Installed new LCD, now BF2 won't start

[motorboatJones]

I bought a Viewsonic VX922 to play BF2. It's a 2ms gaming monitor however it won't let me play BF2. Everytime I start up BF2 it almost immediately crashes to desktop. No log in, nothing.

Any ideas? I called Viewsonic but of course they had no idea.

p.s. here's the link to the monitor

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16824116375

p.p.s OK, I found out what it was. Someone told me BF2 would not run with DVI. I did some research and found out that is not true. I was using DVI but what I had to do was edit my video.con files in my profile folder to match the 60Hz refresh rate my monitor runs at. Once I did that BF2 loaded.

I hope this helps others who may have the same problem. No need to switch to VGA or to re-install BF2.

[imported_Mutrino]

Re: Installed new LCD, now BF2 won't start

I bought a Viewsonic VX922 to play BF2. It's a 2ms gaming monitor however it won't let me play BF2. Everytime I start up BF2 it almost immediately crashes to desktop. No log in, nothing.

Any ideas? I called Viewsonic but of course they had no idea.

p.s. here's the link to the monitor

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16824116375

p.p.s OK, I found out what it was. Someone told me BF2 would not run with DVI. I did some research and found out that is not true. I was using DVI but what I had to do was edit my video.con files in my profile folder to match the 60Hz refresh rate my monitor runs at. Once I did that BF2 loaded.

I hope this helps others who may have the same problem. No need to switch to VGA or to re-install BF2.

Odd, I have never had to edit any files to use my monitors on DVI ports with BF2. Did you install the correct drivers for your monitor?

[ConscriptVirus]

Re: Installed new LCD, now BF2 won't start

yeah same here...i went from vga to dvi wihtout any tweaking ..hmm strange

[mlkmnz]

Re: Installed new LCD, now BF2 won't start

DVI should actually take any guess work out of running as it should run settings automatically, so it all sounds pretty weird. At least u got it working.

[Killuminati]

Re: Installed new LCD, now BF2 won't start

Yeah i had the same problem. Thanks for the explaination.

[Talus]

Re: Installed new LCD, now BF2 won't start

Delete the contents of My Documents\Battlefield 2 and it should work. One of the old settings is screwing things up.

[knghtwhosaysni]

Re: Installed new LCD, now BF2 won't start

Delete the contents of My Documents\Battlefield 2 and it should work. One of the old settings is screwing things up.

The exact file is probably going to be C:\Documents and Settings\Greg\My Documents\Battlefield 2\Profiles\0001\Video.con. So you can just delete that one if you don't want to lse your control settings.

[[H2H]Haggis]

Re: Installed new LCD, now BF2 won't start

^^ he's right but even etter dont delete it just change the resolution and refresh rates to suit your new monitor i know thats what i did :)

hmmm this is an old thread which he got sorted back on 28th september Talus took your eye off the ball there :P