Click read more for installation instructions. New full release that includes new factions such as 1939 Poland, British S.A.S. and lots of new quality of life improvements as well as all new Shader model 3 shaders which were shared by Project Reality mod with us recently. No more ReShade needed as we have much better native graphics than in the last release.
New full release that includes new factions such as 1939 Poland, British S.A.S. and lots of new quality of life improvements, new vehicles and weapons and updated animations on some as well as all new Shader model 3 shaders which were shared by Project Reality mod with us recently. No more reshade needed as we have much better native graphics than in the last release.
Instructions are super simple now, only 2 parts to cut down on the complexity of the install for newcomers.
Note: You MUST place the full mod at root of C drive or it will not work! It HAS to go here as files are hard linked to this location!
"C:\Battleground44\Battlefield 2\mods\Battleground44"
Download the Objects folder and place it inside of that location after you have installed the core files first! So it should look like this.
"C:\Battleground44\Battlefield 2\mods\Battleground44\Objects'
Also, IMPORTANT to also run the game from the Battleground44.exe file located in the mod directory location. If you want to make it look official change the icon of the exe to the one located there by right clicking and pointing to the new icon location in properties.
It is also imperative that you open the !IMPORTANT SHADERS FIX! Read! folder inside of that same directory and follow the instructions there to fix the shader cache performance issue. If you do not manually play and create shaders cache first you will not be able to install the fix. If you do not do this the mod runs in single digits! So it is mandatory that you install the shader cache otherwise the mod becomes unplayable.We are working on a custom launcher that will take care of all that shader cache stuff automatically in the future that will take care of this minor inconvenience.
hey I'm having issues on some of the maps I'm on
I'll give the issues and the map names
Omaha Beach: if I ads while facing towards the beach my frames drop to single digits and if I get close enough to the hill my frames drop regardless of whether or not I ads
Stalingrad: crashes shortly after starting the match
Berlin 64: all people don't have textures their just a pure black model no uniform no nothing
other than that great mod :D
Woah Berlin does that? News to me! Please share a screenshot if you can by pressing print screen and locating the screenshot in the Battlefield 2 folder in documents. I never had this issue there. About the single digits frame rate, sounds like maybe the shader cache was not installed correctly. Did you make sure to install it as per my instructions in the directions above I detail where to find the shader cache files and how you can install them. If you do not install the shader cache it can affect the rendering of some textures and also the game performance will be very bad.
We will hopefully have our new launcher that is in the works take care of shader cache so it does not have to be done manually for the end user. It is still some months away at least so no ETA on when that will be ready as our coder is still working on adding features and testing.
Stalingrad is unfortunately broken for me as well, I debated removing it but it was such an iconic map. It originally came from Battlegroup Frontlines mod but even replacing with their latest version is not remedying the crash. It used to not crash in this mod in earlier dev builds so not sure what is conflicting with it there. But good work please join our Discord and let us know if you find more issues so we can work on fixing it.
Oh, and if you get black ground textures on Fields of Kassel, try lowering shadows to medium, that seems to fix it. Though if it generates new cache you will have to manually fix it again.
P.S. I just tried Berlin and I have no issues with any textures there.
All Polish maps crushing after short period of time and some of Japan vs China maps like burma(i tryed to decrease bots to 13vs13 but it doesnt help also i dont join the squads & give order to bots becoz this is also can cause bot behavior crushes).I have BF2CC with all patches-configs-scripts-bot support etc & mega high-end PC based of Windows 11 pro so fix the crushes plz!
man can you guys update so that it can not be hardcoded to be installed on drive c? it just takes too much space on my tiny ssd for the system files. I was thinking on installing it portably on my external ssd like my all other standalone mods. Shame really, i think i'll just wait to install it until you guys tell me whats the workaround to it or updating it