BF2S Forums 1.3 Crashing when joining? Possible fix here!

This turned out to be more major then a Windows re-install.
Something along the way happened from BF2 to my pagefile.  It caused an error on my hard drive which now needs replacing.  Thank god for warranties!
According to Data Lifeguard Tools, my hard drive has a bad sector right were the page file was stored.  It may be just coisidence that BF2 was the only thing writing/accessing the page file when this occurred, but I am getting my replacement WD 250 SATA II 3.0 Gbs drive.

Just an FYI for those of you watching this thread.

Last edited by Lt.Garbo (2006-05-25 19:15:54)

1.22 very few problems

1.3 crashing almost every time I try and join a server

fix - too hard - plenty of other games that are as much fun and havent been wrecked by patches

Im probably in the minority - so EA/Dice will not bother to fix their mistake

and most servers have updated already

so thats a game over for me

cheers to 1.3 it saved me from a continuing BF2 addiction

Lt.Garbo wrote:

Ok, I've spent a long time chatting back and forth with EA.  They offered a solution that actually worked for me and BF2 hasn't crashed anymore (yet).  Opening the proper ports on the router fixed it for now, but I'll keep everyone updated should my game revert to crashing WITH this fix.  Info below.

Ports to Open:
* UDP 27900, 29900, 29910, 27901, 55123, 55124, 55215, 16567.
* UDP range 1500-4999.
* TCP 80, 29900, 29901, 29920, 28910, 4711.

Tutorials for most every Router on Port setup:
http://www.portforward.com/routers.htm

Hope this helps!

Hey there, i have had those ports open on my LAN here since the initial release of bf2, that never resolved my issue. It's just bad code if you ask me.

bah, this is bullshit, i had to reinstall bf2 to get the patch to load up a map without crashing, even after 2 full rounds, it switched maps and i crashed again.  Gonna be going to 1.22 again very soon if this is not adressed!!!

shaga_delik wrote:

Try using Esc to join a map rather than the Join button.  Works for me.

I resorted to be doing the same thing also

I appreciate the information very much but I'm not going to spend any time fixing what EA broke. Either they will fix it or I will stop playing the game. I am more than a little disappointed with EA. This is the first and probably the last game I will ever buy from them. God I can't wait until Armed Assault comes out.