Alt+tab 1.5 hotfix

[echo]

Just played 40 minutes of PR on Al Basrah... then got the infamous pb kick.

[Scot]

I just played an hour or so on FH2, no kick...

[[R-DEV]Outlawz7]

20 minutes of Fallujah, PB kick.

[N.Kuntze]

45mins of some insurgent map with Brits ...then PB kicked me because of the MD5 mismatch of the RendDX9.dll file

[Dev1200]

Originally Posted by N.Kuntze

45mins of some insurgent map with Brits ...then PB kicked me because of the MD5 mismatch of the RendDX9.dll file

Same thing for me, I did everything the instructions told me to.

Tomorrow.. ugh. I'd rather wait till tomorrow then reinstall my PR

[Ferron]

Well, its mostly a particular issue (md5 kick) on PR servers, because its up to admins to set hash checks for some optional game files and PR admins seem to be pretty much hardcore with it. Apparently, you wont get this error in vanilla, due to more lossy control.

[echo]

Originally Posted by Dev1200

Same thing for me, I did everything the instructions told me to.

Tomorrow.. ugh. I'd rather wait till tomorrow then reinstall my PR

I do not believe this has anything to do with you re-installing PR, it won't fix the problem. The problem now lies with EvenBalance and their promptness to add the new file into their PB system.

[Jedimushroom]

This fix seems to remove widescreen support, as my vision was stretched horizontally a great deal while I used it.

[c0ca]

this is actually a new one, not that from saturday and official
but all server admins needs to update their md5 checks else you will get kicked after some time

Originally Posted by Bazajaytee

A large number of players who have installed 1.50 have been unable to use ALT+TAB without the game crashing out to Windows desktop. As such and with thanks to nea_alecu doing some investigations, our programmers have come up with a fix.



Quote:

* Download the attached file
* Extract it into your Battlefield 2 install directory (you must have v1.50 installed already)
* When prompted accept that you want to over write the existing file
* In My Documents go to Battlefield 2\mods\bf2 and delete the cache directory
* Run BF2 as normal

We are also working on a full installer which will be the 2Gb file for those who are new to Battlefield 2 v1.50. This will replace existing files once ready and I will post here when that is released. In the mean time use the 1.50 patch install and replace RendDX9.dll with the file you can download here:
TV2 - Battle.no Portal - av spillere, for spillere

The md5 of the zip file is: 7a2b2476b5e23332da260481c1930191

[[R-CON]Snares]

Guys: You can completely avoid the MD5 kicks.

It's really simple. Just follow steps 2, 4, and 5 from my guide here: http://www.realitymod.com/forum/f27-...nddx9-dll.html. When the server runs an MD5 check, all it does is go to your Battlefield 2 directory and scan the actual RendDX9.dll file; it doesn't scan memory or anything like that. If you run the bat to start off of the fixed dll, then before you join a server, run the bat to go "back" to the official dll, your game will send the correct MD5 to the server.

You will only have to do the bat files for a few days anyway; they will have the new md5sum up soon.

I just tested the FOV and screen ratio. There are no differences between 1.5's and the hotfix.