Freezing every 30 seconds for about 5 seconds

[Reddish Red]

So yeah, Hi guys again. This is the reason why I've been away. So what happens, is that I freeze for about 5 seconds every 30 seconds or so (Or it seems when anyone joins) I've really tried everything already and thats why I gave up a long time ago and forgot about PR.

I hoped the new update would do something, but it hasen't. So now, I'm actually making a support thread.

System:
AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3800+ 2.41 GHz, 2 GV of RAM.
Realtek headset (I really think this is the problem, as my old headset broke, I had to get a new one..and then the problem cropped up on the same day)
Ask for more, I don't really know this stuff that well :s

Also to take note:
My PR Video settings keep restarting to default, even though I set them. I don't know if this would help.

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I have not reinstalled BF2 and, it will be a huge Pain to do it..so, I want to avoid that possiblity.

Thankyou for your time.

[smart_boy00]

You might have fried your cpu when your old one broke. Sounds like an over heat problem for sure.

[Reddish Red]

Considering that my Headset broke about January and that all other games (Arma1 and 2 included) work fine. I don't think it is a overheat problem.

[nick20404]

Doesn't sound like an overheating problem unless you are getting artifacts on the screen as well. What are the rest of your specs? OS? GPU? I don't think your sound or headset is your problem it could be allot of things, You can try to find your BF2 settings in my documents there should be a cfg file and if its set to read only or its protected the game might not be able to save the cfg.

Also download a virus scan, Hijackthis, and Spybot search and destroy and scan your PC for spyware first, than get a virus scan, after all that run hijackthis to make sure allot of **** isn't starting up with your pc. You might have multiple problems with your pc but don't assume one thing is causing everything.

[Reddish Red]

Its working now, but the reason was My Profile.

Turns out, the video settings not saving was the problem, I tried to manual edit it in notepad from the videos ettings and it did not load, saying it was corrupted. So, I deleted and retrieved my account, which is basicly reseting it and now it works!.

Its quite strange.