Problem crouching since 1.2

[ThoughtForm]

Is anyone else experiencing this?

I cannot seem to crouch at all since patch 1.2.

In the options, I set crouch to m (primary) and n (secondary) but neither seems to make me crouch at all in game. The only button that does work for crouching is Left Ctrl, which is NOT assigned to anything in the options.

Is anyone else having this problem?

I have already uninstalled and reinstalled 3 times to try fix it (was slowly losing control of my BF2 character) with uninstallation using all options. (profiles, config and screenshots). I also manually deleted the leftover folders afterwards.

Each time BF2 crashes, controls seem to be lost.. earlier I had a stuck screen crash and after rebooting joined a server.. only to find that my F9-F12 keys had no effect in vehicles/planes at all.. even though they were currently assigned in the options and the keys were confirmed working by re-assigning them to the same function.. it's starting to make me pull my hair out that I have to reinstall BF2 after every crash to make sure basic controls are still working in game!!!

[Surge1975]

Re: Problem crouching since 1.2

yeah my brother was the same,he reinstalled the game and all was fine

[ThoughtForm]

Re: Problem crouching since 1.2

Found the problem.

For some reason while BF2 displays crouch as m (primary) and n (secondary), it was not actually writing these settings to file.

I fixed it by looking at Global.con in C:\Documents and Settings\sheepassault\My Documents\Battlefield 2\Profiles

where I found the line: GlobalSettings.setDefaultUser "0002"

Upon opening the 0002 folder I opened the Controls.con and found the following lines:

[ControlMap.create InfantryPlayerInputControlMap section]
ControlMap.addKeyToTriggerMapping c_PICrouch IDFKeyboard IDKey_LeftCtrl 0 0

[ControlMap.create LandPlayerInputControlMap section]
ControlMap.addKeyToTriggerMapping c_PICrouch IDFKeyboard IDKey_LeftCtrl 0 0

Changing "LeftCtrl" to "M" made my M key for crouching work again!

Have no idea why the BF2 options menu would display the correct settings (m key) and then assign "LeftCtrl" in the actual game itself..

Maybe different actions in the options menu (shoot jump crouch etc) are looking in different player profiles for the key settings?

On a sidenote, while I was there, I found the following interesting lines in general.con:

GeneralSettings.setBuddytagColor 0 0 0
GeneralSettings.setSquadtagColor 0 255 0
GeneralSettings.setUseAdvancedServerBrowser 0
GeneralSettings.setUseBots 0
GeneralSettings.setMaxBots 64
GeneralSettings.setMaxBotsIncludeHumans 0
GeneralSettings.setBotSkill 0

Maybe we can edit these settings so that Squad chat comes up in pink or having 128 bots in a single player map? who knows

[Revoluti0n]

Re: Problem crouching since 1.2

I tend not to mess around with teh config for basic stuff like that. I have everything set to default, except for the jet, I use a joystick for that and you have to change things.
What does suck is that when you are prone, and you stand up it takes a couple seconds before you can run. Lame.

[ThoughtForm]

Re: Problem crouching since 1.2

When you are proned, you can stand up instantly by pressing the crouch key. Haven't tested to see how long after proning until you can run though