Yeah I'm definitely waiting until the game is out and people know what's what. I will probably drop around $2000.
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I haven't bought new hardware for my computer since mid BF2 when I built a dual core machine with a raptor and 2G of ram! She sure loaded those maps a lot faster than my AMD XP3200 I had when I bought BF2. lol.
So I thought I'd start this thread to explore what hardware requirements will be needed for BF3 to play it on the highest settings. I'm sure some of these details will become more apparent once the game or maybe even the BETA is out. I plan to pre order the game, and then build a new rig the week it comes out. Now I know the enthusiasts will want to go crazy and spend ooodles on water cooled this and that. I for one just want to play the game at it's highest settings with no problems, and have maps load as fast as possible similar to what we all wanted in BF2 when it first came out. I am interested to hear the thoughts of the BF2s community here on the subject as the year progresses.
So I thought I'd start this thread to explore what hardware requirements will be needed for BF3 to play it on the highest settings. I'm sure some of these details will become more apparent once the game or maybe even the BETA is out. I plan to pre order the game, and then build a new rig the week it comes out. Now I know the enthusiasts will want to go crazy and spend ooodles on water cooled this and that. I for one just want to play the game at it's highest settings with no problems, and have maps load as fast as possible similar to what we all wanted in BF2 when it first came out. I am interested to hear the thoughts of the BF2s community here on the subject as the year progresses.
Well if there are any people from Alberta, Saskatchewan...that are playing this game. Please let me know what server(s) you are having success with. I can't find one that gives me a ping of under 250 so far. If this is the best I can do...and I'm going to have this little fun playing online PC games because of pings...I'll stop putting money into this thing and just by a console.
I posted this question in the main thread but it has been over a week with no answer still. I am just wondering what requirements are set up to unlock the G3.
Well how can I try that if there weren't any, and aren't any? You are simply assuming there were some in BF2...which there were not. Thanks for the excellent input on the subject though. Very helpful. You've really added some great insight to this thread.Blade4509 wrote:
I just remember all the great ones I played on BF2. They all work well. Try that.
What great Western Canadian servers were there Blade4509?
Yeah, how the hell is it there are no servers in Western Canada? And...I still have no pings in my browser.
Is there a G3 in this game? When (ie what requirements are there if any) and how do you unlock it?
Learn to aim. Common man, you're talking to someone who played BF1942, BF2, and COD1 and 2 competitively. I'm not claiming to be the best first person gamer around, I'm just stating I'm not your average gamer. Throw me in a round of BF2 or COD with no mic and no squad, I will often finish top 3. I won't claim to be elite either, I'm just defending the assumption that I can't shoot. The spray is unreal, and there's no way an unaware soldier in crouch position looking through his scope should be able to take bullets while turning around and getting shots off me.
I find it pretty ridiculous when I come around a corner and I have to unload half a clip into a guy before he falls because my spray is so big at close distances. When I fire a normal assault rifle at close range, no way in hell the spray is that big. I understand this is a game and it takes more than one bullet to kill a guy, but the spray is just too big. One of my favorite things to do in any BF game is run up and unload on a guy. In this game it's not even that fun because most of my clip doesn't even hit the guy at close range. I shouldn't have to look through my scope to land more than a few bullets on a guy at point blank range.
For example...Sniper boy is in a building taking aim through his scope on some guy across the way. I come in the room and unload on him. Yes, it kills him, but half the time these snipers are able to get out of their scope, turn around, and sometimes move before they go down. That shouldn't happen.
It is possible some of this is due to lag...but it just seems more so a problem than it ever did in BF2, or COD.
Lastly, I think they ought to increase the time it takes for a sniper to bring his gun up to his eye and shoot. Guns like the M95 should not have the capability of switching over to pistol so fast from scoping. Or from going to pistol to rifle.
For example...Sniper boy is in a building taking aim through his scope on some guy across the way. I come in the room and unload on him. Yes, it kills him, but half the time these snipers are able to get out of their scope, turn around, and sometimes move before they go down. That shouldn't happen.
It is possible some of this is due to lag...but it just seems more so a problem than it ever did in BF2, or COD.
Lastly, I think they ought to increase the time it takes for a sniper to bring his gun up to his eye and shoot. Guns like the M95 should not have the capability of switching over to pistol so fast from scoping. Or from going to pistol to rifle.
Nah, I actually bought a hard copy of this game.
