

If you want to automatically be logged in each time you launch Battlefield 2, edit your BF2 Command Line as follows (See the Advanced Tweaking section for how to edit the Command Line): See the Advanced Tweaking section for more details on how to use command line options. Update: Instead of the above, the quick way to disable the intro movies is to simply use the +restart command line command in your BF2 startup icon:Į.g.: "C:\Program Files\EA Games\Battlefield 2\BF2.exe" +restart

If for any reason you experience any problems with the game after renaming the movies, simply rename them back to their original names. Removing all the original 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. Thanks to EdisLeado for preparing these files. These small files show the BF2 logo in the background, and look much nicer. If you've also renamed/removed the menu.bik and menu_loggedin.bik movies, and don't want a dull grey background in the in-game menus, then download this small BF2_Menu_Logo.zip file (201KB), extract the contents and copy them to your \Movies directory. 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.

This will mean the intro movies are all skipped as BF2 starts to load. The files to rename are: Dice.bik, EA.bik, Intro.bik, Legal.bik and Welcome.bik. Instead, simply rename the relevant files in your \Program Files\EA Games\Battlefield 2\mods\bf2\Movies\ directory to something else (e.g. 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. 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).
