Beating the long dead horse. CTD problem

[Migglesworth]

The lowdown:

AMD 3500
MOBO ECS Rs482-m
Radeon x1300
1.5 ghz of RAM
200 Gigs of space
Problem exists both with Vista ultimate and XP
AVG, spybot and Ad-aware
Cable connection...now,

1.Classic 3-second black screen then CTD problem.
2.Problem happens only after I install the 1.41 patch. I can play vanilla unpatched bf2. I was able to play on the same machine 1 year ago. Only change is Vista (however see 7 below) and a new NIC card.
3. I put the d3dx9_24.dll and d3dx9_25.dll files into the Bf2 directory.
4.Have tried everything I could find on the net including: editing the video.con file, deleting the profile, starting BF2 and adjusting my video settings properly then installing patch only to reach the same problem.
5.Installed numerous versions of video drivers just in case.
6.I tried looking at the dump files using debugging tools but no errors are listed.
7.Finally I installed xp on this machine in addition to vista fully expecting this to solve the problem. Nope. Tried everything above only with xp this time. No dice.

Any additional insight would be more than greatly appreciated. POE looks so damn good now I can't wait! Thanks for your time.

[signa]

check this thread, they have a CTD list to try. :hmm:

http://www.forums.electronicarts.co.uk/battlefield-2/285697-warlords-bf2-techy-thread.html

good luck. :)

[Migglesworth]

O.k. I tried everything listed there. I have even tried the most ridiculous thing I could think of which is asking EA. I am still waiting for a reply from them. Thanks for the suggestion and link though. Cheers.

[The_Mad_MoShah]

try running BF2 in a window instead of fullscreen and reduce sound acceleration to basic (DXdiag).

[Migglesworth]

Yeah I tried that also. It has to be something about the patch because I am able to play unpatched BF2 just fine. ???

[Knuffi]

Do you have two sound cards in your computer? Onboard and PCI?

That was my mistake. I deactivated the onboard in the hardware manager and now I can play flawless ...

[Migglesworth]

Good suggestion but I only use the on-board sound. I even asked EA using their tech support and the dude told me to copy the exe and paste it to the desktop. :shakehead

[Knuffi]

Did you try to disable it in the hardware manager?

[Migglesworth]

Hmmm. Disabling my onboard sound just to see if that is it huh... That is a good suggestion. I will try. Thanks.

[ktse]

I actually just registered right now so I could post a solution; in short it has plagued me for the longest time.

The reason why it crashed for me was because of AVG. It's good anti virus software, but it is far too intrusive when it comes to gaming. I would frequently (but inconsistently) crash to the desktop all the time with AVG installed (even if the resident shield was disabled). The same would happen alot during Half Life 2 and various source based games as well.

My solution, simply remove AVG entirely; I have yet to crash to ever since I've removed AVG.