All in all it sucks there are no decent servers in Calgary. It's a city of over a million people, you'd think there'd at least be one. Kinda sucks having to go up against someone with a ping of 15 when you've got 120 in the first place. Usually that's what i deal with, but what I've had to endure with this BFBC2 is beyond that and not being able to choose something somewhat close is not helping.
All in all it sucks there are no decent servers in Calgary. It's a city of over a million people, you'd think there'd at least be one. Kinda sucks having to go up against someone with a ping of 15 when you've got 120 in the first place. Usually that's what i deal with, but what I've had to endure with this BFBC2 is beyond that and not being able to choose something somewhat close is not helping.
Windows 7. I log in and everything is choppy. I can't even run two feet. As soon as I stop pressing keys my guy moves back a foot or two. I look at the mini map and things are jumping rather than smoothly moving. Same thing with dudes running around...they are choppy...one second they are in one spot, the next they are in another...with no movement in between. I have tried multiple servers tonight. I've also read in other forums of logging into admin settings for windows 7...but servers listed as having a ping of 100 give people 300. So obviously I'm not the only one with this problem.
Bottom line...all I should have to do is install this game, patch it, and play it. I shouldn't have to figure out work arounds to make a game I spend $60 of my money to play. It should just work.
Bottom line...all I should have to do is install this game, patch it, and play it. I shouldn't have to figure out work arounds to make a game I spend $60 of my money to play. It should just work.
This game is so messed up. I can't see what any of the pings are before going into a game, so time and time again I end up strafing from left to right. As soon as I get on a vehicle everything just starts shaking and the game takes time to catch up. I have to unload a whole round into a guy before he drops even at point blank range from behind. I hate all this blood crap that goes around my screen when I get hit like in COD. I prefered the way things were in BF2. Overall I have yet to play a game without lag. I try to choose servers that have names like Western, or Chicago, in them. I am from Calgary and in BF2 my ping was usually around 80-110 depending on the server. There are no other providers there that will give me better pings. How am I suppose to play these games with any level of competitiveness with lag like this?
And no...it's not my computer.
And no...it's not my computer.
Choose your poison.
How so?Schwarzelungen wrote:
eh. tried it..but they always seem to go down the drain
Pretty easy poll here, being a clan leader, I'm just curious to see how many in these BF2s forums are into the competitive side of BF2, in comparison to those who play public servers only.
I was in this Kark server with my clan mates. We were on the MEC side and the server was about 3/4 full on a 32 player map with 32 slots. There were these guys, two of whom were named PRECOG [xG]Skythe and =TCF= pr3c0g. These guys and I think three others went to the top of the building behind the Hotel and just started to nade, C4. My clan knocked them off of the building twice in the round but they just kept getting up there cause the rest of our team sucked. Anyway, it was the first time I had ever seen the USMC team win Karkand without capping a single flag. The rest of our team just kept getting killed and we also got killed a number of times trying to defend that building. I'll admit that I'm not the best BF2 player...but sometimes you just come across guys that completely outclass you. These guys were jumping all over the place from left to right, forward and back, and it seemed they just took us out quite easily more often than not with the weaker US weapons. Anyway...props to them for handing us a whooping and winning the round by just killing on that building.
I understand that. I just find it hard to believe that everyone who works at EA is able to turn the blind eye to it. There has to be some EA guys that care and want to change it.
Was looking for a server to play on and found this...while...I'm sure there's a 'perfectly' good explanation for it.
My only wish is that the stats could be a more acurate reflection of all players skills rather than just the few who have played the game as it was meant to be played...then again, I suppose that in itself is left up to interpretation. As far as stats go though...I hope if BF3 comes out they will separate the infantry only stats from the infantry stats who play on vehicle servers. I am an infantry guy myself for the most part but I've played this game since it first came out so I was an infantry guy back when we had to deal with vehicles all the time. I just get tired of hearing all these 'infantry only server' guys bragging about their increadible infantry K/Ds and SPMs with no consideration for those who actually busted their balls as an infantry player prior to the patches coming out.
My only wish is that the stats could be a more acurate reflection of all players skills rather than just the few who have played the game as it was meant to be played...then again, I suppose that in itself is left up to interpretation. As far as stats go though...I hope if BF3 comes out they will separate the infantry only stats from the infantry stats who play on vehicle servers. I am an infantry guy myself for the most part but I've played this game since it first came out so I was an infantry guy back when we had to deal with vehicles all the time. I just get tired of hearing all these 'infantry only server' guys bragging about their increadible infantry K/Ds and SPMs with no consideration for those who actually busted their balls as an infantry player prior to the patches coming out.
