Crashing to desktop

[dfunk]

I just recently got this problem, the game just goes black and then to my desktop and shuts the game down.

I also notice on clean sweep map my game goes black and then i can play again and then it crashes.

My specs are:
amd 2800+
Geforce 6200 agp
512mb ram
350 watt power supply

[matthew200383]

Re: Crashing to desktop

Same problem here lolonly I cant play any map what so ever

My PC I built last week at the cost of £300
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AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2.0GHz Socket 939 (Venice) @ 2.5GHz
Hyper 6+ CPU cooler (Coolermaster)
nFORCE 3 Motherboard (E-POX)
512MB of RAM (will be a gig in about 3 days) (Manufacturer = Teamgroup)
160GB SATA Hard drive (Maxtor) 7,200 RPM
nVIDIA GeForce 6600 256MB - AGP (inno3d)
500 Watts PSu (Sumvision)
Windows XP x64 Edition

[MadSlob]

Re: Crashing to desktop

300??Give us a breakdown of component prices....I'm getting ripped off here in sweden..Mind you with 25 % VAT on everything i guess it does add up

[imported_Typhoon]

Re: Crashing to desktop

same thing happened to me i went to start the game and the screen went black and then went back to desktop i just turned my com of then turned it back on and it was fine

[Ripp_ekm]

Re: Crashing to desktop

I have been having this problem too. I think it is the graphics card, driver, profile issue. I have upgraded to the latest driver (82,12 beta), cleaned my profiles and deleted the cache.

Played ok last evening with no problems. I was thinking this may be a heat issue with the video card......if it comes back I will install a fan. will report back if anything changes.

EDIT 30 DEC 2005: I am now thinking it may be a heat/power issue. During the day I did not have issues, but at night, black screen and crash to the desktop (during a decent game for me - lol). So I am back to looking at heat and power issues.

I have an ATX 250 W PSU that came stock with the comp, will replace with a 400-500W unit and will purchase extra cooling for the video card. I am only 50% confident this will work, but it will be beneficial to the rig if it turns out to not be the issue.

Will TOFTT to see if this solves the issue.

[catskill]

Re: Crashing to desktop

i can join and play until the end of the round. at the first screen that shows everyones score it will pause then click back to desktop. happens everytime.

got a error message only once...

"The nv4_disp display driver has stopped working normally"

I am using 79.11 drivers, tried newer ones but they always boot to 640*480 on the monitor and its just a black screen. With the 79.11 it boots to 1280*1024 which is my usual desktop. Before I install the default winxp driver wont go any lower than 800*600. I have no idea but others with the CTD at map load problem have updated all and still have a problem so maybe thats not it. Tired of trying over and over restarting with new drivers and them not working. Never had a problem with installing drivers before. I delete drivers from control panel>add/remove, delete the nvidia folder, and install from safe mode with no other programs running.

Gigabyte GA-7DX+
2.1 XP
PNY 6800GT 128
1GB + 256 + 256 OCZ
Audigy 2 Gamer

2x160GB Maxtor
NIC Card
USB 2.0 Card
Liteon DVD8x
CoolerMaster RS-450-ACLY Power

Its a tired rig but it has played BF2 for hours with no problem before this glitch started.

[Kawasaki12]

Re: Crashing to desktop

welcome to the club guys. I allready got another thread posting this. My oppinion is that it's that new patch (v1.12) that is screwing up everything. I never had a problem with my grafix driver untill I downloaded that patch and 5.13 version of my grafix driver (ATi Radeon 9600).

[triten82]

Re: Crashing to desktop

I am having similar problems. I can play for different amounts of time and then sound stops and black screen then desktop. I have not tried downloading the latest driver for my x800lx because the last time I instaled it it made my computer restart after I loged in to windows.

[tomgreenfield_17]

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yes im having the same problem.......can anyone help please send me a link if you can

[HckyDlsstrs]

Re: Crashing to desktop

what version are the TNT drivers and are there any better ones?

[catskill]

Re: Crashing to desktop

UPDATE - Another thread talking about long wait time to initially get into the account server when you start the game... it may just be my imagination but i think mine started doing that about the same time i started crashing at the end of every map. The post said to do this:

Go into "My Documents > BF2 > Profiles > 001 > General.con

Edit the general.con file remove all the lines about favorite server and all the lines with "addServerHistory" in it. I didnt see any fav servers but i had a good amount of the history lines, each one for a single server, i removed them all and now my game does not crash to desktop at the end of EVERY round, it still crashed but it did it about 3 times over a whole evening. Its playable again. I have no idea if that did anything but i am thinking that helps. Good luck!

[dfunk]

Re: Crashing to desktop

Im still crashing to desktop, has anyone thought of calling EA about this issue?

[Kawasaki12]

Re: Crashing to desktop

Don't even bother sending them an e-mail. Since I allready tried that with an other issue and they sent me an auto-message. But maby if you call, you might get a possitive responce. Someone contact EA about this issue then post it in this thread or a new one so this issue could be solved!