New LCD monitor-BF2 CRASH

[trap07MEC]

Just bought a Sumsung 204B works great, vibrant colors no noticable backlight bleed no flickering. I have it hooked up with DVI cable to leadtek 6600gt running native res 1600x1200x60hertz. IL2 looks and works GREAT!!!! but BF 2 crashes. I get a flickering black screen and the crash I've searched this forum for problems of this sort but no joy to references, I've also set res lower to see if that was it. Anyone have knowledge or info about this I sure could use a little help. Thanks in advance for any help.
PS game was running fine last nite on CRT new samsung is the ONLY change

[Sniper1432]

Re: New LCD monitor-BF2 CRASH

this should help u out dude

http://www.totalbf2.com/forums/showthread.php?t=78473

[trap07MEC]

Re: New LCD monitor-BF2 CRASH

Thanks for the linc I'm reading it now However This is not a wide screen. But thanks again maybe the answer is there. On to some reading!

[Sniper1432]

Re: New LCD monitor-BF2 CRASH

it doesnt have to be widescreen....even if its a regular monitor

[trap07MEC]

Re: New LCD monitor-BF2 CRASH

Thks again sniper. do I open the video.con file in notepad?

[Sniper1432]

Re: New LCD monitor-BF2 CRASH

no mate..right click your desktop bf2 icon and in the target box after fullscreen 1 type +szx 1600 +szy 1200...and your all set

[trap07MEC]

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just adding text to icon did not help. if I'm reading thread correctly I also need to edit video.con file in profiles however when I try to opn file it askes me what program to use to opn it will it hurt to opn with notepad?

[Sniper1432]

Re: New LCD monitor-BF2 CRASH

i did not need to do this...hmmmm thats strange...

[trap07MEC]

Re: New LCD monitor-BF2 CRASH

is it a text file???

ok I changed default to 800x600 still crashes to desktop

ok I changed default to 800x600 still crashes to desktop

ok I've read the entire post and applied the posted changes and still no joy. Gee iI really thought I was gonna plug the damn thing in and play. shoulda known better!

you'll love this: using the bf2 icon it crashes to desktop right after blackscreen. For grins I used the special forces icon and low and behold I'm in it looks awesome with no performance hit now I need to figure out why BF2 icon won't work

Sniper thanks very much for your help. That did the trick as far as the BF2 icon I needed to add a space between the szy and 1200 in the command thread. This is friggin amazing graphics. I'm very impressed it blows the crt away

[RangerXML]

Re: New LCD monitor-BF2 CRASH

Just delete your BF2 directory in My Documents, you'll have to set everything up again and retrive your account, but thats generally done the trick everytime I got a new LCD and I'm on my 4th now.

[Sniper1432]

Re: New LCD monitor-BF2 CRASH

no problem dude....

[Trevortt]

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60hz is a killer, can't you set it higher?

[Heatseeker_no.1]

Re: New LCD monitor-BF2 CRASH

60Hz is normal for LCDs, they dont refresh like CRTs do.

[trap07MEC]

Re: New LCD monitor-BF2 CRASH

60hz is suggested refresh rate for this monitor. It's a completely different experiance from my old dell p1110 crt I'm very pleased with this monitor.:nod:

Again thanks for the help:salute: