fiskum Skrevet 5. desember 2006 Skrevet 5. desember 2006 Hallo! Lurer på om det er noen kommandoer man kan skrive i console, evt lage en config-fil for å optmalisere bf2? Det jeg mener er ting som man i aq2, quake og tidlige cs versjoner kunne endre på for at ting skulle bli "bedre" Ikke wall hack eller selvlysende fiender (Les: juks), men andre kommandoer som er kun optimaliserende. Kan hende jeg er helt på jordet, men husker det var ganske avgjørende i den tiden de overnevnte spill var "hotte". På forhånd takk
visningsnavn2 Skrevet 5. desember 2006 Skrevet 5. desember 2006 Håper du kan lese engelsk Forbedre Hit Registration (på engelsk) (kilde) Klikk for å se/fjerne innholdet nedenfor Now verified: How to fix your hitreg! The permanent way to do it: 1: Go to C:\Program Files\EA Games\Battlefield 2\mods\bf2\settings 2: Open usersettings.con in notepad 3: Change the value of the line "SettingsManager.U32Set GSInterpolationTime" to X (read below) The one-off way: Open up the console ingame ( ` ) and enter the command. Remember to use the same capitals!! if it worked you will see a 1 under your line, if it didn't either a zero (check it again for minor mistakes, or make sure you haven't already set it to that value) or a whole bunch of crap meaning you completely f*cked up. The interp command controls how often updates are sent to the server. The lower the value, the more often. This stresses the server, hence why it is set to 100 normally. Of course, it won't ruin it, but if 32 players set it to 10 it will cause problems. The less players, the lower the value. 10 minimum. Using this command is a trade-off: the lower, the more accurate, but the easier you are to hit. I recommend between 30 to 60 on pubs. On >48 servers 60-100 DISCLAIMER: This is fully 'legal'. You will not get reset by BFROE, and if PunkBuster thinks that your value is too high/low it will say so in a friendly way a few times before kicking you off the server. So if it does, just restore it to a normal value. enjoy watching people die when you shoot them Don't have problems? DONT CHANGE IT THEN. Tilfeldige Tips (også på engelsk) (kilde) Klikk for å se/fjerne innholdet nedenfor Now on Wiki! <--- Click to see the Wiki version What follows below is a selection of useful tips and information for Battlefield 2 Contents Command Line – Commands added to shortcut path to gain additional features Automatic Login – Using the command line to log in automatically when BF2 is launched Disabling the Intro Movies – Disable/Remove intro movies and menu movies Config. Files – Information on Config. files Punkbuster – Updating and tweaking punkbuster Multiplayer Server Browser Icons – Information on the Icons in the server browser Patching – Instructions on correctly patching BF2 Having two versions of bf2 – Instructions on how to run an old version as well as the current one To extract the BF2 loading music – and any other sound for that matter Changing account details! – Changing email/password of BF2 account ------------------- Command Line ------------------- There are a range of commands - mainly designed for servers running BF2 - which can be activated via the BF2 command line. You can use these commands by going to your main Battlefield 2 shortcut you use to launch the game, right-click on it and select Properties. Then in the Target box, after the "C:\Program Files\EA Games\Battlefield 2\BF2.exe" +menu 1 +fullscreen 1 text, insert another space, then use any of the commands below. Each command must have a single space between it and the next command. For example, one of the most commonly requested commands is to run BF2 in 1280x1024 resolution (or another custom resolution) - particularly for LCD displays which display the best image at their native resolution. To do this, change your command line to look like this: "C:\Program Files\EA Games\Battlefield 2\BF2.exe" +menu 1 +fullscreen 1 +szx 1280 +szy 1024 Note: The addition of the +szx and +szy commands which respectively set the width and height of the resolution to be used. Substitute other values for other resolutions (e.g. +szx 1900 +szy 1200). Also note that as of the 1.03 Patch, 1280x1024 is now a supported resolution and can be selected within the in-game settings, so you don't need to use the +szx/+szy commands to force it anymore. The following are the known command line commands for BF2, and descriptions where possible: Note: For those of you not familiar with commands such as these there is one thing you need to know: After a command enter a space and add the value. For most of these commands the value you will have to enter is 1, thus activating the command. To deactivate the commands either delete them or replace the 1 with a 0 (zero). The exceptions to these include commands such as 'playerPassword', mostly, the exceptions speak for them selves. +playerName - Set the player name +playerPassword - Sets the player password +joinServer - Join a server by IP address or hostname +port - Used in conjunction with +joinServer to join a server +fullscreen - Start game in full screen mode +nosound - Start game without sound +szx - Set resolution width +szy - Set resolution height +dedicated - Start in dedicated server mode +multi - Allow starting multiple BF2 instances +password - Set the server password when joining a server +config - Sets path to the ServerSettings.con file to use +maplist - Sets the path to the MapList.con file to use +lowPriority - Run the game with slightly lower priority +loadLevel - Set the level to load +wx - Position game window on