Bf2 Won't Start On My Laptop! Please Help!

[SWATUA]

Just got a new laptop:

Battalion 101 LX750 17" WSXGA+ 1680X1050 Widescreen LCD TFT Notebook

Mobile AMD® Turion™ 64 X2 Dual Core Processor TL-64 [2.2GHz, 1MB L2 Cache]

2048MB(1024MB X2) DDR2-667 PC5300 [Notebook Memory] Mushkin

Mobility 256MB NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600 PCI-Express 3D Video

also starting refresh rate: 58 or 59 hertz

installed the bf2, then patched with 1.41, starting the game, screen goes black then returns to the windows.

please help me solve this problem!

[(NL)Link]

Re: Bf2 Won't Start On My Laptop! Please Help!

This laptop seems to be able to run BF, try downloading the latest drivers for your system (chipset, audio, video ect ect), including DirecX!!

[signa]

Re: Bf2 Won't Start On My Laptop! Please Help!

It sounds like more of a video resolution or refresh rate setting that needs to be changed.

Problem - Crash to Desktop on starting Battlefield 2
Cause - Several Possible Causes:

Fix - There is no fix known to work for everyone, merely a list of possible things to try to resolve the issue;

1. Rename the Movies folder in your Battlefield 2\mods\bf2 folder to Movies2, to skip the start up Movies which can be the cause of the Problem.

2. Move your Battlefield 2 folder in My documents and put it on your desktop. When loading BF2 Again it should force it to create a new one using default settings.

3.Go here
C:\Documents and Settings\Username\My Documents\Battlefield 2\Profiles\0001
and here
C:\Documents and Settings\Username\My Documents\Battlefield 2\Profiles\0001\Defualt
Or get there from using my documents on desktop.
Open the video.con file with notepad and change the line
VideoSettings.setResolution ????x?????@??Hz (???? are your settings)
to
VideoSettings.setResolution 800x600@60Hz

4. Check you have no software forcing a set refresh rate, if you do disable it.

5. If on a AGP card, try running at 4x speed instead of 8x speed. I believe ATI users can change this in there ATI control panel, or use the ATI panel in display settings. You can access display settings by right clicking on your desktop, then clicking properties.
For Nvidia users it may be necessary to set it in the bios.
By doing this the loss of FPS is very small, but you can significantly improve the systems stability

6. Check on your graphic card control panel that everything is set to application controlled to see if it helps.

7. Re-Install the latest version of Directx from the Microsoft Website

8. Press CTRL+ALT+DEL to open up task manger. make sure that the process ~5.0001 is not running. If it is, end task it and try again.

9. Use Driver Cleaner to erase your old Graphic Card drivers, then update to a more recent or stable version of graphic card drivers for your graphic card.

10. Disable/Add BF2 to DEP

To turn it off do this

Right click on my computer
Select properties
Select the advanced tab
Select performance options
Select the data execution prevention tab
Add BF2.exe to the list of exceptions OR turn DEP off completly.
Reboot

11. A new Idea from the EA US BF2 Forums, is to goto

C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2\mods\bf2\Settings

Open up VideoDefault.con with notepad, and set

renderer.setFullScreen 0
renderer.allowAllRefreshRates 0

to

renderer.setFullScreen 1
renderer.allowAllRefreshRates 1

Do the same with C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2\xpack\bf2\Settings VideoDefault.con if you have Special Forces.

12. Disable VOIP, for some people this can stop crashes and hard reboots.

13. UltraVNC (and possibly other remote administration tools) can install a "mirror driver" to enhance it's network performance. This item is displayed in the Device Manager as an additional Display Adapter. While installed, this driver causes BF2 to crash to the desktop just after showing the splash screen.
Re-installing UltraVNC without using the mirror driver works without a problem.

[SWATUA]

Re: Bf2 Won't Start On My Laptop! Please Help!

thanks for your resporce,

After step one screen is black and no responce. Just staing blank.

Tried step 2, no luck.

Step three, went to video.con, stock was 800x600@60Hz so I did not change anything.

Step 4, how can i find it?

Step 5, my bios doesn't have those options.

Step 6, all checked.

Step 7, reinstalled latest directx, no luck.

Step 8,9,10,11,13 did not help!

[jdrou]

Re: Bf2 Won't Start On My Laptop! Please Help!

What version of Windows are you running?
You could try editing the BF2 shortcut properties and changing the '+fullscreen 1' to '+fullscreen 0' on the command line; this will attempt to run in a window and sometimes will show error messages that you can't see when it runs fullscreen.

[SWATUA]

Re: Bf2 Won't Start On My Laptop! Please Help!

win xp professional sp 2, also tried bf2142 same problem.

[xkirbymanx]

Re: Bf2 Won't Start On My Laptop! Please Help!

lol ill i got to say is " GET A DAMN PC " :) dont **** with macs

[astonkiller]

Re: Bf2 Won't Start On My Laptop! Please Help!

xkirbymanx i think hes right)