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I have a computer running PR and at no set time, during the middle of a round I crash to desktop without any error box or anything. I just crash into desktop immediately. I do not know what is wrong, and I am hoping if you guys can help me.

my specs are

Operating System: Windows Vista Home Premium (64x)
Graphics Cards: 2x Nvidia Geforce 9500 GT in SLI mode
Processure: Intel Core 2 Duo
RAM: 2 Sticks with 2 GB RAM each. Total 4 GB RAM
DirectX Version: DirectX 10
Monitor: Dell 1907FP

What should I do?

I'm going to assume Vista will have the same path as Win 7 in order to view logs

GoTo >> Start Menu
Right Click >> Computer
Select >> Manage
Click drop down arrow >> Event Viewer
Select >> Windows Logs
Select >> Application

This will take you to the Error generated by Windows when the application failed.

Yes I have looked at the log and it says that BF2.exe was trying to disable Desktop Windows Manager, and thats probably one of the reasons why I crashed. I searched on the internet and found that the Desktop Windows Manager uses up alot of physical memory and so with it enabled that might of been why it crashed. I have yet to play PR again and see if it is gone. i will tell you if it worked or not. Thanks for telling me about the event log.

hmmmm... running out of memory? You've got just as much as I do and I can play PR, Medieval II, VLC player(w/ movie) all at the same time with no performance drop.

You've got 4GB....are you using the patched BF2.exe that extends the memory it can use?

EDIT: OK! This is Aero. Yeah, on my copy of Win 7 everytime I start a game, I get the little ballon tip on the task bar stating that DWM is turned off due to an incompatable application. Not sure if Vista turns it off automatically.

The Windows Log also said that BF2.exe tried to close the application. I also have the patched BF2.exe for over 2GB RAM. I had done this yesterday, and today the problem occurred again, 2 times during the day, and now I tried disabling DMW, but I haven't tried it out yet. Windows Vista does not warn me that bf2 is incompatible with DMW, I think BF2 tries to disable DMW and thats where it crashes to desktop. But in the log it shows this event way more times than i had crashed.

Edited because it did not work. Scroll down to my next post for what does work.

LT Harrison=ORA= wrote:Same problem here!!! It has nothing to do with memory, I know that for sure. I have 16gb of RAM, 8gb page file, and 2 GTX295's.

that's quite a machine you've got ther. You a graphics designer or make your own movies?

05grottim wrote:that's quite a machine you've got ther. You a graphics designer or make your own movies?

I use Photoshop, Sony Vegas, and a few other high resource programs, it's overkill (8gb would be plenty) but I have no camplaints.

The /3gb switch does not work!!! But, setting affinity to core0 does. I did it yesterday and had no crash for 6 hours. I'll try again today.

For Vista users you have to disable your UAC, run PR, Ctrl+Alt+Del, Task Manager, Processes, find bf2.exe and PR, right click, affinity, uncheck all but 1st core. Have to do this each time but it works for me.