Battlefield 2 1.01 Patch Released

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  Maybe because a lot of servers haven't updated yet? Just a thought. : Priest77
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    Same problem. The ingame sever browser is messed up. Servers that have a 40 ping in ASE and on the server... : Bob422
    • Well they did say they fixed the problem with servers showing up with a "0" ping... : Priest77
• Server browser now shows server pings in the 130s that used to be in the 30s, BF patch 1.01 brought to yo... : fatboy

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  Please tell me how it is worse than GSA. Virtually nothing has changed with ASE since Yahoo bought it. : Waverider
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    Other than the much slower updates and the friends search not working for weeks/months. : Speedy8
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      Oh, and the friends list/search is basically the only reason I paid for the app, so I've been pretty unha... : Speedy8
      • My understanding is that the friends list was fixed. : Waverider
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  Qtracker all the way. : monofurioso
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    I still use GameSpy3D : ezanga
    • ah the good `ole days... is it possible to use GS3D with Battlefield 2? if so, I'm on it.. : zakazi

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  umm, rename your movies folder, and you'll never have to load movies again. : gndagger
  • it's still ridiculously slow though. : jet-poop
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    Won't you get kicked from servers for modifying client data? : Judecca
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      No. I renamed every video file individually and haven't had any problems. : Bob422
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        this is actually a debatable issue - some people (including myself) have been kicked for even doing that.... : mystifier
        • How can you make those? I've not had that problem with the renamed files, but I'd rather be safe than sor... : Bob422
        • I think punkbuster does more than a file size check It does some sort of md5 to confirm the data has not... : Judecca
    • I renamed all of them and never got a problem. The "loading menu.." thing still continues, and the men... : rorshack
• That 'menu loading' popup won't go away, even if you get rid of the movies. Sorry to disappoint. : GrimmyD

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• BF2 - now with extra zombies! Whenever someone dies, they'll fall to the ground, then jump back up in ... : NoodlesNogan
• maybe your quality settings are to high. i had this problem with high detail. i switched to medium and ... : ilem0n

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• BF: VIETNAM'D to the max : AlexXdude
• inverse for me. Ran great on 9800pro, shit-shit-shitty on 6800 : geedeck
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  Or maybe you have your settings too high. Text Detail High is for 512 meg cards apparently. : mojoald
  • ^^^ This needs to be informatived or something. Half the complaints are due to this one setting being se : Priest77
• Tis ok for me on 9800pro256 @ Med... main problem is disk churning and memory usage (1GB has seen better ... : johnsto
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  How much memory do you have? I've found that if you are trying to run all settings on max you won't have ... : S1ing B1ade
  • I have 1 gig. And, at first glance, apparently it did fix the CORRUPT TEXTURES/STUTTERING bug on ATI card... : persona_non_grata
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  this runs fine on my 9800pro with 1GB of Ram. I run everything on medium 1024x768. : hatelull
  • Me too...everything seems fine so far. : Waverider
  • I just have to say, if you haven't played this game with 2gb yet, you're suffering. I went from 1g to 2g,... : S1ing B1ade

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• This can sometimes be caused by unstable memory. It occurs when punkbuster doesn't get a list of the curr... : S1ing B1ade
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  Tr droppng your gfx settings and running again. Seems punkbster decides it dosent like you if the game is... : Beady
  • If this is happening you're playing with to high settings for your amount of ram. lower settings or bu... : luke1111

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  hahaha look at the latest news, they are hiring a new Flash GUI developer as of yesterday. Whoever did B... : Luminair
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    The question is, why did they use flash for the menus in the first place? : -efx-
    • rather than picking up a real middleware solution or just doing it the old fashioned way, DICE (or maybe : Luminair
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  It's worth all the fuss, easily. : tree8
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    Yeah, I mean... make some noise, for sure. But at least do it somewhat coherently and with some respect. ... : tymetodie
    • I know if I 'slaved away at my machine' and produced crap like they have Id expect to lose my job pretty ... : Beady
    • I agreed with you until I hit "need to play" said sarcastically (and in l33t sp34k). If I pay $50 for a g... : jrock
    • Yes. I'm sure the 1337-speak invalidates the valid gripes with DICE/EA's QA process. Also, what does " : d fluke
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  don't you mean 145th and Broadway? : tcxsnoop
  • Crack can be had all over manhattan. : -efx-
• and to all of you blaming EA... EA is the publisher of this game, smarty pantses. DICE is developing it. ... : -Panther-
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  1."and to all of you blaming EA... EA is the publisher of this game, smarty pantses. DICE is developing i... : Buckyfg1
  • Not sure what country/planet you come from, but we count like this: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, etc... Not... : tymetodie
• Ignorance for $200, Alex. : Cygnus X-1

