pr .86/.87 not starting

[socomseal45]

Starting with version .86 and continuing with .87, I'm having an issue where PR will not load up. I can install it fine, I've reinstalled the game, did the patches in order, reinstalled PR and all that, but the issue remains the same. I double click the shortcut, the little hourglass pops up beside the pointer for a couple seconds then disappears. I've also checked in the task manager and it shows pr.exe pop up for a few seconds then disappear. Anyone else have this issue or a possible fix for it?

Specs: amd athlon 64 dual core 2.8 ghz
2.5GB ram
8600GT 1GB
Windows XP 32bit

[FuzzySquirrel]

I've got the same issue, I was playing FH2 and it crashed tried restarting nothing, Does it for all the mods and bf2 its self. In the taskmanager i can see the bf2/fh2/pr.exe's but nothing comes up.

[Twisted Helix]

In both your cases it seems like its BF2 that is having problems launching. Can you look in your mods/pr directory and find a file called pr.log and post its contents if it is there ?

If there was no BF2 found , or one of the other problems then pr.exe should quit with an error that will identify the problem. But if it opens and closes as if everything was normal , then it means its getting a quit() command called from the BF2 engine. If this is the case then you should have a log file that gets stored, as the pr.exe will have continued its operation as normal and shut down as if the game was shut down. If this log file is not there, then it means that the pr.exe has encountered an abnormal condition and shut down. If this is the case then there will be errors produced, and maybe you have to turn on windows reporting, or run in windowed mode to get the error readout to pop up.

[socomseal45]

i didn't find a pr.log file. Also, I can't run it in windowed mode because nothing pops up. When I double-click the shortcut or the file itself, I see my desktop only. No black screen or anything.

[Twisted Helix]

You can run it in windowed mode by setting the parameter +fullscreen 0 in the shortcut.

[FuzzySquirrel]

Tried windowed still stays at desktop, no log file either.

[socomseal45]

I set the parameters to windowed mode already, but still doesn't start up.

[FuzzySquirrel]

I fixed it by Deleting my EA GAMES/Battlefield 2 folder then reinstalling

[socomseal45]

just tried that, still not working at all.

[Snares]

just tried that, still not working at all.

Could you try doing this?