Conenction Problems doing my head in.

[richardaball]

Re: Conenction Problems doing my head in.

Set all your graphics to thier lowest, this will reduce lag as lag is also caused when your computer cant handle the information its processing, so lower graphics will be less load and less lag.

And then i can kill you all easily as I have a super PC and never experience these issues all of you do.

Have fun

[-=KOF=-IVirusI]

Re: Conenction Problems doing my head in.

Set all your graphics to thier lowest, this will reduce lag as lag is also caused when your computer cant handle the information its processing, so lower graphics will be less load and less lag.

And then i can kill you all easily as I have a super PC and never experience these issues all of you do.

Have fun

were talking about the 1.3 patch that cause connection problems, not the users pc, :) This is when a connection problem happens in a server and it losed connection altogether causing the server to be empty. A lot of server messages now say 'conneciton problems due to 1.3 pach please rejoin'

[Hurricane.CAD]

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What bewilders me is how unresponsive DICE has been about it. They acknowledged the fact that their patch sucks about 3 weeks after it was released, 3 weeks after the complaints and constant crashing. What happened to their good programmers? EA 'couldn't pay them'? Please. They have more money than God, I think they can shed a bit of extra cash to have good programmers and testers. How did they not notice a problem as big as this? all they had to do was start up a server that streams info, make it a large server, get a bunch of testers in there, then wait an hour and boom crash.

[debap]

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It's not that simple; companys used to be able to change variables in you'r computer right after you hit the "I AGREE" button while installing. Now things have changed, I think they would rather not hire programmers to change variables in you'r PC than face law suits. Well like I said hopefully in 1.4 all these and more bugs will be patched. There are 100 more especially map exploits probably like about 1-3 on each map. Trust me not EVERYBODY knows about these exploits maybe neither do they. Anyways this game is extremely far from perfect or playable without any glitches. WAY FAR, especially (not that I'm comparing) but especially to games such as Counter-Strike, or Half-Life, or many other games free of exploits. Hopefully they will implement fixes but I highly doubt it. To tell you the truth; this game is so buggy I wouldnt be surprised if this was still in BETA. To add to the hurthful truth, now that 2124 is coming out I HIGHLY doubt any serious actions to these exploit's, bugs, etc will be fixed with a GOOD CLEAN THOUROUGH UPDATE. Maybe if the game reaches 2.0 or something, but incremental updates such as these wont bring about any change. BUMMER :'(

/end of rant
GOOD LUCK
-debap

[Jlspence]

Re: Conenction Problems doing my head in.

debap...the OP and most others in this thread are talking about server-side crashes, NOT individual players CTDs or even player connection issues. The WHOLE SERVER CRASHES. Our server (VSFGamers) crashes 2-5 times a day. Here are the daily plots from www.game-monitor.com of some of the top ranked BF2 servers in the world. Look at the big spikes...each one of those is a SERVER CRASH. I posted a thread in the DICE Game Feedback Forum and no one from DICE has responded. I could go on and on with the traces as most everyone knows server crashes are rampant since the 1.3 patch. DICE should release a hot-fix or swallow their pride, pull the 1.3 patch and tell everyone to roll back to 1.2.

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[debap]

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jlspence..I'm well aware of the server crashes, altough this happen's I have no doubt that the reasons stated above have a great impact on why these server's are crashing. Maybe there is more information than this but to my knowledge MTU size plays a big role on the stability of servers. I mean, dont get me wrong I could be full of it; but I'm pretty sure that I'm right. But hey I really dont mind because as of a few weeks now I have been playing w/ very little errors. So..I've been pretty happy; but as we all know that will probably end when 1.4 comes out lol, more likely sooner.

PS: Feedback forums = garbage to EA, seriously You need to be threating them to be heard; its extremely annoying. Well karmas a ***** and what goe's around will come around, hopefully people smart-up and pro-test against buying 2124 until they pay full attention to bf2. Probably wont happen but hey its a good idea :) lol

[Glydr]

Re: Conenction Problems doing my head in.

Pardon my ignorance but what does MTU stand for? and how do I go about lowering it?

[sm007h]

Re: Conenction Problems doing my head in.

If BF2 and BF2142 are based on the same engine, will future patches to 2142 conceivably be applicable to BF2 (a la BF2/SF patching)?

[debap]

Re: Conenction Problems doing my head in.

Pardon my ignorance but what does MTU stand for? and how do I go about lowering it?

MTU Stands for Maximum Transmission Unit you can find more information about it on Wikipedia via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_transmission_unit
that link. I think I posted how to change the size on Page one of this topic
http://www.totalbf2.com/forums/showthread.php?t=84639.

If BF2 and BF2142 are based on the same engine, will future patches to 2142 conceivably be applicable to BF2 (a la BF2/SF patching)?

I'm not too sure, I dont think it's fully based on the bf2 engine; I would think if this game is competing (which I doubt) with Quake Wars, that they would want to UP the graphics. I dont think with this engine that it will be achievable. Honestly if this were the case, id seriously WOULD NOT buy bf 2124. How would the patches be applied to bf2, thats like saying per say Half-Life patches would apply to Counter-Strike patches; that would imply that bf 2124 would be bf2's MOD/ expansion pack? I dont think so.. But hey I could be wrong.