the screen at certain x-position +wy - Position game window on the screen at certain y-position +demo - Sets the con-file with demo options +maxPlayers - Sets max players +gameMode - Sets the game mode +modPath - Sets the mod path (default /mods/bf2) +help - Displays help +ranked - Allows GamSpy snapshot sending +playNow - Use PlayNow functionality +port - Specifies the network port to be used +pbPath - Set the path to use for PunkBuster on multi-instance configs +hostServer - +checkForAvailablePatch - +checkForPatch - +ai - +restart - skips intro movies Note: You must use the correct case for these commands to work - for example the +playername command only works if used thusly: +playerName - note the capitalized N. These all work as of the latest version, including commands like +joinServer. As you can see, most of these commands are really only useful for those running BF2 servers, and the descriptions are fairly vague. Perhaps the most useful command in this list is the "+restart" command. As it disables the intro movies completely without any risk from punk buster bans. -------------------- Automatic Login (using command line) -------------------- If you want to automatically be logged in each time you launch Battlefield 2, edit your BF2 Command Line as follows: "C:\Program Files\EA Games\Battlefield 2\BF2.exe" +playerName your playername +playerPassword your password E.g: "C:\Program Files\EA Games\Battlefield 2\BF2.exe" +playerName DogMaN +playerPassword Banana1 Basically by using the +playerName and +playerPassword parameters in your command line - along with any other entries you want to put in there - you will automatically be logged in as soon as you start the game, skipping the requirement to click Login on the login screen. Important For this to work, the playerName and playerPassword commands are case-sensitive. That is, you must enter them exactly as shown, for example +playerName, not +playername. Furthermore your user name and password are case sensitive as well, and must be entered precisely as you have them shown on the login screen. ------------------------------ Disabling the Intro Movies ------------------------------ The introductory movies to BF2, although fun to watch the first couple of times, fast become quite annoying, adding to the startup times for the game, as well as the memory usage (the main movie is 135MB in size). To disable them permanently, I don't recommend deleting the movie files - this may cause problems with verification of client information on certain servers and/or with Punk-buster. Instead, simply rename the relevant files in your \Program Files\EA Games\Battlefield 2\mods\bf2\Movies\ directory to something else (e.g. rename the Intro.bik to Intro.backup). The files to rename are: Dice.bik, EA.bik, Intro.bik, Legal.bik and Welcome.bik. This will mean the intro movies are all skipped as BF2 starts to load. If you find the movies playing in the background of the Login screen and Settings screens annoying, you can also rename the menu.bik and menu_loggedin.bik to something else as well. If you've also renamed/removed the menu.bik and menu_loggedin.bik movies, and don't want a dull grey background in the in-game menus, then download this small BF2 Menu Movies .zip file, and extract the contents to your \Movies directory. These small files (100KB each) show the BF2 logo in the background, and look much nicer. Removing all the original movies from the game can save over 250MB of data being loaded up during the start of the game and being placed into memory - this will help smooth your game play particularly for those with less RAM. If for any reason you experience any problems with the game after renaming the movies, simply rename them back to their original names. Note: Instead of the above, you can simply use the +restart command line command in your BF2 startup icon. ------------- Config Files ------------- C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2\mods\bf2\Settings Most of the settings in these .con files can and should be altered using the in-game options. However there are a few things you can adjust which are unique to the .con files: Video.con VideoSettings.setResolution 1280x960@75Hz This setting controls your current resolution in Battlefield 2. The format is Width x Height@Refresh Rate. If you cannot start up BF2 and change the resolution from within the game, try altering it here to help you startup the game. In particular when you want to launch BF2 for the first time and the game just crashes back to desktop, you can change the resolution from its default of 800x600@60Hz to one your monitor supports. Note, however, that certain resolutions are unsupported and entering them here will not work VideoSettings.setTerrainQuality 4 VideoSettings.setGeometryQuality 4 VideoSettings.setLightingQuality 4 VideoSettings.setDynamicLightingQuality 4 VideoSettings.setDynamicShadowsQuality 4 VideoSettings.setEffectsQuality 4 VideoSettings.setTextureQuality 4 VideoSettings.setTextureFilteringQuality 4 All of the above settings can be adjusted from within the in-game Video settings. However the highest they can be set to is High from within the game (a value of 3). By setting them each to 4 in Video.con (as shown above), you will have them displayed as 'Videosettings_Ultrahigh' in the in-game Video settings screen, and some people believe this increases the graphics quality to Ultrahigh levels. I didn't see any impact from this change, but if you want the absolute best quality in BF2 give it a try. Profile.con This