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Title: Battlefield 2 Demo
Post by: Viper_Fujax on June 10, 2005, 10:33:47 PM
http://www.gamespot.com/promos/bf2demo.html

i think its pretty awesome. But i have a good computer now and it makes it choppy as hell. Everything was on high, but i was thinking my computer could handle it.

theres jets, tanks, helicopters in the demo. Helo\'s are pretty much impossible for me to fly but other people have gotten it down. And the American\'s jet is awesome..hover takeoff, can see the engine rotate downwards. Graphics are good but still have the battlefield 1942 feeling underneath the good graphics..not sure if thats good or bad.
Title: Battlefield 2 Demo
Post by: fastson on June 11, 2005, 03:35:51 PM
Yeah its going to be one sweet game.

Runs really well on my computer. I have one problem though, why is DICE not supporting TFT resolutions? BF42, BFV and now BF2 refuse to support 1280x1024.

Stupid bastards.

Anyway, great game, it has a nice feeling to it. Got mine preordered already. :)
Title: Battlefield 2 Demo
Post by: Samwise on June 13, 2005, 04:57:52 AM
Fast, add this to the shortcut:

"bf2.exe" +menu 1 +fullscreen 1 +szx 1280 +szy 1024
Title: Battlefield 2 Demo
Post by: JBean on June 13, 2005, 05:55:26 AM
maybe i\'m a bit slow, but I have no idea what they hell you are saying.  Is there some shortcut to get 1280x1024 in BF2?  I have BFV and that\'s my one pet peeve, no 1280x1024 support

so there\'s a way around it then or what?  Guess I could always google it and find out, but i\'d rather have other people do that for me ;)

EDIT...

I found what you were talking about, but it looks like it only works for bf2, not the older BF games.
Title: Battlefield 2 Demo
Post by: THX on June 14, 2005, 06:04:48 AM
sammy many have had the same problem when dealing with odd resolutions.  Even when using the shortcut commands.  Seems it\'s jsut a soppy demo, as far as features go anyways.
Title: Battlefield 2 Demo
Post by: fastson on June 14, 2005, 06:17:17 AM
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Originally posted by Samwise
Fast, add this to the shortcut:

"bf2.exe" +menu 1 +fullscreen 1 +szx 1280 +szy 1024


Thanks I\'ll give it a shot. :D

EDIT: Hey it works. Thanks Hasselhoff. ;)

(https://psx5central.com/community/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fweb.telia.com%2F%7Eu48019550%2Fbf2full.jpg&hash=12d4b6d80b893a27fcb256b5fe63ec1f36ba8257)
Title: Battlefield 2 Demo
Post by: Avatarr on June 14, 2005, 06:53:33 AM
bah it\'s a buggy peice of shit that keeps on crashing to my desktop. die.
Title: Battlefield 2 Demo
Post by: Viper_Fujax on June 14, 2005, 05:13:31 PM
Quote
Originally posted by Avatarr
bah it\'s a buggy peice of shit that keeps on crashing to my desktop. die.


sucks for you
Title: Battlefield 2 Demo
Post by: JBean on June 15, 2005, 04:20:42 AM
I have yet to try it out, but I will tonight I think.  I\'m really loving BF:V, even if a lot of people don\'t like it.  I\'m new to the whole battlefield series, so i\'m not jaded like most people.  I always play on the rubberducky server as it seems to be well controlled and is always close to full.

how big is the BF2 demo?  Like 500MB?
Title: Battlefield 2 Demo
Post by: Viper_Fujax on June 15, 2005, 05:32:55 PM
yea..bout 540 MB..seems to be the going rate now-a-days.
Title: Battlefield 2 Demo
Post by: fastson on June 21, 2005, 03:51:19 AM
Out tomorrow for you yanks. Out on Friday for us no good scum socialist euros. :D

Tested the full version yesterday, great maps. The Chinese are probably the best "team". :)
Title: Battlefield 2 Demo
Post by: JBean on June 21, 2005, 04:22:49 AM
gamespot gave it a 9.3

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/battlefield2/review.html?q=1&tag=gs_hp_flashtop_bg

IGN 8.9

http://pc.ign.com/articles/627/627218p1.html

pretty good scores, but i\'m thinking about waiting until the first patch comes out.  Guess i\'ll have to ask you guys about any problems when it first comes out and base my decision from that.
Title: Battlefield 2 Demo
Post by: JBean on June 22, 2005, 04:26:33 AM
ok got the demo... first time going to play online hit about 80% loaded then crashed to the desktop.  hmm.... ok, let\'s try this again

Loaded up and logged on some random server only to get killed instantly by one of my own team mates.... change spawn points and same thing... :(

Changed servers and found a team actually working together and having some good battles.  I was really getting discouraged at first... but now I think i\'m gonna have to run out and get this game today.  :)
Title: Battlefield 2 Demo
Post by: Viper_Fujax on June 22, 2005, 11:22:38 PM
doh! i was hoping my brother was gunna have bf2 purchased when i got home tonight but its nowhere. o well..ill get it tomorrow.

my only 2 complaints with the demo: The sniper rifle kinda sucks. It works now and then, but most of the time i have no idea where the bullet will end up, sometimes it takes 2 shots to kill people, and i cant tell if the bullet drops or not so i dont know whether to aim up from the guy or aim right at him. and 2) I get connection problems too often, gets annoying.

But the pros completely outway the cons.
Title: Battlefield 2 Demo
Post by: fastson on June 23, 2005, 03:29:25 AM
Got mine today.

