Re: Fix for Loading Screen Freeze!

**SharinganTH1422** · 01-02-2008, 10:24 AM

Done, thanks a lot Azura aka Terminator

**SharinganTH1422** · 01-03-2008, 07:24 PM

Just to let you know, I've had no problems since you gave me this advice, thanks Azura.

**Azura** · 01-03-2008, 07:57 PM

Hey no problem Shar! Thats what we do in this community!! See ya on the battlefield!!

**SharinganTH1422** · 01-04-2008, 09:47 AM

Well I hardly see you, I just see:

You were killed by |TG-3rd| AzuraRising

at the bottom of my screen while looking at the spawn screen...

all the time

**Azura** · 02-17-2008, 02:04 PM

SUPER SUPER UPDATE!!!

There is now a permanent way to fix the Radial file! By simply creating a script to delete it every time you load up! Since battlefield will just create another one, you don't need to worry about deleting it when problems start happening!

Here we go:

1. At the desktop, create a new text document (right click, New, text document) and rename it delete_radial.bat

2. Right click delete_radial.bat, then choose Edit.

3. Copy paste this code into the file.

cd "CProgram Files\Electronic Arts\Battlefield 2142"
C:
attrib -r -a -s -h radial.cdb
del /f /s /q radial.cdb
start bf2142.exe
cls
exit

4. Save

Now you can either use this file as your shortcut to 2142 or you can edit the 2142 shortcut to point to the batch file.

**jollermc** · 03-18-2008, 11:37 AM

Is there a Mac fix for this?

**Wineo** · 03-18-2008, 05:22 PM

This is the best site. If EA was as cool as TG, we'd all live longer lives... or something. Well done Azura.

**Azura** · 03-18-2008, 09:10 PM

Originally Posted by henroast

Is there a Mac fix for this?

Hmm I'll do some more searching, got a little more free time as of the late.

**sgt.rob** · 04-03-2008, 02:17 AM

SWEET BALLS!
i was about to go through the pain in the ass to submit a question to EA support about this problem and low and behold the answers were here. i'm starting to like this place more and more. so yeah all you have to do is rename the radial file to POOP and it works. sweet.

**twiddilywink** · 04-14-2008, 08:39 PM

Originally Posted by Azura

Every once in awhile my battlefield stops working and the only way it works again is either re-installation or re-patching. Well apparently the problem is not a Windows, patch, or CPU issue, it's a EA Master Server error not updating your accounts processing abilities. Therefore it can happen to anyone. After scouring the internet I found a post and did it do wonder, it even cut down my 'Cannot connect to server, check your internet connection.'

Heres the fix:
1. Go to My computer, then to your 2142 folder
2. Click the menu up top named Tools, go to Folder options...
3. Scroll down, and click 'Show hidden files and folders'
4. Right below that is 'Hide protected operating system files' uncheck that
5. Look for a file(in your main 2142 directory) named radial.cdb, then change it's name to something else.

Just in case that doesn't work (So far it worked for everybody) heres the second:
1. Go to start then run
2. In run type services.msc
3. Scroll down and look for Pnkbst A and B
4. Make sure they say started, if not right click it and allow it to start.
5. Go to my computer, then to your 2142 folder, and delete the folder named 'pb'

Follow the fresh install instructions here:

PunkBuster Online Countermeasures

Compliments of wtf.panda@ fevergaming.com

The first part is safe and there is no sideeffects to messing that with the radial file.
***BACK IT UP JUST IN CASE***

min doesn't freeze, but if i do this, will it might make it go faster?

**Azura** · 04-14-2008, 09:08 PM

Originally Posted by twiddilywink

min doesn't freeze, but if i do this, will it might make it go faster?

Probably not.

But, I really wouldn't recommend doing it, unless you are infected by this flesh eating battlefield ruiner. Why? Well, it doesn't just affect everyone, eventually it probably will, but still deleting the file now, means you probably will be infected and got to start doing it.

It's better to leave it alone until you have too. Just prepare yourself, be patient, you will get screwed! But it's better to learn how to do it now so you can get on the battlefield quicker!

A cure for slow load times there is! Just get more RAM!

**twiddilywink** · 04-17-2008, 10:28 PM

How do u do it for vista? there is no tool bar or w/e

**Azura** · 04-17-2008, 10:42 PM

Yea, just switch to classic view!

Then...

1. C:/Program Files/Electronic Arts/Battlefield 2142
2. Tools - Folder Options - View
3. Under Hidden Files and Folders, Check "Show Hidden Files and Folders"
4. Uncheck "Hide Protected Operating System Files (Recommended)
5. Delete the Radial.cdb file

**fredgwynne** · 04-19-2008, 12:06 PM

So I got fully mocked for musing about this in TS last night, but it seems to me that the radial bug only occurs on my machine after a game lock (freeze which I have to resolve by ending a the process or hard rebooting.) Does anyone else see the same correlation? Or is this totally old news and I'm just catching up?

And for fun, this was the scene in TS:

|TG|fredgwynne: "So has anyone else noticed the radial load screen bug only happens after a hard crash?"

Silence.

|TG|fredgwynne: "Or does no one care?"

|TG-3rd|Quade: "I don't know. I'm still trying to find Waldo."

I just can't seem to win with the 3rd. You magnificent bastards.

**Azura** · 04-19-2008, 03:28 PM

Originally Posted by fredgwynne

So I got fully mocked for musing about this in TS last night, but it seems to me that the radial bug only occurs on my machine after a game lock (freeze which I have to resolve by ending a the process or hard rebooting.) Does anyone else see the same correlation? Or is this totally old news and I'm just catching up?

And for fun, this was the scene in TS:

|TG|fredgwynne: "So has anyone else noticed the radial load screen bug only happens after a hard crash?"

Silence.

|TG|fredgwynne: "Or does no one care?"

|TG-3rd|Quade: "I don't know. I'm still trying to find Waldo."

I just can't seem to win with the 3rd. You magnificent bastards.

Haha, I honestly don't know if that could cause it but, it's a possibility. When you close battlefield, it SHOULD clear the file of data. Perhaps, when you hard boot it doesn't allow it to clear causing you manually delete it.

Then again, I am only allowed to play battlefield once....

... If I close battlefield, I need to restart my machine anyways because, I'll get dropped from the game every 30seconds on the server. Even the radial file doesn't fix that, but apparently no one else suffers that, so I'm having trouble fixing that.

But I recommend making a batch file, when I turn my CPU on, I double click it, deleting the radial file and move on. Better than navigating to the folder and stuff. The batch is in an above post.

We just got to learn to live with it

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