teams, which is my point, why not scrub the dev team and have every possible person focus on bug fixing until the major bugs are fixed?? And after speaking with over 30 people that have the game in multiple clans, they all have multiple bugs and errors."dethred

I dont know who is responsible but someone(s) needs to be canned!

[so1id sn@ke]

Hmm....I have maybe 1 ctd a week, which is about 8-9 hours of 2142. I never crashed on Cerbere, never SLSB crashed, and only get AltTab and connection loss sometimes.

My computer isn't that good, just a crappy intel mac (and the connection isn't great where I live :p ), so your's must have something wrong with it.

[Kibax]

Ive never CTD'd, ever.

[Link]

Some people never crash or experience major issues. For the other 98% of us, we are boned.

Lets see some research there please? 98% my arse.

[Dethred]

Hmm....I have maybe 1 ctd a week, which is about 8-9 hours of 2142. I never crashed on Cerbere, never SLSB crashed, and only get AltTab and connection loss sometimes.

My computer isn't that good, just a crappy intel mac (and the connection isn't great where I live :p ), so your's must have something wrong with it.

Consider yourself lucky. I have never been in a TWL match where at least one person didn't crash and not get a chance to get back into the game. One time our clan had to quit a scrim because I crashed and another clan member got master server disconnects in the middle of the match. This is with 16 players in a match server. Pathetic.

PS: I actually just came to check on this thread after... you guessed it, a crash to desktop.

[JackG2]

Christ, I don't even have the minimum requirements met to play this game on my computer and I haven't had any problems.

[Dethred]

Funny that you should say that...

My friend just bought the game tonight from Best Buy with the $10 off coupon for all games over $29.99. It won't even stay playing for more than 2-3 minutes without a constant CTD. So... we just went back to BF2, which had no problems.

This was after our server went from 64 players packed to 23 players after one map load. =FL= guys said it was a massive crash. That means this gem of a game dropped over half the players causing them to crash in one map load.

This game is truly a piece of stinking crap. Which again goes to my point: Why on earth do they even have a dev team for booster packs when the game isn't even finished/fixed.

[Vikaman]

Christ, I don't even have the minimum requirements met to play this game on my computer and I haven't had any problems.

Lol, funny, I dont classify for the minimum requirements, and I play all medium at 30 FPS and All high (but AA) at 20 FPS... (add 30 FPS when SP)

[DirtyChewie]

Lets see some research there please? 98% my arse.

It's a well known fact that 76.35% of all statistics on the web are made up on the spot. 22.65% are 95% incorrect while 1% are 2.4% nearly correct.

[Erhardt]

PS: I actually just came to check on this thread after... you guessed it, a crash to desktop.
So... you're still playing... excellent! =)

Too bad the reformat trick didn't work for you. I haven't had a lick of trouble since I reformatted the computer I had with a similar problem. Good luck!

[so1id sn@ke]

My system specs:

Hardware-
Machine Name: iMac
Machine Model: iMac4,1
Processor Name: Intel Core Duo
Processor Speed: 1.83 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache (per processor): 2 MB
Memory: 512 MB
Bus Speed: 667 MHz
Graphics-
Chipset Model: ATY,RadeonX1600
Type: Display
Bus: PCIe
VRAM (Total): 128 MB
Vendor: ATI (0x1002)
Display Type: LCD
Resolution: 1440 x 900
Depth: 32-bit Color

I can play at all medium except advanced light & shadow and AA, plus draw distance at 100%, and high sound. No ctd problems.....except sometimes my FPS drops from 60-70 to less then 15. (according to fraps)

[LBraden]

I have a PC that is considered "Average" by Most, 2.2MHz processor, 1.5Gg RAM,Radeon X600 Pro (256Mb).
I have had, since I started playing 2142 the day it came out, 6 CTD's, 12 Master Server Disconnects (most on a Tuesday when they do maintenence), I did have a Cerebre Landing error, and it is fixed, totally fixed, I also did have a small "Sanity Check Error" problem with 2142, that was fixed by a hard scan disk (thats the scan disk that on a 110Gb HDD that takes several bloody hours)

[Vikaman]

I have a PC that is considered "Average" by Most, 2.2MHz processor, 1.5Gg RAM,Radeon X600 Pro (256Mb).
I have had, since I started playing 2142 the day it came out, 6 CTD's, 12 Master Server Disconnects (most on a Tuesday when they do maintenence), I did have a Cerebre Landing error, and it is fixed, totally fixed, I also did have a small "Sanity Check Error" problem with 2142, that was fixed by a hard scan disk (thats the scan disk that on a 110Gb HDD that takes several bloody hours)


ROFL LOLZOR!!!

