Buy Special Forces and abuse the pay-to-win bullshit that is the G36E.
I tossed my game in the garbage after spending an entire afternoon and failing to connect to a single game server. So it’s kind of moot at this point.
I’m almost to that point as well.
It keeps telling me to check my network settings…
Sorry to resurrect this but…
When I first got the game, I couldn’t connect online because my firewall was automatically blocking the game. I had to go into the firewall and add it to the allow list.
As for not sucking, it took me quite a while to get there (and i’m still not really). I find it’s best to stick with maps you know well (my favorites are karkand and sharqi). I get the most kills as a sniper, which basically just takes a little practice to get the hang of. It’s good to use the MEC rifle, as the US one is bolt action. Basically, just keep trying. I’m now a solid upper middle of the pack player, averaging around 10 kills/round.
My name is bajeface if anyone was wondering.
Maxxxie74 reporting for duty! 
I want to play this game, but the shitty programmers are fighting me every step of the way.
When I originally tried the demo a year ago, the game totally refused to work. No error log… just screen turned black, then dropped to desktop.
I tried again recently, and now the demo work. So I tried the full game. Worked. Yay. Then I wanted to play the demo with someone that only had the demo, so I installed it… didn’t work. Huh. Okay, whatever. Ran the regular game again. Didn’t work. Same problem - screen turns black, crash to desktop, no error log.
Because I had the regular game and the demo installed at the same time, neither of them will work EVER AGAIN. I didn’t put them in the same directory or anything - totally seperate. No reason for that to happen.
So I uninstalled both. Reinstalled the demo. Didn’t work. Uninstalled. Reinstalled the regular game. didn’t work. Uninstalled. Cleaned the registry. Deleted every bf2-related file on my computer. Tried to reinstall again. Failed.
Absolute garbage software that DOES NOT EVEN INCLUDE AN ERROR LOG. So I have absolutely no clue what the problem is. Garbage.
I’ll load up the retail and the demo tomorrow and see if I can figure it out. Sounds odd though, since I’ve read of people using both simultaneously before.
If you’ve a minute, could you go over everything you did from the beginning in as much detail as possible? Did you try anything besides installed/uninstalling? Any patches? Drivers? etc?
I did change video drivers after I had installed the games, and I’m not sure whether I actually ran the games after that point. I did try reverting drivers and reinstalling to no avail. I may try installing the drivers the demo program comes with to see if those works. If that fails, I’ll give a detailed description of my efforts.
I’ve installed both and they both work fine. Looking at every file location for the game that I know (directory, registry, and my documents) the two seem completely separate. It’s my opinion that you’ve done something else to your system at the time that axed both of them. I’m tempted to say that you did it messing with your drivers, but the sequence of events as I understand it doesn’t support that conclusion.
It may have been the drivers, but I upgraded from one official nvidia release set to another, so that shouldn’t have caused a problem. In any case, I uninstalled the new drivers and reinstalled the same exact old drivers, then reinstalled.
Now that I think about it, I did run a windows 2000 directx refresh rate program (by default, nvidia drivers set 1024x768 at either 75 or 60, I forget. Maybe that’s related.
Actually, I think I did the dx refresh just 2-3 days ago, after the game broke. Anyway, I may dual boot and install XP just to play the game, but I don’t know… it would be grudgingly. Pain in the ass for to do for a buggy game. Anyway - I’m going to try all sorts of registry cleaning and driver swapping and see what I can accomplish.
I only have the demo atm, but will probably buy it when I see how much free money I have later this month. Aside from the usual fps idiots out there I really enjoy getting a good squadleader who uses voicechat and everything. Makes it waaay more fun.
Any chance of an SDMB server or place we can get together to play every so often like we did on Beef’s old Cstrike server?
Well, I actually got the demo working again.
I uninstalled it. Uninstalled video drivers. Went through the registry and deleted anything that looked like it had anything to do with bf2. Rebooted. Installed the demo. I was expecting it to prompt me to install the nvidia drivers it wanted - it has done that every time before. But apparentely since I was running off generic windows VGA drivers, it didn’t offer me the upgrade opportunity. Anyway, I found the 77.30 installer, which I think is the version bf2 offers to install, installed them, rebooted. Tried to run the demo, and it worked.
Of course, if I even breathe at the computer funny, it may stop working, I don’t know.
I think it may have something to do with using the custom utlity reforce which sets directx refresh rates in win2k. For a while, I can’t remember which versions, Nvidia started including a directx refresh rate setting panel in the advanced options of the drivers, but it doesn’t appear to be there anymore. I don’t want to play every game in 1024x768x60, so I need to figure out some way to fix the refresh rate without upsetting bf2.
Create “NvCplDisableRefreshRatePage” as a DWORD @ HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\NVTweak. Give it a value of 0. Afterwards, you can use the refresh override in the Forceware drivers.
You’re my hero. Why did they turn it off by default?
By the way, how did you know that? Do a search? Or do you know of a page that lists helpful registry display driver tweaks? If so, I’d love the link.
I just installed the new version of rivatuner, btw. Hopefully it doesn’t do anything disagreeable with bf2. I noticed it has a video card fan setting option - my video card has been getting really hot lately and it’s cool to be able to tweak it.
Until I switched over to Ati (and Omega drivers), it got me through all my Nvidia-related troubles.
My current pet peeve with the game designers is that when you log in, you get a popup that says, “Important Message about the 1.2 Patch!” If you click on Open, it says it has to exit out of the game to open the page. If you say Yes, it does indeed exit BF2, open a browser, and go to a message that basically says, “Whoops! Sorry about that. We’re fixing it as fast as we can.”
They couldn’t just put that in the popup window???
Also! Guys, they’re called “cookies.” Once someone has clicked on the link to open the message, how about you update the system that put the popup there in the first place so that it doesn’t show up any more???
**SenorBeef **
If you look at the main EA page for BF2 there is a note about video issues with the ATI boards (some of them). I don’t know if this applies to nVidea boards as well though (doubt it)…
Got to love EA. Next they’ll charge $20 for the next patch! Oh wait, they’re calling it a “bonus pack” or something… never mind…