- hope you get it sorted for tonight Sammy

BTW SNAFU peeps - we've started another vote cos the first two contradicted themselves re map/xpak order etc..

Still waiting on an AF release date and patch v1.3 too - TBC.

BF2 SF tonight - night maps + Iron Gator at the end of the rotation.

 

PS guys - all you AMD X2 owners - try the following to see if it helps fix your connection issues, seems to have helped me:

- launch bf2.exe
- once at the login screen, ALT+TAB to drop back to the WinXP desktop
- Ctrl+Alt+Del to bring up the process list, make sure you are on the 'Processes' tab, sort by process name.
- right click on the 'BF2.exe' process, select 'Set Affinity'.
- in the window that pops up, unselect one of the CPU cores, and click OK
- The use 'File -> Exit' to close task manager
- then click on the BF2 icon on the task bar to get back into BF2

Basically forces BF2 to run on one core of your CPU.

May or may not help - but my seems to be better for it.

 

Not home until Saturday now

It was strange battlefield lost connection then all Icould do was use task manager to get out of it, so I thought i'd install updates and re-boot then that froze so then I had to re set and it wouldn't boot even in safe mode

Hence the re install of everything

 

Might try again tonight as my connection seems stable now, although night maps in the summer is 'el crappo' vision wise, unless you have black out curtains that is <geek attack>

 

sorry chaps - was covering on-call last night - wasn't good - hence not on.
Back soon....

 

Went on last night for a bit but as only Dae and Swiftone were on @ 9pm decided to hit a public server, sorry.

I guess SNAFU is dead atm

 

I came on at 9:10 and we had good games until midnight m8

agree its quiet - but there were about 10-12 snafu on last night eventually !

 

 

Best SNAFU turnout I've seen for a while, usually once there are 10 or 12 people on it tends to attract non-SNAFU and the server fills. Not last night though and at about 2330, everyone seemed to just vanish, which was a shame.

I was on and off a couple of times trying to sort something out, which was very frustrating. Will try again on Thursday...

 

had a good few games last night until pc did the crash to desktop again.....getting a bit annoying now. any ideas? i've tried most things.

 

Game night tonight?

 

BF2 tonight chaps... see you there (assuming no call outs...)

 

I might be able to make tonight! Treat me gently - I've not played in bleeding ages (might play as a commander...)

Got my spanky new VX922 (2ms!!!!) 19" LCD to try for the first time in a FPS

 

2ms!! blimey.. will it make you play any better?

like you've I've not had the chance to play of late... so expecting to be 'fodder' for the hard core elite

 

You best get downloading before tonight's game!

 

You best get downloading before tonight's game!

 

Oh bloody hellfire with buckets of lobsters.... The Servers are gonna be chocka!

Well... kicked off the d/l... I'll see if I can get the patch afore this evening

 

**** - just seen this

 

Why has not EA downloader got this?

 

So....
since I last played Alex has gone from being a tank ***** to a chopper *****

Good night tonight - You notice the weirdest thing when playing tho' - now I have all the details turned on full there are little red flowers all over the place!

 

Moi? er.. yeah, didn't kinda feel guilty in one round, you and Shawn_R where helping my K ratio a bit... but you did you get your own back!

great isn't - now you need an X-Fi sound card to hear all the noises too


Good laff tonight, even with the changes by the patch.
Will be on later in the week - assuming work allows.

 

****ing hell I might have to start playing again...The_Surgical_Spirit
might as well clock the 500 hour mark

 

Well, I have to admit I was dead impressed with blowing you out the sky with my tank

Virtually the first thing I heard was someone complain that they'd died by having a car drop on 'em!

X-Fi... how can I sneak that past Lisa... hmmm....

 

Yeah, yer so n so.. lol

The cars dropping out of the sky and landing on people is hilarious
Almost as funny as me going to pick up someone, only to land the heli on their head.. doh!

The_Surgical_Spirit - 500 hrs!!! I'm just about to break 200 hrs...

 

Installed the new patch last night and managed to get on for 2 mins before my connection died upgraded to the bt 8 meg service 2 weeks ago and to say its unstable is an understatement

 

You have to patient mate - my ADSL Max connection took almost 3 weeks to settle down. I played BF2 for the first time since Apr 20th last night and I was getting reasonable response times at long last

 

Speaking of X-Fi - which model should you go for? The fatal1ty?

 

Just get the extreme music one and save some cash. Apparently the chip is the same you just get a remote and drive bay thing with the fatality one. I got the cheap one and the sound is amazing

 

I'd heard that the music one is throttled somehow (dual chips as opposed to quad stereo ones or something?)

 

Surgical Spirit is correct, the Xtreme is just as good for the current selection of games, and to be honest, it doesn't look likely that the Falal1ty's X-RAM will ever be used properly by games (the other difference over the eXtreme).

I've got the fatal1ty, but Mortuum has the eXtreme version, neither sound or seem to perform differently under BF2 - go for the eXtreme and save the £s.

Dunno about the throttling - but benchmark wise, we get the same sort of results and have the same systems bar the X-Fi versions.