BF2S Forums A Game with ENDLESS Problems

MarkPuppets wrote:

So far I don't have serious issues with Battlefield 2 as many people do; however, it crashes to desktop very often but I've to live with it. I have a good rig except gfx card. But I am not willing to spend few hundred dollars for a high end gfx card which will be half price in a few months. Except BF2, all other games run on MAX settings without any problems.

Why the hell on earth this BF2 has million problems? Well, let's analyze! They programmed a game with BUGS which requires a HIGH end machine and most of us HAD TO upgrade to play this game. I have read on many forums people still have serious issues with running the game, patching etc etc. That's pathetic. When you buy a product and it has meet or above the system requirements, you expect it to run smooth. But as I can see more then 50% of the users got some kinda problems. When I look at BF2 requirements, I just laugh at it. WHAT A LIE and they get away with that. Many of us jumped and bought SF, including myself and honestly I am disappointed. SF got lots of bugs which suppose to be fixed before release. Now as I read in some forums, BoosterPack or whatever is coming out soon. Now that's a nasty joke which makes me vomit. What a lousy company to do business with. Don't know if any of you played C&C-Generals (Zero Hours), but I HAD TO QUIT that game cuz EA ruined it completely with their lousy patch. Now EA/DICE is about to release another product without fixing what they released. HEY, when I buy a fucking game WASTING my hard earned money, I don't want any fucking excuse about bugs.....it's EA/DICE's fucking responsibility to test, fix and release it for public. I paid whatever they asked and get a BETA product and they ruined it more with their lame patches. Server browser never worked and it was never fixed. I bet it will be this way as long as BF2 survives. Some third party software HELPED us to get the browse game-servers and EA blacklisted it with funny ASS "Message from EA" window. That's the MOST GAYNESS I have ever witness. I can make a list of problems but everyone knows about it. Somehow I fall in love with this game, played for many hours but the problems we have in the game, it will never fix. I am kinda DONE with BF2 and EA's lame products. I was a fun of EA for couple of years but C&C-Generals and BF2 made me loose my patience. I just wish to see someday, very near future this lousy EA/DICE gets out of business and we have some good company that makes cool games and cares about customers (not just money). This kinda company already exist though, such as VALVE, ACTIVISION and few others. I wish them good luck on keeping up their good work. I want to cut off EA’s ball but as it’s not possible at this moment, I am done doing business with them.

Peace !

Agent_Dung_Bomb wrote:

Well, I have to say that I am one of those people that don't have, and have never had, any problems with this game.  The thing you have to realize is that there is a nearly endless number of combinations of hardware/software that people may be using.  These can also be affected by the driver versions people are using, BIOS versions, whether certain applications are up to date, and possibly spyware/virus infected machines.  As such, there is simply no possible way to test for and eliminate every possible bug before shipping a software product.

My guess is that most problems are the result of the following.

1. People failed to read the hardware requirements on the game box before buying.  I don't care if your GF4 video cards runs all your other games, it won't run this game properly or at all.

2. Failure to update drivers, or properly install new driver updates.  While you may be able to get away with just installing a new driver over the top of the old one, it isn't recommended and will probably come back to bite you in the ass.  Failure to properly remove old drivers and the hardware from the Windows hardware profile will also lead to future problems.

3. People have too much crap on their system.  They fail to install or regularly/properly use spyeare and AV programs.  They load P2P programs, warez, freeware, and shareware on their system and then wonder why their system performs like crap.

4. Failure to maintain hardware.  The dust bunnies will breed in your computer.  From time to time it is necessary to erradicate these devils, as they tend to clog your cooling system and cause it to overheat.  Heat is the enemy of your computer and will result in poor, unstable performance.

5. All computer/parts were obtained because they were the absolute cheapest available.  These are often no-name parts with low quality.  I can't count the number of unstable systems I have diagnosed because some one bought a 500W PSU, but the cheapest they could find.  Watts don't matter if the PSU can't deliver that cleanly.  Cheap PSUs usually can't make their sticker rated output as they lose most of their efficiency to heat production, and tend to have heavy supply fluctuations under load.

I could go on, but I think I made my point.

RDMC wrote:

Agent_Dung_Bomb wrote:

Well, I have to say that I am one of those people that don't have, and have never had, any problems with this game.  The thing you have to realize is that there is a nearly endless number of combinations of hardware/software that people may be using.  These can also be affected by the driver versions people are using, BIOS versions, whether certain applications are up to date, and possibly spyware/virus infected machines.  As such, there is simply no possible way to test for and eliminate every possible bug before shipping a software product.

My guess is that most problems are the result of the following.

1. People failed to read the hardware requirements on the game box before buying.  I don't care if your GF4 video cards runs all your other games, it won't run this game properly or at all.

2. Failure to update drivers, or properly install new driver updates.  While you may be able to get away with just installing a new driver over the top of the old one, it isn't recommended and will probably come back to bite you in the ass.  Failure to properly remove old drivers and the hardware from the Windows hardware profile will also lead to future problems.

3. People have too much crap on their system.  They fail to install or regularly/properly use spyeare and AV programs.  They load P2P programs, warez, freeware, and shareware on their system and then wonder why their system performs like crap.

4. Failure to maintain hardware.  The dust bunnies will breed in your computer.  From time to time it is necessary to erradicate these devils, as they tend to clog your cooling system and cause it to overheat.  Heat is the enemy of your computer and will result in poor, unstable performance.

5. All computer/parts were obtained because they were the absolute cheapest available.  These are often no-name parts with low quality.  I can't count the number of unstable systems I have diagnosed because some one bought a 500W PSU, but the cheapest they could find.  Watts don't matter if the PSU can't deliver that cleanly.  Cheap PSUs usually can't make their sticker rated output as they lose most of their efficiency to heat production, and tend to have heavy supply fluctuations under load.

I could go on, but I think I made my point.

ok i have to comment on yur last 3 points, first my computer has been totally reinstalled just 2 weeks ago.. no crap what so ever anymore, 2 with that i cleaned everything in my computer, i got a fine coolin system 3 i havent got any cheap parts in my computer, probably only my soundblaster live card.. was 30 euro's and still i'm havin problems runnin the frikkin game..  and yes I do have the hardware requirements!