What the Deuce!?

[Hellsent 2.0]

Felt nostalgic today and tried playing some classics, launched BF2 and it goes to a black screen and crashes....Ok try again, same thing...Ok try COD4 promod, get on server get 1 kill it crashes....Ok try again get on other server for like 5 mins then it crashes....

What the Deuce?! I can run newer games, such as TF2, Black oops, GRID and other stuffs but not the oldies...

Things already rules out are:
Power supply
GFX temps
CPU temps

PS also tried running BF2 as administrator with no help...

[[Expletive Deleted]]

Re: What the Deuce!?

Do you have a widescreen monitor?

[Hellsent 2.0]

Re: What the Deuce!?

Yes, never been a problem before...

[[Expletive Deleted]]

Re: What the Deuce!?

So you've played the current installation of BF2 on your current system, including the monitor, and it worked before?

[Rambo]

Re: What the Deuce!?

Ive had this problem b4,manually change your resolution in the user script in your bf2 "my documents" file.:salute:

[[Expletive Deleted]]

Re: What the Deuce!?

Ive had this problem b4,manually change your resolution in the user script in your bf2 "my documents" file.:salute:

This is what I was leading towards.

Go here:
\Documents and Settings\[username]\My Documents\Battlefield 2\Profiles\0001

and open Video.con with WordPad or some other text editor. Go to the line that says the resolution/refresh rate, it should look like this: VideoSettings.setResolution 1280x960@75Hz

or something similar.

Change that line to
VideoSettings.setResolution 1920x1200@60Hz (or whatever resolution you're on)

If, for some reason, that doesn't work; do this:
Right click the game in Steam, go to Properties.
Click Set Launch Options and type this in the box that pops up:
+menu 1 +fullscreen 1 +szx 1920 +szy 1200 (or whatever resolution you're on)

[Hellsent 2.0]

Re: What the Deuce!?

This is what I was leading towards.

Go here:
\Documents and Settings\[username]\My Documents\Battlefield 2\Profiles\0001

and open Video.con with WordPad or some other text editor. Go to the line that says the resolution/refresh rate, it should look like this: VideoSettings.setResolution 1280x960@75Hz

or something similar.

Change that line to
VideoSettings.setResolution 1920x1200@60Hz (or whatever resolution you're on)

If, for some reason, that doesn't work; do this:
Right click the game in Steam, go to Properties.
Click Set Launch Options and type this in the box that pops up:
+menu 1 +fullscreen 1 +szx 1920 +szy 1200 (or whatever resolution you're on)

I tried this and saw that my resolution was at 1920x1080, because I played it last on my TV, but now I'm back to my monitor which is 1440x900 and I changed it in the Video.con file and saved it, but still the same thing. I think it has something to do with me having a later version of Visual Studio, maybe?

Also tried the other method and still the same problem... Might just reinstall...

Thanks for all the help so far btw +rep

[ConscriptVirus]

Re: What the Deuce!?

when you're in the documents/Battlefield 2/Profiles make sure you also change the video.con in the Default folder.

[Hellsent 2.0]

Re: What the Deuce!?

when you're in the documents/Battlefield 2/Profiles make sure you also change the video.con in the Default folder.

Changed that as well, still crashing.

[LunaTiK TunaLiK]

Re: What the Deuce!?

I would completely delete the profiles before I reinstalled.

[DunkinSPE]

Re: What the Deuce!?

Running any particular anti-spyware or anti-virus? I know that i have similar problems with older games due to pb related issues not liking my software selections.

[megawhompertoo]

Re: What the Deuce!?

I had the same problem when I bought the bf2 complete pack a couple of months ago for a retro night with my on-again, off-again BC2 group. It took me almost a week to figure out what was wrong, and I have since forgotten how I fixed my situation. I will try and remember to find what I did and post back this evening after I get home from work. I'm pretty sure I found the answer under the steam forums (yah, go figure? there's help over in that toxic mass of human...nevermind...)

[megawhompertoo]

Re: What the Deuce!?

I think I found my answer here, somewhere between either deleting the video.con file or manually setting the rez to 800x600 x _________ hz (insert your monitors refresh rate here, mine was 60hz) in the file in the document folder as detailed.

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-1087414.html

edit, but yeah, I know what you mean. I bought a bunch of older games (swkotor, jedi knight outcast, heroes of might and magic when steam had their end-of-year promotion. Some of them were $2.00 and $3.00 so they were good deals on games I used to really enjoy...but about half of them required half-an-hour or so of googling to get up and running.