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Optimize Battlefield 2142

How To: Optimize Battlefield 2142

Sometimes we tend to not want to play Battlefield 2142 just because it takes so long to enter the darn game, now never deal with this again. This guide covers two sections for optimizing your Battlefield 2142. We will eliminate all those annoying entry videos that you’ve seen one hundred plus times, To get you to the login in screen a little faster.

VIDEO REMOVAL – Legal, Dice, EA, Intro

1. Navigate to C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\Battlefield 2142\mods\bf2142\Movies

Note: If you have stored BF2142 at a separate location use "Start>Search>All Files and Folders" and search for "Dice.bik" then continue to use the folder it's in.

2. Now you will see multiple video files located on your screen, you want to select 5 files and rename them like I have done here. Don't rename Dace.bik or you will not be able to Alt Tab in and out of the game.

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NOTE: You may want to keep one or more of the files for your own purposes.

3. Done! No longer will the videos play when entering BF2142.

 

Reduce the Number of Punkbuster Checks

Punkbuster, as you probably know, is the anti cheating software which comes bundled with BF2142 and is required to play on all ranked servers and most public servers. Punkbuster scans your hard-drive for problems every 20 seconds. As you may have guessed, this causes a lot of lag. What we are going to do in this fix is to increase the amount of time in between punkbuster checks to 500 seconds (the maximum amount so don't try anything higher lol). By the way, in case you were worried, this is 100% safe with punkbuster, and will NOT cause any problems with Punkbuster thinking you are a cheater. Punkbuster even recommends this fix on their website. To do this you need to:

  1. Join any BF2142 online server which is running punkbuster, preferably a ranked one.
  2. Once you are in, and respawned somewhere, press the `~(Tilda) key. This key is located on most keyboards above the tab key and to the left of the 1 key.
  3. A large white box should drop down with a load of text in it. Type pb_sleep 500 and hit the enter key.
  4. Once you have done this, make sure the box is still up and type pb_writecfg to save your settings.