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How did it go Haywood? I ran some speed tests. My Download time is great...hit 6 mbps but my Upload time flucuated wildly. In the evening it was down to about 128kbps and in the morning it was up to 400kbps. My ping time was down to below 40 on a few of the servers in the morning at 400kbps but well over 250 during the evening.HaywoodJablowme wrote:
just google speed tests, lots of different sites, speakeasy is a good one...
Just completely uninstalled, reinstalled and patched, testing now.
I know one thing weird though, in my logocache folder there was a file named "www." that I couldn't delete, even in safe mode, until I opened up a command box, stopped explorer, and deleted it from the command prompt. May have no relation, but we'll see..
Edit: seems to have helped, played a couple servers lag-free...
I'm begining to think there is too much traffic during in the evening in my area with COMCAST. I'm screwed.
Damn cable companies cater to broadcast "one to many" instead of optimal upload speeds "many to many." Needs to change.
Oh oh...I'm in Minneapolis, MN and around here, Comcast just bought out TimeWarner. I'm thinking they got too much traffic coming through their Hubs now in the locations where they consolidated TimeWarner Customers...this could be an ongoing issue if that is the case until they get their act together.HaywoodJablowme wrote:
I'm having the same problem, but not as bad as you. All I get is the random choppiness every 5 seconds which makes it unplayable. Only started after the 1.4 patch. I think they fucked something up with that one, because I know a couple others with the same problem.LemonChicken61 wrote:
Yeah. I saw that. Some of the tweaks I have already done a while ago but I'll give some of the others a try. Thanks.wachtler83 wrote:
check this out may help http://forums.bf2s.com/viewtopic.php?id=22556
I'm begining to think it my be my stupid ISP which is gonna suck if thats the case. I even did a complete unnstal and reinstall for the 1.4 patch.
I've tried all the lag reduction tweaks in the thread too, nothing helps. Maybe it's my ISP I'm thinking, have Comcast too. Speed tests show 6mbps down, but only like 150-250k up. Sucks...
Dumb question, how do you speed test?
Yeah. I saw that. Some of the tweaks I have already done a while ago but I'll give some of the others a try. Thanks.wachtler83 wrote:
check this out may help http://forums.bf2s.com/viewtopic.php?id=22556
I'm begining to think it my be my stupid ISP which is gonna suck if thats the case. I even did a complete unnstal and reinstall for the 1.4 patch.
Its COMCAST ... I know it! They just bought out TimeWarner Roadrunner! I want my Roadrunner back! :"o(
I'm pretty sure my machine is up to spec. May not be the fastest, but certainly not a brick. ATI800X 256 card, 2GB of RAM. Pentium IV, 2 GHz. Should be plenty.
Ever since I patched to 1.4 I am experiencing huge ping numbers! During certain parts of the day, I don't get anything lower than 200!!!!
I don't have Nortons ( I use ZoneLab), I shut off all nonessential software ( MSN, etc.) and I still get high ping.
I used to average around 50.
Any suggestions? I updated Windows lately with IE7 and Firefox to 2.0 but I don't think that has anything to do with it.
HELP. I keep getting kicked because of my ping. Sucks.
Thanks in advace!
Lemon
I don't have Nortons ( I use ZoneLab), I shut off all nonessential software ( MSN, etc.) and I still get high ping.
I used to average around 50.
Any suggestions? I updated Windows lately with IE7 and Firefox to 2.0 but I don't think that has anything to do with it.
HELP. I keep getting kicked because of my ping. Sucks.
Thanks in advace!
Lemon
Norton's is a huge resource hog. I switched to Zone Labs. Doesn't use up as much resource.
Mine has been extremely high all of a sudden after the patch. During certain times of the day I'm getting pings above 200 consistantly. wtf?
Before the patch I probably averaged about 50
Before the patch I probably averaged about 50
After a long, hard battle at Dragon Valley, I went to a local bar in the area called Red Dragon Bar for a nice cool one.
I'm sittin' there at the bar and all of a sudden a Panda walks in and orders up a bowl of Won Ton Soup. The bartender take its order and after a few minutes he brings the soup and gives it to the Panda. The Panda quietly slurps his soup until its done.
Meanwhile, I'm watching this in awe, thinking, "WTF?" Might have to call for a little help here!
After its done, it gets up and calmly pulls out a RPK-74 out of its pouch and blasts the hell out of the place. I go rollin', the patrons are screamin', total and complete chaos. After emptying a clip, the little sonnava beech puts the RPK back into its pouch and calmly walks out.