Sorry :D

Do they even exist now?

[LBraden]

Vika, I bought this PC in August 05, from Staples, for £600, came with everything, and got myself a MX1000 Laser mouse which I needed for the 3d models I do.

Oh, forgot to mention, its a AMD Athlon processor.

[Buttoneer]

ROFL LOLZOR!!!

Sorry :D

Do they even exist now?

A Core 2 Duo E6400 runs at 2.13Mhz. So yes. And I bet it runs faster than your Uber-megahertz processor.

[Vikaman]

I thought I was meant to be in GigaHerthz....??

Ghz???

Am I missing something here?

[so1id sn@ke]

.....*shrugs shoulders*

How's that for a constructive post! :D

[ak1knight]

most bugs aren't ignored but are still being looked for in the hundreds of thousands of lines of code. some have been found but have not been figured out how to be fixed.

I still don't see how people can have a big ethical problem with having fun.

[LBraden]

*kicks his keyboard* it is a 2.2GHz, I really need to stop playing 2142 and using these forums at the same time.

[RMcLeod]

Funny that you should say that...

My friend just bought the game tonight from Best Buy with the $10 off coupon for all games over $29.99. It won't even stay playing for more than 2-3 minutes without a constant CTD. So... we just went back to BF2, which had no problems.

This was after our server went from 64 players packed to 23 players after one map load. =FL= guys said it was a massive crash. That means this gem of a game dropped over half the players causing them to crash in one map load.

This game is truly a piece of stinking crap. Which again goes to my point: Why on earth do they even have a dev team for booster packs when the game isn't even finished/fixed.

Come on that kind of thing has got to be rare. I've been playing 2142 since it came out, granted I haven't put the hours in that others have but I've had 0 problems! My rig is very similar to yours but isn't overclocked, so although everthing appears to be stable maybe it isn't?

[68stang]

I see so many people screeming about these problems yet I never experience them? And nobody in my clan has major problems as well? One guy had a problem lastnight because he has uninstalled it and re installed it to play it again and he fixed it by doing the whole re install thing. My clan has about 50 members and we are happy. I do not think it is a game issue. Maybe an install issue or hardware issue?

[Svartberg]

So we're going to get a booster pack, and the new 1.2 patch - and people still whine ...

[Sir. MatDef]

Come on that kind of thing has got to be rare. I've been playing 2142 since it came out, granted I haven't put the hours in that others have but I've had 0 problems! My rig is very similar to yours but isn't overclocked, so although everthing appears to be stable maybe it isn't?

Hardly, if it's orthos stable for 24 hours it's got no stabilty issues whatsoever. The ram checks out too, and so does the graphics card. If he had stability issues, he would already know about them. I'm in the same boat as him, my machine is completely 100% stable, until 2142 starts up (or attempts too, ctd ftl), almost everyone I know has had at least one issue with the game and I can't help but see it as a bug riddled mess that should've been released when it was ready, not just thrown out the door in the shape it is now.

[Dethred]

Come on that kind of thing has got to be rare. I've been playing 2142 since it came out, granted I haven't put the hours in that others have but I've had 0 problems! My rig is very similar to yours but isn't overclocked, so although everthing appears to be stable maybe it isn't?

You know how my friend solved the problem? Disabling one of the attractive features of the game... VOIP. After disabling that he has been able to play, but not communicate with people. It might be his onboard sound or it might be the folks at DICE sucking at their job(s), either way its the program's instability and lack of flexibility with different hardware.