file contains details of your on-line account including the user name (GameSpyNick), the Email attached to that name, and the Password (encrypted). You can't change these details here - doing so will have no impact on your on-line account, except maybe cause problems logging on or with Punk buster. You may find this file useful if you have forgotten your e-mail address associated with your account General.con GeneralSettings.addServerHistory This settings show you the last servers you have successfully connected to. This list is handy because it provides the server names as well as the IP Number and Port Number. You can use these details in the Server Browser window to quickly connect to the same server again. The quickest way however is to simply go to the ’Favorites’ tab which has a record of the last 20 servers you've played on as well as any servers you've tagged as favourites. See the Multi-player section of the In-Game Settings section for more details. Controls.con This file contains all of the control mappings for actions in the game. The file structure is quite complex, and rather than cover it at length here, I recommend you see this detailed thread on the Planet Battlefield Forums: Anatomy of Controls.con. ------------- Punkbuster ------------- Updating your punkbuster When an update for punkbuster is released it will automatically download through Battlefield 2. Although this process saves you the effort of updating punkbuster your self, it will give you lag as the update downloads. The updates are not necessarily big but there are lots of them. Instead of Battlefield 2 manually trying to do it in game, quickly do it with this easy fix (may not work if its already updated). This tweak will work for America's Army and also any other game that uses punkbuster. Punkbuster also changes issues in performance in their patches so it is well worth downloading the latest driver. This is relatively simple to do. Once you have downloaded the file I recommend you keep it and use it regularly Step 1: Visit this site and scroll down to the pbsetup.exe link Step 2: Either run or save the program. I recommend that you save it. Step 3: Click add game and select "Battlefield 2" Step 4: Click Update ------------------ Reducing the number of punkbuster hard drive checks Punkbuster scans your hard-drive for problems every 20 seconds. As you may have guessed, this causes a lot of lag. This process will increase the amount of time in between punkbuster checks to 500 seconds (the maximum). 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 on their website. Step 1: Join any BF2 online server which is running punkbuster, preferably a ranked one. Step 2: Once you are in, and respawned somewhere, press the ` key. This key is located on most keyboards above the tab key and to the left of the 1 key Step 3: Once you have pressed this, a large white box should drop down with a load of text in it. Type "pb_sleep 500" (without the quotation marks) and hit the enter key Step 4: Once you have done this, make sure the box is still up and type pb_writecfg to save your settings ------------------- Info For more information on the way that punkbuster works visit there website. You can also go to there tutorial pages for players and Admins for more information on punkbuster commands -------------------------------------- Multiplayer Server Browser Icons -------------------------------------- Ever wondered what these icons mean? Here are some simple explanations of the icons in order of left to right Server Load The bar icon on the far left of the server browser indicates the load on the server machine. It is common for this icon to be red. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Server OS Icon This next icon appears as a computer box, a penguin or a '64'. These icons represent the OS the server is running on. The Box icon represents all Windows servers The Penguin icon represents Linux servers The 64 icon represents Linux 64 bit CPU servers. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Game Mod/Mode Icon The next icon represents the game mod/mode being run on the server. If there is an exclamation point the server will be running a modified version of Battlefield 2. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ranked Icon The icon that appears as military chevrons represent whether the server is ranked or not. If the icon is not present the server is not running a ranked version. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- VOIP Icon The headphones icon represents whether a server has player Voice Over IP Communication activated. If the headphones are present then VOIP is turned on. If the icon is not present then there is no VOIP communication on that server. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PunkBuster Icon The PunkBuster logo icon indicates when a server is running PunkBuster software to help prevent player hacks. Always make sure to play on servers running PunkBuster to ensure a quality play experience. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Content Check Icon The monitor icon represents whether a server has content check enabled. Content check prevents players with edited files from playing on these servers. To further ensure a quality play experience players should always look for servers with content check enabled. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Password Icon The lock icon indicates whether a password is set for accessing the server. