BF2 Tips & tricks

[The Master]

Here my collected BF2 wisdom

Logging into your account takes ages?
Open the General.con in documents & settings\own data\Battlefield 2\Profiles\0001
Delete all GeneralSettings.addServerHistory entries.
Also delete your favorite servers if they are down.
BF2 seems to wait for a ping response of everthing before you are logged in.
You can also write protect your general.con to keep BF2 from saving server history


You want to play with a connection less then DSL and have high ping?
Open your General.con file and look for GeneralSettings.setConnectionType
The value 5 is T1, the value 4 is DSL, which can also be selected from BF2 options. The options 3-1 cant be choosen from inside BF2, i think 2 is for ISDN speed, 1 for 56k, and 3 for something slower then DSL.
Note it will be changed back when you visit options menu, so better write protect the file.

You have strange lags for a few seconds, on every server?
Change your audio options. For me it helped to turn eax off and use hardware sound.

You want to see why you lost points, or why you got some?
You can edit your \EA GAMES\Battlefield 2\mods\bf2\Localization\ text to what you like. A pimped up mod is available here.
http://www.sixbitunder.com/board/thr...?threadid=2647

Looks like this: http://img78.imageshack.us/img78/767...04305251ky.jpg

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Step 3: BF2 Tweaking

Reduce the Number of Punkbuster Checks: Punkbuster, as you probably know, is the anti cheating software which comes bundled with BF2 and is required to play on all ranked servers and most public servers. Punkbuster scans your hard-drive for problems every 20 seconds. As you may have guessed, this causes a lot of lag. What we are going to do in this fix is to increase the amount of time in between punkbuster checks to 500 seconds (the maximum amount so don't try anything higher lol). By the way, in case you were worried, this is 100% safe with punkbuster, and will NOT cause any problems with Punkbuster thinking you are a cheater. Punkbuster even recommends this fix on their website. To do this you need to:

1. Join any BF2 online server which is running punkbuster, preferably a ranked one.
2. Once you are in, and respawned somewhere, press the `~(Tilda) key. This key is located on most keyboards above the tab key and to the left of the 1 key.
3. A large white box should drop down with a load of text in it. Type pb_sleep500 and hit the enter key.
4. Once you have done this, make sure the box is still up and type pb_writecfg to save your settings.

all credits to:

http://www.secretsofbattlefield.com/hardware1.html

for finding that one. I have nothing against PB, I just like cutting back on anything which might be cutting into performance.

[Rambo_Medic]

great guide guys, Thanks.

[Fishfinger]

Originally Posted by The Master

Here my collected BF2 wisdom

Logging into your account takes ages?
Open the General.con in documents & settings\own data\Battlefield 2\Profiles\0001
Delete all GeneralSettings.addServerHistory entries.
Also delete your favorite servers if they are down.
BF2 seems to wait for a ping response of everthing before you are logged in.
You can also write protect your general.con to keep BF2 from saving server history

I found those in my 0002 folder :/

[Dr. Kitteny Berk]

Originally Posted by Fishfinger

I found those in my 0002 folder :/

Just depends how many accounts you have in your bf2 install (and which of them you use)

[faker_phil]

0001 is the first account in your login list (at the startup screen), 0002 is the second one, etc.
You can check which one's which in documents & settings\own data\Battlefield 2\Profiles\#\Profile.con; the first entry.