question on 'establish connection' time?

[bkandor]

Hi,

Regardless of version .85,.86 or .87, whenever I run PR and I get to the 'establishing a connection' part - I have to wait approximately 60-70 seconds every time. Why does it take so long? Is it only me who waits like this?

It's not a big deal when you first log in, but if you crash during a round that 1 min. gets severly amplified!

[AfterDune]

Ah, you mean the long wait after logging in? Hehe, it's an old thing that BF2 still has I think. It's the main reason why I made my (I believe it was the) general.con file read-only! You know, every server you play on gets saved into that file and when you log in, it's going to check them all to see if they're online. At least that's what I was told a long while ago. When I cleaned my general.con file and locked it, it never occured again and logging in was superfast.

[bkandor]

sweet - I just cleaned mine out and made it read only as you described and the 'establishing connection' now takes about 3-4 seconds. You just added possibly several thousand minutes to my life.

[AfterDune]

Glad I could help .

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For the ones who don't know, you have to open the general.con file into notepad (or any other text editor) and remove the lines that start with:

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GeneralSettings.addFavouriteServer etc.

Then save the file, close it and make it read only (right click, properties, tick read only, OK).

[vat_69]

AfterDune;1148475']Glad I could help .

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For the ones who don't know, you have to open the general.con file into notepad (or any other text editor) and remove the lines that start with:

Code: Select all

GeneralSettings.addFavouriteServer etc.

Then save the file, close it and make it read only (right click, properties, tick read only, OK).

can u make it step by step from the start,im kinda noob here

[AfterDune]

• Go to My documents / Battlefield 2 / Profiles / 000x /
• Open general.con in notepad
• Remove all lines that start with "GeneralSettings.addFavouriteServer"
• Save the file
• Close the file
• Rightclick the file, select "Properties"
• Check the "Read Only" checkbox
• Click "OK"
• Start PR and notice how fast you log in

That should do it. The "000x" is something like "0001", "0002", etc. Every account has its own directory.

[driver-ch-driver]

while were talking about logging in - I cant
it tries for ages then it eventually says 'the server has refused the connection'

does anyone know how to fix this?

[TheLean]

This probably means that if you change your settings in options in anyway the changes wont stick to the next time you play, unless you revert the read only status.

Edit: or probably only things under the general tab in options, which is not that important anyway.

[driver-ch-driver]

its been happening since before i changed it to read only

[Snook]

I deleted the lines with "GeneralSettings.addServerHistory" as well and it works fine, don't know if it makes it faster though.
Presumably people care about this with vanilla since there are so many servers, but for PR it doesn't make a difference.

Cheers for this, the bleeding thing used to take ages!