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- Patching ---------- As many of you will know the patching system in battlefield 2 sucks immensely. In this section I will show you how to install battlefield 2 without getting any errors. Note: I would recommend always using the full patches rather than the incremental patches, they are a lot less buggy. Also downloading them from a reliable source such as BF2S ;-) will help Just BF2. 1) Install BF2. 2) Patch to the latest version. BF2 + BF2:SF 1)For those that have BF2:SF with version 1.12. a) Install BF2. b) Install Special Forces – SF will automatically patch to 1.1, and then install itself; thus installing patch 1.12. c) Patch to the latest version – Either 1.12-latest (incremental) or the latest full patch. 2)For those that have BF2:SF with version 1.2.0 a) Install BF2. b) Install Special Forces – SF will automatically patch to 1.1, and then install itself; thus installing patch 1.2. c) Patch to the latest version – Either ‘1.2 to latest’ (incremental) or the latest full patch. BF2 + BF2:SF + BF2:EF 1) Install BF2 2) Install BF2:SF 3) Patch to version 1.21 (I think) 4) Install BF2:EF 5) Patch to the latest version BF2 + BF2:EF 1) Install BF2 2) Patch to 1.21 (I think) 3) Install BF2:EF 3) Patch to the latest version More Help A program that automatically patches The EA Downloader should tell you all the information you need ------------------------------- Having two versions of bf2 ------------------------------- This is relatively simple. All that is required is to duplicate your Battlefield 2 directory, I will explain: If, for example you would like to run version 1.03 and the latest version, do this: 1) Completely uninstall 2) Install BF2 3) Make a copy of “C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2” 4) Name the copy “C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2_1.0” 5) Patch to 1.03 6) Rename “C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2” to “…Battlefield 2_1.03 7) Change “C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2_1.0” back to “… Battlefield 2” 8) Patch to 1.3 9) You now have a normal BF2 directory running 1.3 and directory running 1.03 10) Make shortcut to v1.03 on your desktop (duplicate normal BF2 one); change the target to: "C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2_1.03\BF2.exe" +menu 1 +fullscreen 1 If you also want to run SF, AF and EF then simply don’t patch the normal BF2 folder, like I stated above, straight to 1.3. Just go through the normal process of installation ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The first time you install BF2, I recommend duplicating the installation folder and calling it bf2_1.0. Doing this will enable you to a sort of system restore if you need to ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------ To extract the BF2 loading music ------------------------------------------------ 1) Download this program and get this plugin 2) Navigate to: C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2\mods\bf2\Common_client.zip then: Sound/Menu/music 3) Open "load_MEC_music.ogg" with Audacity and save it as an mp3 (to, for example, your desktop) 4) That's it, your done! --------------------------------- Changing account details! --------------------------------- I have discovered a way to change the details associated with your BF2 nickname. Some people may have already known this but it seems that most don’t. This is a list of the details you can change: First Name Last Name Email Address Birthday Country Zip/Postal Code Password The following items are associated with GameSpy website and Arcade only and will result in mail Connection Speed Gender Address Street Address Street Address (cont.) City State or province Homepage To login and start changing your details follow this process 1) Go to the GameSpy login page 2) Under the “Existing Users – Log in Here” section: leave the first box selected and enter your email (the one associated with your bf2 account) and your bf2 account password 3) One logged in click ‘Update Profile” 4) The next part is self explanatory: enter the details you want changed, you will have to fill in your name and Postal/Zip code (don’t panic you don’t receive an junk mail) 5) Once finished enter your current password and click “Save and Finish” You may have noticed that there is a nickname field. I made a test account (so I did not screw up my other account) and tried this out. It did not work, it looked like it was going to but it didn’t. It has occurred to me, however, that it may take time to update on the servers. If this is the case then I will let you know ASAP. The final step is to delete your account (from the log in screen on BF2) and retrieve it again, this will update your profile and it's information ---- End ---- I do not want to take credit for creating all of the information in this guide. some of it came from TweakGuides.com and some of it was collected from other sources. However I have added much of my own material ------------------------ There are many more things that you can do with your Battlefield 2 to improve it, such as: Change your Localization Files - Changing the text on you HUD Reducing Lag - Tips on how to minimize lag whilst playing Battlfield 2 More BF2 Lag Reduction... Modifying maps to your taste - Spawning extra vehicles etc. Mindre lagg (også engelsk 0_o) (kilde) Klikk for å se/fjerne innholdet nedenfor Tip 1: Reducing the number of punkbuster hard drive checks How does this work? 