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Added everything to my AV exclusions and trusted list, nada. Turn off AV completely, still nada.

After once again attemtpting for like 20 minutes to find servers, I was able to get a whopping whole 8 servers listed checking nothing off. Only one of them was not full, tried joining it, got in, and it crashes to desktop with no error message right at the moment I should have spawned. I then after another 10 minutes was able to get, once again 8 servers listed, and connect and crash to desktop. The one time I had my AV on, the other time I did not, so really not convinced it has to do with the AV at all.

All my favorites and history was still intact, yet cannot join anything, just all grayed out. I can see my leader-boards and stats, so I am just writing it off as a crap update. Basically the thread tragedy pointed me to, people were saying to run BC2Updater, thing is I have the Steam version so all up to date.

I tried deleting my settings folder (I backed it up first) and let the game create a new one, did nothing, still could not find any servers.

FTR when the new maps were released, I played that entire day no issues at all, so I really think it was this latest update that is causing the issue, not those maps.

Basically My only option is to uninstall and reinstall and see if that does anything.

Guess this is what I get for never having any issues originally.

Will uninstall and reinstall when I have some time, at this point I am not really caring as this is a bunch of BS.

But the second issue is the big problem. I could not find ANY servers at all with the so called "new and improved" server browser (which BTW I am not liking it at all right now, besides the obvious reason I could not find any servers, the whole having to tick things off with a checkmark or X is just so counter intuitive). The one and only time it did find any servers, there were 15 servers, and they were all full. That was the only time it actually found anything. I tried for at least 20 minutes. Even quit the game and steam completely, and nothing. Just found nothing. I left it completely unchecked, still found nothing. Left it untouched, still nothing. I tried the just Join Now or Play Now or whatever it is called, which I never do, and it kept saying it could not find any games.

yeah mine did that for the first day or so of the new patch, but after it fixed itself.... Though half of my favorite servers still don't show.

Oh yeah, and add the BFBC2 folder in My Documents to the exclusion list of your antivirus. There was problems with the game trying to access the settings files and antivirus programs interfering with that which causes lag. Worth a shot at least. That's the best I can do for now.

There is also this thread on the official forums: Not Seeing any servers

adding my battlefield folder to my avast exception list killed off the "lag" when re-spawning, so it was definitely the AV causing the issue.

@DirtyLarry: That's really pretty messed up. I've actually seen some threads about people getting ctd's like you but I don't know of any fixes. :wacko:

Dice need to get their **** together, and quickly or the game won't last another month at this rate.

@DirtyLarry: That's really pretty messed up. I've actually seen some threads about people getting ctd's like you but I don't know of any fixes. :wacko:

Dice need to get their **** together, and quickly or the game won't last another month at this rate.

Yeah they are really close to losing me altogether. I just uninstalled the game and am installing it again through Steam. If this does not work, not sure what will, so at that point I will just pretty much give up on things until a new patch is released, maybe. I also have the 360 version so not all is lost, but I definitely do prefer the PC version over it.

At least you can uninstall the game. :laugh:

I have the dvd version and I chose without thinking to have disc authentication, and when I tried to uninstall it it wouldn't let me. The uninstaller process fails. So I'm stuck with disc authentication.

Don't know if that's a problem with windows 7 or the game though.

At least you can uninstall the game. :laugh:

I have the dvd version and I chose without thinking to have disc authentication, and when I tried to uninstall it it wouldn't let me. The uninstaller process fails. So I'm stuck with disc authentication.

Don't know if that's a problem with windows 7 or the game though.

I will trade you a working game for a game that cannot be uninstalled any day. :laugh:

Like I said I guess this is what I get for having a perfectly normal game ever since the beginning. When it was launched and not working for so many people, it worked for me no issues. So I guess it is just now my turn to have it not work. Just crazy as it should be the exact opposite.

Luckily I have Verizon FIOS so I am currently downloading at 3.1 MB/s and already at 60% so I will know sooner than later if this does anything at all.

I forgot to add that I even went ahead and forwarded the ports DICE suggests to when I tried before even though I never had to forward any ports to begin with, and that did not work either.