Depap:
Crashing servers w/ MTU set to ONE BILLION BYTEs!!!!!1! is impossible for 2 reasons:
1) path mtu discovery wont allow too big MTU + other devices, first being your modem router etc. ,will fragment the overly lage packets anyway.
2) it's teh IP layer on udp and tcp layer on tcp that does the fragmentation / reasembly of packets accoring to mtu. Not the game. So basically you *could* crash the OS (if buggy ip stack) with incorrect MTU, not just the game.

Your other reasonings seem as suspect.
edit: I'll take the last comment back.
Actually loss of UDP fragments causing resend / bad error handling might be the "CONNECTTION PROBLEM". As Dice doen't seem to have _that_ good programmers..

Well, let's stop blaming the programmers for just a quick second. As I said for now (until the patch is released) this is the ONLY short fix that I can think of that has worked in 85% of the cases. I don't think any of my statements have been suspect non-the least. If you have you'r reasons, then enlighten; but now lets think about statement #2, what IF the router is an ancient router such as a primitive lynksis that does not handle this sort of packet conversion properly well according to sh!tty EA / Dice standards? Can we say packet corruption / need of fragmentation? Yea....

Thanks for reading
-DEBAP!

[old sch00l]

Re: Conenction Problems doing my head in.

It's not just the server crashes, which there seem to be loads according to those graphs, but also the generally decrease in online performance since 1.2, with 1.3 being the worst.

I've really cut down playing now because the lagg is that bad, 20-30 pings are now always 40-50, on top of the server crash, really wish they'd fix that.

[BioDiaperX]

Re: Conenction Problems doing my head in.

I just got back from a bad one. I had like 30 points as anti tank, half infantry kills, a lot of tank kills, and I killed two helis with the ERYX. Round wasn't even halfway through. Doing really great. Yay disconnected.

[debap]

Re: Conenction Problems doing my head in.

yea lag issues suck, that i cannot explain. :cry: haha anyways im out to my house and then out to get me some b!tches, take care be back on monday (work) haha..


Laters
-DEBAP!

[SaS|firestorm]

Re: Conenction Problems doing my head in.

i get themm all the time as well

[Blades]

Re: Conenction Problems doing my head in.

OK GUYS. Hey, I'm new to the forums but I always check this place out I LOVE IT. Anyways I'm 100% on how to fix the CTD "Connection Problem" Well here I go. First try Manually updating punk buster. www.punkbuster.com. 2nd Delete everything in you'r battlefield CACHE file under "My Documents". 3rd (And most important) MTU! I dont know exactly how this works but I've fixed over 46 of my friend's pc's with connection problem issues with this method

1st. go to you'r start menu and under the "run" program type "cmd"
this will open DOS.
2nd. type ping www.google.com -f -l 1500
if you get an error that sais ur packet need to be fragmented and get
100% packet loss then lower the "1500" 10 pts down ex: 1490, 1480,
etc...
3rd. once you get you'r MTU number where you get 0% packet loss you need to install this small app called Dr. TCP or TCP Doctor, I'm at work and cant verify it but once I get home i'll let you know the exact name of the program. Once thats installed you need to go to dslreports.com and find out the 1st number of dr. tcp (i also forgot the name) also you need to enter the MTU size you got from DOS. THAT SHOULD COMPLETELY fix your problem. remember MTU size's change from time to time so you have to continuously check for your MTU size even if you get connection problems again. and remember if you guys use ventrilo if lets say 1 person in that ventrilo server has a connection problem (bad MTU #) you get it too. and until that person fixes it, you wont be able to play in the same ventrilo / game server.

i hope this helps as it has helped me greately, i also got extremely frustrated. but instead of re-installing i said F*ck this im going to find an answer if Dice wont do it, **** ill do it myself!!! GOOD LUCK GUYS PM OR EMAIL me if you find this helpful. once again when i get home ill re-verify everything GOOD LUCK!

Alright how do I know that this isnt gonna **** up my comp? Im not really that good with this stuff.

[simon1973]

Re: Conenction Problems doing my head in.

today, i logged on battlefield ready to get loads of points as im due promotion. Log into a 64 man karkand server and play quite well, until theres a connection problem and all those points gone. Then i go and go back into it and play for 5 minutes whats happens then!, you guessed it, connection problem and server fooks up. I then go into another server and guess what happens (when im winning as commander), connection problems. More servers than not are lying empty, including the =KOF=-server which is never running more than 5 hours without everyone crashing out. Total waste of time and haven't had one decent round of bf2 today. ( servers that i play in never done this until this 1.3 ****e)

I say Dice need to get there act together very quickly because the connection problem is getting BEYOND A JOKE.

You pay 30 quid for the game plus (some people) well over a 100 pounds for upgrades for the game to be not working right, server crashes and desktop crashes). It aint fair on the server owners either.

Any other views on this?

Rant over/ :cry:

Well said. Very well said. Never going to buy the new game which is in the pipe line. Don't even care if it is the best game out. Dice get you act together and stop beta testing everything. You are only doing this if anything went wrong you can say we told you it was a beta or if all is well pat us on the back. Well kiss my face.