I hope DICE finds out a way to fix the stuttering problems many people are experiencing.
Title: Battlefield 2 Demo
Post by: JBean on June 23, 2005, 04:24:32 AM
yeah, I got some minor stuttering problems from time to time.  I also read everywhere that this game is a RAM hog.  You need at least 1.5 gigs to ensure no harddrive swapping.  :(

oh yeah, and i\'m buying the game toinght.  :)
Title: Battlefield 2 Demo
Post by: §ôµÏG®ïñD on June 23, 2005, 04:27:39 AM
I have the game too, finding that it has strange texture issues that are blacking out and going normal.. very strange.
Title: Battlefield 2 Demo
Post by: fastson on June 23, 2005, 07:53:23 AM
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Originally posted by §ôµÏG®ïñD
I have the game too, finding that it has strange texture issues that are blacking out and going normal.. very strange.


I had that problem, install the drivers that came with the game. :)

Quote
yeah, I got some minor stuttering problems from time to time. I also read everywhere that this game is a RAM hog. You need at least 1.5 gigs to ensure no harddrive swapping.


Ugh, sloppy!
Cant afford any new RAM right now (I have 1024), what can I chance to free up some RAM? Draw distance?
Title: Battlefield 2 Demo
Post by: JBean on June 23, 2005, 09:23:47 AM
I think i\'m gonna try to do the selective startup and only run required services to bootup.  That way almost all of your system resources are free.  I always do this when I benchmark, but doing it for this game may help out as well.

Just type "msconfig" in the run box and i\'m sure you can figure it out.  :)

but really though, the skipping from time to time isn\'t that noticable... I chalked it up to internet lag more than anything so far.  Plus a future patch may help clear up some of the problems.

I\'ve been running everything high except for turning off dynamic shadows and some other setting I had at medium (shadow detail maybe?).  I\'m running at least 50-60fps on average.

You have a 6800 series GPU faston?

Got the game on my lunch break.. had to try 3 different places, but I finally found it at Target($5 off and last DVD version left)  

:bounce: :bounce:
Title: Battlefield 2 Demo
Post by: Viper_Fujax on June 23, 2005, 08:25:03 PM
i got the game too but every time i try to join a game it says "joining server", then the screen flashes really quick and it stays in the lobby, never loading a server.

kinda pisses me off. Why cant any of these companies get a damn game right,lol. First UBI pissed me off with their ghost recon AND raven shield shananigans...now EA has more than a few annoying problems. Not saying dont get the game..because it works for many (also doesnt work for a good amount of people)..but dammit.
Title: Battlefield 2 Demo
Post by: JBean on June 23, 2005, 11:05:53 PM
I just played the game for about the past 5 hours straight without a single problem.  Tried my hand at being a squad leader and that kicks ass (as long as you have a good commander dishing out the commands to give to your squad).  Playing as a team with 5 or 6 guys really makes it that much better, I didn\'t think it would before tonight.

And I acutally enjoyed being a medic more than anything.  Probably least enjoy playing as support, cause their guns are the least accurate.  But in a squad you need one to refill everyone\'s ammo.  Spec Ops is fun too, I love planting c4 on the back of a tank or on a flag and waiting for someone to capture it :D

Brilliant game... I still have only seen 4 out of the 12 maps, and so far they are pretty decent.  

Wonder why you are having trouble logging into a server... do you have punkbuster checked at the bottom?
Title: Battlefield 2 Demo
Post by: Viper_Fujax on June 24, 2005, 08:54:50 AM
i looked around some bf2 forums and found i had to go to the bf2/support folder in my computer and re-enter the cd-key, then it randomly works. Guess a lot of people had that problem, but now its working perfectly for me.
Title: Battlefield 2 Demo
Post by: JBean on June 27, 2005, 07:24:30 AM
anybody else getting horrible lag on ranked servers?

man.. it\'s horrible.  Guess i\'ll stick to unranked until (or if) they fix the ranked servers.  :(
Title: Battlefield 2 Demo
Post by: Samwise on June 28, 2005, 12:13:05 AM
I\'m having enough fun with the demo so I don\'t have to buy the game just yet. :D

It\'s the best demo of a game I\'ve ever tried. It\'s not crippled like they usually are (well, if you\'re not counting the fact that it\'s just one level).
Title: Battlefield 2 Demo
Post by: fastson on June 28, 2005, 03:39:11 AM
If you think the demo is fun, wait until you play the Chinese maps.. Awe-awe-SOM€! :D

Gulf of Oman is probably the worst map in the full game. :p
Title: Battlefield 2 Demo
Post by: JBean on June 28, 2005, 04:27:49 AM
I actually kinda like Gulf of Oman  :(  and I think Mashtuur City is awesome


I think one of the worst maps is Kubra Dam.... it\'s just too damn hard to get around on that map.  That and Cleansweep or whatever it\'s called, with the bunch of linked up islands.

But 10 out of 12 maps ain\'t bad... ;)
Title: Battlefield 2 Demo
Post by: Viper_Fujax on July 04, 2005, 11:20:59 PM
i still run into connection problems which sucks. I have cable, and my ping says stuff like 23 and 42..but i still get the "you have a connection problem." And the people im playing with dont get it as often as i do. It could be my router but i have no idea where to begin to find the ports and what-not.

Anyone figure out how to unlock all the guns? Been playing on ranked servers but all i get are random badges.
Title: Battlefield 2 Demo
Post by: JBean on July 05, 2005, 05:50:20 PM
i\'m finding if I only play games with a green bar on the left the game hardly has any lag at all.