No display mode available!!

[TheRedDotO]

Hi!
My laptop was stolen so I created a XP SP3 session on my Mac with VMware Fusion and I installed BF2 1.50 and PR (all this updated to latest version). BF2 works well but... when I launch PR it says :
"1324: The selected display mode is not supported. Please update the display mode for your profile in the "Options" menu and try again."
I realised there was no display mode available in the settings...
(Direct X and .NET Framework are updated)
someone had the same probleme on Win8 : https://www.realitymod.com/forum/f27-pr ... orted.html



System Information
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Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition (5.1.2600)
Current Culture: French (France)
Motherboard: Intel Corporation 440BX Desktop Reference Platform
Processor: Intel Pentium III Xeon processor (Physical: 1, Logical: 1)
Memory: 512,00 MB
Page File: 1,50 GB
.NET Framework: Unknown

Display Information
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Display Device(s):
Display Mode(s):
Driver Version: 12.00.26.0000 - build-1411857
Display Memory: 128,00 MB
Multisampling:
DPI: 96 (100%)

Audio Information
-----------------
Primary Playback: Creative Sound Blaster PCI
Primary Recording: Creative Sound Blaster PCI
Open AL Renderer: Software
EAX: True
EAX 1.0: False
EAX 2.0: True
EAX 3.0: False
EAX 4.0: False
EAX 5.0: False
X-RAM: False

Disk Information
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Install Path: C:\Program Files\Origin Games\Battlefield 2 Complete Collection
Free: 15,98 GB, Total: 39,99 GB, FS: NTFS, SSD: False
Mod Path: C:\Program Files\Origin Games\Battlefield 2 Complete Collection\mods\pr
Free: 15,98 GB, Total: 39,99 GB, FS: NTFS, SSD: False
Profiles Path: C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\ProjectReality\Profiles
Free: 15,98 GB, Total: 39,99 GB, FS: NTFS, SSD: False
Update DL Path: C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Local Settings\Application Data\Project Reality\Project Reality BF2\Downloads
Free: 15,98 GB, Total: 39,99 GB, FS: NTFS, SSD: False
Update Log Path: C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Local Settings\Application Data\Project Reality\Project Reality BF2\UpdateLogs
Free: 15,98 GB, Total: 39,99 GB, FS: NTFS, SSD: False

Game Information
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Installed Mods: bf2, pr, xpack
Current Mod: pr
BF2 Version: BF2 1.5
PR Version: 1.2.0.0
Language: french
Debug Available: False
Large Address: False
Supported Hardware: None

Profile Information
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Profile 0001: TheRedDot
Type: Online
View Intro: True
Fullscreen: True
Display Mode: 800x600@60Hz
Display Mode Valid: False
Graphics Scheme: Medium
Multisampling: Off
VSync: False
Terrain Quality: Low
Effects Quality: Medium
Geometry Quality: Low
Texture Quality: Medium
Lighting Quality: Low
Dynamic Shadows: Medium
Dynamic Lights: Medium
Texture Filtering: Medium
Audio Provider: Software
Provider Valid: True
Audio Quality: Medium
EAX: True

Can someone help me?

[LITOralis.nMd]

What GPU do you have?

Display Information
-------------------
Display Device(s):
Display Mode(s):
Driver Version: 12.00.26.0000 - build-1411857
Display Memory: 128,00 MB
Multisampling:
DPI: 96 (100%)

That is the VMware SVGA II Display Driver. It's supposed to be DirectX 9c compliant but I've not seen any report that it works for PR because it requires a high end GPU:

SVGA supported graphics adapters (03-2014):
Nvidia GRID K1
NvidiaGRID K2
Nvidia Quadro 4000
Nvidia Quadro 5000
Nvidia Quadro 6000
Nvidia Tesla M2070Q
(notice the ‘missing K’ with the Quadro adapters, Nvidia K4000, K5000, K6000 are not supported)

[TheRedDotO]

I solved the problem by using win 7 instead of win XP. BF2 vanilla works in XP SP3 compatibility and the display problem is fixed with PR. But when I want to enter a server (when I select "squad assignment" at the end of the map loading) the game crashes... f*cking MAC!

[TheRedDotO]

(I also changed the Memory from 500 Mo to 2Go

[TheRedDotO]

I found the solution! Where should I post something to let people know how to play PR on MAC?

[TheRedDotO]

You need at least 4GO memory
Use VMware FUSION with windows 7 (don't forget to adapt the language to your keybord in the COntrol Panel of Windows 7 and to release at least 3GO memory to Windows 7 in the VMWare Fusion settings)
then, on the windows session install :
-Direct X
-.NET Frame 4.5 (then reboot the Windows session)
-BF2 updated to 1.5 (launch BF2 vanilla once before installing PR)
-PR
then disable all firewall or antivirus
next in the PR settings change the Display Mod to 800x600 (don't use too high graphic qualities)
if it doesn't work use Razer Game Booster (because VMware reduces a lot your computer's specs)
Now it must work with basic capacities. The lasting problem is that you will need to change many keys (like ctrl because you can't fire will you crouch and Ver MAJ because you can't open the squad map, and some other ones)
Last but not least : it is also recomended to go to the windows update center, to search for updates and to reboot the windows session, in order to update drivers.