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I just installed build 5308 and BF2 + 1.22 patch. When I load up the game, it shows the splash screen for a few seconds (just like it always did), then switches to fullscreen. When it goes to fullscreen, the screen is just all black and stays that way for about 3 seconds. It then unloads and goes back to the desktop.
Has anyone successfully run BF2 1.22 on build 5308?
Anything I should look for to try to fix this problem, or is this purely a compatibility issue? I wonder, is it because BF2 is trying to use DX9c, and maybe DX10 is what's getting loaded?
Thanks

DirectX 10 (formely known as the Windows Graphics Foundation, WGF) hasn't been fully developed yet and although some remnents of it is in Vista, it's still not up to scratch. Check the game's manufacturer for Vista support, or run the game's executable in compatibility mode with XP SP2 as that may help :o)
-- Zack Whittaker » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared that up!
--: Original message follows :-- "Jayson" wrote in message

I just installed build 5308 and BF2 + 1.22 patch. When I load up the game, it shows the splash screen for a few seconds (just like it always did), then switches to fullscreen. When it goes to fullscreen, the screen is just all black and stays that way for about 3 seconds. It then unloads and goes back to the desktop.
Has anyone successfully run BF2 1.22 on build 5308?
Anything I should look for to try to fix this problem, or is this purely a compatibility issue? I wonder, is it because BF2 is trying to use DX9c, and maybe DX10 is what's getting loaded?
Thanks

To be honest Battlefield 2 has never been the most stable of games, even on XP, and EA aren't the best company at reliably patching games either. I had many many problems with BF2 on XP, so I am not surprised that your havign problems with vista.
I dont have my BF2 cd at the moment, but when i get it back in a week ill install it and try and validate the bug, if it doesnt work for me ill bug report it.
Ben Macrow "Zack Whittaker" wrote in message

DirectX 10 (formely known as the Windows Graphics Foundation, WGF) hasn't been fully developed yet and although some remnents of it is in Vista, it's still not up to scratch. Check the game's manufacturer for Vista support, or run the game's executable in compatibility mode with XP SP2 as that may help :o)
-- Zack Whittaker » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared that up!
--: Original message follows :-- "Jayson" wrote in message I just installed build 5308 and BF2 + 1.22 patch. When I load up the game, it shows the splash screen for a few seconds (just like it always did), then switches to fullscreen. When it goes to fullscreen, the screen is just all black and stays that way for about 3 seconds. It then unloads and goes back to the desktop.
Has anyone successfully run BF2 1.22 on build 5308?
Anything I should look for to try to fix this problem, or is this purely a compatibility issue? I wonder, is it because BF2 is trying to use DX9c, and maybe DX10 is what's getting loaded?
Thanks

Honestly, I don't think I'll bother looking at EA's site to see whether they support Vista (now). For those of us who have been around BF2 1.0, we all know how hard it is to get a decent patch out of EA, so I won't hold my breath in them releasing any 'compatibility' patches.
I did try setting the Compatiblity mode to SP2 and unfortunately that didn't work. Same behavior. Thanks for the tip though, I'll remember that for other programs.
"Zack Whittaker" wrote:

DirectX 10 (formely known as the Windows Graphics Foundation, WGF) hasn't been fully developed yet and although some remnents of it is in Vista, it's still not up to scratch. Check the game's manufacturer for Vista support, or run the game's executable in compatibility mode with XP SP2 as that may help :o)
-- Zack Whittaker » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared that up!
--: Original message follows :-- "Jayson" wrote in message I just installed build 5308 and BF2 + 1.22 patch. When I load up the game, it shows the splash screen for a few seconds (just like it always did), then switches to fullscreen. When it goes to fullscreen, the screen is just all black and stays that way for about 3 seconds. It then unloads and goes back to the desktop.
Has anyone successfully run BF2 1.22 on build 5308?
Anything I should look for to try to fix this problem, or is this purely a compatibility issue? I wonder, is it because BF2 is trying to use DX9c, and maybe DX10 is what's getting loaded?
Thanks

Thanks Ben. I appreciate the effort in confirming this for me. And yes, I totally agree with what you said about EA and their patches.
"Ben Macrow" wrote:

