Just to let you guy know, the Battlefield 2 1.01 patch has been released
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changelog:
Quote: * Fixed in issue that caused the Multiplayer Browser to become
unresponsive.
* Fixed an issue where some game controls were not available to be rebound within the Options menu.
* Fixed an issue with increasing performance degradation on servers.
* Fixed a problem with shader caching on client/host : after the first map in a rotation, shaders would be loaded on the
fly during gameplay.
* Fixed a crash with rebinding lmb
* Fixed a problem that caused environment mapping to not appear on reflective surfaces.
* Fixed a crash that happened when a client picks up a kit that doesn't exist anymore.
* Fixed a problem with AI when the game was paused for a long time: bots would become unresponsive and also shoot more
accurately.
* LOD distances tweaked on certain objects.
---------------------------------------------------------(...) you GeForce 4 users might wanna read this
Quote: As a PC Gamer you expect to upgrade, you expect that at some point
your hardware will not run the latest games acceptably. Battlefield 2 does not even give you that option. It attempts to
make all non DirectX 9 compatible video cards obsolete. Which means all GeForce 4 and older video cards will not run
Battlefield 2. You cannot even start up the menu. Neither Electronic Arts nor the game's developer DICE have any
plans to fix this. Even though the GeForce 4 line of video cards has enough horsepower to render the game it is not
compatible with Pixel Shader 1.4. Emulation to Pixel Shader 1.3 would easily make the game playable on these cards but
redundant texture checks make this difficult to implement.
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