I get up and dust myself off, check to see if I need a medic and look at the bartender. I ask him, "WTF was all that about???"
Bartender reaches under the bar, pulls out a volume from a set of encyclopedias...opens it up to a page, shoves it in front of me and points.
I look and I read..."Pandas: Eats shoots and leaves."
I'm sittin' there at the bar and all of a sudden a Panda walks in and orders up a bowl of Won Ton Soup. The bartender take its order and after a few minutes he brings the soup and gives it to the Panda. The Panda quietly slurps his soup until its done.
Meanwhile, I'm watching this in awe, thinking, "WTF?" Might have to call for a little help here!
After its done, it gets up and calmly pulls out a RPK-74 out of its pouch and blasts the hell out of the place. I go rollin', the patrons are screamin', total and complete chaos. After emptying a clip, the little sonnava beech puts the RPK back into its pouch and calmly walks out.
I get up and dust myself off, check to see if I need a medic and look at the bartender. I ask him, "WTF was all that about???"
Bartender reaches under the bar, pulls out a volume from a set of encyclopedias...opens it up to a page, shoves it in front of me and points.
I look and I read..."Pandas: Eats shoots and leaves."
None taken.jord wrote:
You don't need to change server.LemonChicken61 wrote:
CARTILLARY! Great term. I like it. I'm glad I'm not the only one that is annoyed with it. When it happens a lot, it does take some of the fun out of the game but I don't let it bother me too much. I just go to a different server.
It should happen no more than twice to you in the same round.
Usually i'm not stupid enough for the second one,no offence.
CARTILLARY! Great term. I like it. I'm glad I'm not the only one that is annoyed with it. When it happens a lot, it does take some of the fun out of the game but I don't let it bother me too much. I just go to a different server.
Hahahahaha...I keep getting killed by the opposing commander dropping vehicles on me! I guess I have to move around more when I'm sniping but getting damn annoying (although funny as hell).
I need a better helmet!
I need a better helmet!
Ahhhh poo....my scope got messed up. (
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I do get frustrated when your on a server and the Admin just doesn't seem to care what is going on.
I was once on a server where I was walking up to an attack chopper and a team mate shot me. I didn't punish because I thought maybe it was an accident. Then I was waiting for the chopper during the same round and the guy with his buddy appears again (same clan), walks up to me and point blank kills me. I was pissed and I should have punished but I didn't. Next I'm sitting in the chopper and three of them appear, one a medic, one a sniper and one a engi, all in the same clan. Sniper walks up to the chopper(same guy), pulls his rifle up and shoots me in the head.
I punished. Then I decided to take matters into my own hands and respawned as spec ops. I planted all of my c-4s smack dab in the middle of the helo pad so that it was pretty obvious it was there. I hid and sure enough the 3 bandidos appeared again and they were running around like chickens trying to figure out what to do. They couldn't find me so they waited and two of them jumped in, the third stood right next to the helo...boom. Gone-all three. Instant kick!
Well worth it. The three bandidos punished me and resulted in a kick. I just wish the Admin was paying attention to what these three morons were doing.
I was once on a server where I was walking up to an attack chopper and a team mate shot me. I didn't punish because I thought maybe it was an accident. Then I was waiting for the chopper during the same round and the guy with his buddy appears again (same clan), walks up to me and point blank kills me. I was pissed and I should have punished but I didn't. Next I'm sitting in the chopper and three of them appear, one a medic, one a sniper and one a engi, all in the same clan. Sniper walks up to the chopper(same guy), pulls his rifle up and shoots me in the head.
I punished. Then I decided to take matters into my own hands and respawned as spec ops. I planted all of my c-4s smack dab in the middle of the helo pad so that it was pretty obvious it was there. I hid and sure enough the 3 bandidos appeared again and they were running around like chickens trying to figure out what to do. They couldn't find me so they waited and two of them jumped in, the third stood right next to the helo...boom. Gone-all three. Instant kick!
Well worth it. The three bandidos punished me and resulted in a kick. I just wish the Admin was paying attention to what these three morons were doing.
If you don't have your knife badge before 20000 are your screwed?
I've found that before you install any patch or new expansion pack, it is a good idea to put all the file names back to what it was. BF2.exe and the movie files just to be safe. Then run the patch. The first patch I ever installed on BF2, I did not put them back to their original names, installed the patch and broke it.
