PR crashes when i log in

[Tadas15]

Hello,

Im having a problem, i installed everything by your guide, it loads fast, when i try to log in to game, it loads few second and it shuts down, its the same when i am trying to connect to BF2, i did it in +fullscreen 0 and made a screen shot of that error. My pc is not the best, but i think its enouth :

XP SP3
AMD Athlon 64 processor
3500+
2.21ghz, 1gb ram
256mb video card

Can somebody help me ?

PHOTO OF AN ERROR

Tadas S.
Lithuania

[MaSSive]

Have you been changing monitors lately? Maybe switched from CRT to LCD or vice versa?

Open My Documents and go to Battlefield 2 directory. Locate your profile folder and post contents of video.con file. You can open it with notepad.

Secondly you can delete your shaders cache located in My Documents>Battlefield2>mods>bf2>cache so delete anything you find in that folder. See if that helps.

Have you updated your DirectX to latest? Download: DirectX End-User Runtime - Microsoft Download Center - Confirmation

Do you have Net Framework 3.5 SP1 installed? Download: .NET Framework 3.5 Service pack 1 - Microsoft Download Center - Download Details

[Tadas15]

Yes i switched my monitors, i had one with 1024 res, and i changed it now to my old monitor which supports only 800 600, i think here is the problem, how can i change that problem ?

[MaSSive]

Easyest way to delete complete Battlefiled 2 folder in my documents and then run vanilla BF2 retrieve your accounts, adjust settings and join MP game, make sure it works fine. Then run PR.

Moderate way is to locate you video.con file and edit it manually. Its in My Documents>Battlefield 2>Profiles>000X

Inside those there are files called video.con so open each one of them and edit this line.

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VideoSettings.setResolution 800x600@60Hz

You can edit it with notepad or any text editor.

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More info on advanced way to fix this:

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This is right:


4 ways to fix this:

1.

Go to Documents\Battlefield 2\Profiles , each profile you have has a separate folder, 0001, 0002, etc.
Open global.con and see which is your default profile and make note.
Mine:
Quote: GlobalSettings.setDefaultUser "0004"

Close global.con
Open the appropriate folder.
Open Video.con
go to line #9
Mine:
Quote: VideoSettings.setResolution 800x600@60Hz

Adjust to your settings, idk your correct refresh rate (the @60Hz part ),
to look it up, right click desktop, Select Screen resolution, Click Advanced settings.

Click the Monitor tab, and then look under Screen refresh rate,



2.
Create a shortcut for PR on your desktop. Either make a copy of your current one, or find the pr.exe file and right click->send to desktop.

Right click the new shortcut icon... add this string to the end after the pr.exe"
Quote: +restart +szx 800 +szy 600

Mine is:

Quote: "C:\Program Files (x86)\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2\mods\pr\pr.exe"+restart +szx 800 +szy 600

note where the quotation marks are located, they must be there.

3. Third way is to delete the Profiles folder, but don't do that if you don't know or can't retrieve your BF2 log-in password.

4. Fourth way is to create a batch file on desktop...

Quote: @echo off
start "" "C:\Program Files (x86)\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2\mods\pr\pr.exe" +restart +szx 800 +szy 600
exit

save the batch file and use the batch file to run PR.

[Tadas15]

I did all the things you both said, its still the same error guys, i think its another problem, i plug in the old monitor which i had it works, i can play, but when i shut down the game, plug in the 800 600 monitor (i changed resoliution in game to 800 600) and im trying to play again, it shows the nick, everything, but when i press login, its the same error comes again

[MaSSive]

Tried deleting profiles completely and running BF2? Do not interchange monitors in this process use the one with 800x600 res if thats the one you plan to use.

Btw what are your monitors supported refresh rates?

[Tadas15]

I am planning to use the one with 800x600, hes maximum supporting refresh rate is 75, the others 85 hertz

PS : yes i tryied it, doesnt work, i make retrieve account ant it shut down on connecting

[MaSSive]

I am planning to use the one with 800x600, hes maximum supporting refresh rate is 75, the others 85 hertz

PS : yes i tryied it, doesnt work, i make retrieve account ant it shut down on connecting

Are you retrieving account from vanilla BF2 as I said? It wont work from PR.

Updated DX9 and Net Framework 3.5 sp1 installed? Reboot at some point?

[Tadas15]

Yes i rebooted, retreived account too

[MaSSive]

And? Still nothing?

Check if your profiles folder or video.con files are not set to read only.

If nothing of above wotn work, use this command line in your shortcut for PR and BF2.

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"C:\Program Files\Battlefield 2\mods\pr\pr.exe" +szx 800 +szy 600 +restart

Adjust to your target path do not copy-paste this!

[Tadas15]

No its not on read only mode, ive tried both shortcuts with that target, still doesnt work anything :/