BF2S Forums Wake Airshow Dedicated Server

What is your server provider?

Last edited by 100% Irishpride (2008-10-11 10:40:02)

I don't believe you can do it on a "ranked" server, due to EA requirements.  That is, your game service provider will not allow you access to certain files/directories that would allow the installation.

Flaming_Maniac wrote:

OrangeHound wrote:

I don't believe you can do it on a "ranked" server, due to EA requirements.  That is, your game service provider will not allow you access to certain files/directories that would allow the installation.

I think he knows it can't be ranked.

I know you can put different map files on, maybe ask some people in the competition BF2 circle?

EA changed quite a few policies about 12-18 months ago ... that's what prompted me to write the text that I've now highlighted.  At least from my experience, these maps can be added to a private or non-ranked server, but not a public ranked server.

Our service provider is MYIS.  Our head admin has FTP access to the unranked servers.

And we know it would have to be unranked.  In fact its the match server we would be converting to wake airshow as it is currently collecting copious amounts of dust.

The question is what do we do with all this?

Last edited by CloakedStarship (2008-10-11 12:47:35)

It can be a little annoying trying to get the map to run on the first try. Hopefully, this will help.

To begin, I'm assuming you already have the map on your client. Make your way to the location it was installed: C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2\mods\bf2\Levels

Locate the folder for it, "Bf2c_Airshow" and copy it to your desktop. Open the folder(the one you copied to your desktop) and delete the file "client.zip". Now just as a precaution, go through and replace any capital letters in file/folder names with lower case letters. Servers running linux do not recognize capital letters(Some files in the info folder do not require this, such as "gpm_cq_64_menuMap.png".

You should now have the following on your desktop:

The main folder:



The contents:



Content of the "info" folder with some files still possessing capital letters:




The above is what my running airshow server folder looks like. So make sure yours looks the same.


Now that you have the map/folder ready for upload, just get into your servers FTP and upload it into the bf2/mods/levels directory like below:



After uploading it, log into BF2CC to finish up the setup. When adding the map to the rotation, be sure to select a game mode from the drop down menu or else the map will not run. Once again, it should look like so:





Save and apply profile and voila, that should get it running. If you run into the problem of the server doing an eternal restart loop, clear the map list, add a vanilla/default map and restart it. Then re-add airshow to the rotation. Good luck.