Installing the full patch did not fix the problem. I had to reinstall the entire game and repatch. When I installed BF2SF and 2.21 I made sure I put the BF2.EXE file name and movies back to original. Installed game and patch and no problem.
I have not installed 1.22 yet but I imagine as long as I reset the file names back before I install the patch, I'll be fine.
Installing the full patch did not fix the problem. I had to reinstall the entire game and repatch. When I installed BF2SF and 2.21 I made sure I put the BF2.EXE file name and movies back to original. Installed game and patch and no problem.
I have not installed 1.22 yet but I imagine as long as I reset the file names back before I install the patch, I'll be fine.
Maybe I was dreaming...but I swear I've seen people ziplining on BF2 Vanilla somewhere before I got SF because I remember thinking to myself..."that is cool! I'll have to get SF!"
Does it have to do with the Universal Unlock setting on the Server or something?
Does it have to do with the Universal Unlock setting on the Server or something?
I have the SF expansion pack. A while back when SF first came out, I saw a bunch of people playing on vanilla with SF weapons, grapple, flashbangs, zip lines etc.
Everytime I go onto vanilla, I don't have any of my SF equipment available. Can someone tell me how it is done?
Many thanks!
lemon
Everytime I go onto vanilla, I don't have any of my SF equipment available. Can someone tell me how it is done?
Many thanks!
lemon
Nothing funnier than when you're sniping and you get into that "tunnel" vision mode. In a flash you see something blur into your scope and you think, " Oh shit." You just have time to start pulling your pistol out before ..."Stab!" You're dead by knife kill. Hillarious. Always makes you piss in your pants.
Funny the other way too. I've crawled up to snipers from behind with my blade out...slowly crawl up right next to them and slowly do a 180 around him until I'm just about in front of him. Wait...wait...wait...type a message "Stab...you're dead buddy" and stick him. I had one guy sending me a message laughing his head off. He had to stop for a minute, he said he was laughing so hard. Guy had a good sense of humor.
Funny the other way too. I've crawled up to snipers from behind with my blade out...slowly crawl up right next to them and slowly do a 180 around him until I'm just about in front of him. Wait...wait...wait...type a message "Stab...you're dead buddy" and stick him. I had one guy sending me a message laughing his head off. He had to stop for a minute, he said he was laughing so hard. Guy had a good sense of humor.
Yes and its damn embarassing!
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At what frame rates do you ususally end up with when you play BF2?
I run the game with an ATi Radeon X800 XT, 2GB RAM, 3GHz Pentium IV
I have all the Graphics cranked and I usually run between 35 and 50 Frame Rate.
TIA
Lemon
I run the game with an ATi Radeon X800 XT, 2GB RAM, 3GHz Pentium IV
I have all the Graphics cranked and I usually run between 35 and 50 Frame Rate.
TIA
Lemon
Here, here! Nice Spearhead. I'm with you.Spearhead wrote:
I'm a completely honest pilot, and I hate whore pilots and pilots who TK for jets. I love supporting ground troops and I had fun shooting down enemy fighters, and it made me feel like I accomplished something, flying high up in the air dogfighting while you grunts were fighting just as hard on the ground. I also play as a grunt whenver there are no available aircraft, so jeez give some people breaks
You infantry players have to realize that there's a difference between "pilots" and "jet whores" it's very similar to the difference between players who use the Grenade Launcher, and players who use ONLY the Grenade Launcher
Good pilots need to support the grunts and the grunts need to support the good pilots. Plane Whores can crash and burn for all I care. Been TK'd too many times by a variety of Whores so I have no sympathy for them. However, Pilots like you need all the support from the Grunts!
DUDE!! 22 Hours???? What are you on, dial up? : o) Just kidding.fdcp_elmo wrote:
NO w00t-ness a fking 22 hours of downloading.. well I don't think so my friend see you in 2 days $%#@
Probably a $hit load of people downloading and taxing the servers and bandwidth. I plan to just start the download tonight an go to bed.
Besides...its Valentine's day! ;o) Wink, wink, say no mooooore!
Oh...I forgot, we're BF2 fanatics...we don't believe in Valentine's Day! )
Carry on Soldiers!!!!!
Double w00t-nessfikraag7 wrote:
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I believe it has a little to do with inaccuracy and lag. I have Fraps running on my machine when I play so I can see the ping. If it is too high, I start compensating for "bullet drop" or "lead" and hope for the best. It's a crap-shoot. I ususally don't even bother sniping if there is too much lag.
