I used to use the autohotkey way, and used to be able to play PR for long periods of time but kept getting kicked on some servers as described (md5) but when i use this bf2 file instead of the steam one i can load the game, even throught the pr shortcut but later just crash to desktop when i try to load map, both on pr and vbf2. When i use steam it revalidates the file and i can play vbf2 again, no probs whatsoever..
So right now i just revalidated the file and keep using the autohotkey way, without the ability to play on some servers because i get kicked by punkbuster, whats interesting is that the bf2 file keeps getting corrupted in some way so i have to keep revalidating it thru steam, this only started happening since ive been using the autohotkey script, its seems like its as a result of somekind of mismatch with pr, steam and the script..
And rarely when changing maps i keep dropping out it seems out of lack of memory? But thats not so much of a problem really, its more the kicks and the lack of proper support of steam..
I have Q6700 @ 2.66, 4gig ddr 3 ram, nvidia 8800 ultra, win 7 ( i am running in admin etc..

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