Battlefield Borked !

jonski

Hmmm , I played on Monday night and for the previous weeks/months , no problems , changed nothing . Came on Tuesday night and it doesn't seem to work anymore .

I join TS , then join a server , once I am in the server , maybe 30 seconds or so , the screen freezes , so does the pc , it seems , then after about 30 seconds I am kicked off the server and get the "your connection to the server has been lost " , at the time of the lock up I am also kicked off TS .

I have checked my ping's and tracerts and they all seem fine . I have tried playing other games online and no problems there . I have tried updating punkbuster manually , no difference . I have tried uninstalling BF2 and then reinstalling and no joy .

So I am at a loss now , no idea what to try next but as I have stated above , I have changed absolutely nothing between Monday night and Tuesday night .

Anyone have any other ideas ?

John

Gone West

something to do with the recent DSL line upgrade?

jonski

FuzzyLogic wrote:

something to do with the recent DSL line upgrade?

Maybe , but it is a difference between Monday night and Tuesday night of this week .

Ponster

> at the time of the lock up I am also kicked off TS...


Weird that. But you aren't disconnected from the net?


How about you open a DOS window and use ping with the -t at the end so it'll keep on pinging until you stop it. You could output the results to a file too.

ping server_address -t >ping.txt

Go into TS, launch BF2 and see what happens....

jonski

Ponster wrote:

> at the time of the lock up I am also kicked off TS...

Weird that. But you aren't disconnected from the net?

How about you open a DOS window and use ping with the -t at the end so it'll keep on pinging until you stop it. You could output the results to a file too.

ping server_address -t >ping.txt

Go into TS, launch BF2 and see what happens....

Ping statistics for 85.236.100.7:

Packets: Sent = 242, Received = 241, Lost = 1 (0% loss),

Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:

Minimum = 28ms, Maximum = 36ms, Average = 29ms

Control-C


In or around the middle of that there is one singular "request timed out"

Ponster

And did you get kicked from BF2 also? I wouldn't have thought that 1 packet would make that much of a difference really. I'll see what else I can find...

I'm guessing that without booting up BF2, you don't get kicked from TS after 30 seconds?

It's always worth updating Punkbuster too (doesn't always happen automatically) though I doubt it's that.

jonski

Ponster wrote:

And did you get kicked from BF2 also?

Yup

I'll see what else I can find...

there is a strong possibility that you will stumble accross my threads on other forums as I have posted and searched on EA's forums and PlanetBattlefield forums

I'm guessing that without booting up BF2, you don't get kicked from TS after 30 seconds?

indeed and can also stay on TS while playing other games

It's always worth updating Punkbuster too (doesn't always happen automatically) though I doubt it's that.

I tried this , all thats left to try at this stage is a format , but I am holding off on that till tomorrow to see if anyone can come up with a less drastic measure .

Ponster

jonski wrote:

there is a strong possibility that you will stumble accross my threads on other forums as I have posted and searched on EA's forums and PlanetBattlefield forums

Yep Seen them both. None on TotalBF2.com though 'cos I went looking and didn't see any

http://www.totalbf2.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=73

December Son

same thing (kinda) happened to me the other night. I was joining a game via xfire (following a friend who was already on a server). I right clicked mates name, selected 'join game' and it would boot up bf2 but give me the same 'your connection has been lost' error. Turned out it was trying to connect to the server with an OFFLINE account i had created for playing singleplayer. Maybe delete any offline acounts you have and jsut leave your MP acc?

jonski

Nah , I don't have any offline a/c's

jonski

Ptegan9 wrote:

Could you try connecting to this server and see if it still kicks you after 30 seconds?


212.59.18.14:16567

Hmmmm , very interesting , I could connect and play on this one , no problem .
While on the server I asked what was so different about that server and they said it was to do with legal cd keys .

Thing is , I have a very legal copy of BF2 .

Ponster

Yeah, I found that server in All Seeing Eye.

It's an unranked server that's not running punkbuster and also allows keys generated by a keygen it seems. Now normally if there was something wrong with your cdkey then you'd get kicked even before you managed to connect to the server.

Though you can reenter it using an .exe in the /support/ folder. Make sure you have the actual key before you run the .exe though as the first thing it does is delete it from the registry.


BTW, I'm ptegan9 @ forum.eagames.co.uk

Ponster

This server :

IWC BF2 Server 217.115.114.5:16567

Is an Irish unranked server with PB turned off but I'm pertty sure that it checks for fake keys.


It's just a question of trying different things until you see what works and what doesn't work I guess....

Ponster

This could be useful. Just set it up in the console.


PB_LogToFile [0=no, 1=yes]

When set to 1, PunkBuster will log activity to the pbcl.log file; the default is 0 which means only errors are logged.

jonski

Ponster wrote:

This server :

IWC BF2 Server 217.115.114.5:16567

Is an Irish unranked server with PB turned off but I'm pertty sure that it checks for fake keys.


It's just a question of trying different things until you see what works and what doesn't work I guess....

yeah , I can connect to and stay on that server aswell , no problem . I tried another reinstall and could stay on our own for about 5 minutes the first time before being kicked , but after that it was back to the 30 seconds

Ponster

You're sure that when you update PunkBuster manually after each reinstall that it's actually doing it?

Can you post what version of PB you have with the PB_VER command that you type in the console.

jonski

Ponster wrote:

You're sure that when you update PunkBuster manually after each reinstall that it's actually doing it?

Can you post what version of PB you have with the PB_VER command that you type in the console.

do I have to be in an pb enabled server for that ? sorry for the silly question

Ponster

Hmmm, no idea but I see what you mean. Though you should get it typeed in in 30 seconds...I'll try myself.

jonski

Ponster wrote:

You're sure that when you update PunkBuster manually after each reinstall that it's actually doing it?

Can you post what version of PB you have with the PB_VER command that you type in the console.

Managed that , after I took my head outta my ass . A1365 c1227

jonski

Ponster wrote:

This could be useful. Just set it up in the console.


PB_LogToFile [0=no, 1=yes]

When set to 1, PunkBuster will log activity to the pbcl.log file; the default is 0 which means only errors are logged.

logfile
[02.01.2006 21:27:00] pb_LogToFile = 1 (0=No, 1=Yes)
[02.01.2006 21:30:23] WARNING: PB Kicks for All PB Restrictions on this Server
[02.01.2006 21:30:29] Receiving from PB Server (l v1.174 | A1365 C1.227)

jonski

Right , went down the Format c: road and I am back and able to play again .

jonski

Right , went down the Format c: road and I am back and able to play again .