Battlefield 2 Questions

niceguyrichy

So I've been seriously considering buying Battlefield 2 and was wondering whether or not I should bother given my system spec ??? (see my sig. Nothing OC'd yet)

Is it subscription based same as Everquest??? Cos my fiancee just plain won't let me subscribe to another one.

Finally, how hard is it to copy (backup), cos our 12 year old can destroy a disc in less time than it takes me to drink a beer (quickly!).
What's the protection, Securom New ???

All help much appreciated!

Customgamer1

Your system should run Battlefiled fine on lower settings. Last night I was watching someone play with around the same set up you have but he had a 2.6 and it was running fine. And once you buy Battlefiled 2 you can play it as much as you want for free. All you have to do is make a account and you should be set to go. As for the protection I am not sure but if your drive is destroying disks I think some thing has to be wrong with it and mabe you should just go and buy a new one.

MiDri

Its fun, untill you run into high ranked clan guys... then you relize just how crapy a player you are! lol...

niceguyrichy

'Our 12 year old' is our son. He has a bad habit of absolutely never ever putting games back in their boxes and just leaving them lying on the floor to get stood on etc......

My drives all work just fine thanks.

I'd still like to know what copy protection it has please.....

Customgamer1

I am sorry lol I don't know what I was thinking but I just mess read or missed the part about the 12 year old son.... sorry about that

MiDri

Google it, jeez! Google will tell you anything and everything you want to know - And much much more you dident want to know!

niceguyrichy

Yeah, I did google it.

You can't trust everything you read though, and nothing beats experience.
I was hoping for someone who'd already backed it up to tell me how it went.

Google isn't god MiDri, people lie.

daedal

Battlefield 2 has very little CD protection because everything is Multiplayer; therefore requiring server-side authentication (user ID and password) to be matched with the included CD key.

niceguyrichy

So does that mean that I can save the original disc and use a backup all of the time so long as I only use my own account( as I intend to do, not trying to take the p**s here)???

quakerjtf

You can download a mini image and always have it mounted on a virtual drive. You won't need the disk past first install, I haven't.

Snickers

If you will use daemon tools to mount an image to its virtual drive change the drive bus and miniport names from the default ones during install (i think daemon tools is the only one thats works really)

MiDri

You can play lan games with out logging in, thats why they put cd authentication in it...

Alex_D

You can also configure the game to play SP as well without having to log in too!

MiDri

I got a quick BF2 question...

Can any one tell me to get some more performance out of this game? I get no more then 30fps with an avrage of 20... I just can't figure it out!

Running directx with everything set to performance, and all extras (aa) off...

My system specs are:
CPU: AMD XP 2200 (~1.4ghz)
GFX: Saphire Radeon 9800 pro (128mb) (overlocked to 380mhz gpu and 380mhz mem)*
Mem: 512mb DDR400
Mobo: Gigabyte Nforce2
Sound: Built-in Nvidia Monstersound

*I have a 3rd party heatsink and fan, that takes up the entire pci slot bellow the agp slot... and get no artifacts...

quakerjtf

With BF2, you may want to upgrade to 1GB(pretty much min requirement) and a sound card. Try updating sound drivers if you haven't already.

MiDri

Monstersound i've heard is almost as good as an soundblaster/turtlebeach... just like 2 less channels (thats right only 30!)

quakerjtf

In any case, I'd still get some more ram. 1GB is almost a minimum requirement with new games these days.

MarginWalker

Definitely morer RAM would be a good idea. Game also seems to be pretty processor intensive so upgrading your proc would help as well.

MiDri

I'll just go buy a new PC with my collage change check, going to get like $1.4k...
www.buyxg.com has some really wicked machiens for around $1.2k...

niceguyrichy

Don't buy a pc man, build one.

That's most of the fun!

Mrgrimrpr

My system specs are in my signature, and everything works great!

MiDri

Its cheaper to just get them built now adays man... check prices... companys are selling alreadybuilt machines for like 200$-300$ less then you can buy the parts and then build it your self...

I've built the last 3 pc's I've had...

quakerjtf

Those have some nice prices. Building yourself is still cheaper last I checked.

MiDri

Alot of companys will not charge shipping on full pc, Their considerbly cheaper that way...

MiDri

Well its offical, I just played on is my best guess a server dedicated to the mentaly retarted youth... Not only did they aquire my blackhawk every chance they got (which they couldent fly, I was only one on the damn server that could fly worth a damn) and then they continutly did stupid things.. like camp enemy non capturable bases wilst we lost our capturable bases... or our squad leaders would piolet/gun attack hoppers or get in general areas where no one could spawn on them... (not so bad, untill we lost all our spawn points... then it would have been handy to be able to spawn... damn retards.)

quakerjtf

I was playing on this server and this guy drove all the way across the map so he could blow himself up on my claymore. It was funny as shit.