Software, Fitness, and Gaming – Jesse Warden
Software | Fitness | Gaming
I used Gamespy in the past to easily join online PC games with my friends, made originally I think by the US Air Force, but it became a bloated mess. Today, I am using XFire. My handle is flexxl. I’ll be hanging in BF2 mostly, but could swing some CounterStrike Source.
Via Frankie Milkshoes.
Having problems even reading email; chest cold makes me wanna just collapse in bed all day to watch the History Channel. Doesn’t the virus know I’d rather be coding?
Anyway, I think the funniest thing in gaming the past 2 years has been when physic engines screw up; case in point, here in Battlefield 2 where my legs have fused with the roof after taking a direct hit from artillery.
The problem with drugs is one knows they are bad, but they keep using them; repetitive, self-destructive behavior.
Same thing with me playing Battlefield 2; it crashes EVERY GAME, but I enjoy it so much that I keep re-launching it. After removing the intro demo movies, the launch time is quick enough that I can get back into the action in 1 minute. However, I’ve already lost 1 keyboard, and got syrup on my carpet in response to the crashes…
Upon a classic “sound repeats, game locks up”, I did a Control+ALT+Delete to see how much RAM & CPU BF2 was using. I noticed 387megs of RAM, which was extremely telling because I had ALL the settings down, but probably had left Tomcat (40 megs), Apache, and a plethora of other background services running, quickly filling up my 500 megs 1 gig of RAM.
My guess is, once she hits the page file, she yukes. I installed and additional 500megs 1 gig of RAM last night bring it up to 1 2 gigs.
No crashes.
So, if you are sick of waiting for patch 3 of 15 to make the game even more playable, just get more RAM! (assuming you already have a beastly CPU & Video card)
I’ve never played a buggier game in my life. The only reason I can even remotely believe this game actually shipped into a product one can purchase on the shelves of your local store is because… why? You guessed it. It was made by EA.
Still fun, though! Hopefully by the fifth patch, it’ll be playable.