Battlefield 2142 version 1.50 Final Patch Released

[mab1376]

Full update said "error while installing" and closed it self. Tried incremental 1.40->1.50 and that worked, but every server says I have modified content now.. I don't think any of the patches has worked without complete reinstall (1.4 might have).

Kinda pain to install BF2142, then patch never than 1.25 so that Northern Strike can be installed and top that of with the latest patch. Reading the feedback makes you think that the whole patch is kinda bad, 1.51 coming (hopefully).

http://forums.ea.com/mboards/thread.jspa?threadID=369321&tstart=0



Oh how I hated 1.4 for that. Fly a transport and gunship comes along, only thing left to do to not die is to pod out. Land safe for a second and then transport fallows on top of you with same trajectory

thats weird, you might be connecting to servers running 1.4. i upgraded from 1.4-1.5 with the full installed no problem, i would try a full re-install if you have the patience.

 

[erocker]

Giving it a go now! I hope this all works with Vista 64bit. Thanks W1zzard for putting this on your server, 1.8 mb per second is very nice indeed!

 

[erocker]

Where is the widescreen support?

 

[ShadowFold]

More people play BF2 and BF2 is way better, so why not add widescreen to that instead?

 

[Triprift]

yeah that makes sense too me just not ea for some reason

 

[hat]

Umm... now BF2142 crashes when ever I go to look at my awards and click on a pin/ribbon/badge/medal

great job EA

 

[erocker]

Apparently, EA wants you to add " widescreen 1" to the end in the shortcut. It now shows up in the options video menu. Game works great for me.

 

[Mussels]

Apparently, EA wants you to add " widescreen 1" to the end in the shortcut. It now shows up in the options video menu. Game works great for me.

is the widescreen horizontal + or vertical - ?

 

[erocker]

You don't have to use a + or -. At the end of the line it just " widescreen 1" -no quotes and a single space. Full line: "X:\Electronic Arts\Battlefield 2142\BF2142.exe" +menu 1 +fullscreen 1 +widescreen 1

 

[Mussels]

You don't have to use a + or -. At the end of the line it just " widescreen 1" -no quotes and a single space. Full line: "X:\Electronic Arts\Battlefield 2142\BF2142.exe" +menu 1 +fullscreen 1 +widescreen 1

lol no you lost the point.

Its what we were talking about earlier - does their widescreen options add more horizontal view, or do they simply cut the top and bottom off the view like the res hack always did (LESS view or MORE view than 4:3)

 

[erocker]

I don't know for sure, but it seem like it actually gives you more horizontal view. It looks different from the hack from what I remember.

 

[Mussels]

I don't know for sure, but it seem like it actually gives you more horizontal view. It looks different from the hack from what I remember.

well thats good.

 

[hat]

Umm... now BF2142 crashes when ever I go to look at my awards and click on a pin/ribbon/badge/medal

great job EA

any input on this? does it happen to anyone else?

 

[erocker]

Dunno why that's happening. I would try reinstalling the game, apply the 1.5 patch, download pbsetup for punkbuster and run that, restart, and try again. Make sure you don't have any background programs running.

 

[hat]

meh thats too much effort for a problem I don't really care about

 

[jonmcc33]

if you've ever been on the games forums, they are full of very abusive 4:3 users who claim widescreen is cheating and an unfair advantage. My beleif is that it will be the same as the hack - giving LESS viewing area than 4:3 (reduced vertical) as opposed to increased horizontal. Please have a look and let us know how they did it screenshots before and after oughta show the difference.

Abusive 4:3 users? None of them uses a standard LCD? That's 5:4. That gives you more viewing area as well. What a bunch of hypocrites.

 

[Mussels]

Abusive 4:3 users? None of them uses a standard LCD? That's 5:4. That gives you more viewing area as well. What a bunch of hypocrites.

there might still be old threads on the EA forums, but ever user who asked about widescreen support got flamed for being a cheater, and wanting an 'unfair advantage' over everyone else.

None of them seem to understand that with an LCD, you dont really have a choice - its maximum res, or blurfest. (and yes its hilarious for 1280x1024 users to be backing up 4:3 resolutions, since they're 5:4)

 

[ShogoXT]

Its REAL widescreen! Nothing cut off and its awesome. Im playing again on my 24inch, so anyone want to play? Im ShogoXT on there.

 

[ShogoXT]

I do seem to have a bug though where im not sure whether it gave me back my Northern Strike upgrades or not. I think it did but BFHQ isnt acting like i have them.

 

[hat]

Its REAL widescreen! Nothing cut off and its awesome. Im playing again on my 24inch, so anyone want to play? Im ShogoXT on there.

pm sent
mind you I don't have northern strike :/

 

[Elkthewavemstr]

Crash and Burn

Yeah Hat, I'm having the same problem with the game. I can click on pins, but all medals and badges crash me to desktop. I contacted EA tech support. They blamed my drivers and background programs. I blame a glich in the new patch.

 

[hat]

figures... now I know why people are generally heavy-handed twards EA -_-

 

[erocker]

Hm, after clicking on my medals and such, I don't get a crash but I do get a noticable stutter like it wants to.

 

[Elkthewavemstr]

Alright, I have a feeling that it crashes when it has to recieve our information from EA.
My rig is a Dell XPS 1710: 2 gig RAM, 80 gB HD, NVidia GeForce GO 7900 GTX etc. Is your setup similiar? I'm also running MacAfee; even killing the agent didn't stop the crash but my best guess is some firewall or something is choking the stat connection and causing the crash. Haven't had this until the new patch too...

 

[SK-1]

I must be lucky,...no problems with the new patch whatsoever.