Battlefield 2 Retail Version Review
Well as you've already read in my Demo Review, I wasn't totally satisfied with it. The full Retail version is NO different. This game could be great and graphically it is awesome.
Many of the new features are great compared to the earlier games in the series, but with all the hype you would have thought this was the game to end all games? It is NOT. If I were to give it a score it would still be no better than what I gave the Demo. 7.5 out of 10. Too many damn BUGS!!!
There are more bugs in this game than there are on a bug light in late June. The strangest thing about these bugs is that you can set everything to maxed with a system similar to this listed below and play flawlessly in SINGLEPLAYER.
Asus A7N8X-Deluxe
AMD XP 3200+
1.5 Gig RAM
PNY 6800 Ultra
Now playing MULTIPLAYER? Which is what this game was made for, is another story. If I don't get a BSOD (Blue Screen of Death), it will simply CTD (Crash to Desktop). LAG is another serious issue. Another strange thing is that even online the SOUND and GRAPHICS can LAG or I should say STUTTER, LAG is usually associated with LATENCY or your network connection. For the novice out there everything is LAG though... LOL.
My first suggestion to anyone getting this game make it run FLAWLESSLY in SINGLEPLAYER first. Once this is done then you should be good to go, but if and when you do finally go ONLINE and it stutters, lags, or blows up it's usually nothing wrong with your system or how you have it set up. EA is already releasing a patch this week which will clear up most of the problems, but with past endeavors I doubt it will.
Things to get it going in SINGLEPLAYER before you try ONLINE.
For everyone out there with this game the other thing to do just to run the game is edit your VideoDefault.con file and the line with RefreshRate in it change to 1 instead of 0. This will at least allow the game to run. If you hate watching the many movies and logos in beginning just rename the movies folder or delete it - to keep the files just rename movies, movies_, this will cause it not to call on that folder and it's files and will put you immediately into the game at the login screen.
For those trying to set up an account if you already have a GameSpy Account from years ago or period you can use it, if you try re-creating it with same name etc. you will receive errors. You can do this by RETRIEVING instead of CREATING.
If you have a Soundblaster Sound card then you can enable EAX, if not then DON'T. As you can see from my system specs above I DO NOT have a Soundblaster but built on sound which for the NForce 2 board was SoundStorm. You will also want to set it to HARDWARE - NOT - SOFTWARE.
Things to do in XP would be Disable Firewall. Make sure QoS Packet Scheduler is installed for your network card. Go to Start/Run and type the word gpedit.msc then to Computer Configuration then Administrative Template then Network and highlight QoS Packet Scheduler and on the Right Side Pane double click on Limit Reservable Bandwidth and Enable and change the 20% to 0. Turn OFF System Restore for all drives, Turn OFF the Indexing Service and set to Manual. Disable and turn OFF the Nvidia Display Driver Service. Set a Page file to a happy medium, I use 768 for both MIN and MAX. Defrag your system once this is all done. Have the latest bios for your system and drivers for both your motherboard, video, sound, network.
Set your Video Card Drivers to Application Controlled and set to Quality. In Game if you have graphics issues still you can Turn off AA in game and turn off Dynamic Lighting and Shadowing. Still have issues start lowering the graphics settings for everything else and last but not least lower sound settings.
You'll also come to realize when playing online you can NOT kill anyone. Even if you think you are hitting them, you probably aren't, you just simply have SO much trouble trying to kill someone. This can be seen just by watching peoples kill/death ratio, they are usually killed more than they have killed. The game is so frustrating.
If they get all the bugs worked out and listen to those that have bought the game, this may become a better game, that and the MODS being built may make it worth the purchase. If everything is fixed this may take the game up to 8.5 but still it's Battlefield. Nothing new, not ground breaking and don't believe all those reviews out there. Take it from a true avid gamer like myself before you purchase because this game will drive you to the edge with frustration.
To see all the issues check out this forum it's full of Good and Bad but believe me there is more BAD than GOOD, with the current state of this game.
Another classic is that they once had a forum link on their Official BF2 page but it's now gone (HMMMM???) They knew it was going to be ugly a head of time. I must say I posted about all of this before Demo was released on their BFV forum and people just laughed at what I had to say... Whose lauging now??? LOL...
