I will never buy another EA GAMES game

[StrikeHold]

I am so sick of trying to get BF2 to play properly, I am giving up. I will never buy another EA GAMES product.

I bought an ATI Radeon 800 just to play this game. It was fine until the patch. Since then I have reinstalled, updated punkbuster, updated drivers, everything i could find.

Every time i join a punkbuster server, i can play for a few minutes, then my computer locks up hard. This does not happen on single player or non-punkbuster servers.

I've had it. EA GAMES, go screw yourself.

[Reign]

Well that really sucks for you. I have a 9600xt and the game runs smooth as heck. Sorry to hear you wasted 350 bucks.

Oh and what are your PC specs?

[Remy X.O.]

im running absolutly fine over here captain! and all the other majority of people.

[StrikeHold]

The thing that is killing me is that it runs awesome on non-PB servers and singleplayer. I can rarely find a non-PB server though.


XP Home
1G RAM
2.4Ghz P4
ATI Radeon 800 Pro 256M

[StrikeHold]

Im glad you guys are running fine. Thats great. Im not.

[Remy X.O.]

have you tried updating PB manually instead of it updating while you are playing the game?

[StrikeHold]

have you tried updating PB manually instead of it updating while you are playing the game?


Yup, a couple of times, using pbweb.exe. It seemed to take longer before computer locked up, but it still locked up within a few minutes. It goes black, then blue screens with no error message.

[kewl e-man]

welcome to NL's world. (NovaLogic). BF2 is good for me. NEVER HAD A PROBLEM YET. NEVER. YET.

[Dog_Soldier_Reecy]

When you reinstalled the game, did you delete the BF2 folder beforehand?

Try a spyware/Anti-virus program aswell (You never know).....

[NoSoup4You]

There is an issue with sound that causes a hardlock. If you're using onboard sound either:

A) Set it to software

or

B) Get an Audigy2 ZS.


EA/DICE said before this game was even released that it was going to be very demanding of the system and would take full advantage of new technologies which older hardware may not be compatible with. I'm not sure why this comes as such a surprise to so many....

[Bramski420]

I hear ya man, and I feel your pain. I've had similar probs with BF2 after spending cash on a decent upgrade I felt I wasnt getting the most out of my hardware where BF2 was concerned. All other games run flawlessly on my machine on max settings and big resolutions apart from BF2.

I dont believe you though about not buying any more of their games but I know what you are saying :D

[StrikeHold]

Ok, ill probably buy lots more EA GAMES games...... :)

I am not running any onboard sound or anything. Regular old SB card.

I know they said it would be demanding. Thats why I doubled my RAM and bought a nearly top-of-the-line video card. If you read my entries above, you will see that this only happens on PUNKBUSTER servers. The video and sound are fine on single player and non-punkbuster servers.

When I reinstalled the game, i deleted all the folders and registry entries (including the one with the obfuscated name). Also ran spyware remover.

I read something about an onboard network adapter interfering with PB, but I cant disable mine. No option though BIOS, and it keeps reinstalling itself when I turn it off through Device Manager.

[T1no]

ok bye lol
he'll prob buy the expansion

[NoSoup4You]

Try updating your motherboards drivers. It shouldn't reinstall itself if you turn it off, and your BIOs should most definately provide a way to turn this on/off.

It maybe under serveral sub-menus, consult your motherboard manufactures website, and look for an FAQ and see if they don't have anything on turning it off. However this means you will need a network card (they are usually cheap like $30 at the most from BestBuy). So if you don't want to do that, and can't get it fixed, my best advice is that patience is a virtue. DICE has already said they were not pleased with the game as it left (I blame EA for pushing DICE into releasing the game to early) and they are hoping to correct a lot of the issues that were not flattened out before retail in v1.03 due out at the end of August.

[aznsensation18]

Im loving it...i am running smooth

[StrikeHold]

Ill try the motherboard drivers.

Actually, I found out from the vendor's website that there is NOT a setting in BIOS for the network adapter. I am using a seperate network card.