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 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 on their website. How do you do it? Step 1: Ok, the first step is very simple, join any BF2 online server which is running punkbuster, preferably a ranked one. Step 2: Once you are in, and respawned somewhere, press the ` key. This key is located on most keyboards above the tab key and to the left of the 1 key Step 3: Once you have pressed this, a large white box should drop down with a load of text in it. Type "pb_sleep 500" (without the quotation marks) and hit the enter key Step 4: Once you have done this, make sure the box is still up and type pb_writecfg to save your settings Spyware Tip 2: Renaming the BF2.exe File How does this work? Although the exact reason why this improves the gameplay is unknown, but it is probably that Ati and Nvidia recognise the program BF2.exe as one of their own, so by renaming the file, you turn the game into a normal program, not a resource hungry dinosaur! In 90% of cases this has been known to cause some increase in performance in-game. This fix turns off any special optimisation by ATI or Nvidia which uses unessercary system resources. How do you do it? Step 1: The first thing you do is find your game directory, the default is C:\Program Files\EA Games\Battlefield 2 Step 2: Once you have found the directory, locate the file BF2.exe, right click, and select properties Step 3: You will then need to change the text in the white box which says "BF2", above the directory on the general tab, you can change it to anything you want! for simplicity, I changed it to BF21.exe once you have done this, CLICK APPLY! Step 4: This tip is now officially done, but the shortcut on your desktop will now no longer work. To change this, delete the shortcut on your desktop, goto the game directory, and right click on the newly renamed file. Click Send To, then Desktop (Create Shortcut) and you will now have a working link your desktop! Spyware Additional Notes * If you do this and use XFIRE, you may need to change your Xfire_games.config file to: [4578] LongName=Battlefield 2 ShortName=bf2 Icon=bf2.ico LauncherDirKey=HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Electro nic Arts\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2\InstallDir LauncherExe=BF21.exe * Some people doubt the validity of this because it is not changed in the registry, for those people, it doesn't matter what it is called in the registry it just matters what the executable file is called when running it (look in task manager) * When patching, it may be that you need to temporarily rename the file back to the original while you do it, temporarily rename it to BF2 and patch it, don't bother about changing the shortcuts, when you're done, just rename it back to your original name and all the shortcuts will be ok again Tip 3: Changing the size of the AGP aperture How does this work? For ME (everyone is different!) this made the biggest difference to my gameplay but it is quite hard to do. Read it through, see if your comfortable with it. If you have used BIOS before this'll be a piece of cake. If you haven't, don't worry I'll guide you through it. Basically the amount of memory on your graphics card determines how much graphics it can store for immediate use. If its there for immediate use it does not have to render it each time, and therefore it can access the data faster. By allowing some of your RAM to be used by the graphics card, this solves many in game issues. It is recommended you have over 1GB of ram for this, although 768mb should be fine. To do this, we have to change some of the settings in the computers memory, although this sounds daunting, it is very simple for someone to do. I might add that messing around with other things while your in the computers BIOS can cause system instability, so focus lol, and follow the steps and you should be fine! How do you do it? Step 1: *If you have any computer/motherboard documentation it would be useful to have it at hand now in-case you need it. You may have problems if you own a computer that is a Dell or similar.* First thing to do, is to restart your computer, so make a note of these points or print them off. Step 2: As it is starting up, and I mean right at the start when it makes the funny noises, before the windows screen, you need to press the "Delete" key. It is different on some computers, but most of the time it is the "Delete" key. If you do not know what key your computer uses, either look in the documentation or look at the bottom of the screen and it should say something like "press ... to enter setup". If you find you can't get into the setup, Restart, wait 1 to 2 seconds, then keep pressing delete in regular intervals until a setup fills the screen ( you'll know when you see it) Step 3: When you are in the setup (or BIOS) you will need to have a little scout around. Look at the instructions for getting around at the bottom and make yourself familiar with them. DO NOT CHANGE ANY OTHER SETTINGS! I cannot stress this enough! The setting you will need to find is called "AGP Aperture" or "AGP Aperture Size". In most motherboards it will be under something like "Advanced Chipset Features" or "Advanced Memory Features". Use your brain, have a look, and you are bound to find it. When you have located it there should be a figure next to it, in MB or megabytes. SEE BELOW Step 4: You will need to change this number to 256MB, or as high as it will go up to 256MB. Step 5: When you have changed this, look at the bottom for the "Save changes and Exit" keys, In most cases, press F10 and then Esc to exit. Step 6: When you have exited, it will automatically restart and your new setting will be effective immediately! Enjoy! *IF YOU CHANGE A SETTING IN THE BIOS BY ACCIDENT, DON'T TOUCH ANYTHING AND SIMPLY RESTART YOUR COMPUTER, THEN NOTHING WILL BE SAVED AND YOU CAN TRY AGAIN!