To be honest Battlefield 2 has never been the most stable of games, even on XP, and EA aren't the best company at reliably patching games either. I had many many problems with BF2 on XP, so I am not surprised that your havign problems with vista.
I dont have my BF2 cd at the moment, but when i get it back in a week ill install it and try and validate the bug, if it doesnt work for me ill bug report it.
Ben Macrow "Zack Whittaker" wrote in message DirectX 10 (formely known as the Windows Graphics Foundation, WGF) hasn't been fully developed yet and although some remnents of it is in Vista, it's still not up to scratch. Check the game's manufacturer for Vista support, or run the game's executable in compatibility mode with XP SP2 as that may help :o)
-- Zack Whittaker ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared that up!
--: Original message follows :-- "Jayson" wrote in message I just installed build 5308 and BF2 + 1.22 patch. When I load up the game, it shows the splash screen for a few seconds (just like it always did), then switches to fullscreen. When it goes to fullscreen, the screen is just all black and stays that way for about 3 seconds. It then unloads and goes back to the desktop.
Has anyone successfully run BF2 1.22 on build 5308?
Anything I should look for to try to fix this problem, or is this purely a compatibility issue? I wonder, is it because BF2 is trying to use DX9c, and maybe DX10 is what's getting loaded?
Thanks

The directX version should not be an issue, when developing DX9 applications on vista, they work. I tried BF2 on 5308 but it din't work. I din't install it on vista, but on XP and just entered my regkeys manually and started the game from hd. Was not working cause it was missing some DX9 files. BF2 aint using the standard DX9 version but some of the SDK releases (think Feb2005)
DX9 and DX10 use different runtimes, so they should be able run at same time without any problems.
"Jayson" wrote in message

I just installed build 5308 and BF2 + 1.22 patch. When I load up the game, it shows the splash screen for a few seconds (just like it always did), then switches to fullscreen. When it goes to fullscreen, the screen is just all black and stays that way for about 3 seconds. It then unloads and goes back to the desktop.
Has anyone successfully run BF2 1.22 on build 5308?
Anything I should look for to try to fix this problem, or is this purely a compatibility issue? I wonder, is it because BF2 is trying to use DX9c, and maybe DX10 is what's getting loaded?
Thanks

No problems mate :-) when it works i love BF 2 so i wanna play it too, and tbh the best way of getting it working is making MS aware of the compatibility bug cos EA will take more notice of them than they do lowly old joe blogs in the public writing to support!
"Jayson" wrote in message

Thanks Ben. I appreciate the effort in confirming this for me. And yes, I totally agree with what you said about EA and their patches.
"Ben Macrow" wrote:
To be honest Battlefield 2 has never been the most stable of games, even on XP, and EA aren't the best company at reliably patching games either. I had many many problems with BF2 on XP, so I am not surprised that your havign problems with vista.
I dont have my BF2 cd at the moment, but when i get it back in a week ill install it and try and validate the bug, if it doesnt work for me ill bug report it.
Ben Macrow "Zack Whittaker" wrote in message DirectX 10 (formely known as the Windows Graphics Foundation, WGF) hasn't been fully developed yet and although some remnents of it is in Vista, it's still not up to scratch. Check the game's manufacturer for Vista support, or run the game's executable in compatibility mode with XP SP2 as that may help :o)
-- Zack Whittaker ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared that up!
--: Original message follows :-- "Jayson" wrote in message I just installed build 5308 and BF2 + 1.22 patch. When I load up the game, it shows the splash screen for a few seconds (just like it always did), then switches to fullscreen. When it goes to fullscreen, the screen is just all black and stays that way for about 3 seconds. It then unloads and goes back to the desktop.
Has anyone successfully run BF2 1.22 on build 5308?
Anything I should look for to try to fix this problem, or is this purely a compatibility issue? I wonder, is it because BF2 is trying to use DX9c, and maybe DX10 is what's getting loaded?
Thanks

if the screen goes black for a second or more this means that the display driver crashed and it restarted, together with the crash of the display driver the game presumably crashed as well
-- Gabriel Lozano-Morán The .NET Aficionado http://www.pointerx.net
"Jayson" wrote in message

I just installed build 5308 and BF2 + 1.22 patch. When I load up the game, it shows the splash screen for a few seconds (just like it always did), then switches to fullscreen. When it goes to fullscreen, the screen is just all black and stays that way for about 3 seconds. It then unloads and goes back to the desktop.
Has anyone successfully run BF2 1.22 on build 5308?
Anything I should look for to try to fix this problem, or is this purely a compatibility issue? I wonder, is it because BF2 is trying to use DX9c, and maybe DX10 is what's getting loaded?
Thanks

is it possible to play bf2 on vista from the posts above, it doesn't look good
"Gabriel Lozano-Morán" wrote:

if the screen goes black for a second or more this means that the display driver crashed and it restarted, together with the crash of the display driver the game presumably crashed as well
-- Gabriel Lozano-Morán The .NET Aficionado http://www.pointerx.net
"Jayson" wrote in message I just installed build 5308 and BF2 + 1.22 patch. When I load up the game, it shows the splash screen for a few seconds (just like it always did), then switches to fullscreen. When it goes to fullscreen, the screen is just all black and stays that way for about 3 seconds. It then unloads and goes back to the desktop.
Has anyone successfully run BF2 1.22 on build 5308?
Anything I should look for to try to fix this problem, or is this purely a compatibility issue? I wonder, is it because BF2 is trying to use DX9c, and maybe DX10 is what's getting loaded?
Thanks

Can't get BF2 to run on Vista build 5384 either. Gets to loading the server then drops to the desktop.
"hynesy_dave" wrote in message

is it possible to play bf2 on vista from the posts above, it doesn't look good
"Gabriel Lozano-Morán" wrote:
if the screen goes black for a second or more this means that the display driver crashed and it restarted, together with the crash of the display driver the game presumably crashed as well
-- Gabriel Lozano-Morán The .NET Aficionado http://www.pointerx.net
"Jayson" wrote in message I just installed build 5308 and BF2 + 1.22 patch. When I load up the game, it shows the splash screen for a few seconds (just like it always did), then switches to fullscreen. When it goes to fullscreen, the screen is just all black and stays that way for about 3 seconds. It then unloads and goes back to the desktop.
Has anyone successfully run BF2 1.22 on build 5308?
Anything I should look for to try to fix this problem, or is this purely a compatibility issue? I wonder, is it because BF2 is trying to use DX9c, and maybe DX10 is what's getting loaded?
Thanks

Can't get BF2 to run on Vista build 5384 either. Gets to loading the server then drops to the desktop.

Mine is doing that also. I just installed Vista so there are probably some things I need to get used to, but I might guess it is some type of access issue with starting a server.
Clark
"Joseph Perry" wrote in message

Can't get BF2 to run on Vista build 5384 either. Gets to loading the server then drops to the desktop.
"hynesy_dave" wrote in message is it possible to play bf2 on vista from the posts above, it doesn't look good
"Gabriel Lozano-Morán" wrote:
if the screen goes black for a second or more this means that the display driver crashed and it restarted, together with the crash of the display driver the game presumably crashed as well
-- Gabriel Lozano-Morán The .NET Aficionado http://www.pointerx.net
"Jayson" wrote in message I just installed build 5308 and BF2 + 1.22 patch. When I load up the game, it shows the splash screen for a few seconds (just like it always did), then switches to fullscreen. When it goes to fullscreen, the screen is just all black and stays that way for about 3 seconds. It then unloads and goes back to the desktop.
Has anyone successfully run BF2 1.22 on build 5308?
Anything I should look for to try to fix this problem, or is this purely a compatibility issue? I wonder, is it because BF2 is trying to use DX9c, and maybe DX10 is what's getting loaded?
Thanks

I'm not running a server, but BF2 crashes to desktop about half thru loading a mutiplayer map. Who knows.
"Clark" wrote in message

Can't get BF2 to run on Vista build 5384 either. Gets to loading the server then drops to the desktop.
Mine is doing that also. I just installed Vista so there are probably some things I need to get used to, but I might guess it is some type of access issue with starting a server.
Clark
"Joseph Perry" wrote in message Can't get BF2 to run on Vista build 5384 either. Gets to loading the server then drops to the desktop.
"hynesy_dave" wrote in message is it possible to play bf2 on vista from the posts above, it doesn't look good
"Gabriel Lozano-Morán" wrote:
if the screen goes black for a second or more this means that the display driver crashed and it restarted, together with the crash of the display driver the game presumably crashed as well
-- Gabriel Lozano-Morán The .NET Aficionado http://www.pointerx.net
"Jayson" wrote in message I just installed build 5308 and BF2 + 1.22 patch. When I load up the game, it shows the splash screen for a few seconds (just like it always did), then switches to fullscreen. When it goes to fullscreen, the screen is just all black and stays that way for about 3 seconds. It then unloads and goes back to the desktop.
Has anyone successfully run BF2 1.22 on build 5308?
Anything I should look for to try to fix this problem, or is this purely a compatibility issue? I wonder, is it because BF2 is trying to use DX9c, and maybe DX10 is what's getting loaded?
Thanks

I just downloaded the Nvidia Vista drivers and it seems to be better now. The game started and ran OK, but not good yet.
Clark
"_Mark" wrote in message

I'm not running a server, but BF2 crashes to desktop about half thru loading a mutiplayer map. Who knows.
"Clark" wrote in message Can't get BF2 to run on Vista build 5384 either. Gets to loading the server then drops to the desktop.
Mine is doing that also. I just installed Vista so there are probably some things I need to get used to, but I might guess it is some type of access issue with starting a server.
Clark
"Joseph Perry" wrote in message Can't get BF2 to run on Vista build 5384 either. Gets to loading the server then drops to the desktop.
"hynesy_dave" wrote in message is it possible to play bf2 on vista from the posts above, it doesn't look good
"Gabriel Lozano-Morán" wrote:
if the screen goes black for a second or more this means that the display driver crashed and it restarted, together with the crash of the display driver the game presumably crashed as well
-- Gabriel Lozano-Morán The .NET Aficionado http://www.pointerx.net
"Jayson" wrote in message I just installed build 5308 and BF2 + 1.22 patch. When I load up the game, it shows the splash screen for a few seconds (just like it always did), then switches to fullscreen. When it goes to fullscreen, the screen is just all black and stays that way for about 3 seconds. It then unloads and goes back to the desktop.
Has anyone successfully run BF2 1.22 on build 5308?
Anything I should look for to try to fix this problem, or is this purely a compatibility issue? I wonder, is it because BF2 is trying to use DX9c, and maybe DX10 is what's getting loaded?
Thanks

Battlefield will run OK - Finally. I had to reinstall twice but it finally started working Great!! Encountered a problem with EA Downloader once. It now runs at least as fast as in XP Run Battelfield as Admininistrator Don't run as XP This worked for me. Vista build 5384, ATI X1900XTX, 2GB Ram

"Jayson" wrote:

I just installed build 5308 and BF2 + 1.22 patch. When I load up the game, it shows the splash screen for a few seconds (just like it always did), then switches to fullscreen. When it goes to fullscreen, the screen is just all black and stays that way for about 3 seconds. It then unloads and goes back to the desktop.
Has anyone successfully run BF2 1.22 on build 5308?
Anything I should look for to try to fix this problem, or is this purely a compatibility issue? I wonder, is it because BF2 is trying to use DX9c, and maybe DX10 is what's getting loaded?
Thanks

Are you using the standard Vista Display drivers..
"tomhyde2" wrote in message

Battlefield will run OK - Finally. I had to reinstall twice but it finally started working Great!! Encountered a problem with EA Downloader once. It now runs at least as fast as in XP Run Battelfield as Admininistrator Don't run as XP This worked for me. Vista build 5384, ATI X1900XTX, 2GB Ram

"Jayson" wrote:
I just installed build 5308 and BF2 + 1.22 patch. When I load up the game, it shows the splash screen for a few seconds (just like it always did), then switches to fullscreen. When it goes to fullscreen, the screen is just all black and stays that way for about 3 seconds. It then unloads and goes back to the desktop.
Has anyone successfully run BF2 1.22 on build 5308?
Anything I should look for to try to fix this problem, or is this purely a compatibility issue? I wonder, is it because BF2 is trying to use DX9c, and maybe DX10 is what's getting loaded?
Thanks