Scarlett, but both pictures make me want to cry knowing I will get neither of them.
All I can say is that IO vs non IO really screws up the stats system. Lone wolfs have a much easier time accumulating points in IO servers. If you want to stay alive and get higher points in the non-IO servers you either vehicle whore or you are almost forced to play in a decent squad. Either way infantry guys will automatically have worse looking stats in non-IO servers than those who play IO servers and to me that seems unfair.
But then again...EA has done alot to screw up the stat system so whatever.
But then again...EA has done alot to screw up the stat system so whatever.
We just played these guys last weekend and have demos. I need to talk to my clan members to aquire the demos cause I wasn't in the match but I will be sending them to TWL if I see anything out of the ordinary.
Does anyone know of a list or site where a guy can look up what the requirements for the ranks and badges were when the game first came out? Also, perhaps a list of what was changed with each award and rank as the patches were introduced? I know i am one of the guys who worked hard for alot of the original ranks and awards, I'd just be interested to see the whole cronological working of the patches in regards to these things.
Well I got alot more responce to this thread than I thought I would. I got back into that Gator server and I talked with this russ guy one last time. He is obviously very immature and he hasn't proven to me he can do anything but spawn rape and fly that heli, so to me it's not worth any more of my time and I'm done with him. Bottom line though, we still don't know who runs this server or how to contact an admin. I'd like to know that.
And, for those of you who want to know why I was playing a 24/7 Gator map...I pretty much just want to get my service ribbons and medals for those teams. I wish there was a 64 slot server with a good rotation of night maps + the gator map, but unfortunately they just aren't as popular. I figure I pretty much have the lay of the land on most SF maps, but if there was a 64 slot Night map server I'm sure I'd still have alot to learn. I do feel a little weak on those maps cause I've played them so little compared to the rest but there just isn't a server that I can sit on and improve myself night in and night out on for those maps.
I don't enjoy SF as much as Vanilla by any means. I doubt I will play it much after getting all the awards as my clan mostly battles on vanilla from night to night and the maps we play in TWL are on vanilla as well. If a clan budy of mine wants to play SF then I'll play it, but aside from that I doubt I will play much after I get my awards. Who knows though...maybe I'll log some tank hours to work towards my badges on Ghost Town or Warlord.
Anyway, it was nice to hear some responce to my initial posting. Thanks a lot guys. Hope to see you all in game.
And, for those of you who want to know why I was playing a 24/7 Gator map...I pretty much just want to get my service ribbons and medals for those teams. I wish there was a 64 slot server with a good rotation of night maps + the gator map, but unfortunately they just aren't as popular. I figure I pretty much have the lay of the land on most SF maps, but if there was a 64 slot Night map server I'm sure I'd still have alot to learn. I do feel a little weak on those maps cause I've played them so little compared to the rest but there just isn't a server that I can sit on and improve myself night in and night out on for those maps.
I don't enjoy SF as much as Vanilla by any means. I doubt I will play it much after getting all the awards as my clan mostly battles on vanilla from night to night and the maps we play in TWL are on vanilla as well. If a clan budy of mine wants to play SF then I'll play it, but aside from that I doubt I will play much after I get my awards. Who knows though...maybe I'll log some tank hours to work towards my badges on Ghost Town or Warlord.
Anyway, it was nice to hear some responce to my initial posting. Thanks a lot guys. Hope to see you all in game.
Who runs this server? Clan website or something? If anyone knows some info would be helpful. Thanks.
These Fuckers russ)=spetsnaz and russia-SPETSNAZ were flying the chopper for round after round. I decided to hop in the chopper. russ) Tk's me in the head with a M95. A little bit later after he and his budy go down I go to the chopper again. This time they are waiting for the chopper but get hit by the enemy chopper and die. Once that enemy chop clears I go hop in. russ) quickly hops in the chopper and tells me to hop out of the driver position. I start to fly and he refuses to shoot the TV or do anything until the chopper goes down from damage. I get in it again. He tells me to hop out again and won't let me hit anything with the TVs or the gun. He just sits up in the sky near the edge of the map.
