New BF2 patch released

By Ellie Gibson Published 18 July, 2005

This one works, says EA.

A new patch for PC shooter Battlefield 2 is now available for download.

EA is promising that this one should do the trick, following last week's announcement that the previously released v1.01 update could cause problems on some systems and should not be installed.

Forum noise suggests more still needs to be done, but for now you're encouraged to apply the new patch.

Battlefield 2 is out now, and the great EA/Eurogamer multiplayer face-off is just days away.

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Comments (15) Latest comment 7 years ago

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  • doc-yipee #1 7 years ago

    doc-yipee has initiated a kick vote against EA, press page up for yes or page down for no.

  • richardiox #2 7 years ago

    Personally speaking, for every problem this new patch solved it has caused a new one.
    Slow Server Browser has been fixed but now filters dont work properly
    Memory Leak has been fixed but lag/stutter has gone up.
    Plus, my FPS is lower than what it was pre patching.

    That said, plenty of people are saying the patch has really helped their performance - just not for me. Seems to be one of those games that is going to be an eternal case of "Works on mine...but not on yours"

  • PearOfAnguish #3 7 years ago

    But it really hasn't fixed anything, has it EA. I still get constant 'Connection problem' messages, the servers still crash, my graphics are still corrupted and the server browser is still a godawful pile of shit.

    I know it must be difficult to put in a little extra work when you could be busy making pointless expansion packs, but it would have been nice to have actually finished the game before releasing it.

  • richardiox #4 7 years ago

    Well, according to most of the feedback I've been reading from people who have spoken to EA Tech Support after these patches, if you still have a problem with the game it's a problem at our end and nothing to do with the game itself.

    EA have effectively washed their hands of blame for the fact there still isnt proper support for the ATIx800 cards driver-wise, that my fps chokes all over the place regardless of settings, that I get a repeating sound stutter bug, black screen for 5 seconds every ten mins or so (probably related to ATI drivers tbh), CTDs between rounds, no in game 1280x1024 support, no in game gamma control, only 1 game mode available, the patch 1.1 travesty and terrible lag even on a server with low pings.

    It amazes me that a game that is primarily designed to be played online has such a bad online interface even with the "fixed" server browser. Games like this remind me why I ditched PC gaming years ago. Far Cry, HL2 et al lured me back and both played fine on my system with no messing about so why can't BF2...EA?

    Edit- the worse or maybe best thing is; I do actually love this game and have been playing it since it came out, I just wish I didn't have to do an hour of troubleshooting / tweaking for every hour I play.
    Edited by richardiox at 18/07/05 @ 16:29

  • prettyboytim #5 7 years ago

    Hmm - I notice that although this patch is called 1.02, when installing it asks you whether you want to install 1.01..

    Hooray for EA QA!

  • jumpdeveraux #6 7 years ago

    On EA UK servers over the weekend had 4 hours seemless gaming on one server, disconnected (for a snack break) and connected to another EA UK server - stuttering and warping everywhere and everyone complaining.

    Anyone else also seeing the odd pause when you die or are being hit, almost like you are frozen and the game takes a little while to show that you were killed.

    When it works well it's a great game but sadly that's about 60% of the time.

  • symmetry #7 7 years ago

    Personally I've never had a problem with the game itself, even with 1.01. I've got an ATI 9600 Pro and I always play on the 64 player EA UK servers and have very rarely had lag. The servers do crash a bit too often though.

    The server browser and UI though is a whole other kettle of fish. It beggers belief that anyone would have considered this acceptable for public release. They must have done the absolute minimum of testing on it, like "ok, can we join a server?" "yep" "tick, passed that one, what's next?".

  • Nige #8 7 years ago

    It's reaffirms your faith in Sony & Microsoft, that when you take the licensor out of the equation - EA's self-imposed quality standards continue to plumb new depths.

    Don't make the mistake of blaming this on QA though. This is entirely driven by non-game playing arm of the company. Let's hope that when the revolution does come they go the same way as the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.

  • Yama #9 7 years ago

    The patch took a whopping 1.5 hours to apply on my home PC, and then after all that I can't play online. I can connect to a server, but when it gets to the 'Verifying Client Data' step it just sits there forver. This was with a fresh install, so I'm a little disgruntled.

    PageUp! PageUp!

  • Psi #10 7 years ago

    EA ate my hamster

  • davesy #11 7 years ago

    This is why i stick to console gaming!

  • lasersrule #12 7 years ago

    Mwarrrgh.

    Put on the patch, plenty of servers for a few days and then nothing but the same 30 US servers with ludicrous pings.

    Uninstalled AGAIN!

    Amazing.

    Can we, as gamers, form some kind of union to get shit like rubbish, rushed patching and woefully inadequate MP browsers indentified as faults in the product and/or service and prosecutable by trading standards as a result?

    Come on... we could do the same for annual sport game updates and everything. It would be wicked.
    Edited by lasersrule at 19/07/05 @ 10:52

  • Merefield #13 7 years ago

    I actually have some sympathy with EA. This is cutting edge gaming - a ludicrous amount of bleeding edge gaming tech here. Huge demands on bandwidth, client-server interaction and top notch graphical effects.

    Give them a break - they'll fix the few issues that there are.

    If you've ever played Soldner you'd recognise that EA/Dice have done a fantastic job with BF2 and have achieved most of what they set out to achieve, it seems.

  • AtomicBanana Verified Level Designer, Playground Games #14 7 years ago

    I fail to see how any of that matters if it doesn't even work properly most of the time.

  • richardiox #15 7 years ago

    Re: symapthy with EA

    If other publishers have managed to release games as cutting edge as BF2 but without the slew of problems BF2 has given me how does your sympathy work? Personally, I have no sympathy. If in doubt that your product wont cut it...dont release it until your confident.