BF2S Forums any solution to a high ping after patch 1.22 ?

Change the name of the exe-file and rename the shortcut, works swell.

Try getting all the servers to move closer to you i tried, didnt work for me though, mabye it'll work for u.

Dude5B, try using the search feature next time.  At this moment, it seems that most people's ping has increased.  You should read some of the tweak guides on the web to see if they help.  Here are some of the tewaks that helped me in the past.

Manually update Punkbutser
Use an application to adjust the preformance of you PC.

I have heard that if you change the name of your BF2.exe file, it will help with your performance.  I have also heard that changing the drivers for you video card will solve some issues. 

If you need more tweaks just Google BF2 Tweaks.

Edit:  After posting I noticed that you have posted to another thread with the same issue, before you made this thread.  You even recommended how to solve the issue.  FYI: You should not have opened this thread.

Last edited by dubbs (2006-03-30 01:14:43)

theDude5B wrote:

dubbs wrote:

Dude5B, try using the search feature next time.

have tried using the search feature, and have found other topics along the same line, however none of the previous topics seem to have a solid solution to the problem of a high ping after patching.
Also you will find that the topics found with the search are in relation to patch 1.21, which could be a different problem to patch 1.22.

I agree that i have posted in two posts about the same issue, however, none of these actually say they are talking about patch 1.22, and as this forum used to be titled "Patch 1.21" some of these posts do refer to the older patch.

Did not mean to seem like a smacktard, just remaining you.  I know that you probally did use the Search feature since you post here are the time.  Like I said, it was a friendly reminder, just in case.

dubbs wrote:

Did not mean to seem like a smacktard, just remaining you.  I know that you probally did use the Search feature since you post here are the time.  Like I said, it was a friendly reminder, just in case.

yeah yeah no worries man, just sometimes, like in the words of Bono, after searching "I still cant find what i am looking for"

@ Kontrolfreq - i am used to having a ping of about 22 on all european and UK servers. But now my ping is 150+ and i consider that i high ping

Hi mate,

I had the same problem - ping of about 18 on my favourite server (XDR)
and now it jumps up to 262 and I'm getting autokicked....

Hmm, what new applications have I put on my PC that are randomly using
up all my Internet Connection... could it be another great piece of EA software -
The EA Downloader ?

So I logged out of the Downloader and ping is back to 18  :^ )
Although it looks like I won't be able to play any EF games with patch 1.22 - rofl

Hope that helps

I think I have found a fix for this problem..

Uninstall the game (Dont reinstall Uninstall)
Remove BF2 from your firewall (If you gave it access, then remove it from the list) Also remove it from Windows firewall if you have SP2
Install BF2 (Restart your PC after installing)
Install the full 1.22 patch
Re-add it to your firewall (Windows firewall and anyother firewall you may have)

It should work, I have not installed SF or EF yet, but BF2 works with out the GFX lag and hige ping now, Hope this helps.

Last edited by dan500 (2006-03-31 10:08:31)

I used to have high ping problems. occasionally my ping would suddenly go up to around the 1000 mark and i'd get kicked. After much searching around, i realised i had manually opened a port on my router for a file sharing app. The software firewall on my pc was reporting lots of attacks on the port that was opened on my router. It was these attacks that was causing my ping to shoot up. I closed the port - ping back to normal again.

have you tried turning off your anti-virus. (leave firewall on!) if the program has changed it might be thinking its up to no good.

I don't know about you guys but I just changed the .exe file name and now the game works.  No more high ping spikes.

After an uninstall and reinstall with the full patch 1.22 and pb update I still had high ping problems. Then I decided to follow some of the advice found on the tweak site
http://www.tweakguides.com/BF2_1.html
Effectively after changing my Bf2.exe file name and shortcut to BFII.exe or whatever you prefer and changing the movie names in the proper file my pinged dropped to the normal teens in game.

well nothing has worked for me, game still runs with a high ping and laggy graphics. Turned everything down low but it makes it worse because it is harder to actually make things out, then by the time i see someone in the distance, i am dead! Tried all the tweeks, but all the tweeks have done is speed up the load time of the game, and speed up my computer when it boots.

EA sent me a reg-delete file which deletes all reference of BF off my system, then told me to re-install the game, but still doesnt work.

Just waiting for the next patch.