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• Guess I'll hold off installing this.... : YoYo
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  What soundcard / driver rev? Running the most recent drivers? : shassard
  • Yes, my drivers are fine. It was working before the patch and nothing about sound has changed. It can't b... : Ratsofatsorat
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  I am having a sound issue too. In game I get random sounds and what could be called hisses. I didn't ... : jbt11
  • Yeah, me too. I just had a bunch of really high-pitched noises occuring while I was playing. It was wa... : mittense

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• Worked fine for me also. : Twitched
• Same here. Doin' just fine. : silent prophet
• Same here. : Priest77
• Same here. No problems. Joined a 64 player server and suffered no lag/stuttering. If anything, performanc... : dewdman
• worked just fine for me, THANKS EA! *kisses* : heff

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• I also saw in some other forums that people using no-cd executables had to go back to the originals to pa... : redwood
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  The next patch will want to move in for a week and eat your food and sleep in your bed :/ : Beady
  • Don't forget the long distance phone calls. : silent prophet
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  And if that doesn't work, check: \My Documents\Battlefield 2\Dmp\patchlog.txt The other thing is appa... : mojoald
  • Works fine if it is not installed to the default dir. I just did this. : themelon
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    WHAT. How the hell can you miss that while releasing a patch? So now the patch needs a patch? : BaBOon
    • wewps missed themelon's post, disregard. : BaBOon
    • Let me revise that, SOMETIMES it will fail if its not the default directory. : mojoald
• Woah. No wonder it made my PC slow to a crawl while it was patching. : MrLobo
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  My patcher couldn't even find my install...I have it on my F drive which is an 80GB SATA drive. I even c... : melkore
  • i have the same error, but i installed it on the C drive *shrug* : desolate
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  Over 11 gigs free, non default dir and it failed. I'm fairly pissed right now. : nomaad
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    Same here. Not really interested in reinstalling the game (espeically not to the default dir) just so th : P-Squid
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      Yeah me neither. I just reinstalled it the other day on my secondary drive because it's faster than my pr... : nomaad
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        This game is quickly becoming a joke. : abrasion
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          Yeah, I'm getting pretty annoyed with it. Especially since I can't play right now since most servers are ... : nomaad
          • I don't have the game, I don't have a video card but i'm sitting back wanting to play because shackhype h... : abrasion
  • ditto. error: error ept0034: Neither command line parameter specified is an existing directory. g... : delataur
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  INFORMATIVE - I got failure until I freed up 1.7 gigs on the HD, then it installed fine. : esky
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    32 GB + free here, says it can't find the install directory :( : desolate
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      i don't think it works unless you installed it to the default directory :( : hatelull
      • LOL (hate, anger) LOL (more hate and anger) LOL - etc Seriously - it's so bad it's funny - and yet ... : abrasion
      • I had a successful patch in a non-default directory. My error is that I hear odd sounds now and then tha... : jbt11
• man, i thought the patch install was only like 13 Megs or something. Why would it need 1.2 GB? : hatelull

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• Mine is the opposite , I'm Private First class in the BFHQ but I'm LCorP online : buckshack

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• Thank you jesus. : mojoald
• That was the #1 fix I was hoping for : phinn
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  Although I had a guy on the top of my tank and I TK'd him for some reason. : / : DM7
  • I think that might've been me :) Really, I think the problem is still there, especially when you're on to... : Bob422
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  yay! that was a serious annoyance : theWhite
  • Unless some spec-ops guy was about to blow your tank to the moon with C4. The nudge of death was your fr... : Priest77
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  it wasn't fixed. the tank i was on before was going too slow to kill me i guess. that sucks. most ret... : pyide
  • Man, you had to get my hopes up. I think I have around 50 TKs on my profile so far, probably 47 of which... : Krypt_
• I know exactly what your talking about : persona_non_grata

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• Interesting... It seemed to me that the vitriol vented towards Steam was/is greater than that directed a... : Enkidu

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• FYI, this fixed it for me: http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=10364484 Even though my error message ... : rorshack

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  Nope. It is still on fileshack. I grabed it just to check. : themelon
  • Well why cant i dl from fileshack or any other mirrors on ea's site. I just tried dling something from sh... : madtothemax
  • well......... it won't be pulled from fileshack first, it would be pulled from EA's site, which is still ... : mystifier
• Okay it finally worked off of nvidia's site, however, i don't plan on installing this today because of al... : madtothemax

