Rod Foxx wrote:
I don't even run a firewall anymore. I removed it because it was slowing down my computer too much. If your careful when surfing the net you won't have any problems. Although if other people use the computer then you can't always help that. For short periods you should be fine.
Good luck with the xfire forums and merry christmas to you too.
Rod
Your silly....
See right know you've told people you dont have a firewall, they hunt you down and bang your gone, oh well
regarding xfire into BF2
You know the "Connecting to account server"?
Well it normally does that automatically when you go into a server from xfire, and thus feels like it has lagged and died... just a black screen for 2 minutes does scare ya, lol
Friends always complain they lag due to xfire, but i dont personally
What i suggest, is set BF2 to a high priority program, thus windows will look at it first before xfire....
May lagg down xfire, but not your game.....
(To do this there is 2 ways...)
OPTION ONE
Open BF2
Alt+Tab
Go Ctrl+Alt+Del
Go to processes
Right click BF2.exe
Go set priority>High
The bad thing about this is that you have to do it everytime.....
OPTION 2
Making Battlefield 2 automatically a High Priority Application
How does this work?
Windows shares out its resources and memory between its programs equally. It also runs its own background tasks using the "System Idle Process". By Increasing the priority of an application, Windows provides more Memory to that application, and takes memory away from it's own tasks such as the "System Idle Process". You can change the priority of an application by going to ctrl+alt+delete and changing it manually, or you can set up this file to automatically launch the program as a High Priority Application, without you touching a thing!
How do you do it?
Step 1: FInd the BF2 directory again, the default is C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2 the BF2 directory (common: C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2)
Step 2: Right click anywhere in this folder and click New then Text Document
Step 3: Right click on the newly created file and rename it to bf2.bat, The file should then turn into a little cog. If it doesn't, you will need to uncheck the 'Hide extensions for known file types' option checked in Tools > Folder options > View.
Step 4: Right click your newly created bf2.bat and click Edit
Step 5: Copy and paste the following into the notepad window that opens:
@echo off
cd /d "C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2"
start /high BF2.exe +menu 1 +fullscreen 1
Don't forget, if you installed BF2 to a different directory than C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2 then adjust it accordingly.
Step 6: Save your changes and close the Notepad window.
Step 7: Right click the new bf2.bat and click Send To > Desktop (create shortcut)
Step 8: Goto your desktop, and right click the new shortcut, then click properties.
Step 9: Click on the "Change Icon" Button, and goto your game directory "C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2" and double click on your BF2.exe (or BF21.exe) This makes the shortcut have a real icon, not necessary, but makes it look way better.
Step 10: Right click on the shortcut and rename it to "Battlefield 2" or whatever you want really.
ADDITIONAL NOTE: For some putting it on high makes it worst performance, so try doing it on low as well if you encounter problems
