PR wont load up to the menu....

[mightymints]

Hey all, I just built a new PC, but cant get PR to load.

BF2 works perfectly on 1.50, no problems.

I install the PR files as normal, and then when I try and start, the blacksand logo starts to appear, and then just freezes. Then I have to reset the PC, as nothing else will respond.

PC is:
Windows 7 home premium
GFX card sapphire 5850
CPU intel i7 2.8
8GB corsair ddr3 ram
No problems running other games.

Any ideas? Ive tried reinstalling it.

[mightymints]

Update on this, I seem to be able to play if i remove all the .bnk files from the game. Infact it seems bnk files are making my pc crash on any game. Any ideas? I would really love some help here.

[thepalerider]

If your having trouble run battlefield cleaner to flush out your video cache files and disable the movies.

You might check your Video.con files too:
The problem maybe something is telling BF2 to load a resolution that your monitor or video card doesn't support. In my case it was my new widescreen LCD.

That "something" is actually 3 files in the "C:\Documents and Settings\[Your User Name]\My Documents\Battlefield 2\Profiles" directory. In that Profiles directory are 3 folders called 0001, 0002, and Default. Inside each of those 3 folders is a file called Video.con. You need to open each of those 3 Video.con files and search for the line that says "VideoSettings.setResolution 1280x960@75Hz". Change all 3 files to a resolution & refresh rate that you know the monitor and video card support, and BF2 should work like a champ again.
Check that the AA is set right as well.
Good luck

The video.com can be edited with notepad and should look like this:

VideoSettings.setTerrainQuality 3
VideoSettings.setGeometryQuality 3
VideoSettings.setLightingQuality 3
VideoSettings.setDynamicLightingQuality 2
VideoSettings.setDynamicShadowsQuality 2
VideoSettings.setEffectsQuality 3
VideoSettings.setTextureQuality 2
VideoSettings.setTextureFilteringQuality 3
VideoSettings.setResolution 1600x1200@60Hz
VideoSettings.setAntialiasing Off
VideoSettings.setViewDistanceScale 1
VideoSettings.setVideoOptionScheme 3

This shows my res @ 1600x1200@60Hz
Most LEDs (older ones) need to be 60Hz or less
My AA is turned off.

Good luck

[mightymints]

Yeah this isnt the problem really, its definitely something to do with my pc and bnk files. its doing it on games like dirt 2 as well. A few others are having the problem I am having too.
We think its something to do with windows 7 x64 and .bnk videos, or ati drivers. Ill keep yall updated though.

[Mad-Mike]

I also have Windows 7 and ATi drivers and I dont have a problem.
hope tht helps out aswell..

[thepalerider]

Sounds like W7 shipped with a few less video codecs.
Maybe you can find them here:
Free-Codecs.com :: Download latest audio codecs, video codecs ..

Good luck

[mightymints]

It was the damn Bios! I updated it from f3 to f8 and its all fixed. Months of problems. I should have just done that to start with. To make things better i also got a 50% fps boost!