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'[R-DEV wrote:AncientMan;913997']The most common cause of this is that you are running out of memory.
BF2 was a memory intensive game, and PR only increases on that.

First, you can try lowering your video settings, in particular, Textures. If that doesn't help or fix your issue,
you can try increasing your virtual memory. Information on how to do this is located in the Installation Guide wiki.
See HERE.

If that STILL doesn't work, you can try patching your bf2.exe to allow it to use more than 2GB of memory.
Firstly, you want to backup your current bf2.exe in your /Battlefield 2/ folder. To do this, simply rename it from bf2.exe
to bf2.exe.original. You should back it up incase you have any issues in the future. Now you need to download the patched bf2.exe.
This can be found in THIS zip file
(THIS one if your using the EA Downloader version)
(If you get a virus warning, ignore it, just a false positive). Simply extract it next to bf2.exe.original, and your good to go.
Thanks to R.J.Travis for the original method.

thepalerider wrote:Two things you could try


Mutli core/processor causing errors
If you have more than one cpu or 'core' you can set the 'affinity'(force the game to run on one cpu or core only) through your shortcut by adding
AFFINITY 2
to your shortcuts 'target' string like this:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2\BF2.exe" start /AFFINITY 2 +modPath mods/pr +menu 1 +fullscreen 1

Good luck

thepalerider wrote:Check and make sure you have ONE space and only one space after
PR.exe"


You installed BF2
Updated with 1.41
Installed PR with PR86 core installer followed by 86 levels installer
Used default location on 'C' drive.

I don't know why but using the 86 patch didn't work for me.
The game would start to load then in a blink I would be back on the desktop.
I uninstalled PR86, deleted the PR shortcut and the PR folder left inside EA\BF2 folder then
rebooted, reinstalled with both of the full installers (core & levels)and then thankfully everything worked.

Hope it helps

socomseal45 wrote: The game doesn't load up at all. Doesn't show a black screen then crashes, nothing, just stays on the desktop. Is there something I'm doing wrong? I've already redownloaded and reinstalled everything, still no luck. Is it an issue with my shortcut target?

[R-DEV]Twisted Helix wrote:Post your Battlefield 2 directory here , and then look in your registry (StartMenu>>Run and type in "regedit"). Find where your battlefield 2 key is and tell me that location.

Tell me where your profiles directory is as well, and finally tell me what system OS you are running and whether your BF2 install is from disk or EA downloader please.

socomseal45 wrote:C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2 that's the bf2 directory

i can't seem to find the key, but where the bf2 stuff is: hkey_local_machine/software/electronic arts/ea games/battlefield 2

C:\Documents and Settings\(my name)\My Documents\Battlefield 2\Profiles

it was installed from the disk. I'm running windows xp SP3
I hope that's what you needed.