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I just bought battlefield 2, funny game. The only problem is, I can only play it online for 10 minutes at a time, tops! Every 2 minutes or so the message "there is a problem with your connection" pops up, sometimes beacuse of a spike. The ping goes wild. This happens two or three times, and then the entire system seems to freeze. No matter what I try to do, the only button that gives any kind of reaction is the reboot, and or off, buttons. It is extremly frustrating. These connection problems only occur during online-gaming with newer games. Civ. 4 and BF2 i.e.

Games like "Americas army" - run fairly ok. At least I don`t have to restart the machine and so on.

A quick look at my specs: Intel Celeron 2.53 mhz, geforce 6600 gt, 1gb ram. Xp-home. Ask!

I have a wireless connection, sharing router with another computer. No-one else is stealing speed. The problem occurs regardless of the other computer is being used or not. I have downloaded the latest drivers. I have used several virus-scan programs, and discovered that i have no problems on that front. Although I am kind of new to computers, so what I am hoping is that the problem sounds familliar to some of you, and that you may have had better luck in fixing the problem than me...

Tips? I`m crawling up the walls here...

Hi Blewbird,

Welcome to PCHF. We have a wonderful team of folks here with a wide variety of computer knowledge, I am sure we can figure out what is causing your difficulty.

First of all, when you first get this error message, have you tried stopping the game and checking your connection? Have you tried playing the game on the other computer to determine if there is in fact a connection problem.

Just to completely rule out malware as a culpret, would you please click on the PreWork link in my signature and follow the instructions, posting back both the ewido and HijackThis logs here. I would hate for us to have overlooked anything.

Just to verify, if you are not gaming, just surfing for example, this error message never occurs?

Look forward to your reply,

TTFN

LGW