I have been having some issues here lately with system reboots at random. I am leaving this post in attempt to hopefully help someone else out with less IT knowledge.
1. Make sure you video card drivers are up to date from the manufacturers website. You can also check while your there for any know issues with your card and a specific game.
2. Make sure that your direct X is up to date with the most current version.
3. COOLING. If you don't have a video card cooler that is built into your card than get one.
4. RAM. This is especially important if you are using the team chat feature.
5. Shut down any background apps that you don't need. These eat up ram and page file usage.
6. I have noticed when I first loaded this game that my AV program was having fits with BF2. I had to shut it down just to get the game to install. Then came the manual config of how the program accessed the internet. It may be easier for some just to turn this off while you are gaming. Do this at your own descretion.
7. It's generally good measure to make sure that your case is clean on the inside. This helps keep a cooler system. Be sure a give the fans in your PSU etc a good shot of air as well.
8. A good PSU. The kind of power that a decent video card draws needs a good clean power to keep your system stable and up. If you can afford it, you should also be running the power to you machine from the wall through some type of power conditioning. ie.. a UPS.
9. One good thing about WinXP is that if you do change your video drivers and feel that it ran better before the OS has an option of "rolling back" to your previous video driver. This can make a sometime pain in the butt easy.
10. I have noticed with the new patch that my reboots seemed to happen more frequent with non US servers, and I always used the teamchat. I tried switching type of servers and found that I was having alot less reboot issues. There seems to be something related with the two. I don't knwo if EA released a different version of the new patch in the EU or not, this would be interesting to find out? What you can do in this situation to tell if your reboots are hardware or software related.
Go to My Computer and Right click.
Your going to go down the the "manage" tab.
From here you will want to expand on the event viewer. In here you should have logs that will help identify the casue of your problems. At least give you a better idea. This is where I corralated that my issue was a communication issue with the server. The log that I found reoccurring(sp?) showed that I was having a communication issue with a remote server. It was very vauge in it's description. I could go on as to what my theory is on this, but it would be alot of TCP/IP mumbo jumbo that most people could care less about.
Depending on the information you can extract from your logs you can also search the Micro$oft knowledge base to cross reference. I would also Google it as well.
This is a good start for most people to give them a direction on the leg work they will need chasing down Gremlins.
Good luck.
1. Make sure you video card drivers are up to date from the manufacturers website. You can also check while your there for any know issues with your card and a specific game.
2. Make sure that your direct X is up to date with the most current version.
3. COOLING. If you don't have a video card cooler that is built into your card than get one.
4. RAM. This is especially important if you are using the team chat feature.
5. Shut down any background apps that you don't need. These eat up ram and page file usage.
6. I have noticed when I first loaded this game that my AV program was having fits with BF2. I had to shut it down just to get the game to install. Then came the manual config of how the program accessed the internet. It may be easier for some just to turn this off while you are gaming. Do this at your own descretion.
7. It's generally good measure to make sure that your case is clean on the inside. This helps keep a cooler system. Be sure a give the fans in your PSU etc a good shot of air as well.
8. A good PSU. The kind of power that a decent video card draws needs a good clean power to keep your system stable and up. If you can afford it, you should also be running the power to you machine from the wall through some type of power conditioning. ie.. a UPS.
9. One good thing about WinXP is that if you do change your video drivers and feel that it ran better before the OS has an option of "rolling back" to your previous video driver. This can make a sometime pain in the butt easy.
10. I have noticed with the new patch that my reboots seemed to happen more frequent with non US servers, and I always used the teamchat. I tried switching type of servers and found that I was having alot less reboot issues. There seems to be something related with the two. I don't knwo if EA released a different version of the new patch in the EU or not, this would be interesting to find out? What you can do in this situation to tell if your reboots are hardware or software related.
Go to My Computer and Right click.
Your going to go down the the "manage" tab.
From here you will want to expand on the event viewer. In here you should have logs that will help identify the casue of your problems. At least give you a better idea. This is where I corralated that my issue was a communication issue with the server. The log that I found reoccurring(sp?) showed that I was having a communication issue with a remote server. It was very vauge in it's description. I could go on as to what my theory is on this, but it would be alot of TCP/IP mumbo jumbo that most people could care less about.
Depending on the information you can extract from your logs you can also search the Micro$oft knowledge base to cross reference. I would also Google it as well.
This is a good start for most people to give them a direction on the leg work they will need chasing down Gremlins.
Good luck.