* Tip 4: Making Battlefield 2 automatically a High Priority Application How does this work? Windows shares out its resources and memory between its programs equally. It also runs its own background tasks using the "System Idle Process". By Increasing the priority of an application, Windows provides more Memory to that application, and takes memory away from it's own tasks such as the "System Idle Process". You can change the priority of an application by going to ctrl+alt+delete and changing it manually, or you can set up this file to automatically launch the program as a High Priority Application, without you touching a thing! How do you do it? Step 1: FInd the BF2 directory again, the default is C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2 the BF2 directory (common: C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2) Step 2: Right click anywhere in this folder and click New then Text Document Step 3: Right click on the newly created file and rename it to bf2.bat, The file should then turn into a little cog. If it doesn't, you will need to uncheck the 'Hide extensions for known file types' option checked in Tools > Folder options > View. Step 4: Right click your newly created bf2.bat and click Edit Step 5: Copy and paste the following into the notepad window that opens: @echo off cd /d "C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2" start /high BF2.exe +menu 1 +fullscreen 1 If you have renamed your file in Tip 3 then you will need to paste the following code (if you have changed the BF2.exe to something different than BF21.exe, edit the BF21.exe to your filename) @echo off cd /d "C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2" start /high BF21.exe +menu 1 +fullscreen 1 Don't forget, if you installed BF2 to a different directory than C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2 then adjust it accordingly. Step 6: Save your changes and close the Notepad window. Step 7: Right click the new bf2.bat and click Send To > Desktop (create shortcut) Step 8: Goto your desktop, and right click the new shortcut, then click properties. Step 9: Click on the "Change Icon" Button, and goto your game directory "C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2" and double click on your BF2.exe (or BF21.exe) This makes the shortcut have a real icon, not necessary, but makes it look way better. Step 10: Right click on the shortcut and rename it to "Battlefield 2" or whatever you want really. ADDITIONAL NOTE: For some putting it on high makes it worst performance, so try doing it on low as well if you encounter problems Tip 5: Updating your punkbuster How does this work? Instead of Battlefield 2 manually and time consumingly trying to do it in game, quickly do it with this easy fix (may not work if its already updated). This tweak will work for america's army and also any other game that uses punkbuster. Punkbuster also changes issues in performance in their patches so it is well worth downloading the latest driver. How do you do it? Step 1: http://www.punkbuster.com/index.php?page=pbsetup.php visit this site and scroll down to the pbsetup.exe link Step 2: Either run or save the program Step 3: Click add game and select "Battlefield 2" (and any other games you have on the list) Step 4: Click Update Tip 6: Disable the intro movies How does this work? The intro movies in Battlefield 2 are cool the first time you watch them, but become very tedious after the hundredth time. The files also total up to about 250mb of memory. Loading these annoying battlefield 2 videos into the ram every time can seriously affect performance. To disable (NOT remove) these movies, follow the steps below, it's really very simple, you don't even have to go into the registry! How do you do it? Step 1: Navigate to your Battlefield 2 folder (default: C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2) Step 2: Click on Mods then bf2 then Movies Step 3: Right Click on each file and click Rename, then rename it to anything you want, as you can see below, I mainly just added "ky" to the extension. I reccomened that you dont rename the folder, as this can cause issues with punkbuster. I also suggest you keep welcome.bik intact, for the same reason. BEFORE RENAMING: AFTER RENAMING: [/url] If anything goes wrong, just rename them back to what they were. Tip 7: Downloading a Tweaked Forceware Driver How does this work? This one is very simple, but you do it at your own risk. Come to think of it, there's probably not all that much risk actually involved, but anyways. Make sure you know what card you have, some manufacturers such as dell might hide the cards a little. Below is a link to a 3rd Party Website to Download a Tweaked Driver. This Driver has been specially tweaked to make it better for Battlefield 2. Give it a try, should work. If it doesn't just uninstall it again. I have noted that many people are worried that this driver will fry their cards but the driver itself is almost identical to the official driver, it has just had a couple of lines of code changed. I have posted links for both Nvidia and Ati. How do you do it? Nvidia Cards Step 1: Visit This Page Click Here, and click on the driver which is nearest the top Step 2: Run the file and follow the onscreen instructions Ati Cards Step 1: Visit This Page Click