Crashing to Desktop

[Falkurai]

I have a computer running PR and at no set time, during the middle of a round I crash to desktop without any error box or anything. I just crash into desktop immediately. I do not know what is wrong, and I am hoping if you guys can help me.

my specs are

Operating System: Windows Vista Home Premium (64x)
Graphics Cards: 2x Nvidia Geforce 9500 GT in SLI mode
Processure: Intel Core 2 Duo
RAM: 2 Sticks with 2 GB RAM each. Total 4 GB RAM
DirectX Version: DirectX 10
Monitor: Dell 1907FP

What should I do?

[Mr.Hyde]

I'm going to assume Vista will have the same path as Win 7 in order to view logs

GoTo >> Start Menu
Right Click >> Computer
Select >> Manage
Click drop down arrow >> Event Viewer
Select >> Windows Logs
Select >> Application

This will take you to the Error generated by Windows when the application failed.

[Falkurai]

Yes I have looked at the log and it says that BF2.exe was trying to disable Desktop Windows Manager, and thats probably one of the reasons why I crashed. I searched on the internet and found that the Desktop Windows Manager uses up alot of physical memory and so with it enabled that might of been why it crashed. I have yet to play PR again and see if it is gone. i will tell you if it worked or not. Thanks for telling me about the event log.

[Mr.Hyde]

hmmmm... running out of memory? You've got just as much as I do and I can play PR, Medieval II, VLC player(w/ movie) all at the same time with no performance drop.

You've got 4GB....are you using the patched BF2.exe that extends the memory it can use?

EDIT: OK! This is Aero. Yeah, on my copy of Win 7 everytime I start a game, I get the little ballon tip on the task bar stating that DWM is turned off due to an incompatable application. Not sure if Vista turns it off automatically.

[Falkurai]

The Windows Log also said that BF2.exe tried to close the application. I also have the patched BF2.exe for over 2GB RAM. I had done this yesterday, and today the problem occurred again, 2 times during the day, and now I tried disabling DMW, but I haven't tried it out yet. Windows Vista does not warn me that bf2 is incompatible with DMW, I think BF2 tries to disable DMW and thats where it crashes to desktop. But in the log it shows this event way more times than i had crashed.

[LT Harrison=ORA=]

Edited because it did not work. Scroll down to my next post for what does work.

[05grottim]

Same problem here!!! It has nothing to do with memory, I know that for sure. I have 16gb of RAM, 8gb page file, and 2 GTX295's.

that's quite a machine you've got ther. You a graphics designer or make your own movies?

[LT Harrison=ORA=]

that's quite a machine you've got ther. You a graphics designer or make your own movies?

I use Photoshop, Sony Vegas, and a few other high resource programs, it's overkill (8gb would be plenty) but I have no camplaints.

[LT Harrison=ORA=]

The /3gb switch does not work!!! But, setting affinity to core0 does. I did it yesterday and had no crash for 6 hours. I'll try again today.

For Vista users you have to disable your UAC, run PR, Ctrl+Alt+Del, Task Manager, Processes, find bf2.exe and PR, right click, affinity, uncheck all but 1st core. Have to do this each time but it works for me.