Yep. That's how I got my Anti-Tank Combat Badge since I can't stand the primary weaponry on that kit!!!
I think I pooped in my pants...wait a minute...yup...I pooped in my pants. Dammit! I hate that when that happens.
Well....you're a....a....a....Heterosexual! So there!!!!!blackcracka wrote:
I think you all will be very dissappointed if/when the patch comes out.
It is TOTAL BS that EA has to change the game we've spent hundreds of hours perfecting our skills on.
Just like the last patch, it is going to be gay, and it will make me be all pissed off and not want to play the game. How would you all feel if they completely changed the vehicles, removed many of the jets from maps.. lowered the number of nades you have... Its totally queer.
Down with the patch. How could you say long live the patch when you have no idea what the f they are going to do.. its probably going to be another ploy to get you to buy another "booster" pack..
B S if you ask me
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Another thing that might help. Try changing the name of the exe file. It is called bf2.exe but for whatever reason the Graphics Cards also looks for a file caled bf2 and so the app doesn't run as smoothly as it should. I read this somewhere. I changed the executable file name to battlfield2.exe. Of course you will need to change the properties of your shortcuts if you have any and update the icons too if you want it to look pretty.
iLL has got a point...
When was the last time you opened up your PC for a good cleaning? Got any Cats or Dogs or losing your own hair lately? (lol) If the vents are all plugged up, your motherboard will begin to overheat and so will your Graphics card. As you well know, BF2 puts alot of stess on that Graphics Card. As it overheats, performance begins to drop. Restarting may help but my guess is it doesn't run as well as when you first started playing.
Also, it might help to change the priority of BF2.exe to high via Task Manager. You can even write a little batch file that will boot up BF2 and set it to high priority everytime.
When was the last time you opened up your PC for a good cleaning? Got any Cats or Dogs or losing your own hair lately? (lol) If the vents are all plugged up, your motherboard will begin to overheat and so will your Graphics card. As you well know, BF2 puts alot of stess on that Graphics Card. As it overheats, performance begins to drop. Restarting may help but my guess is it doesn't run as well as when you first started playing.
Also, it might help to change the priority of BF2.exe to high via Task Manager. You can even write a little batch file that will boot up BF2 and set it to high priority everytime.
What are some of the best servers people have played on? IP Address or name...List them here for everyone to see and tryout!
Low Pings
Good Maps
Good Admins
Mature Players
Low Pings
Good Maps
Good Admins
Mature Players
Admins like that are called...
id10t Admins!
Most people use the "n0-hack"
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id10t Admins!
Most people use the "n0-hack"
lol
Just wondering:
I was curious to try all over again, now that I've played BF2 for a little while but I want to keep my current User Name Stats.
I've read elsewhere on the forum about people creating a "dummy" account to try something out. Does this actually require you to pay for another account or can you have more than one User Name on the same account so you can have multiple "soldiers?"
TIA
I was curious to try all over again, now that I've played BF2 for a little while but I want to keep my current User Name Stats.
I've read elsewhere on the forum about people creating a "dummy" account to try something out. Does this actually require you to pay for another account or can you have more than one User Name on the same account so you can have multiple "soldiers?"
TIA
Couple of things:
It would be AWESOME if we had a sniper rifle w/a silencer! May not have the distance but they'd never know where the shots were coming from! No muzzle flash, no sound. Just the little red flash on your HUD. It would make the Sniper even more deadly.
I love it when you're laying in the grass somewhere and an enemy sniper lays down right next to you and never sees you! You look through your scope, watch him for a while just to relish the moment as his head fills up the entire sight! BLAM!!! Gotta love it!
It would be AWESOME if we had a sniper rifle w/a silencer! May not have the distance but they'd never know where the shots were coming from! No muzzle flash, no sound. Just the little red flash on your HUD. It would make the Sniper even more deadly.
I love it when you're laying in the grass somewhere and an enemy sniper lays down right next to you and never sees you! You look through your scope, watch him for a while just to relish the moment as his head fills up the entire sight! BLAM!!! Gotta love it!
I've seen vids of people detonating C4 to make themselves or their vehicles go flying. I assume it is a mod or a hack?
Just curious ...
TIA
Just curious ...
TIA
Bought a N52 this weekend and started playing around with it. Still getting used to it and playing around with the profile but so far so good. I even have a seperate button for Ventrillo in addition to Squad and Command Speak. Nice when you just want to talk to people on Ventrillo Server.
