Battlefield 2142 Locking Up

[saxomophone]

Since EA's tech support has been useless, I'm hoping there will be someone in the know here.

I'm having very strange issues with BF 2142. It was working great for months, and then all of a sudden last weekend, it decided it wouldn't load any maps past 50%, even single player. I've tried reinstalling the game, deleting the profile, turning off every background task, ran a chkdsk, manually updated punkbuster.

Manually updating punkbuster solved the problem for 24 hours. It worked great thursday night and friday. At 7:00pm friday, I exited the game to go out, returned at 2:00am, the system had been idling at the desktop with AIM open, and the game went back to not loading maps past 50%. I tried creating a new profile with nerfed graphics settings. I have EAX turned off.

I just can't understand why the game would run perfectly normally, and then within hours, with zero changes to the system, it would refuse to run.

Does anyone have any ideas I haven't already tried?

I'm running a C2D e6600, 2 gb ram, 640mb superclocked 8800gts, my sound card is an old audigy gamer.

 

[coloumb]

Spyware, malware, virus?

Is it possible someone else might be using your account

Wonderful search tool I used called GOOGLE which returned a bunch of posts/suggestions on this problem

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"Go into \My Documents\Battlefield 2142\mods\bf2142\cache and delete all
the subfolders you see in there.

That'll force BF2142 to run the optimisation routine again and should
correct any corruptions in there"

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"Does your loading bar suddenly stop then never move again no matter how long you wait? Don't worry, this happens to everyone at least once during their BF2142 carrier. Follow the instructions below to fix your problem.

Program files > Electronic Arts > Battlefield 2142 > (You must activate "show hidden files and system files" now, read below for instructions) > Rename the file called "radial.cdb" I just called it "0radial.cdb". I renamed it instead of deleting it so if I had a problem in the future I could always recover it. When you load the next map 2142 will create a new radial.cdb file to replace the old, corrupted one. </problem>

To allow the viewing of hidden files:
tools(top of page) > folder options > "view" tab > under "hidden files and folders" click on "show hidden files and folders"

BTW, this applies for windows XP. The fix should work for vista, but how to activate the viewing of hidden files and folder might be different."

 

[saxomophone]

Okay, thank you. I had already tried deleting all the contents of my battlefield 2142 folder in my documents, and it didn't solve the problem. I'll try the second solution, it sounds like the problem I'm having, and I'll respond with the results.

 

[saxomophone]

awesome, that fixed the issue.