GBH

I bought BF2 today and install went fine but trying to open single player or online doesnt work. Splash screen opens and then crashes to desktop with no error message or anything

1.6 ghz processor
vista 32 bit
ATI mobilitly radeon x1400
1 gig of ram

Ive gone through page after page of forums but nothing has worked. Im ok with computers...if its step by step i can do it. Please Help. Also i know somewhere there was stuff about widescreens making it crash and my laptop is a widescreen so i hope that helps. Thanks in advance for the help.

loyalguard

It could be a ton of things. To start, have you downloaded the latest patch? If not, that would be the first place to start:

BF2 Patches

Edit: Also make sure you have all the latest bios and video drivers for your laptop.

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GBH

doesnt the patch come with the retail version?

But anyways do i install BF2 first then run the patch?

loyalguard

Depending on when the disc was produced it may not be the latest. Try patching first.

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GBH

Ok patch didnt do it.

Still crashes to desktop after splash screen with no message.

jmaker

Yeah I was gonna say it wouldn't have anything to do with a patch. Without patching you should at least be able to start up the game. Is the CD/DVD still in the drive when you're attempting to run the game? You said you're running it on Vista, maybe that might be the problem? Perhaps you need to run it with administrator privileges? I have no idea, just trying to throw ideas out there.

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GBH

The dvd is still in the drive
My friend just got vista and his installed and worked on the first try
Ive tried on admin privileges

and thank you for the help

ednos

EA's support site says to check stuff with sound.

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GBH

is my processor not strong enough to handle bf2?

Finestyle

this may sound like a stupid question, but have you tried re-installing?

I'm not to sure what the absolute minimum requirements are in terms of Processing power needed, but on the back of my box it says 1.7GHz P4 or equivalent

GBH

ya ive reinstalled maybe 15 times by now.

Wimpinator

Try setting the game resolution to the same as your desktop.

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GBH

how do i do this if i cant get into the game at all?

unconscious

I have pretty much the same problem.

GBH -- once it crashes after the splash screen, press CTRL - ALT - DEL together.

Is there a BF2.exe there, using up your system resources?

If so, we have the same problem, and it is not vista related.

Ashenhart

In another post I mentioned that I finally gave up on Vista. I even got BF2 to work for several weeks but then for no apparent reason the game just stopped working and I saw this with several other of my games. Even though I bought my new pc with Vista I now have XP installed and havent had any issues the past 2 weeks.

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