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So how is every one?

Please post on the PR Help and Hardware Issues - Project Reality Forums next time.

To answer your question hers something from the 1000 time I've answerd similar questions like this:

Battlefield 2/Project Reality will work fine on Vista. I notice a great deal of performance drop with BF2 under Windows Vista over Windows XP Pro. I can manage all high at 1280x800 with AA x4, but in order to achieve 40+ FPS I'm forced to have textures set to medium. Now I've tried both BF2 and PR on Windows Vista Home Premium 32bit and at present time I’m running them fine on Windows Vista Ultimate 64 without any issues. As I said before, you'll notice quite a performance drop in both of those games on Vista over XP, but they will most certainly run on Vista (depending on your system spec's as well).

Now hers what you will experience and will need to do while installing both games on a Vista machine:

While installing BF2/PR you will recive a warrning message from Battlefield telling you that the game has not been tested for operating system, and may not work correctly; don't mind the message and continue as you were. Now afther the installation you need to right click on the BF2/PR icon, go to properties and under compatibility tab checkmark "Run this program as an Administrator".

Such as this:


Other performace tips which some have been mentioned before include:

• Changing Windows theme from Aero to Windows Basic while playing both games
• Closing Sidebar
• You might experience stutter while playing some Battlefield mods such as Project Reality under Vista even with a very capable system. To fix this issue you might need to change texture settings to medium while everything could be kept to you desired settings

Ah ok, Thank you. I ment to say that the question was answered, but the title didnt change, unlike the post. I dont get why. But Ah well.
He went ahead and installed it and its working fine, but thank you for the response.

I tried looking and couldnt find anything on it.

Thanks man, great description. It helped me! Now i can play BF2 & PR on Windows Vista Ultimate (32-bit). Thanks!

playing PR just fine on Vista 64 bit.


I have a quad -core system, so to avoid CTD's I have to set the affinity to 1 core and turn off the rest.

Still playing on all high settings.

I experience a CTD or 'memory allocation error' every 3-4 maps, but I dunno if that's vista or my PC.

Also select the "turn off desktop composition" and update punkbuster.

I have it fine running on vista 64 bit.

Sgt_carbonero wrote:
I have a quad -core system, so to avoid CTD's I have to set the affinity to 1 core and turn off the rest.

So is this a confirmed issue? I would have thought that would be fixed by now if so. I have a dual core and sometimes get weird behavior when playing PR but I'm not sure if it's DC related or not. Well anyway it's possible to patch the "exe" to permanently fix this problem but the devs have to do it otherwise PB will probably get mad when it detects the modified exe. I know how to fix the exe if devs are interested.