Half of my bf2 clan (including me) are oout for the next season. We can not stay connected to servers without getting the Crash to desktop, or the "Problem with your connection"

Mine only really happends with unranked serversbut that screws me out of matches.

EA's continuous flow of **** patches practically destroyed BF2.

It now takes me forever to log in and validate client data, then sometimes i get that connection crash. I also have the problem where the server browser just decides to fail.

Actually, you're part right.

I had the exact same problems, but found a cure.

1) I completely uninstalled all mods/patches, hunted in the registry manually, and purged My Documents, EA games, BF2 etc.etc. and manually deleted the game folder. I then re-installed BF2, BF2:SF, BF2:Booster, BF2:Euro... THEN applied the latest 1.3 patch, and ran Defrag on the disk I installed to.

*THIS* fixed my "forever login" problem. Before doing this, I'd been through 1.1, 1.2 and finally 1.3 patch and could sometimes take 2-3 minutes after "Welcome to Duty" to finally get to the game menu. After the complete and total re-install, it's now 5-12 seconds TOPS. I think the 1.1->1.2->1.3 patch process does something funky and a clean/re-install + one patch fixes it.

2) Validating client data was a two-fold problem for me:
a) my cache files were fragmented and running defrag didn't help. Again, I defragged my drive with BF2, then deleted the cache folder (up in my documents), ran defrag with it deleted, connected/pre-cached. .exited immediately and re-ran defrag. Now I validate on even bigger, 64 player maps in about 18-25 seconds tops (versus up to 1-2 minutes prior).
b) 2 gigs of ram and optimized swap file. This also contributed to my 18-22 second max client data verification lag.

Hope this helps!

I have the same exact problem... here is my story.
2 month old HP comp..

athlon x2 4400+
2gigs ram
pny 7600gt 256mb
250gb
300wt power supply, and thats ok for the video card as well.

I bought the game 2 weeks ago.(bf2) Immediately updated to the 1.3 patch. Also, have the most recent drivers for my video card. Screwy game still crashes about 1/4 of the time. It crashes to the desktop. The comp continues to run flawless w/ every other program, and never crashes completely or in any other way. Really pisses me off. This is my first time gaming with a pc, and I'll tell you its not a good impression. This game is fun when it works, but that doesn't happen too much anymore. Dissapointed.

Random Crash To Desktop=Patch issue.

It sucks that you joined the game at this time. Pre 1.2 was really alot of fun.

300watts is not enough for your rig. You need more power. Do a search under the forums for threads on PSUs.

BTW I've got the patch installed and have no problem at all.