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First of all, thanks to all those who take the time to offer their expertise to those of us who are less talented. Your generosity is greatly appreciated. Now, here's my problem.
I heard about BF 2, downloaded the demo, and it worked great on my system. I was able to play both single and multi player online with no problem.
Based on that, I went out and purchased the full version and installed it. After installing it, I downloaded the 1.02 patch and patched the installation. Now it runs fine on single player, and will bring up the multi player server panel, but hangs when I try to connect to a server. I am able to see the servers, and the program pings them OK, but when I try to join, the "joining server" label comes up and the computer hangs.
At that point I can see the processor light flickering, and if I try to bring up task manager, it takes a very long time for it to appear, if at all.
My machine specs are below, and the only stats it fails on is the processor speed and video card. My processor is an AMD Athlon XP 1800 at 1500 ghz and EA recommends 1700. The video card is a geforce fx 5200 w/ 128 meg of ram. However, as I said, the demo worked fine, with little or no lag, on the same setup.
EA's tech support says it is the video card that is the problem. That doesn't make sense to me as the video runs fine on single player, and ran fine on multiplayer in the demo version.
Any suggestions? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Richdives
Specs - From the EA easy info program.
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2 (Build 2600) Pass Windows XP
System Memory 1024.5 Pass 512.0
Processor Speed 1500.0 Fail 1700 Mhz (1.7 GHz)
DirectX Version 9.0c Pass 9.0c
Display Device NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Unknown Compatibility
Display Memory 128.0 Pass 128.0
Display Driver 6.14.10.7777 Unknown Compatibility
Sound Device Vinyl AC'97 Audio (WAVE) Pass
Sound Driver 6.14.01.4100 Unknown Compatibility
I heard about BF 2, downloaded the demo, and it worked great on my system. I was able to play both single and multi player online with no problem.
Based on that, I went out and purchased the full version and installed it. After installing it, I downloaded the 1.02 patch and patched the installation. Now it runs fine on single player, and will bring up the multi player server panel, but hangs when I try to connect to a server. I am able to see the servers, and the program pings them OK, but when I try to join, the "joining server" label comes up and the computer hangs.
At that point I can see the processor light flickering, and if I try to bring up task manager, it takes a very long time for it to appear, if at all.
My machine specs are below, and the only stats it fails on is the processor speed and video card. My processor is an AMD Athlon XP 1800 at 1500 ghz and EA recommends 1700. The video card is a geforce fx 5200 w/ 128 meg of ram. However, as I said, the demo worked fine, with little or no lag, on the same setup.
EA's tech support says it is the video card that is the problem. That doesn't make sense to me as the video runs fine on single player, and ran fine on multiplayer in the demo version.
Any suggestions? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Richdives
Specs - From the EA easy info program.
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2 (Build 2600) Pass Windows XP
System Memory 1024.5 Pass 512.0
Processor Speed 1500.0 Fail 1700 Mhz (1.7 GHz)
DirectX Version 9.0c Pass 9.0c
Display Device NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Unknown Compatibility
Display Memory 128.0 Pass 128.0
Display Driver 6.14.10.7777 Unknown Compatibility
Sound Device Vinyl AC'97 Audio (WAVE) Pass
Sound Driver 6.14.01.4100 Unknown Compatibility
No thanks to EA, after much frustration, 2 weeks of research, finally realized PB was not installed in BF2 folder. Installed PBWEB.exe and all is well.
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