Here, and click on the most recent version, or the one which best suits your card Step 2: Run the file and follow the onscreen instructions (I suggest you upgrade your graphics card if you don't have a very good one. Make sure you always have the latest drivers tweaked or not. Check out some hardware sites and consider purchasing some better parts. I recently bought a wester digital raptor [wd raptor] and it has proved very beneficial to my loading times and verifying client data times. The wd raptor is the fastest hard drive in the world, with a speed of 10,000 rpm. It is also a SATA [serial-ata] so it has much higher data transfer speeds.) Tip 8: Disabling the Paging Executive How does this work? When Windows XP does not have enough RAM it allocates some of the ram to the hard drive. You may think this is good because you get some extra memory but I'm afraid it's not quite as simple as that. The hard drive does not load nearly as fast as the RAM does so it infact reduces the speed of your computer. If you have at least a gigabyte of ram I suggest this. If you don't I wouldn't do it, as your computer may need the extra RAM on the hard drive to survive. What we are going to do is disable the "Page File". Which is the file which puts files in it. To do this we are going to have to go into the registry, which is rather like the BIOS, but it's in windows so it's a lot easier. Remember, try this at your own risk! and only if you have enough RAM! How do you do it? Step 1: Goto Start->Run and type in the following "regedit" (without the quotation marks) Step 2: You should then see a list of folders on the left-hand side. You will need to click on them in this order and navigate to this area: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\ Session Manager\Memory Management\ Step 3: On the right hand side you should now see something called DisablePagingExecutive. Double click on this and change the number inside to a "1" (from a 0) You'll need to restart to see any effect. Tip 9: Priotizing IRQ's How does this work? The most important parts in your computer have a number called an IRQ. These include the graphics card and even the CMOS clock. With this tweak we can increase the priority given to any IRQ number, therefore improving the performance of that component. The most common component this tweak is used for is the System CMOS/real time clock, which improves performance across the board. How do you do it? Step 1: First of all, you will need to decide which component you want to give a performance boost to. I suggest, to start with you do this to the CMOS clock, as it increases performance in almost everything. Step 2: Once you have decided, go to Control Panel, then open the System panel (You can also press the shortcut of Windows key+Break). Click the 'Hardware' tab, then on the 'Device Manager' button. Step 3: Now, right click on the component you want to discover the IRQ for and click 'Properties', then click on the 'Resources' tab. If you want to change the CMOS clock, as I reccomended, click on the + next to "System devices" to open it up. After this, right click on System CMOS/Real time clock and click properites, after this click the resources tab, and then see what it says next to IRQ. (Mine says 08). If there is no IRQ number for the device you chose then this won't work for that component, so choose another. Step 4: Take note of this number and then goto Start->Run and type regedit, and hit enter. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESystemCurrentControlSetControlPriorityControl in the registry. Step 5: Now we must create a new value, right click anywhere in the right frame and click "New DWORD VALUE". Name it IRQ#Priority (where '#' is the IRQ number), then set the data to 1. You'll need to restart to see any effect. Remember that you can have multiple IRQ prioritized, but it is fairly inefficient and can cause instability, I wouldn't reccomend it. To remove this tweak, simply delete the value you created.Tip 10: Tip 10: Extra stuff, mostly OS related. Install a spyware remover *- These are availble all over the internet. A good spyware remover is very important. Download the software, then run it regularly, every week or so. If you get infested with spyware or adware badly, download ewido at www.ewido.com in my experience this is the best adware remover if it gets really bad. Spyware can seriously slow down your computer and can make games run very slowly. Also get Mozilla Firefox, look below, as this is very good for preventing spyware. Update your BIOS. Your motherboard controls everything, and a BIOS update can help greatly in some situations. Find your BIOS driver from the mobo website and download the latest version. Don't get interrupted when flashing the chip though! or it can ruin your mobo! you have been warned lol! Update all your drivers. I suggest for your video drivers you use the ones in tip 8, but make sure you regularly update the soundcard drivers etc. Buy a bottle of compressed air at a computer store and clean out your PC once every 6 months or so! Some boards and chips will slow down if they get too hot. The dust makes more insulation, so get rid of it. Try and install efficient fans too. If they start to rattle, replace them! As they are not doing their job properly! Consider Disabling Fancy XP menus and stuff. Consider changing to classic view in the start bar, as there will be less to load into the memory. If your account is taking ages to connect, I found out that deleting it and retrieving it greatly decreases