Ok its rant time...
How crap are the coders or whoever are responsible for the construction of the game? My Battlefield 2 account (all the way back from the Demo release) is nearly 2 years old, and this game is just as buggy as the day it first launched on my computer. I've seen tons of console ports which were better than this, and its a famous fact that console ports aren't what they could be (not all, but some). The graphics, level design, etc are fine. But the game constructed as a whole is a mess! When they fix 1 thing with a patch, 2 bugs arise as a result!
Now I don't know whether this is unskillful teamwork and game construction as a whole, because instead of EA fixing this game, they don't prioritize it and make booster packs once a month, with an expansion pack, and develop whole new Battlefield games for other consoles, whilst working on the next Battlefield game, 2142.And why can't they make a game that has a bit more of the Source engine approach, simplicity, stability and speed?!?!
Actually I should stop here. I can write downa list of more errors problems and hates that can be fixed on this game longer than Peter Crouch's leg, but I'm gonna ask for some help this time around... don't care who flames me because tbh I get much better from what I pay for from other developers.
Does anyone know the best way to stop a crash to desktop once a game has loaded? It's very spontaneous, it's most stable if I join through Xfire, sometimes I get in no problem, most of the time problems happen though when I join through BF2 and the loading bar completes. It either crashes there or crashes when I press join.
I've tried pressing ESC instead of join, which is more stable but I can't always get to join. I've got utterly latest non-beta drivers for my sound/mobo/graphics. I've switched AGP Fastwrites off. I've installed latest Safedisc 4 drivers. I've deleted my "My Documents/Battlefield 2" folder. I've formatted and re-installed Win XP. I'm not sure what else to doI've heard this is a very common prob with the 1.3 patch and it's planning to be fixed in the next installment. Looking forward to the next patch, 1.4, OMGNEWMAP?! Can't be true!! EA don't do things for free! Must have been forced at gunpoint to give us Wake and this new Road to Jalalabad!
Many thanks in advance for any advice... other than that BF2 is a great game, I love the stats etc, pity that EA own the franchise though.


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I've heard this is a very common prob with the 1.3 patch and it's planning to be fixed in the next installment. Looking forward to the next patch, 1.4, OMGNEWMAP?! Can't be true!! EA don't do things for free! Must have been forced at gunpoint to give us Wake and this new Road to Jalalabad!
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). My system config has been the same for quite some time now, and only changed the broadband and sound-card during the two years. Battlefield 2 never used to do this before, I used to suffer with the other problems (bad in-game browser, menu lag, etc etc many more). It's just in the 1.3 patch (Google battlefield 2 crash to desktop if you don't believe the severity of the situation) they've made a few things worse. Why fiddle with the join button in the first place -_-... And this was the only game I've heard of in ages that never launched with 1280x1024... people had to resort to hacks in the shortcut to force the game to that resolution, until a patch quite a while later saved them the effort. And this is still one of the very few games out there that doesn't support widescreen ^_^ Out of all the top 10 games on Xfire, I think this is the only one.