Later on one of my budies hops in the chopper with me. Russ TK's us both with C4. Then he hops in and flys away. He's sitting there with -11 points for TK's and whatnot and guess who gets banned from the server? Yeah, me. This kind of shit just makes me irate.
These Fuckers russ)=spetsnaz and russia-SPETSNAZ were flying the chopper for round after round. I decided to hop in the chopper. russ) Tk's me in the head with a M95. A little bit later after he and his budy go down I go to the chopper again. This time they are waiting for the chopper but get hit by the enemy chopper and die. Once that enemy chop clears I go hop in. russ) quickly hops in the chopper and tells me to hop out of the driver position. I start to fly and he refuses to shoot the TV or do anything until the chopper goes down from damage. I get in it again. He tells me to hop out again and won't let me hit anything with the TVs or the gun. He just sits up in the sky near the edge of the map.
Later on one of my budies hops in the chopper with me. Russ TK's us both with C4. Then he hops in and flys away. He's sitting there with -11 points for TK's and whatnot and guess who gets banned from the server? Yeah, me. This kind of shit just makes me irate.
I hope that in BF3 there is a specific stat for commander and arty kills so nobody gets a kill stat added to the kit they are playing. People like me with alot of commander hours ended up getting hours and stats for kits that either inflate our kit stats or the opposite. I'd rather just have a commander stat and not get points for a kit or vehicle (I didnt' sit in them but some have) when you are playing them as commander. I think it would make our overall stats more acurate. It would also make it harder to get badges. I also hope there is a stat for arty deaths cause I'd sure as heck like to know how many times I've been nailed by that stuff.
I did a search and found out how to delete the BF2 Vanilla intro movies, but I haven't been able to figure out where the Special Forces movies are, and which ones I'm supposed to delete or change the name of. I even searched on metacrawler and I found a file on filefront that supposedly deletes those movies but there are no comments written about it and I'm leary of installing something on my computer. I was hoping someone here could be of assistance in this regard.
I had never even seen that comercial before...so yeah, new to me too. Interesting. Thanks.
I did this...
[4578]
LongName=Battlefield 2
ShortName=bf2
Icon=bf2.ico
LauncherDirKey=HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Electro nic Arts\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2\InstallDir
LauncherExe=BF21.exe
But I can't join other peoples games and I they can't see what game I am in.
[4578]
LongName=Battlefield 2
ShortName=bf2
Icon=bf2.ico
LauncherDirKey=HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Electro nic Arts\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2\InstallDir
LauncherExe=BF21.exe
But I can't join other peoples games and I they can't see what game I am in.
I play BF2 and have gone through a few tweaking guides. One of the suggestions is that I run a registry cleaner. What is the best free reg cleaner out there, and if there are store bought reg cleaners that are better, what ones are the best? I am also just wondering if the reg cleaner is horse shitt or if it actually does a good job.
Reason I am trying to tweak is because I am getting lower FPS than I want. I run an Athlon XP 3200+ on a A7N8X rev 2, 74G Raptor, X800XL, 2G Samsung Ram. Thanks
Reason I am trying to tweak is because I am getting lower FPS than I want. I run an Athlon XP 3200+ on a A7N8X rev 2, 74G Raptor, X800XL, 2G Samsung Ram. Thanks
Time to Update. I didn't read anything about BF2 improving though...so maybe I shouldn't have posted in here about it. I would have appreciated it so whatever...do unto others as you'd have done to yourself.
https://support.ati.com/ics/support/def … tionID=640
Here's a review:
http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/9...ysis/index.html
https://support.ati.com/ics/support/def … tionID=640
Here's a review:
http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/9...ysis/index.html
Do all these fixes apply to Special Forces as well? Do I need to do these twice, once for Vanilla and once for SF? Thanks.
Regarding Tip 4: So do I use this now instead of the changed .exe file in Tip 2?
Regarding Tip 4: So do I use this now instead of the changed .exe file in Tip 2?
This is the second post I have found while researching this problem here on BF2s
I came to these forums today for the sole purpose of researching this problem. If I find anything I will post.
Some of my clan budies are Euros and ask me about what they should buy for BF2. I don't know what the prices are in pounds or euros. Here in North America there are forums for Hot Deals and such on Computer Parts. People find the best prices from the various computer stores and post them, then people comment on if that is a good price, or if the value is there from the parts you are getting.
