Stormscythe
Aiming for the head
+88|6753|EUtopia | Austria
Does anyone know the feeling?

Since patch 1.41, I eventually experience my game freezing, and the frame stays the same, while sounds keep repeating. It somehow seems like a ctd but (almost) never becomes one but works again after about 30 seconds of sheer endless praying that nobody got me in the meanwhile.

It's annoying, especially when on a plane, as you can imagine...
Any ideas?
Solutions?

My specs are:
P4 630 3.0GHz
1024MB DDR2
nVidia 6600GT
Maxtor 160GB HDD
Intel PCY915 Mobo
--> playing on 1280x1024 and all medium, except dynamic shadows/lighting low, no AA
... so I rather doubt, my system is inappropriate, but 1.41 has screwed this up (note, I've been playing BF2 since 1.02 and it only keeps occurring since 1.41...)

(PS: I've already posted a similar thread earlier, but got - so far - not any sufficient responses...)
BluRR33
Member
+27|6591|Sweden
nice   i want it 2   https://bf2sig.com/v4/signatures/1/69876662.png
NordsternMN
Member
+1|6508
I've had the same issue too. Usually, it occurs when I first start up BF2 and enter a round. It goes away after 30-60 seconds and doesn't come back for 2 hours or so. I noticed that the "freezing" corresponds to some heavy activity on my hard drive.

But after I installed SF and re-installed the 1.41 patch, it's doing this at the start of EVERY ROUND. Incredibly annoying. I haven't checked to see if it's doing this in regular BF2 also.

I had read on EvenBalance's site that there is an admin option to retrieve screenshots from a client, so I suspect it might be PunkBuster. More evidence that it might be PB is that the issue started appearing after I manually updated PB to one of the more recent versions (client version 1.289, I think).


EDIT: Forgot machine specs.

Pentium 4 630 3GHz w/ HT
1GB Crucial DDR2 RAM
ASUS P5LD2 motherboard
Sapphire Radeon X300SE PCI-Express video card
Western Digital 80GB SATA150 hard drive
Windows XP Professional

EDIT 2: Stuff from PB site.

PB Servers can optionally be configured to randomly check player settings looking for known exploits of the game engine
PB Admins can request actual screenshot samples from specific players and/or can configure the PB Server to randomly grab screenshot samples from players during gameplay

Last edited by NordsternMN (2007-01-23 09:15:23)

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