Thread: Vista

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

I'm no vista expert..........so in the hotfix/patch/BF2 specific stuff .....I won't know.

I know your temps are solid, since I checked those before I shipped it out. Well venitlated, with ATI-tool on for more than an hour, and it didn't break 70C. And graphics cards always run hot as crap....so anything under 70C is "stable".

As for sound....of course...you are hardware audio, with the X-fi effects enabled. I would suggest letting BF2 use it's autodetect for setting yoru graphics and other game settings, and letting it run. If it can do those settings stably.....but crashes when you jack up the resoultions (especially on a widescreen monitor) or the sound quality to 128 voices ......then perhaps BF2 is showing it's age and lack of EA support since Vista became more mainstream.

keep me posted.

If you're adventurous, you could always get the SP1 Release Candidate Refresh that came out earlier this week. I've been running the original Release Candidate for SP1 since it was made public with no issue.

Originally Posted by Muqtar SGT_Clintok

In order to proceed troubleshooting, I need to ask. Does anyone know how to back up the key mappings specific to my profile? It is a bitch having to remap keys and I have done it twice. After a crash, it lost my profile settings and I had to do it over again. If I had a back up of my profile, video, audio, keyboard mappings for land, helo, plane, etc - I wouldnt care if it crashed while troubleshooting.

Thanks.

Your profile is kept in your 'My Documents' folder (or in XP just &#39ocuments&#39. You'll see a Battlefield 2 folder and inside there is your profile and all that.

yup. and even then, when you choose to reinstall, or uninstall the current BF2 installation, at the end it should/will ask you "do you want to keep your settings" or something like that.

I know 2142 does. However I have also had crashes that cause all my keys to become unbound.

like wileE said....copy that folder in your My Documents as a backup, and then just drop the files back in when you reinstall.

Originally Posted by Muqtar SGT_Clintok

The problem is bf, and I am betting it is somemthing with the audio.

In the early days of Vista I had a lot of trouble with BF2 and 2142 and the driver for my creative card. One solution that worked for the duration of several driver updates was to play with the sound quality settings turned down Perhaps experiment at different audio quality levels; of course may have tried that already. Make sure you have the latest audio driver or even try the previous version of the driver if that does not work.

Originally Posted by Muqtar SGT_Clintok

I installed and played world in conflict, settings cranked up, audio and video and it played perfectly.

The problem is bf, and I am betting it is somemthing with the audio.

I will let you all know when I figure it out.

C

Keep in mind.....BF2 is old......as in "OMG" old. And it hasn't been patched from a hardware compatibility perspective, most especially for 64bit processors and badass graphics cards, in a long while.