Re: Upgrade got worse...
Hit the brakes! Did you take a preexisting HD with OS loaded + all your personal apps and data and put it into a brand new system (new system / processor) ???? I mean, did you format it and start over or just take it as-is and put it into new system. Regardless of your answer, when the current HD got put into this 64 Athlon who loaded the OS and did they do all drivers?
Please don't tell me you are giving up until you get a video card!! There's a good chance that isn't even your problem. Don't get lazy, we will fix this. Where do you live? What city/state? If it is at all comforting, I've switched video cards and gone from regular monitor to flat screen since I got BF2. BF2 crashed back to desktop after both changes. I had to delete (or alter) the profiles before I could get it working again. The screen refresh rate was also an issue. The file I gave you below sets your monitor for a refresh of 60. That's good for testing.
I built these 2 files for you. Overwrite the data in your files with this info. If either file is missing from your dirs, don't worry about it. Take all dirs that end with 0002, 0003 and higher and delete them (or copy them somewhere as a backup). Just make sure they are gone. Only leave 0001. That dir is the first profile which you created when you first installed BF2.
File locations:
\my docs\battlefield 2\profiles\default\audio.con
\my docs\battlefield 2\profiles\default\video.con
\my docs\battlefield 2\profiles\0001\audio.con
\my docs\battlefield 2\profiles\0001\video.con
new audio.con:
AudioSettings.setVoipEnabled 0
AudioSettings.setVoipPlaybackVolume 1
AudioSettings.setVoipCaptureVolume 1
AudioSettings.setVoipCaptureThreshold 1
AudioSettings.setVoipBoostEnabled 0
AudioSettings.setVoipUsePushToTalk 1
AudioSettings.setProvider "software"
AudioSettings.setSoundQuality "Low"
AudioSettings.setEffectsVolume 0.619284
AudioSettings.setMusicVolume 0
AudioSettings.setHelpVoiceVolume 0.568144
AudioSettings.setEnglishOnlyVoices 0
AudioSettings.setEnableEAX 0
new video.con:
VideoSettings.setTerrainQuality 2
VideoSettings.setGeometryQuality 2
VideoSettings.setLightingQuality 1
VideoSettings.setDynamicLightingQuality 1
VideoSettings.setDynamicShadowsQuality 0
VideoSettings.setEffectsQuality 2
VideoSettings.setTextureQuality 3
VideoSettings.setTextureFilteringQuality 2
VideoSettings.setResolution 800x600@60Hz
VideoSettings.setAntialiasing Off
VideoSettings.setViewDistanceScale 0.9
VideoSettings.setVideoOptionScheme 3
If you still have problems starting the game then I want to go back to the start of this post. Did you reformat drive before putting it in this system or take drive right from old system? This is important.
TheDR
Originally posted by darkstar10
so im gonna do that and if it dont work hasta lavista to bf2 until i buy my geforce. thanks for the help guys
I built these 2 files for you. Overwrite the data in your files with this info. If either file is missing from your dirs, don't worry about it. Take all dirs that end with 0002, 0003 and higher and delete them (or copy them somewhere as a backup). Just make sure they are gone. Only leave 0001. That dir is the first profile which you created when you first installed BF2.
File locations:
\my docs\battlefield 2\profiles\default\audio.con
\my docs\battlefield 2\profiles\default\video.con
\my docs\battlefield 2\profiles\0001\audio.con
\my docs\battlefield 2\profiles\0001\video.con
new audio.con:
AudioSettings.setVoipEnabled 0
AudioSettings.setVoipPlaybackVolume 1
AudioSettings.setVoipCaptureVolume 1
AudioSettings.setVoipCaptureThreshold 1
AudioSettings.setVoipBoostEnabled 0
AudioSettings.setVoipUsePushToTalk 1
AudioSettings.setProvider "software"
AudioSettings.setSoundQuality "Low"
AudioSettings.setEffectsVolume 0.619284
AudioSettings.setMusicVolume 0
AudioSettings.setHelpVoiceVolume 0.568144
AudioSettings.setEnglishOnlyVoices 0
AudioSettings.setEnableEAX 0
new video.con:
VideoSettings.setTerrainQuality 2
VideoSettings.setGeometryQuality 2
VideoSettings.setLightingQuality 1
VideoSettings.setDynamicLightingQuality 1
VideoSettings.setDynamicShadowsQuality 0
VideoSettings.setEffectsQuality 2
VideoSettings.setTextureQuality 3
VideoSettings.setTextureFilteringQuality 2
VideoSettings.setResolution 800x600@60Hz
VideoSettings.setAntialiasing Off
VideoSettings.setViewDistanceScale 0.9
VideoSettings.setVideoOptionScheme 3
If you still have problems starting the game then I want to go back to the start of this post. Did you reformat drive before putting it in this system or take drive right from old system? This is important.
TheDR
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