Splents

I had this problem where I would go to play a game of Battlefield 2 (Single Player or Multiplayer), and when I would get to the spawn screen the mouse would just be frozen.

It hadn’t done it before, and I had been playing both the retail version of BF2 and the Steam version. Turns out it is caused by a profile conflict. All I did was delete my profile from the ‘Documents’ folder and away it went.

This poster had the same problem and solved it by deleting his Battlefield 2 Profile.

So you’ve noticed that whenever you get into Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 you get this annoying “NAT Status: Strict”, or perhaps more annoying – when you and your friends try joining the game lobby it says unable to connect, and counts the connection attempts up until it throws an error.

You’ve followed the borderline offensively abandoning instructions left on Infinity Wards website, with still no change.

Well  I have a few more suggestions that have so far worked for everyone I’ve shared them with.

1. You have additional network adapters – perhaps from VMWare, perhaps physical. Try disabling all but the one you need for internet in the network control panel. 90% of the time, it works every time.
2. You have uPNP disabled in the network control panel. Enable it

Restart Steam and see if it helps. Hopefully it does, because usually this means you won’t have any more squad trouble.