Please Help!

[Meyko67]

I have searched through tons of forum posts on multiple sites but I can't find anything but cookie cutter answers so maybe you computer whiz's can guide me in a better direction. I can't get BF2 to work in online play. Every other game I play works fine and single player BF2 works fine, but as soon as I join a multiplayer map I can take about 5 steps and my whole system freezes and locks up. Here's my system info:

Operating System - Windows XP Media Center
Motherboard - ASUSTek A8N-SLI DELUXE
Processor 1 - AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+
Processor 2 - AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+
Memory Module 1 - 1024MB DDR PC 3200
Memory Module 2 - 1024MB DDR PC 3200
Video Adapter - NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT (256MB)
Sound Adapter - Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 zs
DirectX version 9.0c
250GB Hard drive

If anyone could help me I would appreciate it so much...It's so aggravating not being able to play BF2 online. Oh and I have all my drivers updated and I turned down my sound acceleration and changed the in-game settings but nothing worked. Thanks in advance.

[Eden]

Re: Please Help!

Whats your internet speed?
Also are you able to play on a local server (multiplayer -> create server (or something to that extent))

[Meyko67]

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Well I created a server and it ran fine but I was in there alone. As far as internet speed I use a wireless adapter with cable internet. the adapter says 54 Mbps although im sure if thats what you mean. If it is an issue with my internet service would it lock up my entire system though? I can't even ctrl-alt-del out and the sound just repeats until I have to hold down the power button.

[signa]

Re: Please Help!

try plugging it in with ethernet cable and see if that makes a difference, could be your wireless.

[[2bit]Modmaven]

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Ha ha. Wireless wouldnt do that. Good grief. Internet speed? Your computer is totally locked up because your internet is too slow....right. ok.

Try to lower some of your sound and video settings just to check. Use low software sounds and 800x600 low detail to see if that is the problem. Also double check and make sure there is not a ton of stuff running in the background.

[Meyko67]

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Ok. I just tried it again but froze up still. I have the resolution down to 800x600 and everything else on low or off including the sound options and I join a multiplayer map with only 4 people on a 16 player map and still froze right away. Also I only have the normal system processes running. 99% is idle before i open up BF2.

[LoD]

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I have had that problem before. It was related to too much overclocking and heat with my ram.

Do a few things first. Make sure BF2 is patched to the lastest version, and update your video card AND motherboard drivers to the latest off the nvidia website.

Next make sure your running stock speeds and not overclocking. Additionally you will probably want to seek out the AMD dual core patch from AMD so that your dual core doesnt cause issues.

Try that.

[signa]

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Ha ha. Wireless wouldnt do that. Good grief.

are you talking to me? your actually saying wireless couldnt cause lag and bf2 lockups? :laugh:

[Meyko67]

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Youre a genius! Ive had issues with the dual cores once before. I just hope that the hotfix will work out. I downloaded the hotfix from

http://www.amdzone.com/modules.php?o...ticle&sid=3964

and followed the instructions on editing the registry but im a little confused as to if I am still supposed to contact microsoft for another patch or was the download on that page all I needed? Also since I have dual core processors should I enable the multi-GPU scaleable link interface(SLI) or disable it? I tried running the game online once more after just getting the download from amdzone.com and editing my registry and leaving SLI off and I froze up again. If there is another patch I need, could I get someone who has it to email it to me?

[Blak_Phoenix]

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Disable, that is for dual video cards.

[Meyko67]

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Alright I have been searching everywhere trying to resolve this and came across this thread

*Link Removed...see below*

Does this sound like bull**** to anyone or am I really just SOL?
Is it possible to disable one processor so there is no conflict? I have no idea what else to do.

[Blak_Phoenix]

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Yea you can diasble one core on dual core's. i have heard of it been done, but not needed since the patch came out.

Also the linkdoesnt work... just come up with alogin screen.

[Meyko67]

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Oh ok, well here is the basic gist of the thread:

"Battlefied 2 hard locks almost everytime a I play. After a bit of research I found this is most likely because my GForce 7800 GT is sharing an IRQ with my SB Audigy 4.

I have an SLI set up. And here is the IRQ info

IV. IRQ Configuration
0 System timer
1 Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard
2 -available-
3 -available-
4 Communications Port (COM1)
5 -available-
6 Standard floppy disk controller
7 -available-
8 System CMOS/real time clock
9 Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System
10
11 -available-
12 PS/2 Compatible Mouse
13 Numeric data processor
14 -available-
15 NVIDIA CK804 Parallel ATA Controller (v2.7)
16 Texas Instruments OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
17 Marvell Yukon 88E8001/8003/8010 PCI Gigabit Ethernet Controller
18 Creative SB Audigy 4 (WDM)
18 NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT
19 NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT
19 OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
20 Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller
21 NVIDIA CK804 ADMA Controller (v2.7)
22 NVIDIA CK804 ADMA Controller (v2.7)
23 NVIDIA Network Bus Enumerator
23 Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller "


"I Moved the sound card up a PCI slot, no longer conflicted with video card but conflicted with the Marvell Yukon Ethernet Controller, tried it still got hard locks, so I moved it back to the previous setup with the sound card in the lowest pci slot. At this point I don't know what do try."

"After doing some reading on both the Nvidia boards and the BF2 boards this is not a Nvidia,Alienware,Creative problem, this is a problem with the game. It has problems when playing online with IRQ shared devices. So now it appears there isn't anything I can do until EA/Dice decide to fix it."

So any thoughts?