Re: Does your Battlefield 1942 freeze? After Gamespy Shutdown here is a fix for a new master server

emile44, you are incorrect. GameRanger does NOT use LAN for Battlefield 1942, it replaces the GameSpy master servers and uses Internet servers. Recommending untrusted and unreliable patches like you've done is not a good idea.

i have gameranger i know what it is and it does not allow for dedicated servers + mods or admins tool on the BFServerManager.

when your on gameranger you are in a closed network only players that have gameranger can join servers on gameranger you never see servers like on this list http://www.gametracker.com/search/bf1942/?=GO so gameranger = lan emulator and nothing more.

the main battlefield1942 community all support the new bf1942 master server on ax just look on the forums here are the links

http://team-simple.org/

http://forum.bf1942.sk/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=1813

http://www.moongamers.com/forum/index.php?app=uportal

http://fhsw-europ.ucoz.de/

http://www.ea117dcfanfavorites.com/

http://is82.com/news.php

http://bfmods.com/

http://pixel-fighter.com/

http://gc.1942mods.com/

http://survivalclan.tk/

http://bf-badewiese.de/

http://www.hkhp.us/

http://www.bf-games.net/forum/topic/53565-battlefield-1942-master-server-ersatz-tutorial/#entry2030922

there more but you get the idea here

even if ea wont support the patched bf1942.exe they can give links to better tools that do allow you to join a dedicated server

here are the good tools

http://www.gametracker.com/downloads/

http://www.qtracker.com/

http://www.xfire.com/

Once again, you are incorrect. GameRanger DOES let you host dedicated servers using the dedicated server exe and server manager. The closed network makes it possible for anyone to host a server (dedicated or not) without doing port-forwarding. That has nothing to do with LAN. The users love the extra control rather than having to rely on the settings of a public server.

In addition, GameRanger *can* quite easily support external dedicated servers. There's already a server browser built-in with detailed filtering options. For example, paste a few CoD4 server IPs into the "Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Servers" folder. I say paste because I'm currently doing maintenance on the master server.

I haven't enabled external dedicated server support for several games (such as 1942) because there hasn't been the demand -- the users actually prefer the community feel of interacting with other users before and after jumping into the game. Pure dedicated server lists don't offer that.

You might disagree with the choice, which is fine, but at least get your facts straight.

  The solutions emile is advocating have been beta tested on multiple operating systems.  Furthermore they have been discussed, worldwide on every major forum.    Even Japanese servers are using THIS solution.  This Master Server.

  So..     Please understand.  This message is coming from the majority of the players themselves.   The game surely deserves more coverage, an origin version could have been left available for download.   A brokered deal with steam could be facilitated.   It could have been coded within origin to allow PB use which still works with it, **bleep**..   widescreen support.   Ect Ect Ect

  Could have,  but it wasn't.   And Origin does not offer or support this game.   Origin could have offered just a patch to eliminate the in game freeze issue that will occur in multiplayer.    

  They didn't 

  So who offers advice and help to the players who still want to play this game?

  One thing your going to have to face.  It has never been Origin,  It has never been Electronic Arts.

  But now, two days AFTER the shutdown.   EA has advice?   

  My answer to that would be to take the walk to the forums of the remaining dedicated servers...    and tell them in person. 

  Because this is the thing, even though we blatantly ignore the 'player created solutions' commented on in e-zines.   If you so much as hit the escape key on unpatched version of 1942.   It locks up, and guess what I beta tested that bit out too, at 10 minutes we called it good..   required full system reboot.  

  That is more then an inconvenience, this inconvenience should have been patched in 2003 and wasn't.    This legendary game which models many WWII battles keeping them in modern history.  There is a lot of legacy. I read long post today marking much of it on one of the forum threads of a European server today.   Much of that legacy belongs under BF1942.com    ,  alas , we have seen how that goes too.     Links from the domain name anyone would associate with Battlefield no longer represent 1942..    Web Design is brutally harnessed to market new ventures.    

  If Origin / EA  wanted to communicate a message to the 1942 playerbase...      Obviously...  they don't 

  So...   why bother.    You only muddle the conversation...    Perhaps you meant well , but no..  really ,   why bother.   Put the game in origin store for .99 cents then..   you have a voice.     Otherwise  , I believe the phrase is   STFU  

P0sltr0n, if you looked closely, I'm not connected with EA or Origin. It's hard to tell how much of that was directed at me and how much was just a general rant.