So far I have more than enough keys. I even managed to get both infantry and Land/Sea on one Shift State. That may change but for now it is working out great. I use a joystick for aircraft/helo.
Since I haven't played much BF2 on a regular keyboard to begin with, I think it has been a little bit easier for me to learn on the N52. I haven't had any issue yet with the "orange" button. A little stiff but not stiff enough to cause the whole thing to slide around. I still have to get used to that thumb button for jumping but I think it is just a matter of time.
I snipe alot so I'm even thinking of progamming one of the keys to switch to pistol and fire a few rounds after a sniper shot and back to the sniper rifle.
So far I have more than enough keys. I even managed to get both infantry and Land/Sea on one Shift State. That may change but for now it is working out great. I use a joystick for aircraft/helo.
Since I haven't played much BF2 on a regular keyboard to begin with, I think it has been a little bit easier for me to learn on the N52. I haven't had any issue yet with the "orange" button. A little stiff but not stiff enough to cause the whole thing to slide around. I still have to get used to that thumb button for jumping but I think it is just a matter of time.
I snipe alot so I'm even thinking of progamming one of the keys to switch to pistol and fire a few rounds after a sniper shot and back to the sniper rifle.
Looks like I'm gettng myself a N52. Thanks for everyone's input. I will prepare myself for a slight learning curve but I think it will be a lot better than using my PS2-like gamecontroller and since I've never really used my regular keyboard to play BF2, it shouldn't be too hard to get used to the n52!
Graacias All!!!!!
Graacias All!!!!!
Alot of people prefer flying choppers wth the keyboard anyway. You just have to practice alot.
One way to practice flying (or anything else for that matter) is to set up a LAN on a 64 map and just fly around.
I like to practice on Kubra Dam since there are many high structures, bridges and tunnels to fly through. If you want buildings to fly between Shariq is a good one.
Of course, eventually you'll have to fly online, live and you'll die many times. I'm still learning myself. I use a joystick but hovering is a little trickier.
Good Luck!!!
One way to practice flying (or anything else for that matter) is to set up a LAN on a 64 map and just fly around.
I like to practice on Kubra Dam since there are many high structures, bridges and tunnels to fly through. If you want buildings to fly between Shariq is a good one.
Of course, eventually you'll have to fly online, live and you'll die many times. I'm still learning myself. I use a joystick but hovering is a little trickier.
Good Luck!!!
GeoEni,GeoEnvi wrote:
I tried using it (n50) a few years ago for MOHAA (a game with far fewer keys used than BF2). I found it terribly annoying to use due to the lack of available keys. I think it less suited for action packed multi-player FPS than it is for real-time strategy games.
From what I'm reading is that that was one of the gripes about the n50...not enough keys. It had 10. The n52 has 14 keys. Just off the top of my head, that would take care of most of the keys that you would need to access easily on BF2. The keys does not include the other options available like the directional button etc.
Lemon
Thanks for your input Ronball9!
I've been reading alot of reviews on the n52 and seems to get a good rating from gamers overall.
Interested to hear if anybody else out there uses it.
Lemon
I've been reading alot of reviews on the n52 and seems to get a good rating from gamers overall.
Interested to hear if anybody else out there uses it.
Lemon
Anybody ever use Belkin's Nostromo Speedpad series...specifically the n52?
http://www.twitchguru.com/2004/03/06/game_controller/
I'm just not any good with a regular keyboard. I've tried using a Playstation - like gamepad for the PC but it does not give me the sensitivity I need. So I thought I would try this out.
Any thoughts?
Thanks!
http://www.twitchguru.com/2004/03/06/game_controller/
I'm just not any good with a regular keyboard. I've tried using a Playstation - like gamepad for the PC but it does not give me the sensitivity I need. So I thought I would try this out.
Any thoughts?
Thanks!
I have the Saitek X52. Very programable and looks really cool on your desktop too! Lots of programable buttons, HATS, Switches, scroll, mouse, etc. Stick has twist also for rudder control. Real nice.
http://www.saitekusa.com/usa/prod/x52.htm
http://www.saitekusa.com/usa/prod/x52.htm
Don't dispair ryan_14. Practice, practice, practice and have fun with it.
What I'm asking about is actually being able to look sideways, up, down etc. EXAMPLE: Flying a transport heli and your gunner on one side is blasting away at a target to the left. I know you can hit the left CTRL+Mouse to actually look to the left to get your bearings so you can give your gunner a better angle. There has to be a way to program the Left CTRL + Mouse function on a HAT switch on a Joystick.