{"id":477,"date":"2011-08-20T03:29:34","date_gmt":"2011-08-20T10:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattfife.net\/wordpress\/?p=477"},"modified":"2012-08-12T19:16:24","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T02:16:24","slug":"fixing-more-battlefield-2-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=477","title":{"rendered":"Fixing more Battlefield 2 problems"},"content":{"rendered":"

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 on my PC was causing me MAJOR grief.\u00a0 I’d get into a game, and about 5 minutes in, I’d get dropped and ‘connection to EA server lost’ message.\u00a0 UTTERLY annoying.\u00a0 Appears tons of other people have the same problems.\u00a0 Various solutions from turning firewalls off\/etc – but that didn’t work for me.<\/p>\n

Changing your router’s UDP and TCP endpoint filtering to “Endpoint Independent” certainly helped – but it would still drop after about 10 minutes.<\/p>\n

What seems to have worked is this<\/a>.\u00a0 Go to your steam client and:<\/p>\n

Steam Library -> rightclick BC2 -> properties -> Set launch options… -> “-pingInterval 50000”
\nPaste the “-pingInterval 50000” phrase without the quotation marks and that’s it.<\/p>\n

That seems to have solved the problem for me; but this was pretty much utter fail on EA\/Dice’s part. The amount of hate-forum mail that’s gone on for over 2 years relating to this problem is amazing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 on my PC was causing me MAJOR grief.\u00a0 I’d get into a game, and about 5 minutes in, I’d get dropped and ‘connection to EA server lost’ message.\u00a0 UTTERLY annoying.\u00a0 Appears tons of other people have the same problems.\u00a0 Various solutions from turning firewalls off\/etc – but that didn’t work for me. Changing your router’s UDP and TCP endpoint filtering to “Endpoint Independent” certainly helped – but it would still drop after about 10 minutes. What…<\/p>\n

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