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Many of the new features are great compared to the earlier games in the series, but with all the hype you would have thought this was the game to end all games? It is NOT. If I were to give it a score it would still be no better than what I gave the Demo. 7.5 out of 10. Too many damn BUGS!!!
There are more bugs in this game than there are on a bug light in late June. The strangest thing about these bugs is that you can set everything to maxed with a system similar to this listed below and play flawlessly in SINGLEPLAYER.
Asus A7N8X-Deluxe
AMD XP 3200+
1.5 Gig RAM
PNY 6800 Ultra
Now playing MULTIPLAYER? Which is what this game was made for, is another story. If I don't get a BSOD (Blue Screen of Death), it will simply CTD (Crash to Desktop). LAG is another serious issue. Another strange thing is that even online the SOUND and GRAPHICS can LAG or I should say STUTTER, LAG is usually associated with LATENCY or your network connection. For the novice out there everything is LAG though... LOL.
My first suggestion to anyone getting this game make it run FLAWLESSLY in SINGLEPLAYER first. Once this is done then you should be good to go, but if and when you do finally go ONLINE and it stutters, lags, or blows up it's usually nothing wrong with your system or how you have it set up. EA is already releasing a patch this week which will clear up most of the problems, but with past endeavors I doubt it will.
Things to get it going in SINGLEPLAYER before you try ONLINE.
For everyone out there with this game the other thing to do just to run the game is edit your VideoDefault.con file and the line with RefreshRate in it change to 1 instead of 0. This will at least allow the game to run. If you hate watching the many movies and logos in beginning just rename the movies folder or delete it - to keep the files just rename movies, movies_, this will cause it not to call on that folder and it's files and will put you immediately into the game at the login screen.
For those trying to set up an account if you already have a GameSpy Account from years ago or period you can use it, if you try re-creating it with same name etc. you will receive errors. You can do this by RETRIEVING instead of CREATING.
If you have a Soundblaster Sound card then you can enable EAX, if not then DON'T. As you can see from my system specs above I DO NOT have a Soundblaster but built on sound which for the NForce 2 board was SoundStorm. You will also want to set it to HARDWARE - NOT - SOFTWARE.
Things to do in XP would be Disable Firewall. Make sure QoS Packet Scheduler is installed for your network card. Go to Start/Run and type the word gpedit.msc then to Computer Configuration then Administrative Template then Network and highlight QoS Packet Scheduler and on the Right Side Pane double click on Limit Reservable Bandwidth and Enable and change the 20% to 0. Turn OFF System Restore for all drives, Turn OFF the Indexing Service and set to Manual. Disable and turn OFF the Nvidia Display Driver Service. Set a Page file to a happy medium, I use 768 for both MIN and MAX. Defrag your system once this is all done. Have the latest bios for your system and drivers for both your motherboard, video, sound, network.
Set your Video Card Drivers to Application Controlled and set to Quality. In Game if you have graphics issues still you can Turn off AA in game and turn off Dynamic Lighting and Shadowing. Still have issues start lowering the graphics settings for everything else and last but not least lower sound settings.
You'll also come to realize when playing online you can NOT kill anyone. Even if you think you are hitting them, you probably aren't, you just simply have SO much trouble trying to kill someone. This can be seen just by watching peoples kill/death ratio, they are usually killed more than they have killed. The game is so frustrating.
If they get all the bugs worked out and listen to those that have bought the game, this may become a better game, that and the MODS being built may make it worth the purchase. If everything is fixed this may take the game up to 8.5 but still it's Battlefield. Nothing new, not ground breaking and don't believe all those reviews out there. Take it from a true avid gamer like myself before you purchase because this game will drive you to the edge with frustration.
To see all the issues check out this forum it's full of Good and Bad but believe me there is more BAD than GOOD, with the current state of this game.
Another classic is that they once had a forum link on their Official BF2 page but it's now gone (HMMMM???) They knew it was going to be ugly a head of time. I must say I posted about all of this before Demo was released on their BFV forum and people just laughed at what I had to say... Whose lauging now??? LOL...
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