waiting times, you will need to apply your personal/video settings again though. Make sure you have the latest anti virus installed. This is a bit of a stupid point though, everyone knows you need a good anti-virus. I reccomend to get a good one like norton, although avg is very good seeing as its free. Disable the Performance Checker. Windows checks your PC performance regularly. You can see it in the task manager. This does however slow down in-game performance on most desktop pcs. Here's how you do it: Step 1: Visit http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000...exctrlst-o.asp and download. It says its for Win 2000 but it works on XP. Step 2: Once installed Go to C:Program\FilesResource Kit and run Exctrlst.exe. Select each line in the “Extensible performance counters” window and clear the “performance counters enabled” button below. This must be done for each counter. When it’s finished, just exit the utility. Consider a registry cleaner or optimizer. These are usually downloadable free or on a free trial but they can get rid of all the bad entries in the registry that can cause the computer to slow up. A clean and well functioning registry is the key to any stable and fast computer. Registry Mechanic is particulary good, but nowadays they basically all do the same so it doesn't matter If you don't have it already, get Mozilla Firefox as it is much better than internet explorer. It is already starting to overtake IE due to its increased speed and easier functions. It's totally free and well worth the download. The security in this browser is top notch, greatly reducing the chances of viruses, worms, spyware and adware being passed from the net. Try it, at least. there is another BF 2 antilag tip which I think is good. As most of you know operating systems like windows xp or 2000 run 99999999999 background tasks in the background. For example the spooler system for the printer or speed disk agent from norton systemworks rofl etc. etc., you cant even see some of these programs in an externally installed startup manager (or in windows xp if you type the command "msconfig" in the Start - exec line). The list of running background tasks is really ridiculous. Even if you deactivate all stuff which you think is not necessary via an external startup manager and remove everything from autostart folder etc. etc., there still remain unbelievable amounts of crap (its really unbelievable :-D) which still run. There are 2 ways to get this stuff out: 1.) You can disable services manually via the operating system, but as many of them are interdependent chances are very very high that you completely ruin your operating system by disabling necessary services. The most funny thing is that you can even disable the service that runs the services menu, ROFL, thats really convenient for wrecking your computer. So simply dont do this, if you really want to try this, make a complete copy of your operating system partition first (!), you will surely need it (so you dont have to reinstall everything manually again, which usually takes a complete day, which is an absolute waste of time). Its much better to use option 2., which is 2.) install the program "End it all" which lists every task which runs in the background and close and kill everything you think you dont need (thats a lot of stuff, at my place I can close or kill 18 useless programs or so). If you marked everything to be closed or killed in the end it all program (except a few things the operating systems need, which are usually marked bold by End it all or important things like the firewall!) you can select close all and kill all from the menu the next time and end it all kills and closes all the stuff you selected automatically. The simplest thing is to go to kill all right from the start, then it closes all you marked and kills the rest of the stuff you marked. Again, DONT KILL THE FIREWALL. Without a firewall, an average computer gets infected with viruses / trojans within a timespan of 30 - 60 seconds (thanks to all the scriptkiddies with their port scanners which instantly recognize unprotected computers that are in the internet and infect them with their "remote management" programs so that they can have fun with you :-D). The good thing about End it all is that if you restart (or only logout and login, did not try this) your machine, every background crap you never wanted to know about is there again, so everything will work like it did before...so if you want to print something after playing BF2 then and you need the printer spooler service just restart the machine (or logout / login again, did not try this). I think thats a very good tip and you should add it to your main tip list (this would be 11 tips then), but try it for yourself first. Feedback welcome. Hm, another small tip...to make sure the battlefield 2 basic files remain unchanged (after all, BF 2 sometimes crashes even if everything is perfectly right, which may harm the BF2 files) you could use special backup software to make a backup of the BF2 folder. Well, I suppose it might also work if you simply copy and paste it, but dont be sure about this because the NTFS filesystem most people have installed has special security features that usually prevent this and if you copy it back it might not work anymore...but thats just an additional idea of me. Det burde dekke endel ting.
Yaricks Skrevet 5. desember 2006 Skrevet 5. desember 2006 Se her du! https://www.diskusjon.no/index.php?showtopic=664128
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