Dual-Core AMD "Connection to Server Lost" Workaround

[CygonX11]

From reading the forum here I was able to narrow down a problem with BF2 on dual-core machines that cause very frequent "Connection to Server Lost" messages, if you have this problem, you can ALT-Tab out of the game, right click on the process in the task manager, and set the Affinity for the game to use on CPU0 (single CPU core) if that works for you, then that was the problem. Now, obviously that's a pain to do every time you play, so I found this application (free) that will let you set the priority an and affinity for the application itself so when it boots it will use the right affinity. This is not a perfect solution, but it will work until EA gets Dual-Core detection figured out and either makes use of dual-core processors, or at least codes their application to run on a single one, or somehow make it work with the net code so it doesn’t fail.

http://www.majorgeeks.com/WinLauncherXP_d870.html

Make sure it's not your firewall, network configuration, or ISP before jumping to this fix. It's of course not a good idea to screw with your CPU settings unless that's for sure the problem.

Also: you will need to add...

+menu 1 +fullscreen 1 +modPath mods/xpack +ignoreAsserts 1

...to the advanced parameters to be passed to make a seperate launcher for Special Forces, but for BF2 you just need to selecte the executable from the program directory, and set the number of processors to 1.

[Gunny Highway]

Re: Dual-Core AMD "Connection to Server Lost" Workaround

You can also take a look in my post in this thread, utilizing a cmd util called process.exe and launching game from batch file:

http://www.totalbf2.com/forums/showpost.php?p=504461&postcount=14

[whofriggincares]

Re: Dual-Core AMD "Connection to Server Lost" Workaround

Do this instead and you won't have anymore problems.

[CygonX11]

Re: Dual-Core AMD "Connection to Server Lost" Workaround

Cool, I like that better than having to use a third party product that eats resources, thanks.

[Prince]

Re: Dual-Core AMD "Connection to Server Lost" Workaround

Wait, let me get this straight. I download WinLauncher, open BF2 with it but set the processor to 1? Wont I loose performance in game then?

EDIT-

rymaples if I follow all that and do it correctly, it wont damage my computer in anyway? It just seems a bit iccy to me, I'm not too good with the hardware of computers.

[TheSpearman]

Re: Dual-Core AMD "Connection to Server Lost" Workaround

Wait, let me get this straight. I download WinLauncher, open BF2 with it but set the processor to 1? Wont I loose performance in game then?

EDIT-

rymaples if I follow all that and do it correctly, it wont damage my computer in anyway? It just seems a bit iccy to me, I'm not too good with the hardware of computers.

You won't lose any performance since BF2 is a single threaded game, and can only run on one core anyway.

I don't understand the question about hardware or damage since none of it's being touch or altered in any way.

[Prince]

Re: Dual-Core AMD "Connection to Server Lost" Workaround

Alright, thanks for the reply. I'm just gutted, none of my games work online.

EDIT-

So all I can do now is play BF2 on WinLancher untill the patch comes out then I wont need to run WinLauncher again?

[whofriggincares]

Re: Dual-Core AMD "Connection to Server Lost" Workaround

What I posted was a way to make Windows pick a core for each app to run on. That's what I got from it all. The only way anything will get messed up is if you don't follow it correctly.

[Prince]

Re: Dual-Core AMD "Connection to Server Lost" Workaround

Well I downloaded WinLauncher and BF2 works fine now, thanks for the help.