BF2S Forums high ping with new patch

in your bf2 options what do you have the network settings set to?

I get higher pings using my DSL when i set it to T1 vs setting it to 256kbps Cable, it has to do with the amount of bandwidth required to keep a stable connection or something.

my mate had eratic ping the other week & he rang telewest (his uk cable provider) & told them & they said it was down to his connection being in a high traffic channel & they moved him to another & pings been fine ever since,before his ping was spiking upto 600+ randomly in servers.ring your isp provider & they should sort you out.

lordlupin, the same thing happened to me.  My computer played BF2 fantastic before the 1.21 incremental patch.  I installed the patch successfully and it stopped perfoming immediately and the update server now only incriments 20 servers at a time... The lowest ping i see is now ~150.  When I play it is very laggy.  My other computer has the unpatched version and many pings are fine at 109 or better so I know it is not my internet connection amd they play fine.  Also, the internet continues to be speedy for me which leads me to believe there may be something defunct with the incremental 1.21 patch.

I have cable and that cable/T1 setting didn't make a difference.   I am running a dell dual core 2.8Ghz with a gig of ram and a Dell ATI X600 with 128Mb of video memory that uses another 128Mb of system ram so they can call it a 256Mb card. (I don't need to read comments on how people feel about Dell)

It is definitely not associated with my internet connection... Wondering what else can it be.  I downloaded the full 1.21 patch last night and it sounds like I'm going to have to uninstall/reinstall the game and run the full patch to see if that makes a difference

Read this thread, and try this....... http://forums.bf2s.com/viewtopic.php?id=16142

Since my last effort, I updated my video driver, network card driver, system BIOS, and chipset drivers.  Each and every update made no improvement.  Now Trying to go back to 1.20, the installation will just stop after prompting for disk2 or disk3.  I can't even get the original software installed...  I bought 2 copys of the BF2 game and now neither copy will install.  I performed a defrag which didn't help the installation complete as well. 

I have no idea what the heck is going on.  This is a huge headache as now I am thinking that a new OS install may be necessary.  What else can I do if the game won't install?  I am very very disappointed with the issues that are spiriling out of control due to patch 1.21.

Beware of this patch.  Although I believe it is likely, this may or may not be EA's fault, that has yet to be determined, but this patch certainly was the catalyst to the headache many of us are experiencing.

thefousteph wrote:

Joe, did you think of a System restoration?

I did got this proble once (unable to uninstall) so i restore to a previous date before problem occurs, and ive been able to uninstall.

Try it!

I tried a system restore to back up to pre-1.21.  After that finished and I tried to run BF2, I got an error "mods/bf2/shaders/staticmesh.fx not found.  Do check working director and sync your shaders folder before calling upon your local rendering programmer gp (really!)"  ???  the installation refused to uninstall.  I saw other people who recieved this error after a restore as well.  I took it to the next level.

I backed up my data and then restored my dell PC to factory condition.  A neat ctrl-f11 function that worked slick... props to Dell.  Especially since my SATA drive would not be recognized by the winXP install CD.  I updated all the windows updates and ran the installation again... Now all my drivers were back the way they were originally, the only difference was that I updated my Dell 9100 BIOS from A01 to A02 from earlier.  I then tried to reinstall the BF2 disks and dammit the installation again silently stalls after asking for disk 2. When the drive is opened, a promt pops up to retry or cancel.  Retrying doesn't help so the only thing you can do is cancel the install.  Freaking unbelievable!

Its not cause by Mcafee virus software interference for certain because I am now running Norton after the fresh install and have the same problem.

at this point it there is a possibility of it being a couple of things.
1. BIOS upgrade from A01 to A02 messed something up.  I can't go back to A01 Bios to see if that makes a difference because it isn't offered by Dell's website...  I'll have to phone them and plead i guess.  That will be fun. **UPDATE** BIOS was reverted back to A01 and problem was not eliminated.  The Dell BIOS upgrade is not to blame!

2. Something about a recent windows update has hosed something.  I don't think so though because earlier this week the installation worked and then stopped all of a sudden.  I know for certain it is not a bad disk because I own two copies of BF2.  I am beginning to believe that it is an interoperbility issue with the windows installer and BF2 installation program installshield.   I wonder if this could be related to Windows Installer 3.1 (KB893803) (V2 revision 4.0 whatever that means) came out on OCt 22nd.  There is a new version from Microsoft which supposedly helps installations from hanging...  maybe I'm getting it from two ends. see:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta … layLang=en

Issue that is addressed in Windows Installer 3.1 (v2)
• Windows Installer no longer fails silently when the installer tries to update a file that is protected by the Windows File Protection feature. 

3. The disk is not being read correctly by my drive.  I don't think so though.  Others have complained about these exact symptoms as me.  I ran a utility where the drive is put through its paces and it was able to read all 3 data diskes (except block 840 of disk1 which I bet is a copy protection.

Last edited by joe_shmoee (2006-03-12 12:43:15)

thefousteph wrote:

This is ridicilous,

I have the same problem barely able to connect to any server and once i managed to connect, i get an unplayable ping (even if in the piont window, i see a 54 ping ?!?!) it always pop the "there is a problem with your connection" at unwanted times - every 1.5 min that is...

Everything was fine before incremented that patch

"(even if in the piont window, i see a 54 ping ?!?!)"
I didn't get what you was writing, plz explain so I can help.
Well, I live in Israel and like in previous versions I have only servers with 100+ pings but I'm still able to connect, so your problem isn't the ping but somehow problem with your connection really. Maybe it's the internet company of yours or some settings you changed (windows settings).

the same connection problem and mass lag has been happening here in australia too. On nearly all servers, on any provider.

Umm, contacted EA, they said it was my internet/computer causing the problem, which seems to be me to be cpmplete and utter bs, because I can play any other game and not get a connection error that kills my internet. People are getting this problem, and the common belief is that the new patch has a higher attention to packet loss.

Repatching fixed my lag along with more defragging and rebooting

Strange thing with this new patch for me is I can have great Ping, like 65, but hideous lag & frequent "There's a Problem With Your Connection" errors. Doesn't make any sense.

Even though I keep defrag an uninstalling the freaking lag still. My connection is good cus a tech came and check it out. Here some pics 1- says 123, 2- 105, last one check how ping is for the games, well its seems like another week without playing the game.

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Last edited by SniperEyes74 (2006-03-14 17:58:15)