Please Help, I've tried everything.

[OD-TheKupo]

I bought BF2 nearly a year ago, since it looked like a good game and lots of people liked it. Well...I've never played it without lagging horribly bad, to the point that its unplayable. I've tried renaming the BF2.exe file, manually updating Punkbuster in the BF2/pb folder, enabling DMZ on my firewall, I've made sure every port listed in the manual is open, etc, etc. I can run it fine on Single Player, but where's the fun in that? So, I think its somehow a lag issue, not just computer slowdown. All my other games work perfectly fine without any lag at all though(CS:S, FEAR, CoD2, WoW, GW, UT2K4).

I constantly get "There is a problem with your connection" messages when trying to play, and frequently get kicked out for having a high ping. BF2 is the ONLY thing using any bandwidth.

AMD Sempron 64 3400+ (2ghz) processor
ATI X800 256MB PCIe video card
2x 512 DDR400 RAM
3 megabyte DSL through a Netopia router and a Netgear firewall. Its directly connected to the phone line, not wireless.

Can anyone help me?

[-(PK)-DarkIllusion]

Re: Please Help, I've tried everything.

for some reason yesterday was the first time i got banned for "HIGH PING"... damn this horrible patch.. -_-

[OD-TheKupo]

Re: Please Help, I've tried everything.

That's not even it for me. I've been getting the same crap since release, 1.1, 1.2, 1.21, 1.22, 1.3. It didn't just show up.

[BadToad]

Re: Please Help, I've tried everything.

Corrupt files during install? Windows firewall allowing for BF2? NVIDIA firewall can be a real pain in the bootie on this one too!

[OD-TheKupo]

Re: Please Help, I've tried everything.

Windows firewall isn't active, only my Netgear external firewall. But like I said, I've tried enabling DMZ(all ports open) and it still didn't work.

Should I try reinstalling the game?

[BadToad]

Re: Please Help, I've tried everything.

Try connecting directly to the internet (please be careful) and bypass the router completely...see if it works. If so, you found the problem [router]...if same, reinstal the router to protect your comp ASAP, then we can go form there....My router was the entire reason I had problems with AoM, bypass that, and i had no probs. Funny thing, it was the ONLY game that had this problem...

[DosX]

Re: Please Help, I've tried everything.

I think BadToad is on the right track. You need to isolate where your slowing down.

HERE'S a great website for testing connection speeds.

I also have heard that having the IEEE1394 port enabled *might* degrade connection speeds on *some* systems, but as indicated by the "*"s it's one of those maybe fixes.

[Uber:Jagermeiter]

Re: Please Help, I've tried everything.

I think we just have to wait for a hotfix----Nothing I've done9everything) has resolved the issues that 1.3 gave what was a perfectly functioning system and game-
Really sux

[BadToad]

Re: Please Help, I've tried everything.

I think we just have to wait for a hotfix----Nothing I've done9everything) has resolved the issues that 1.3 gave what was a perfectly functioning system and game-
Really sux

He has been having this problem since BEFORE 1.3, so this is NOT the answer.

[OD-TheKupo]

Re: Please Help, I've tried everything.

Thanks BadToad, I could try that. :)

[BadToad]

Re: Please Help, I've tried everything.

Keep us posted...you can fix this with the help of this forum!:)

[OD-TheKupo]

Re: Please Help, I've tried everything.

That didn't work either...

[DosX]

Re: Please Help, I've tried everything.

So going directly from your access point (the wall) to the modem to your computer didn't speed things up? What type of speeds are you getting?? Try that link I posted above and run a few tests to different cities around the U.S. and report the speeds.

[OD-TheKupo]

Re: Please Help, I've tried everything.

1492 kb/s to Seattle
1494 kb/s to San Francisco
1500 kb/s to Washington DC
1500 kb/s to Chicago

Its an "up to 3 mg/s" connection, but I seem to only get 1.5mb/s. Is that too slow for BF2 or something?

[Painl3ss.NL]

Re: Please Help, I've tried everything.

What happens when you ping google?