The first thing to check with computer freezes is the memory, that's the most common cause (especially with memory hungry programs like BF2).

You can do this with memtest ( http://www.memtest.org/ ). Run it for 12 hours at least.

Well, I think the previous lighting was quite good, all you needed was to change the saturation, maybe add a tad of yellow.

Now the color is too dark, you barely see the texture details anymore. 

if you bother to read this thread you would know that it's not the case (maybe it was in the beggining but not anymore)

Yes, I certainly have no clue about this problem. After all, I use the alternate shader only since 2.4 was released ...

Really, what is the point in whining that some people might have an unfair advantage with this ? If you're really stupid enough to believe that, then use the effect-less shader as well and stop bothering us.

Then feel free to open another thread to whine that people playing with a high-end computer have an unfair advantage compared to people playing this with a laptop @15 fps. Practical proposal ? Cap the framerate to 15 fps for everyone ...
And call me a cheater for still using a CRT monitor as well, after all I can have more FPS and absolutely no input lag compared to most of you LCD users.
And build a stake for the guys having optical fiber as well. <10ms ping, that's a crime when some others are stuck with >200ms ...

No seriously ... grow up. 

Also, the film grain is simply awful.  I used Korsakov's outstanding fix, but alas it does not seem up to date (Keren looked heavily desaturated). Could anyone please either tell me how I can remove film grain on my own or post a fix for the 2.45 shaders? I would highly appreciate that!

I posted again the 2.4 shaders without grain/color tweaks a while ago here 
http://fhpubforum.warumdarum.de/index.php?topic=17519.msg263116#msg263116

This might be useful ... Or not, so far VOIP does the job quite properly and I don't want to install yet another program.

However, what upsets me is that someone completely RUINED the sound quality of VOIP on 762 since that Mumble is available ... 

Yes, three times YES ! *

I definitively miss games with teamplay and (half  ) serious people !


* speaking in the name of the 3 people I would surely bring 

I'm still amazed to see where this is going.

On the one hand you have Natty spreading the usual bullshit on gameplay > realism (i.e. THE moto to just do anything)

On the other hand people that pretend 1s1k is realism and exagerate on the total opposite (but that's quite a natural response to the former statements)

That doesn't mean I entirely agree with the changes that happened with 2.45, I actually repeatedly warned against some of them without any result.
But opposing realism to gameplay is just plain stupidity. Especially with a game whose main asset is to propose some kind of realism ingame. If the physical models involved in the game are good, the gameplay will naturally follow, that's a constant of most proper WWII based games. There's not need of bickering about what is supposed to be fun and what is not.

Moreover, (and I repeat myself, again ...), I'm still wondering what is actually causing the problems that are reported.
The slight modifications in damage multipliers ? I don't think so.
But everytime I noticed something a bit weird happening with tanking it was on 762. And the few times I could play on other servers I didn't notice anything. Just as pre-2.45 I also encountered some weird situations on 762 only (like a M3A4 Sherman facing a Marder at medium range, both stationary, and having to land 3 shots on the Marder's front to kill him, while the marder only managed to deal limited damage to the sherman as well).

So I genuinely wonder, might there be untold server side modifications, or any other reason responsible for this mess on 762 servers only. And please don't take this as another episode of the endless 762 vs the rest of the world story, I'm seriously wondering as I don't see any other logic answer with the informations I have.

edit: typos