Battlefield2Disabling the Intro Movies

The introductory movies to BF2, although fun to watch the first couple of times, fast become quite annoying, adding to the startup times for the game, as well as the memory usage (the main movie is 135MB in size). To disable them permanently, I don’t recommend deleting the movie files – this may cause problems with verification of client information on certain servers and/or with Punkbuster.

Instead, simply rename the relevant files in your \Program Files\EA Games\Battlefield 2\mods\bf2\Movies\ directory to something else (e.g. rename the Intro.bik to Intro.backup). The files to rename are: Dice.bik, EA.bik, Intro.bik, Legal.bik and Welcome.bik. This will mean the intro movies are all skipped as BF2 starts to load. If you find the movies playing in the background of the Login screen and Settings screens annoying, you can also rename the menu.bik and menu_loggedin.bik to something else as well.

Removing all movies from the game can save over 250MB of data being loaded up during the start of the game and being placed into memory – this will help smooth your gameplay particularly for those with less RAM. If for any reason you experience any problems with the game after renaming the movies, simply rename them back to their original names.

 

Electronic Garbage

ecycleSo if it’s illegal to throw away Mr Computer, then where do you take it? You can do a Google search and find all that funky information so that’s what I did.

I have to warn you, it might cost you some money to do this or until the goverment takes over and makes us spend money on it.

OK. so I did that for the St. Louis area and found the information I need.

First place I found was the St. Louis County Waste website.

St. Louis County Waste

I looked up on a PDF they had on that site about electronic waste and found that there is a website for this purpose alone.

e-cycle St. Louis

I found a search map for the business and/or charities and I found this business to be the fairest of all.

DCAL Services LLC

 

Starting fresh one last time.

The only thing that keeping this website going is mostly because Aplus.net has an easy to use email list service. The goal for this website now is to be straight up computers and their problems and/or  solutions to take care of them. So in the next few weeks I will be getting the website back up on its feet so it doesnt looks so plain. If anybody has a problem or would like to get a hold of me, please create an account on the website and make a comment. If you really know me you should be able to contact me throught facebook. tah tah.

MattMan