The good news is this has forced me to rediscover Left 4 Dead 2 though. :laugh: I of course wanted to test another online Steam game just to make sure all was okay so launched it and next thing I knew I had played 2 Vs matches. So just gonna start playing that again if this winds up not working.

LoL is a completely different type of game though. I wouldn't stop playing this game for that, but another shooter maybe.

(and I suck at LoL, I played in the betas and died a lot..is it still in beta?)

Edit: Oh and good luck DirtyLarry, I luckily haven't had any major gameplay issues (knock on wood). But I'm sure my time will come.

LoL is a completely different type of game though. I wouldn't stop playing this game for that, but another shooter maybe.

(and I suck at LoL, I played in the betas and died a lot..is it still in beta?)

Edit: Oh and good luck DirtyLarry, I luckily haven't had any major gameplay issues (knock on wood). But I'm sure my time will come.

I think I'm fpsed out. :( I play a fps lately for a month and I just drop it completely.

Na its out of beta. Free game.

I also have the 360 version so not all is lost, but I definitely do prefer the PC version over it.

Played at a buddy's house on the PC. Loved it so much more. I love playing it on 360, but damn PC was so much better. Really gotta finish building a computer to handle games.

Played at a buddy's house on the PC. Loved it so much more. I love playing it on 360, but damn PC was so much better. Really gotta finish building a computer to handle games.

it's honestly because FPS belong on the pc... but that's another topic all together ;)

Well I am happy to report, the uninstall and reinstall actually solved ALL of my problems. Server Browser found over 1200 servers in like 5 seconds (that was just my region) and no crashes to the desktop at all.

In fact, I had one helluva round for my first round in almost 2 weeks.

BFBC2_WorkingAgain_DL.jpg

It was hilarious, I must have killed this one guy on the other team at least 5 times, and he kept whining in the text chat. :laugh:

So although it was a pain, the reinstall completely solved everything. Weird it took that, but it is back up and running no issues at all (keeps fingers crossed)

Good job larry (Y). I haven't had issues along with you till you just did but I still don't have them.. So I'm hoping Its never my turn hahaha. But I'm gonna be reformatting here soon and I'm gonna reinstall everything. So hopefully my problems don't start then.

But yeah I was meaning to post and tell you that I find 3-500 servers in 5 seconds for North America / SQDM / no hardcore. I love the new server browser.

I am fps'd out for now so I'm gonna get off bc2 for a few days and start SC'ing it up now.

Played at a buddy's house on the PC. Loved it so much more. I love playing it on 360, but damn PC was so much better. Really gotta finish building a computer to handle games.

Yeah not trying to sound like a PC elitist or what have you, cause I do own all 3 consoles and a PC and game on them all equally, but this game especially, it's home is on the PC. Just feels so much more right on the PC. It almost is like playing two different games going from the PC to the 360, really is strange how that can happen, but is a pretty vast different between the two versions.

Well I am happy to report, the uninstall and reinstall actually solved ALL of my problems. Server Browser found over 1200 servers in like 5 seconds (that was just my region) and no crashes to the desktop at all.

In fact, I had one helluva round for my first round in almost 2 weeks.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/36855/BFBC2_WorkingAgain_DL.jpg

It was hilarious, I must have killed this one guy on the other team at least 5 times, and he kept whining in the text chat. :laugh:

So although it was a pain, the reinstall completely solved everything. Weird it took that, but it is back up and running no issues at all (keeps fingers crossed)

Probably not exactly 5 times because you didn't get the Nemesis pin. ;)

Nitpicking is fun!

Probably not exactly 5 times because you didn't get the Nemesis pin. ;)

Nitpicking is fun!

Yep, good call. I've never heard of the Nemesis pin until you mentioned it but I can gather it means kill someone 5 times, so technically obviously I did not kill him 5 times, but the amount of times in the text chat this guy said to me "your a f*g" made it seem like all 18 of my kills were him. :laugh: I think either I kept taking out his entire squad or he just kept saying it whenever he saw my name. :rofl:

I just bought Bad Company 2 for ~$17 ($18 - $1.44 Bing Cashback) from eBay.

Link to the discussion about it: http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?t=1985232&page=2

I'll report back if it works or not but supposedly it does according to the forum above. If not, I can get a refund through paypal since the seller is a eBay top seller.

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