Potential fix for long verify problem

[[AK]The Beast]

Posted in the hopes it can help Hylander or anyone else who may bump into this in the future.

I trolled Google for a few minutes tonight, and after checking my system determined that the hard drive where BF2 is installed had been thrown back into PIO mode--much, much slower than UDMA Mode 5, which is what it should be. I found a site that explained why it happened and had a VB script to fix it here. I tested the script, and it did reset my drive back to UDMA-5; hopefully I should be able to play at a reasonable clip tomorrow night. We'll see....

[[AK]The Beast]

Update: just tried it out and it worked like a charm. Verification time has been lowered from 8 minutes to an even 60 seconds.

[[AK]Hylander]

My verification usually takes between 1 - 2 minutes. Last night the maps I hadn't played on since I changed my settings took forever to load... but the actual client verify was the typical 1 - 2 minutes.

But I did take a look and I don't think that is an issue on my machine: