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I hope somebody can help I have just installed BF2 and add ons on a dell laptop running windows 7 and the program try's to start goes to black screen the kicks back to deck top.
any idea's please

Try to set compatiblity to Windows XP Service Pack 3.

(rightmouseclick on bf2.exe, properties, tab compatibility)

Dont forget running as administrator. Also dont forget that you can install the game as administrator. That also works wonders.

If none of those work your computer is not good enough. Either buy a new one or ditch the game.

Sounds like somebody patched to vBF2 1.50 before patching to vBF2 1.41

I tried installing Bf2/PR on Windows 7 also ... = FAIL lol Do everything the people above me told you to doo ... but my issue was Punkbuster.. i couldnt Figure out why punkbuster keeps on kicking me for initialization failures.. and other small issues .. i got to the point i could play for a minute then i get kiked and i gve up.. good luck with you if you ahve any more questions Send me a message ... ALSO do you have Windows 7 32 or 64?? 32 should haven o issue but 64 is turning out to be a BIACH for Bf2/PR

change your shortcut properties to have +fullscreen 0 so that when the game crashes it will present an error. Then screenshot & paste or just type up the error in this thread, and we can help you with the problem.

Dont understand what the problems are with 64 bit Red?

anyway, try as has been said above, plus could a mod move this downstairs to my dungeon please?



Cheers

i had to change the resolution the game opened on or something. Im pretty sure i did what Psyrus said...google it and youll see what im talking about. i did it so long ago i cant remember

Redamare wrote:I tried installing Bf2/PR on Windows 7 also ... = FAIL lol Do everything the people above me told you to doo ... but my issue was Punkbuster.. i couldnt Figure out why punkbuster keeps on kicking me for initialization failures.. and other small issues .. i got to the point i could play for a minute then i get kiked and i gve up.. good luck with you if you ahve any more questions Send me a message ... ALSO do you have Windows 7 32 or 64?? 32 should haven o issue but 64 is turning out to be a BIACH for Bf2/PR

I had this problem on 64 bit Vista. You need to either run pbsvc.exe (which allows punkbuster to run without admin permission) or the pbsetup(which updates punkbuster). The problem I was able to track down is that punkbuster is not updating properly after the 1.5 patch. When installed BF2 I needed to run both, but my roommate running 64 bit 7 only needed to run pbsetup.

pbsvc.exe
http://www.evenbalance.com/downloads/pbsvc/pbsvc.exe
pbsetup.
PunkBuster Online Countermeasures

This sounds similar to what happened to me when I first bought the game without a proper graphics card.

im running it on win 7. never had a problem

Oddsodz wrote:Sounds like somebody patched to vBF2 1.50 before patching to vBF2 1.41

It doesnt let you install if you dont have 1.41

did you use the 0.91 client? or the 0.9 -> 0.91 client? a friend of mine used the first one and has this same problem as I write. he updated from a working 0.87 to 0.91.

with this error:
debug assertion failed!

Version: 1.5.3153-802.0 Build date:2009-8-20 18:8
Module: rendDX9
File:
C:\dice\Projects\BF2Branches\Patch_1_50\Code\BF2|RendDX9\VideoOptions.cpp
Line: 234

Text: Unknown DynamicOption value 1920x1080@60Hz

Current confile:

Moved to Robbi's dungeon.

mistryx wrote:did you use the 0.91 client? or the 0.9 -> 0.91 client? a friend of mine used the first one and has this same problem as I write. he updated from a working 0.87 to 0.91.

with this error:
debug assertion failed!

Version: 1.5.3153-802.0 Build date:2009-8-20 18:8
Module: rendDX9
File:
C:\dice\Projects\BF2Branches\Patch_1_50\Code\BF2|RendDX9\VideoOptions.cpp
Line: 234

Text: Unknown DynamicOption value 1920x1080@60Hz

Current confile:

I was getting this exact same error(Well the value was 1600x1200@60hz, still the same though)

What I did to fix this problem was:
There should be the following file in My Documents\Battlefield 2\Profiles\Default in this called Video.con, rename it to _Video.con then run PR.

Enjoy


Edit:You will need to reset your video settings when you run PR but who cares? You're able to play PR again right?

Still kicks me back to desktop

I have tried changing the video.con file to my screen res and no effect. the error I get is
version 1.5******** build date2009-8-20 17;8
moduledx9
file
c:\dice\projects\bf2branches\patch_1_50\code\bf2\rendDX9\video0 ptions.cpp
line 234
text unknown Dynamic option value 800x600@60hz

I am running an ati 256 meg video card the screen res is 61 hz and 1400x900
3 gig of ram
Intel core 2 duo cpuT6400 @2.00ghz
windows 7 home premium 32bit

i wouldnt blame win 7, i run it with no problems on win 7. start checking other things.