Crashing Problem

[Hawkspur]

Hey all, I need help desperately with a problem of mine.

When I'm playing, around 10-20 minutes into playing my PC will lockup and I am forced to hard boot to restart. It's very frustrating.

I have tried the following to fix my problem:

Reinstalled graphics drivers 2x (after that didn't work, I tried 3rd party drivers, still didnt work)
Reinstalled sound card drivers
Reinstalled Punkbustr
Cleared the BF2142 Cache
Renamed radial.cbd
Set all graphics settings to minimum
Undid my overclocks and reset BIOS to default.
Updated DirectX


I'm at my wits end here, I simply cannot figure out why the game keeps crashing, if anyone could offer a solution it would be greatly appreciated

My system:

E6700
Radeon X1950XTX
2Gb SuperTalent PC-550

[Natt]

Do you have VOIP on? If so try disabling it.
Try turning off firewalls and anti-virus temporarily, to see if that helps.
I'm not sure about Intel dual cores and whether you need to set affinity or install a cpu driver.
Are you running vista?

[Hawkspur]

Win XP Professional, will try turning VOIP off later.

I fairly confident its not a CPU problem as the problem only started happening fairly recently

[Hawkspur]

Well, disabled my firewall and turned VOIP off and the problem still exists.

I'm at the end of my rope here any other suggestions?

EDIT: It's only with BF too, no other game has this problem, Bioshock, WoW Etc.

[ICE*T]

Win XP Professional, will try turning VOIP off later.

I fairly confident its not a CPU problem as the problem only started happening fairly recently

duo core -set the affinity to one cpu?

[Hawkspur]

Set affinity, still crashing .

[Hawkspur]

Anyone else? It's driving me nuts

[Natt]

Next time it happens go to control Panel/Administrative Tools/Event viewer and look in there for errors which might give you a clue of the cause.
Another thing you can try is running the game in windowed mode by changing the shortcut target to "C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\Battlefield 2142\BF2142.exe" +menu 1 +fullscreen 0

[venny]

jus a curious question. wats ur gfx settings? i've heard ppl with 1950xtx cards having problems with setting 4x aa. maybe u can try turning down the gfx settings and see how.