crash when clicking deploy- please help

[privatedoodles]

it started just today, i played for a while and then i got out of pr. When i came back after looking at something on youtube, i clicked on deploy on hardcore insugency server (not sure if thats important) but as soon a i click deploy it crashes, on any server. Same on regular bf2. please help.

system specs: windows vista 32 bit, intel core 2 duo 2.00ghz, nvidia gforce 7300 go (its a laptop) tell me if i should post any other details.

[Mad-Mike]

What settings are you playing on?
If Textures is on High, set it to medium and give it another try.

[privatedoodles]

everything is at low

[Mad-Mike]

Have you updated ur grfx card driver?

[privatedoodles]

well it started while i was watching something on youtube, that was about 10 minutes from when i turned it off, couldnt really be that but anyway i tryed before on thier site.It said something like theres no drivers availible for your graphics card.

EDIT: ill try downloading graph drivers again in the morning and tell you the results. thanks for helping mike.

[privatedoodles]

OK i did it just now, anyway i looked on the website i was wrong about there not being graphics drivers for my card. I download the one that was there, 179.48 or something. I tryed running bf2 and PR again and no luck still the same. any other suggestions?

[Mad-Mike]

Before you installed your new grfx driver, did you remove your old one and after installed ur new one did you restart your computer then load up pr/bf2?

[Robbi]

Delete your bf2 profile in My documents, that should fix it.

[privatedoodles]

Robbi, do i delete the whole folder battlefield 2 in my documents or just the profiles folder inside it?

[privatedoodles]

I deleted the profiles folder inside the battlefield 2 one in my documents, it didnt do anything i just had to retrieve my account and when i click deploy its still the same. Ill back up the profiles folder and delete the whole thing.

Mike yeah i did restart my comp after installing the drivers but i didn't delete the old one, how do i do that?

[privatedoodles]

OK i moved the whole battlefield 2 folder in my documents to the desktop and then tried it still the same problem. PR didn't even start up when i moved it so i had to go into regular bf2 and retrieve my account so it makes another folder in my documents. Anyway when i deploy on PR or join a server on bf2 its still the same

[Robbi]

Ok, have you ran it in windowed mode to check for error at crash?

I take it vbf2 crashes on server start up too?

[privatedoodles]

Ok, have you ran it in windowed mode to check for error at crash?

I take it vbf2 crashes on server start up too?

OK ill run it in windowed now and yeah it crashes at joining a server but the singleplayer is fine for both BF2 and PR ( i downloaded PRSP)

[Mad-Mike]

hmm might be a firewall problem then?

[privatedoodles]

maybe i have no idea the problem is starting to annoy me now but ill try turning it off or something.

[privatedoodles]

going in windowed mode doesn't show a error its still the same right to that desktop. Anyone got a solution that works?

EDIT: well i think the solution that will work is just a simple reinstall, i hope.

[projectrealitycanada]

Try reinstalling bf2 or repair it, then uninstall project reality and reinstall it. It worked for me.

[AncientMan]

Try making a local server, if that works, the reason for you ctd'ing when joining an internet server is a lack of cd key, it's somehow become corrupt or whatever. Solution, reinstall BF2, repatch, reinstall PR. Or you can go googling about alternative solutions to fixing corrupt bf2 cd key's, I'm sure there's plenty of info about fixing it up in your registry .

[privatedoodles]

Try making a local server, if that works, the reason for you ctd'ing when joining an internet server is a lack of cd key, it's somehow become corrupt or whatever. Solution, reinstall BF2, repatch, reinstall PR. Or you can go googling about alternative solutions to fixing corrupt bf2 cd key's, I'm sure there's plenty of info about fixing it up in your registry .

OK thanks, i think it works when i make a local server or play singleplayer. Does that mean someone has my cd key so its corrupted?
EDIT: OK just tried it, doesn't crash. So now ill try reinstalling thanks for suggesting that ancientman and projectrealitycanada.

[privatedoodles]

its solved thanks, at least i think it is i tried joining a server in the default version and it works just gotta patch it up and install PR. Don't know why i didn't first when the problem started try a reinstall, thanks for you time guys