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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black">Good Evening Everyone,<BR><BR>This email
is to inform you that I’m in the process of making an update to the Battlefield
2 web site in regards to the v1.01 memory leak many of you emailed me about
earlier this week. Our production team has been hard at work trying to resolve
this issue and it looks like it’s going to take a bit more time than what we
initially anticipated. I will be posting the following community update in just
a few minutes and ask that you message your communities with the same
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=black size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black">Community Update -
7/8/05<BR><BR>HOTFIX for Battlefield 2 v1.01 Coming
Soon</SPAN></FONT></B><B><FONT color=black><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: black"><BR>First off, a </SPAN>HUGE thanks to
all of you who emailed me in regards to the memory leak found in the update we
released earlier this week (v1.01). Your emails found their way to our
production team and they’re in the process of evaluating what needs to be done
in order to get this fixed. In the meantime, and since the 1.01 update is
causing memory leakage on some systems, we recommend that you reinstall the game
and NOT the v1.01 update we released earlier this week.<BR><BR>Reinstalling
Battlefield 2 will not affect your in-game medals or ranked server statistics.
EA and DICE are committed to getting a fix for v1.01 as soon as we possibly can
and will continue to keep you informed through this web space in the coming
days.<BR><BR>[EA]Mike<o:p></o:p></FONT></B></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=black size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black">If you have a file site that is hosting
v1.01, I would ask that you remove the file. If you’re hosting the Unranked
Server Files for Win32 and Unranked Server Files for Linux (the new ones we made
available earlier this week – on Tuesday), I would ask that you remove those as
well since the same problem exist in them. As a replacement for the server
files, please visit our downloads page and grab the previous versions (see the
first 2 files on this page).</SPAN></FONT><B><FONT face=Verdana color=#989898
size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 7.5pt; COLOR: #989898; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><BR><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT
color=#3366ff><SPAN style="COLOR: #3366ff"><A
title=http://www.eagames.com/official/battlefield/battlefield2/us/downloads.jsp
href="http://www.eagames.com/official/battlefield/battlefield2/us/downloads.jsp"><FONT
title=http://www.eagames.com/official/battlefield/battlefield2/us/downloads.jsp
color=#3366ff><SPAN
title=http://www.eagames.com/official/battlefield/battlefield2/us/downloads.jsp
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color=black><SPAN style="COLOR: black"><BR>I know this is an inconvenience, but
rolling back to the original install will fix the memory leak problem. In the
meantime, we’re going to be working a bit of over time here to resolve this
issue.<BR><BR>Mike<BR><BR><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: gray; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Mike
Murphy</SPAN></FONT></I></EM><o:p></o:p></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: gray; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Community
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> [Karl]Aschnikof [mailto:ak47@alk-wg.de]
<BR><B>Sent:</B> 09 July 2005 05:12<BR><B>To:</B>
bf1942@icculus.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [bf1942] Memory Leak
Update<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>did they don´ t say ....update is coming "soon"
?<BR><BR>greetings<BR>[Karl]Aschnikof<BR><BR>Scott DeLeury schrieb:
<BLOCKQUOTE cite=midBEF48E47.12DFC%25Sjdel@nycap.rr.com type="cite"><PRE wrap="">Actually, EA leaves the office at noon on Friday, with linux/unranked fixes
to come ³early on next week, or so...²
From: "Mark J. DeFilippis" <A class=moz-txt-link-rfc2396E href="mailto:defilm@acm.org"><defilm@acm.org></A>
Reply-To: <A class=moz-txt-link-rfc2396E href="mailto:bf1942@icculus.org"><bf1942@icculus.org></A>
Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 20:01:48 -0400
To: <A class=moz-txt-link-rfc2396E href="mailto:bf1942@icculus.org"><bf1942@icculus.org></A>
Subject: Re: [bf1942] Memory Leak Update
You know, it says Linux later but they are moving briskly
on a Windows test tonight. I would imagine a memory issue
like this, since it is impacting the heap on all O.S. servers,
if they patched the ranked windows code, it makes sense they
would also patch the unranked windows server code as well.
They also know what they are looking for, and it is a specific
fix for this single issue, which minimizes risk in change.
Perhaps this means the Linux patch is right behind it all goes
well tonight. EA's quick turn-around on this fix, as opposed to
a next patch, is indeed outside the normal M.O. This yields hope.
Anyone know if they ever make releases on weekends? If so
perhaps we may see it before the weekend is out. If not, I can't
imagine they would intentionally hold back if the risk assessment
is very low.
Thoughts on this? A weekend release?
Tks
At 02:30 PM 7/8/2005, you wrote:
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<BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><PRE wrap="">That article shows a link to:
<A class=moz-txt-link-freetext href="http://www.boomtown.net/en_uk/articles/art.view.php?id=8671">http://www.boomtown.net/en_uk/articles/art.view.php?id=8671</A>
Which "nicely" states: "EA will select service providers for an open test
tonight." for the memeroy leak patch...
So far for us ppl hoping to actually getting their hands on the fix within a
few hours. It'll indeed be their "ranked partners" first, who can "enjoy"
the normal memory consumption *way* before us unranked server users can...
ffs...
Piet.
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From: "Joe" <A class=moz-txt-link-rfc2396E href="mailto:sechon@blackmud.com"><sechon@blackmud.com></A>
To: <A class=moz-txt-link-rfc2396E href="mailto:bf1942@icculus.org"><bf1942@icculus.org></A>
Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 8:19 PM
Subject: RE: [bf1942] Memory Leak Update
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<BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><PRE wrap=""><A class=moz-txt-link-freetext href="http://www.boomtown.net/en_uk/articles/art.view.php?id=8659">http://www.boomtown.net/en_uk/articles/art.view.php?id=8659</A>
I musta missed that earlier..Ticket ratio causing lag? No, causing
</PRE></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE><PRE wrap="">complaints.. Put it at 200 FFS! :)
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