Battlefield 2 - First Impressions

El Boot

Well, that ASE support workaround has fixed one of my major gripes, the server browser.

The game is still bug riddled though. Crashes to desktop all the time on the most stable machine I have ever owned, and I keep getting done for teamkilling people who appear as red in the game.

It has great potential but the cons outweigh the pros at the moment.

Any word on when EA are planning to finish the game (AKA "patch" it)?

Jumpy

El Boot wrote:

Well, that ASE support workaround has fixed one of my major gripes, the server browser.

The game is still bug riddled though. Crashes to desktop all the time on the most stable machine I have ever owned, and I keep getting done for teamkilling people who appear as red in the game.

It has great potential but the cons outweigh the pros at the moment.

Any word on when EA are planning to finish the game (AKA "patch" it)?

I have never actually played on the USMC side, so I dont know if the colors swap. Is it red for the bad guys only, or are USMC always red?

Ponster

The workaround for the colour swap bug is the ESC back to menu and then ESC back to the game. It's fixed it the 4/5 times I've come across it so far.

Scruff

Jumpy wrote:

I have never actually played on the USMC side, so I dont know if the colors swap. Is it red for the bad guys only, or are USMC always red?

Red for the bad guys, Found this out last night when i killed 3 of my own when i started playing as the arabs for the 1st time. Couldnt tell the difference in uniform till i repsawned beside them.

I'm going to try lowering the detail and upping the resolution tonight. its too hard to make out other players otherwise. especially at a distance.

ghost26ie

joint ops is good, but sometimes had terrible lag on the big 150 player servers. bit more realistic than bf 2. bf 2 still looks better.

fightin irish

bizmark wrote:

I just spent 300 euro on a 6800gt from jes.de for BF2 and it god damn better run on high at 40-60 fps when i get it or Dice will have a rather pissed off irish man to deal with

Its just not the same on low tbh

You'll be fine bizmark. I have a 6800 gt and 2 gigs of crosair ram, FPS is usually around the 30 to 60. Turned a few things completley off and they shot to to 60 to 70. Think i turned dynamic shadows completley off amd i never really noticed the difference.

BluE-WinG

I'm very impressed with this game, more of the same + more = winner.

BF1942 was a winning recipe, they kept it, and just added more to do, pure genius.

vibe666

i'm enjoying the demo quite a lot, and may even go out and buy it to get the full monty.

anyone know how the full game is going top run on a P4 3Ghz 1gb RAM & a radeon 9600 pro 128mb?

the demo runs okay, but there's been talk of the full game being a bit funny about running well on medium specced machines.

Ponster

vibe666 wrote:

anyone know how the full game is going top run on a P4 3Ghz 1gb RAM & a radeon 9600 pro 128mb?

Check out his page for some info.

http://www.shackbattles.com/wiki/index.php/BF2:Will_my_system_run_BF2%3F


You'll have no problems playing it but maybe not with all settings on HIGH.

ghost26ie

i run bf 2 on amd 64 3200, 1gb of ram and a 256mb 6800gt and it runs fine. as for hl 2 ithad the worst lag i have every seen.

Loobz

Ponster wrote:

Check out his page for some info.
http://www.shackbattles.com/wiki/index.php/BF2:Will_my_system_run_BF2%3F

Thats a good guide. Thanks. Just wondering what graphics settings are most resource hungry. AA would have a big impact. Its a little frustrating having to change each setting individually to see what will happen when the game loads next time... if it logs in.

Jumpy

Is there any way to speed up the load time... 5-8 minutes for me per map. And its the verrifying client files part that takes the longest for me.

Drapper

Jumpy wrote:

Is there any way to speed up the load time... 5-8 minutes for me per map. And its the verrifying client files part that takes the longest for me.

Defrag your C drive and it does make a difference !! :-) trust me !

fightin irish

Yea i concur with above, de-frag and you'll see a huge dfference. Altough one gig of ram is also perfect.

Ciaran500

I was suprised at the loading time decrease when I defraged, although it had been a long time since I did one.

Smellyirishman

I defragged about 3 days ago, maybe I should have done some actual tests but it doesn't seem to have made too much of a difference.

fightin snr

if the c: drive was fragmented this would help alright with load times,but I`m having a similiar problem.......the game loads to 100% within a minute then can take anything up to 3 mins to load to spawn screen(verifying client data),by the time I get in some of the flags are already on the way to being capped.
btw I`m using a gig of ddr Ram :rolleyes:

KdjaCL

Server client part seems to be server controlled ie your waiting on the server, loading maps the biggest killer is geometry 1st map load takes under a munite for me then 15 to 20 seconds for everyone after that on TIG servers and IOL server client is a few seconds.

There has been a Punkbuster update so last 2 days may be longer server cleint verifying a little longer.

kdjac

Jumpy

fightin snr wrote:

if the c: drive was fragmented this would help alright with load times,but I`m having a similiar problem.......the game loads to 100% within a minute then can take anything up to 3 mins to load to spawn screen(verifying client data),by the time I get in some of the flags are already on the way to being capped.
btw I`m using a gig of ddr Ram :rolleyes:

Yep, thats the problem alright.
Except its more like 5 minutes for me.