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Mine crashes to desktop at 100% after the DLing bar disappears. But, I also get a problem at startup of PR v0.966. It states: "Error: Unable to open BF2 process." I close that message and I can play all maps except for Shijia Valley.

I think I found the cause of the CTDs for those players that use ATI video cards. If you have an ATI card and CTD'ed loading Shijia Valley and can help test this fix, please pm me.

Thanks

Description:
When playing Shijia Valley, I've witnessed these two scenarios.
1) My frame rate drops to about 3 FPS, in a typical game I will get at least 35.
Along with the frame drop (Which was similar to Burning Sands in the city in .95) I am unable to see any objects except for grass. Finally, my weapon is black or not visible.
2) I am able to spawn in with FPS of 60 approximately. I am able to see all details of area around me (Has happened when I spawned in boats for China side) However, my VOIP is disabled ingame, and I am unable to see the grenade i toss. I do not see the grenade itself, nor the effect of the explosion.

Steps to Reproduce:
Load up onto any server playing Shijia Valley, simple spawn anywhere and witness the errors.

Screenshots / Video:
Unable to take / record screenshots or videos due to crashing the instant I attempt to access an outside program or alt+tab

Tested On:
Shijia Valley only, Tactical Gamer, NwA and TeamPlayerGaming server [.966]

Video Settings:
Computer specs are as followed....
OS: Windows Vista Home Premium
Video Card : ATI Radeon ATI Radeon HD 5670
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz (4 CPUs), ~2.4GHz

Game settings are as followed...
Resolution : 1920 x 1080
Terrain: Medium
Effects: Medium
Geometry: Medium
Texture: Medium
Lightning: Medium
Dynamic Shadow: Medium
Dynamic Light: Low
Anti-Aliasing: 2x
Texture Filtering: Medium
View Distance: 100


Additional Notes:
-I have gone through the forums, I have seen ONE other report, however, the reporty didn't do too well with typing it in English that is comprehensible.
-I will turn all my graphics on to low and change anti-aliasing off, but keep view distance at 100 and report back in this section (In additional notes)
Yes, I have not been registered for long in the PR forums,however I have played PR since .8

-(Edit) Turning graphics lower helped, but do not know which settings specifically is the culprit
-(Edit2) Upon turning up Terrain, Effects and Geometry, crashing due to memory allocation occurs when I press escape

same trouble, but i have nvidia 8800 gts 512
ctd at 100%

Hey tbone, good to see you playing PR again
We should hook up for a game again at some point

How much RAM do you have?
Which driver Version are you running?

Have you tried with clearing the shader cache?
You might be overheating, check your temperatures.

OPTIMIZED TEST VERSION NOW AVAILABLE

Alright gents... I've made some rather drastic optimizations to Shijia Valley and would like everyone that had CTD issues to load up this new version and let me know if it helps. I'm sure it won't solve 100% of the issues but with the ATI texture problem being fixed and less being loaded into memory, I think it will help at least 50% of you.

STEPS:

1. Go to EA GAMES\Battlefield 2\mods\pr\levels and rename your "shijiavalley" folder to "shijiavalley-original"
2. Download this file: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10481708/Shijia ... 20097a.rar and save it to your desktop.
3. Unzip it to the same folder stated above. After it's done, you should see a "shijiavalley" folder and a "shijiavalley-original" folder.
4. Start up PR
5. Set video settings to medium (this is the safest setting as high can require too much computer memory and low has it's own set of problems). If Medium doesn't work, then try low settings on your second attempt... but always leave Textures on medium.
6. Look for a server called ClovenHoovedGoat (or join by IP 209.58.83.116 port: 16567)
7. Password: svtest
8. Then let me know how that turned out. If you still can't get it to load, please leave your computer specs and settings in this thread. If you were able to load it, then a quick note saying it worked would be awesome.
9. After testing, delete the test version and rename your "shijiavalley-original" folder back to "shijiavalley" so that you don't get kicked by punkbuster when playing another map in PR.

This version of Shijia Valley is not compatible with the version in 0.966 so you won't be able to join a map on any server but this one. Once I've confirmed that this fix helps, then we'll re-issue the map as part of an upcoming patch that will be released shortly.

Thanks guys!

Link down for me, error 404

Try this one

Bufl4x link's works fine, thanks

Everything looks to work fine now. I had no chance to play around a bit, because I got kicked by punkbuster (md5 tool mismatch shijiavalley blah blah) but I was able to load it and choose a side, etc etc.

Tried on all Low settings, 4x AA, 1024x768.

Ati radeon x1600 pro, Ati drivers (last catalyst released for these really old cards ;p

Thanks!

it works, cant wait for the patch

I have a strange problem with this map for some reason it takes a literally 30 minutes to load (I timed it)
because it takes 30 mins to load i always get kicked by admins/autokick so i can only play it on local

Bufl4x wrote:Try this one

Thanks bufl4x. I forgot that the forum shortens the link so cutting and pasting doesn't work.

Original post has been corrected.

Also, glad to hear it's fixing a lot of the CTDs and ATI issues. Keep the feedback coming.

The patch works great the only problem there was is that PB kicked me after about 5 minutes for altered version but apart from that the map worked.

I'll see if the server admin can turn PunkBuster off.

That ClovenHoovedGoat server kicks me out for 2 minutes because of "Modtools MD5: ....somthing.zip" I hope you know what I mean. But I got in! I walked out of the tent and up to the tanks. Then, I got kicked after all the waiting. But, the loading of the map is very slow, it takes 3 times longer than usual and near the end of the loading, it nearly crashes I can hear the sound/music starting to glitch. The music starts stuttering, but then I am able to get the "Squad Assignment" button, so no problem. I just get kicked for 2 minutes though. I downloaded your map pack. Thanks for your work.