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  It finished patching, going to jump on a server now. : nomaad
  • Worked. GG on the user friendly front :l : nomaad
• I ended up changing the registry key to get it working... as in the first post. The key was already ther : delataur

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• This is EA's way of saying "thank$$$$ FOR THE CA$$$HO$$$$ $$$UCKER" deliberate $'s as S's to infuriate : abrasion
• that's what I get too... how surprising. no idea what to do either... OH BUT look on their site! Hurrah! : mystifier

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  The voices in your head are tying to confuse you. : dangerdoggie
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    No actually I was DLing the patch from "another website" and when I went back to read the Change notes du... : zepultura
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      http://www.gamershell.com/news/23100.html - the patch is still very well there. It's even the first news ... : AlexXdude
      • Yes Im well aware they "fixed" the news post but however, look at the time of posting. When I first DLed ... : zepultura
• still on EA's official BF2 site: http://www.eagames.com/official/battlefield/battlefield2/us/downloads.... : pyide
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  DON'T THEY EVER TEST ANYTHING AT EA? FFS! I am one step from giving up PC gaming... there is so much I... : mystifier
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    Wasn't there that guy who posted saying he'd been a tester on BF2 and how glad he was to be finished with... : SpiderMonkey
    • if I was working at EA, I'd be sure not post anything on the internet fearing to be found and anally viol... : mystifier

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• UPDATE: Bahahaha.... fucking A, I had to patch it and fuck it up. I get the "welcome to your desktop" cra... : mystifier

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• Lower your texture filtering? : hosty1e

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  They pulled the patch? Ugh, why was I so impatient and downloaded this thing before reading any comments ... : Bob422
  • And the patch almost froze my PC btw. : Bob422
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  its back on their own FTP though..but yeah as I told steve, who's having the same problem, i wouldnt be s... : Maarten Goldstein
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    LOL i bet you're right about that pro files : sunfrost2003
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      Mmm...I didn't install in Program Files (C:\GAMES\Battfield 2) and it patched for me. : Bob422
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        I have mine installed in E:\BF2 with no problems patching. : GrimmyD
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          an even weirder issue then, awesome : Maarten Goldstein
          • F:\Installed Stuff\EA Games\BF2 no issues. : AlexXdude
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    I install to d:\Games\BF2 with no issues. : themelon
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      I installed to C:\crappyasscodedmultiplayergames and it works : SYN5280
      • It might be funny if you post this a third time. : acheron
  • I installed to D:\Games\Battlefield 2\. :( : Kresske
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    I installed to C:\games and had no problems : Sparhawk6
    • I installed it to C:\slowasscodemultiplayergames\ and it worked : SYN5280

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• welcome to the speed of computer gaming upgrades : ilem0n
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  Boo-fucking-hoo. That is the most whiney and biased article I've every read. Their last paragraph did i : PenicillinX57
  • i saw "blog" in the url and was expecting to see somebodys agenda or conspiracy theory disguised as a new... : ilem0n
• ok ok.. how bout i give u five cent and u add support for gf4s... : tommysgun
• I agree and disagree at the same time. Making people finally upgrade and pushing forward is great - ... : abrasion

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  Nope, not implemented. : monofurioso
  • jeez, that's a pretty basic, important feature... :( : rasputinreborn

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  The problem might rely with the fact that you need cats, not dets. : AlexXdude
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    lol... i meant cats... i swing both ways so often, in regards to GPUs, wake up and i'm somewhere where i ... : tommysgun
    • Story of my life. :( : AlexXdude
• Can you add custom resolutions via the Display Properties in Windows? I had a problem similar to yours, ... : NotACommunist

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• yes it is... : usedillusion
• Yes. You need to create an "offline" account in-game. Same steps as creating a regular on-line account. J... : silent prophet

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  This patch is pretty pathetic =/ : SatansFist
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    this is how game support of the future should be: http://www.guildwars.com/news/gameupdates.html EA is... : Luminair
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      EA doesn't patch the game Dice does. : eldiablo01
      • DICE is wholely owned by EA, work with me here : Luminair
      • EA pays for the patch, QA's it and has ultimate say in what should be in it. : Beady
• Wow, this is shameful on their part. Glad I didn't purchase this game. I'll wait a few more months till t... : pap26

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• I've had that happen pre-patch. No solution (besides ctrl-alt-del). : P-Squid

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  Oh nice. BTW, does it look like the map images are broken on the shackbattles monitor? : crummynz
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    Yeah, they are, they changed how names are reported in the patch. Fix is up coming. : mojoald
    • Fixed (thanks themelon) : mojoald