It installed, but BF2 and PR will not work

[Whoman64]

Hi techy's, I just got bf2 yesterday for my Asus G73 JH. yea the computer has the specs to run the game and PR blah blah blah. Well, for some reason, every time i tried loading up PR it said missing BF2AudiomoduleDLL. or something of that sort. now yea my pc specs are to good enough to run this. i have a core I7-740 QM processor, ati mobility radeon hd 5870 with 1 ggb of gddr5 ram, 6 gigs of ddr3 ram, and a 640gb hardrive. now i reinstalled both bf2 and PR today. Now ill get the error. but when i load one of them up the screen goes dark, flashes, and goes back to my dashboard.
I really would like to thak you guys in advance for the help! Thank you!

[PLODDITHANLEY]

I think I know this....check your monitor refresh rate if its 59Hz thats your problem, I had this on a MSI portable and while searching for a repair on the net I saw some Asus have this problem to. It would run fine when I plugged in another monitor on the VGA/D sub.

If you are on 60Hz check the video settings resolutions match exactly the monitor settings. Go to My Documents/Battlefield 2/Profiles/default/Video to change if the game won't launch.

I found a repair online which IIRC was deep in the computer perhaps BIOS I printed the repair and gave it to the local (very good) computer shop where I bought the computer and they permanantly fixed it.

Are you Vista or 7?

As for the audiomodule not a clue sounds like a reinstall In the BF2 folder I have this BFAudio.dll 300kb do you?

[Whoman64]

Hey thanks, and i am running 7.

Now i dont believe its my refresh rate, because when i first installed bf2 it ran perfectly, the only problem was after i downloaded and installed PR. i also forget how to access refresh rate settings lol, but thanks for the help.

[PLODDITHANLEY]

Try running as admin, unlikely but worth a try.

Check the resolution and refresh rate in your video card control panel is the same as in My documents/BF2/profiles/default and 0001.

[JeremyX2012X]

I'm having that same message with the audio dll thing. After I installed PR when I try to go to audio settings the game freezes up, I can't play single player as when it fully loads it freezes and if I try to join a server it freezes right when I click on it. This happens when I try to play BF2 as well.

[Whoman64]

yes see, something may be wrong, are we missing a patch or is the file out of date? i just torrented it, and its just not working. wont even start up my bf2 copy either. But the display for me wont show up at all so im having some more problems than jeremy here....

[Whoman64]

I think I know this....check your monitor refresh rate if its 59Hz thats your problem, I had this on a MSI portable and while searching for a repair on the net I saw some Asus have this problem to. It would run fine when I plugged in another monitor on the VGA/D sub.

If you are on 60Hz check the video settings resolutions match exactly the monitor settings. Go to My Documents/Battlefield 2/Profiles/default/Video to change if the game won't launch.

I found a repair online which IIRC was deep in the computer perhaps BIOS I printed the repair and gave it to the local (very good) computer shop where I bought the computer and they permanantly fixed it.

Are you Vista or 7?

As for the audiomodule not a clue sounds like a reinstall In the BF2 folder I have this BFAudio.dll 300kb do you?

oh sorry there, i forgot to tell you that for some reason it winds up missing after i install pr.

[Noobinator]

Can you look in ur BF2 install folder for a file named bf2Patch.log, and then copypasta the text after ----- Patch File Processing Complete -----

It's at the bottom of file.

Cheers.

[Whoman64]

Can you look in ur BF2 install folder for a file named bf2Patch.log, and then copypasta the text after ----- Patch File Processing Complete -----

It's at the bottom of file.

Cheers.

er i dont see a patch anywhere. And to clear some things up this is a new gaming laptop, and i got bf2 roughly 2 weeks ago

[Noobinator]

er i dont see a patch anywhere. And to clear some things up this is a new gaming laptop, and i got bf2 roughly 2 weeks ago

I don't think it's patched properly. How did you do it? (i.e. patch order/rebooting, etc)

Did you install the Vanilla 1.5 update?

[Psyrus]

er i dont see a patch anywhere. And to clear some things up this is a new gaming laptop, and i got bf2 roughly 2 weeks ago

First off, did you fully patch correctly?

1. Install BF2
2. Patch BF2 to 1.41
3. Patch BF2 to 1.5 (important)
4. Install PR part 1
5. Install PR part 2
6. Install PR part 3
7. Load BF2 and log in (to initialize profile settings)
8. Exit BF2 & start PR

If those are the exact steps you followed, then read on. If not, uninstall and try it in that exact order.

Next, go to your BF2 shortcut properties and on the target, append +fullscreen 0 so that any error crashes will show up. It should look something like the following:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2\BF2.exe" +menu 1 +fullscreen 0 +restart 1

Try loading BF2 after this fullscreen 0 has been put on, and check the error if any pops up. Report back with exact error if one presents, preferably a screenshot.

[Whoman64]

I don't think it's patched properly. How did you do it? (i.e. patch order/rebooting, etc)

Did you install the Vanilla 1.5 update?

everytime i patch its says i have the newest version installed....

[D33PS1X]

See :
You already have a newer version installed? - Battlefield 2 General Discussion (General Game Discussion) - Battlefield 2: EA Forums
Do this :

Go into the registry, search for "battlefield". One of the keys in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE - Software should have values named InstallDir, Language, and Locale. If the one named Version isn't there, right click->New->String value and name the new value Version. Right click it, choose Modify, type 1.4 in there and ok. Now it should work.

Uninstall everything then when you go to patch follow what it says above.
Should be fixed then

[Whoman64]

See :
You already have a newer version installed? - Battlefield 2 General Discussion (General Game Discussion) - Battlefield 2: EA Forums
Do this :

Go into the registry, search for "battlefield". One of the keys in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE - Software should have values named InstallDir, Language, and Locale. If the one named Version isn't there, right click->New->String value and name the new value Version. Right click it, choose Modify, type 1.4 in there and ok. Now it should work.

Uninstall everything then when you go to patch follow what it says above.
Should be fixed then

geeze im sorry, how do i get into registry? i know some about comps but not alot. (dont want to waste your time)

[Whoman64]

im now installing the 1.5 updat (after 1.4) and its running completely fine, ill keep you guys posted on further info. thanks

[Noobinator]

im now installing the 1.5 updat (after 1.4) and its running completely fine, ill keep you guys posted on further info. thanks

NP, & welcome to PR..

[Helgos]

Hi, I'm belgian and actually not speaking english very well.


I have exactly the same problem but I don't understand what is the "registry". Can anyone help me ?

[Helgos]

I might be not there tonight ??: In this case, I will read your answers tomorow

Thank you for your future help

[SnipingCoward]

"registry" is refering to the "windows registry": http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/wind ... e-registry (found in 2 seconds by googling 'what is the "registry"' - google is your friend)

The program will remember it's version number by writing it down in the registry. If it however did not correctly update it might have already changed the version number but the files are not up-to-date. Deleting the entries like describe above will have to program assume it is out-of-date.

But you probably just didn't install bf2 patch 1.41 before 1.5. (Patch 1.5 is only incremental)

[Helgos]

No no I did install the 1.41 before the 1.5 patch

Thanks for your help


And for the next time, I won't forget to use google (I thought it would be more hard to find but I should have tried >< )