Some of these hot deal forums include:
anandtech.com (for US)
redflagdeals.com (for CAN)
I would appreciate some of the Euro BF2 crowd in these forums to let me know if there are any sites like this in Europe and what are the best ones. More specifically, what are the best one in the UK cause that's where a good number of my members are from. Thanks.
Some of these hot deal forums include:
anandtech.com (for US)
redflagdeals.com (for CAN)
I would appreciate some of the Euro BF2 crowd in these forums to let me know if there are any sites like this in Europe and what are the best ones. More specifically, what are the best one in the UK cause that's where a good number of my members are from. Thanks.
European Service Ribbon
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So what if I go back and don't install 1.3 and just intall 1.21 or whatever it is. Then could I get that European Service Ribbon? If not, can whoever runs BF2s (Chuy?) take it off of there so I don't always feel bad that I don't have it and can't get it?
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So what if I go back and don't install 1.3 and just intall 1.21 or whatever it is. Then could I get that European Service Ribbon? If not, can whoever runs BF2s (Chuy?) take it off of there so I don't always feel bad that I don't have it and can't get it?
I got Expert Assault in a Special Forces server the hard way...but actually using my gun and not whoring in a vehicle. I do them all that way. At the end it sent me to the lobby stating there was a problem connecting to the server or something. Checked my stats to see if the expert assault badge was there...nothing. No stats at all. I'm willing to bet my assault award won't get sent to the right place cause the servers are down or something and I'll have to do it all over again. This is the third time something like this has happened to me not to mention all the rounds I've been close to getting an award and crashed or something. It makes me just want to quit sometimes. I love the game but it's just so hard to lose things like this and then have to go on and do it again. I can see why people turn to whoring in a vehicle for these awards, however they probably aren't whoring for the same reason I am complaining here.
Please tell me there is more than 32.
I just wanted to see how many people are active in this forum. I suppose I will leave this up for a week or so and then check back.
I'm headed out of town for a month and a half. I'm going to be staying at a friends place who also plays BF2 online. I want to know if it will be possible for me to play BF2 on his computer with my account. Thanks.
I think I will get it in 1 year
And lose 10 months of stats? I really would rather not. I think this is what most guys do, they just start a new account. I guess that's another reason I can't find the right guys. Nobody is like me who just wants to keep their stats and go for it...even though it will be hard and it will take forever to get it. I could only imagine the day I do get it though...I will be so happy. So like I say, anyone who is in the same boat as me...come battle with me! I want to get wins...points are nice too and if you get enough good guys together then points and wins will be had together, but wins are more important to me than points if you understand what I mean.
Yeah, just yesterday I only had 1055 but my team licked balls and now I need 1070. Ugh.
Honestly, I have been trying for that damn WCR for months but I'm still only 1.64. According to BF2s I need 1070 wins to get it. I'm not into team switching so it has been bloody hell trying to get it. I'm the leader of my clan called STRS. It's a great clan with a great bunch of guys but they aren't helping me get that damn WCR cause they just aren't active enough. We have a 32 man server with TS, a website, and message boards, and we're all friends so I like playing with them and that's why I made that clan, but like i say, they just don't play as much or as seriously as me. You might say...well then join another clan. I say nah, put to much work into this one and they are my friends. So I suppose what this thread is about is a proposal to all guys that just want to play in a serious squad and win every round with me. You can find me at hefty1979 on xfire and you can join my clan if you want, or we can just battle together on a daily basis. It's not so much a clan that I need right now as just a bunch of guys looking to get this damn ribbon.
xfire hefty1979
BF2: Heffty
www.strsclan.com
xfire hefty1979
BF2: Heffty
www.strsclan.com
I am having a problem setting my Attack 3 joystick up. I went to the in game controls and selected which axis and what I need to fly. Everything is fine except for my pitch up. Even without touching my joystick my plan drifts up into the sky.
I have flown for a long time with mouse and keyboard so I can always use that. But I have a decent enough joystick so I'd like to give it a try for a while.
I have flown for a long time with mouse and keyboard so I can always use that. But I have a decent enough joystick so I'd like to give it a try for a while.
One last bump in hopes of a responce.
bump
Problem with that is it doesn't tell you where they bought the server from. For instance, I look at our clans server and it doesn't say who we buy it from. My question is related to reviews from customers regarding the companies they buy the servers from, not by gamers who are ranking servers in general.