Battlefield 2 - 1.5 Patch & PR V0.85 - Read Me

[SocketMan]

I sacrificed one PC for the patch and it worked with PRSP (single only - no coop servers visible,same with PRMP) played 2 maps,no problems.
Won't connect to the current PR servers (from the favourites):"You have a newer version" message and the official test server is passworded - obviously.
Could also watch Battle Recorder file from PRMP 856
I am not sure 100% but there seems to be a performance boost -the FPS went up to 700 in the menu,have not seen it that high,usually about 100-200 (lower in game)

The readme.txt

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XI. VERSION NOTES
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Update v1.50
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FEATURES
- Additional support for Windows Vista.
- Added Highway Tampa as a required map.
- Added a new map called Operation Blue Pearl.

GAMEPLAY TWEAKS
- Changes made to both the J10 and F35B to make them more balanced. Please note that the J10 is a superior dogfighter to the F35B and as such these two aircraft will never be equally matched.
- AA targeting tweaked to make it more effective.
- Added checks to prevent "runway grieving".
- Various changes made to prevent cheating.
- Tweaked the hit detection, hits will be more accurate to the model.
- Added support for the Novint Falcon controller.

SPECIAL THANKS
- Special thanks to Blackbird at the TV2 community www.battle.no

[[R-CON]Snares]

Don't forget that if you set it to a widescreen resolution you need to manually open all the various *.con files and set it back to a standard resolution, when you go back to 1.41, or BF2 and PR will crash. I had to also start PR through vanilla BF2, exit, remove the custom +szx and +szy from the target, start it again, close it, then finally put back the custom resolution. It kept crashing until I did all that

I don't think it's even worth using the ingame widescreen resolutions, it seems to be the same (or possibly worse) than using a target modification.

[LithiumFox]

Originally Posted by Snares

Don't forget that if you set it to a widescreen resolution you need to manually open all the various *.con files and set it back to a standard resolution, when you go back to 1.41, or BF2 and PR will crash. I had to also start PR through vanilla BF2, exit, remove the custom +szx and +szy from the target, start it again, close it, then finally put back the custom resolution. It kept crashing until I did all that

I don't think it's even worth using the ingame widescreen resolutions, it seems to be the same (or possibly worse) than using a target modification.

well if it's ingame that means it should automatically switch out the widescreen, meaning you shouldn't have to edit the .con's

[[R-CON]Tim270]

Yea, Im pretty sure its the same as using the szy xxxx etc, not true widescreen.

[LithiumFox]

Originally Posted by Tim270

Yea, Im pretty sure its the same as using the szy xxxx etc, not true widescreen.

what they should do is, you know, ADD widescreen support...

wait a minute...

o.o could WE add widescreen support?

I mean i know they have the "Widescreen Fixer"

._o but that only fixes FOV, not the ICONS... i don't believe at least....

i hope they fix that issue... before the final...

[[R-CON]Snares]

Originally Posted by LithiumFox

well if it's ingame that means it should automatically switch out the widescreen, meaning you shouldn't have to edit the .con's

Well it didn't work Don't you see? You set the widescreen ingame in 1.5, then go back to BF2 1.41.

BF2 1.41 reads Video.con that has 1680x1050@60hz (because you have the ingame option for 1680x1050 in 1.5, and set it to that), and says "huh?!" and then crashes.

Try setting Video.con to 1680x1050 in a profile, then try logging into the profile; it will crash every time.

[Mora]

You dont need to change any setting in 1.5 you can just use your own modified bf2 shortcut. The only thing the new resolution settings do in the 1.5 patch is this.

[Zoddom]

now what about the beta and PR? Will the dev wait untill the final release to release a >hotfix< or even 0.9 ?

[[R-CON]Snares]

Originally Posted by Mora

You dont need to change any setting in 1.5 you can just use your own modified bf2 shortcut. The only thing the new resolution settings do in the 1.5 patch is this.

That's what I figured (You can always hope that they actually fixed the hud though!)

Originally Posted by Zoddom

now what about the beta and PR? Will the dev wait untill the final release to release a >hotfix< or even 0.9 ?

I'm sure they will. There's no use to release a hotfix for a patch that doesn't really change much game physics or code (pertaining to PR) and is still in beta. As soon as the official version is released I'm sure they will release a hotfix, but who knows how long it will be before the official -- possibly 2 or 3 months considering DICE's schedule.

[$pyker]

Originally Posted by [R-CON]space

The bf2 producer has hinted several times that this wont be the last patch. Apparently they've concentrated on stopping hacks in this patch. Also there's a few features that they plan to include in the final 1.5 patch release, that wont be in the beta - eg widescreen support, disabling mouse acceleration etc

ahaha lol when i typed bf2 1.50 patch into youtube guess what came towards the toP?? aimbot hacking on blue pearl lol