BF2S Forums There is a problem with your connection

TheLevyMonster wrote:

Im on a 2GB AOL connection (AOL i no i no)

1.  There is no such thing...
2.  If for some god forsaken reason you got one, there is no way in hell you are actually getting 2g(igabits)
3.  It will go away, and it isnt the patch...
4.  Give it time, there are diagnostic tools in the game that should sort it out.

any1 need a laugh ^^^^^^  bump

Yea, I get the same thing every once and a while. Never happened until 1.2

Try turning EAX off. Friend was getting monster lag spikes on his connection when playing on GameArena and Internode, but not on Gamespace. Diagnosed that it wasn't his connection or router becuase my PC ran fine on it, managed to find a random thread on a random forum saying it was EAX.

Sure enough, clean as a whistle now.

Last edited by junkpi1e (2006-03-06 15:57:02)

lynxlyran wrote:

I have a fix that worked for me. I had been running fine then all of a sudden "your connection to the server has been lost" started happening. Sometimes I could play for 5 minutes before getting it. It's been 8 days reading forums and trying everything with no luck. Single Player worked fine but anything multiplayer disconnected, be it punkbuster or non punkbuster.

So late one night I'm staring at my task manager wondering what it could be. I noticed the process msmsgs.exe was running. Hmm. I thought I disabled that. I never use IM and wouldn't because of the security hole. I have also looked at this file already because I know it is an indicator of some virus strains. It checked out ok as an authentic MS file. It also didn't come up in my fifteen spyware scanners.

So I ended the process, tried the game, got in, played about 8 minutes and lost connection. Went back to desktop and there it was again. msmsgs.exe

I looked around and found a new app called security task maganer. I used that to quarantene the process. Ran the game for about 15 minutes and thought this might be it so I went to bed.

I found this thing today that will just flat out remove the darn msmsgs.exe process for good. Goto Start-->Run and paste this in the command line.

RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\INF\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove

Problem solved for me. Now I'm running max resolution, high settings and even AA at 6X without a hint of lag.

I hope it helps someone else out there, I couldn't find it as a fix anywhere, maybe some nice Admin can move this post to a sticky dealing with everthing else that causes connection lost. This would be fix # 979 on the list of stuff that causes "your connection to the server has been lost" messages

-Lynx

not really everytime I install windows I use that cmd line to remove msn completly ,but i still get the connection problem thing,but since i use the pb_sleep 500 cmd line it has not occured at all.....back to the connection problem I have noticed when it happens it happens to everyone in the server not just me???

autarkie wrote:

TheLevyMonster wrote:

I no, I no the number of threads about the same thing is rediculous and I have tried searching and ive tried everything I could find and understand...


My Equiptment: Netgear DG824GT router with firewall (all necessary ports already forwarded), Belkin 54g wireless USB network adaptor. 2gb Ram , RADEON x850 GFx card. Im on a 2GB AOL connection (AOL i no i no)


Cheers, Levy

I had the same problem. Very annoying when you are flying something.

The problem is in the wireless. Since I connected a cable to the very same (wireless) router, the things got all smooth. You might wanna try that. I know it's not what you've expected when you went for a wireless connection, but that's what it takes to play the game.

most wireless routers allow u to optimize the transmit speeds and what not, but u have to know what ur doing. it usually found in the advanced areas.

TheLevyMonster wrote:

btw another lil tip 4 any1 with the same problem ea told me to go to windows task manager while plain bf2 go to processes tab right click bf2.exe and set affinity... then uncheck all except CPU0... jst incase ne 1 needs it

Another 1, while in the game press ctrl+alt+del this will take you to the task manager, then click on processes in the task bar right click on bf2 program hover over set priority and set bf2 to run above normal this will channel more of the RAM to BF2 which will make it run smoother ....But NEVER select it to run on high this will channel to much ram to the game and not enough to windows explorer...unless ya got 3gig of RAM

actually i installed the 1.21 patch and now i get the video lag spikes again!!! i tried to use the commands pb_sleep 500 but it didn't help!  I ping around 20 to 50 and i never goes above that even during these lag spikes!  I notice my fps will drop to 15 when i get this video lag. 

Any one have any ideas? 

is is the patch b/c i never had this problem before 1.2 and 1.21!? 

is there a command to max out my fps ? 

i run it on :
Intel 3.0G on an intel Motherboard and a cooling system
Nvideo 6800 GT OC
480w Antec Blue power supply
2 Gigs of Ram

Last edited by docnutz (2006-03-10 11:29:00)

autarkie wrote:

TheLevyMonster wrote:

I no, I no the number of threads about the same thing is rediculous and I have tried searching and ive tried everything I could find and understand...


My Equiptment: Netgear DG824GT router with firewall (all necessary ports already forwarded), Belkin 54g wireless USB network adaptor. 2gb Ram , RADEON x850 GFx card. Im on a 2GB AOL connection (AOL i no i no)


Cheers, Levy

I had the same problem. Very annoying when you are flying something.

The problem is in the wireless. Since I connected a cable to the very same (wireless) router, the things got all smooth. You might wanna try that. I know it's not what you've expected when you went for a wireless connection, but that's what it takes to play the game.

I also have this same problem..it is with the wireless connection!! TUT TUT HARDWARE DEVELOPERS!!

Well i havnt installed 1.21 yet but if i do get the same when Ive installed it I will fix it and let you know ok...

what key do you tap to see your fps ?


thnx

The "Problem with your Connection" issue is something I have been dealing with for quite some time now. I thought perhaps it was my ISP that was doing it but the more I looked for another explanation the more I see that many people are having this very issue. The solution for at least some of this issue I have found are the following:

1. Punkbuster is screwing with your connection and induces lag. The solution has already been stated above.

Join a server and while in the game on the map press the ~ key. This can be achieved by pressing Shift ` which is right to the left of the "1". This will bring up the ingame console.

Then type  pb_sleep 500
After which type  pb_writecfg 

Recently I did this and payed close attention to the answer message for pb_writecfg. It says the command doesn't work correctly. Are we certain that this command actually works and actually saves the pb_sleep 500 command request?

2. Next there was an issue with the Audio dll file for BF2. Another person suggested this on the forum and in the IRC chat for BF2S so I did it and it has worked wonders for my connection issues.

Goto this site: http://www.openal.org/downloads.html

Windows:
    * OpenAL 1.1 Installer for Windows  <--- download this

Run the OpenALwEAX.exe file. It will replace the openal32.dll file for Windows.
It can be found here:   C:\Windows\System32\openal32.dll
Copy the openal32.dll file into your BF2 directory.
Now find this file:  C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2\BF2OpenAL.dll
Rename BF2OpenAL.dll to BF2OpenAL.dll_old   or something like that.
Now rename the openal32.dll file you just copied into that directory to  BF2OpenAL.dll

You should now notice an improvement in gameplay with less stutter and lag issue as well as less problem with your connection issues. They don't go away completely but it does help.


In another observation I've noticed that servers have a lot more people on them with 200+ ping times. As many of us in the FPS community know, players with high pings will slow everything down on the server. I am seeing more and more people with 200+ pings while playing on servers. I have a concern that these people are actually causing a lot of the lag spike issues and jitter in the game. Just my own personal observation.
I wish more admins on servers would set the flag on punkbuster to auto kick anyone that has a 200+ ping for a minute or more consistantly.

I hope this helps everyone.

Cheers.

Last edited by kilroy0097 (2006-03-13 04:36:19)

good deal thanks