Ill keep my ear open for a new patch.

At least I have an awesome new video card to play Counterstrike on.....

[Hated]

i have some of those symptoms .. but not as bad.. every now and agian my computer will lock up hard like he says.. and im running an

amd 64 3500+ (OC @ 2.42 ghz)
2 gigs ddr 3200
x2 SLI 6800 ultras

i think its just the game bro not your comp. i would wait until the new patch comes out this month .. there are supposed to be 142 (or some where in that ball park) fixes to the game.

[NoSoup4You]

140+ is what they stated in Mid-Late July when it was announced.

[Caillin]

Same here.

Game played fine on old rig.

Upgraded to 3500+ Venice, 7800GTX and 2Gig OCZ

Now it hard locks anywhere between 5 - 45 minutes when playing.

There is nothing on this forum, planetbf or eagames uk forums that I haven't tried to get it working properly.

Will just have to wait for the patch like everyone else.

Lucky Far Cry, Doom3, HL2, WoW and every single other game I own work perfectly :)

[NoSoup4You]

7800GTX seems to have issues with this game, not sure why.

[Caillin]

Oh well, sometimes it doesn't pay to have the latest. My 9800 Pro that it replaced never missed a beat. I really regret jumping to Nvidia now.....

[NoSoup4You]

Nah, Nvidia is a good card maker, their 6600GT and the 7800GTX are two of the best cards out there. I'm jealous of you actually. Want to trade an X850XT PE for you 7800GTX? lol

[HYBRiS]

Then don't
Buy a game designed by Dice :P

[imported_hrbib21]

I feel your pain. I recently upgraded to a gig of ram and a new vid card. I'm getting 15-20 fps and I've tried just about everything, including many driver versions. Very frustrating.

[NoSoup4You]

I feel your pain. I recently upgraded to a gig of ram and a new vid card. I'm getting 15-20 fps and I've tried just about everything, including many driver versions. Very frustrating.


The XP 2400 is killing you IMO.

[imported_hrbib21]

The XP 2400 is killing you IMO.There are folks running similar systems getting double the fps. That's why I'm so frustrated. Besides, EA can kiss my royal white ***. I've upgraded enough. I do plan on upgrading the mobo and processor soon but, DAMN, this is ridiculous since every other game runs much better.

[NoSoup4You]

Well, need I remind you they gave fair warning. Before the game was even released, before the demo was released, they said that it was going to take full advantage of all the new technologies available (including atleast 1 that is not available to the public yet).

[UttiniDaKilrJawa]

This will probably be my last EA game I buy from them too.

In the future I think I will just buy preplayed EA games IF they look worth my time. That way...I get to play the game...and EA gets no money from me:)

[NoSoup4You]

This will probably be my last EA game I buy from them too.

In the future I think I will just buy preplayed EA games IF they look worth my time. That way...I get to play the game...and EA gets no money from me:)

Considering EA makes about 3/4 of all the major titles out there, I find this hard to believe.

[shadowsoldier]

Considering EA makes about 3/4 of all the major titles out there, I find this hard to believe.


Since when does a publisher make a game?

Second: cant wait to run it on my new pc.

3.2 GHZ DUAL CORE PROCESSOR
2 GIGS OF DDR2 RAM AT 667 MHZ
6800GT PCI EXPRESS
20 INCH WIDESCREEN MONITOR
AUDIGY2ZS/5.1 SURROUND SOUND
WIRELESS KEYBOARD AND MOUSE
16X DVD DRIVE WITH DVD BURNER
160 GB HDD
5 FANS THAT COOL IT
460 WATT PSU
6 USB PORTS
WIRELESS KEYBOARD AND MOUSE
OVER 3 YEARS OF SUPPORT

[Prowler-503]

Works fine on my laptop. :p

[Crille]

Well for me, I just found the fix by accident, I downloaded ati tray tools and disabled "geomitry instancing" and whaddya know badabim badaboom it works.