So I have this problem, when i fire up bf2, it freezes on the "Challenge everything bit". It doesn't completely freeze up because i cant ctrl + alt + delete out of it, but it's annoying as hell, it doesn't happen every time, I'd say 1/4 times it happens, started doing it alot more recently, happened a few times back in the past but now it's every day, I don't think it's a graphics problem because when i play i have no lag and my fps is like 100, as far as programs go, the only thing i have open is xfire, but im sure I've had xfire closed before and it's happened. Any ideas?
I'd remove the movies. That propaganda is a lie anyways.
Thank you BF2s and their Wiki!
"Disabling the Intro Movies
The introductory movies to BF2, although fun to watch the first couple of times, fast become quite annoying, adding to the start-up times for the game, as well as the memory usage (the main movie is 135MB in size). To disable them permanently, I don’t recommend deleting the movie files - this may cause problems with verification of client information on certain servers and/or with Punk-buster.
Instead, simply rename the relevant files in your \Program Files\EA Games\Battlefield 2\mods\bf2\Movies\ directory to something else (e.g. rename the Intro.bik to Intro.backup). The files to rename are: Dice.bik, EA.bik, Intro.bik, Legal.bik and Welcome.bik. This will mean the intro movies are all skipped as BF2 starts to load. If you find the movies playing in the background of the Login screen and Settings screens annoying, you can also rename the menu.bik and menu_loggedin.bik to something else as well.
If you’ve also renamed/removed the menu.bik and menu_loggedin.bik movies, and don’t want a dull grey background in the in-game menus, then download this small BF2 Menu Movies .zip file, and extract the contents to your \Movies directory. These small files (100KB each) show the BF2 logo in the background, and look much nicer.
Removing all the original movies from the game can save over 250MB of data being loaded up during the start of the game and being placed into memory - this will help smooth your game play particularly for those with less RAM. If for any reason you experience any problems with the game after renaming the movies, simply rename them back to their original names.
Note: Instead of the above, you can simply use the +restart command line command in your BF2 startup icon."
Thank you BF2s and their Wiki!
"Disabling the Intro Movies
The introductory movies to BF2, although fun to watch the first couple of times, fast become quite annoying, adding to the start-up times for the game, as well as the memory usage (the main movie is 135MB in size). To disable them permanently, I don’t recommend deleting the movie files - this may cause problems with verification of client information on certain servers and/or with Punk-buster.
Instead, simply rename the relevant files in your \Program Files\EA Games\Battlefield 2\mods\bf2\Movies\ directory to something else (e.g. rename the Intro.bik to Intro.backup). The files to rename are: Dice.bik, EA.bik, Intro.bik, Legal.bik and Welcome.bik. This will mean the intro movies are all skipped as BF2 starts to load. If you find the movies playing in the background of the Login screen and Settings screens annoying, you can also rename the menu.bik and menu_loggedin.bik to something else as well.
If you’ve also renamed/removed the menu.bik and menu_loggedin.bik movies, and don’t want a dull grey background in the in-game menus, then download this small BF2 Menu Movies .zip file, and extract the contents to your \Movies directory. These small files (100KB each) show the BF2 logo in the background, and look much nicer.
Removing all the original movies from the game can save over 250MB of data being loaded up during the start of the game and being placed into memory - this will help smooth your game play particularly for those with less RAM. If for any reason you experience any problems with the game after renaming the movies, simply rename them back to their original names.
Note: Instead of the above, you can simply use the +restart command line command in your BF2 startup icon."
Last edited by Cyrax-Sektor (2008-02-09 17:06:36)
Cheers man, I'll try it out, but do you really think that's why it freezes? I mean it's long before the movie starts up, it's as soon as bf2 is fired up.