Agent, I think what happened was by giving your computer a cold boot (not simply restarting, but shutting it down completely) you cleared the system memory and windows pagefile. This is good. If I'm right about all this, then they key to the connection problem is all about memory usage. The less junk you have demanding RAM or Pagefil space, the less likely you are to get the "Your Connection to the Server has been lost" error.
The summary of what I've found to deal with this (describe in posts above) are to:
1) Close all background programs to free up memory (smartclose is a great proggie)
2) Manually update Punkbuster regularly, BEFORE play, so it doesn't have to autoupdate DURING play.
3) Force BF2 to run at lower memory priority to give the background processes related to your internet connectin/PB querries a chance to get 'computed.'
You're experience adds a good point that I have just taken for granted: cold boot your PC regularly, don't just hot boot it(Tell your computer to shut down and let it cycle off completely, simply 'restarting windows' doesn't do as good a job at purging your memory). :nod:
Trivium, the .txt at the end of the batch file is something I had to put on there because of this forum's attachment rules. You can't upload a .bat file, only media documents (pictures, text files, etc) so I tacked on the '.txt' so folks could download it. Once you have it downloaded, right click on the file and select "Rename." Just remove the '.txt' so the filename ends only in .bat. Your computer will tell you that changing the file extension may make this (or other) files perform improperly, but ignore that warning and click ok.
You might also try dropping your in-game graphics detail settings some. The 'lag' you experienced may have been due to a high load from the game not being given as much priority. I noticed a little performance drop myself at first, but after some tweeking with the graphics settings and killing the movies at start up, it now runs beautifully. I decided, I'd rather have a less 'pristine' looking game experience than on that only lasts 5 minutes between resetting my cable modem.
I hope this helps :)
The summary of what I've found to deal with this (describe in posts above) are to:
1) Close all background programs to free up memory (smartclose is a great proggie)
2) Manually update Punkbuster regularly, BEFORE play, so it doesn't have to autoupdate DURING play.
3) Force BF2 to run at lower memory priority to give the background processes related to your internet connectin/PB querries a chance to get 'computed.'
You're experience adds a good point that I have just taken for granted: cold boot your PC regularly, don't just hot boot it(Tell your computer to shut down and let it cycle off completely, simply 'restarting windows' doesn't do as good a job at purging your memory). :nod:
Trivium, the .txt at the end of the batch file is something I had to put on there because of this forum's attachment rules. You can't upload a .bat file, only media documents (pictures, text files, etc) so I tacked on the '.txt' so folks could download it. Once you have it downloaded, right click on the file and select "Rename." Just remove the '.txt' so the filename ends only in .bat. Your computer will tell you that changing the file extension may make this (or other) files perform improperly, but ignore that warning and click ok.
You might also try dropping your in-game graphics detail settings some. The 'lag' you experienced may have been due to a high load from the game not being given as much priority. I noticed a little performance drop myself at first, but after some tweeking with the graphics settings and killing the movies at start up, it now runs beautifully. I decided, I'd rather have a less 'pristine' looking game experience than on that only lasts 5 minutes between resetting my cable modem.
I hope this helps :)
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