BF2S Forums Ping and very long load times?

Whoops,
     Also, I have a problem with when it's loading a new map. It's finish's the load process and I get into the game and most the other players have been playing long enough to take, lose, and retake flags. My wait time is alot longer than most and I personally think it has something to do with this connection problem I have.

     Again Thx in advance: EVIL_STYX

I load fast enough that i have to wait for the 15 second cooldown to finish. But i have 4 gigs of ram and a raid 0 10000 rpm setup.

To fix your problems id recommend, as styx said, more RAM. you might also try defragmenting your hard drive if you havent done that in a while. you should also close everything you dont need running in the backround. Or you can stop them from starting at all using the msconfig utility. heres a nice guide on using msconfig: http://netsquirrel.com/msconfig/
Look for anything you recognize but dont need to be running all the time in the startup tab, and uncheck them. Be careful about what you get rid of, because some things are actually important.
Leave the services tab alone, unless you know what youre doing.

Another thing you might try: after opening up battlefield 2, alt tab out and open the task manager (ctrl+alt+delete), go to the processes tab and right click on bf2.exe, and move its priority to "high". This might help a bit, but only if your cpu is being taxed by other things while you are playing bf2.
You can also use the processes tab to close things you dont want running. but again, there are plenty of things in the processes tab that you really, really want to continue running. I wouldnt recommend closing explorer.exe, for example.

hope this helps

Edit: your high ping problem could be a few things:
a firewall (i doubt it, because a firewall would likely stop you altogether and not just slow you down). If you have some kind of firewall software you might try stopping it before playing bf2. If you have windows xp the windows firewall should be running unless you turned it off manually.
turn off anything else that uses your internet connection before playing bf2. especially things that use your uploading bandwidth.
The battlefield 2 server browser is also a stinking piece of horse *($#, and the pings reported next to servers are wildly inaccurate at times. I find that single clicking a server will ping it and give you a relatively safe ping estimation.

Last edited by Skruples (2006-01-11 00:12:03)

not to tick you off, but i have a very slow DSL connex... and the ping is always good...
increasing ram should solve a lot of your probs, but the ping issue is something else.
some one else using the dsl connex in your home?

Just something I do on a regular basis, apart from defrag. I'm also on a network and every so often I get the 'problem with your connection' message. When it really starts to bug me, I restart the router.... that's reset but not to factory default.... and it does work for about a week or so.

As for map loading times and getting into games. I don't have a problem, I'm usually one of the first into a new map and have captured a flag before others have joined...... ram ram ram... although I note you say you have '3.6 gigs', that wouldn't be GHz by any chance ... If you're looking at ram, BF2 needs lots of it and since I upgraded to 2 GB of RAM, I've had no problems

EVIL_STYX wrote:

How ever when I look at what it actually is putting out or capable of it's about 1.4 DDR for some reason?
     EVIL_STYX

I'm not trying to teach you how to suck eggs here (UK expression) . Click Start > right click 'my computer' > click properties. What is it reporting on the ram?
I only ask because a while ago, my ram only reported 1.4 of the 2gigs and was only using that much, so I had a few problems. All I did was change the data via BIOS and no problems since. However, some report lower than expected but because of the speed, is actually using it all (recent thread can't remember where).

Hope someone can help you better

Well nitro I'm really impressed that you know how to spell the word crap that takes alot of talent "man" and if you really must know I am married with three children and a mortgage you fruit lope, I dont have the money or the time to build this fire breathing arss kicker. In fact I dont think in this post I ever made mention of me having the best machine out there. By the way the X300 does just fine on BF2!

     Back to the topic, Thank you Thinner for your helpful input. Once I have the time will try two things, first is making BF2 program priority in propertys, second is as mentioned above I am missing .6 gigs of my 2 gigs of ram it's being used some where else, thanks to your direction I now have a place to see where it is going and maybe even better get it back where it belongs.

     Thanks again everyone that has taken time out to piont me in the right direction!
     EVIL_STYX

Last edited by EVIL_STYX (2006-01-11 04:42:34)