Need some Vista Help

**loki2158** · 03-04-09, 11:05 PM

I just bought a ASUS G50VT laptop with a Nvidia Geforce 9800M GS 512MB. 4 gigs of ram, VISTA 64 with a dual P8700 Cetrino 2 2.53gh processor. So far I have been unable to get BF2 running. I have set the game to run as admin, updated all drivers, adjusted resolution, update direct X, and prayed to just about every god. The game does the same thing. It will load up a black screen for 1-2 secs then dump me right back to desktop. What can I do to fix this?

**WileECyte** · 03-04-09, 11:08 PM

I believe there's some sort of altered binary you need in order to run on Vista 64 with 4 gigs or more of RAM. I seem to remember Soy mentioning them previously.

**Demonofspeed07** · 03-04-09, 11:14 PM

I have a friend with the same issue, can some one shed some light so I can help him.

**ZoranDaWicked** · 03-04-09, 11:18 PM

Originally Posted by loki2158

I just bought a ASUS G50VT laptop with a Nvidia Geforce 9800M GS 512MB. 4 gigs of ram, VISTA 64 with a dual P8700 Cetrino 2 2.53gh processor. So far I have been unable to get BF2 running. I have set the game to run as admin, updated all drivers, adjusted resolution, update direct X, and prayed to just about every god. The game does the same thing. It will load up a black screen for 1-2 secs then dump me right back to desktop. What can I do to fix this?

I had the same issue. I had a friend of mine tweek it and it work. You might be able to google the issue and get some pointers. Also what type of sound system do you have for the computer?

**loki2158** · 03-05-09, 05:50 AM

Originally Posted by ZoranDaSniper

Originally Posted by loki2158

I just bought a ASUS G50VT laptop with a Nvidia Geforce 9800M GS 512MB. 4 gigs of ram, VISTA 64 with a dual P8700 Cetrino 2 2.53gh processor. So far I have been unable to get BF2 running. I have set the game to run as admin, updated all drivers, adjusted resolution, update direct X, and prayed to just about every god. The game does the same thing. It will load up a black screen for 1-2 secs then dump me right back to desktop. What can I do to fix this?

I had the same issue. I had a friend of mine tweek it and it work. You might be able to google the issue and get some pointers. Also what type of sound system do you have for the computer?

I've tried googling it but so far none of those fixes worked. Sound wise I have Realtek Digital Output. :3

**Muqtar SGT_Clintok** · 03-09-09, 07:39 AM

There is a thread by me that has some solutions in it from a year ago when I ran my vista 64 gauntlet.

***spoiler alert***
I eventually gave up and installed XP on my box.

Soy's modified binary had to do with PR displaying a negative memory addressing problem with Vista 64 and more than 4 GB, if I recall correctly, which doesn't sound like the case here.
Windows tells you in the error it pops up, - memory address.

One issue that killed me for the first few days was the sound card driver/Vista/ old ass BF2.

3D effects enabled in the sound card properties would kill BF2. I don't know if that's your problem, but try dumbing down the fancy sound card effects and see if that helps.

**WileECyte** · 03-09-09, 08:37 AM

Yeah, sound is a real issue with Vista. EAX no longer exists as far as Microsoft is concerned because they changed the driver model and disallowed low-level hardware access (which in turn disabled how EAX worked.) You can still (at least I can) dial the quality up, which only affects the bitrate of the sound to whatever the max is for your sound card.

**Demonofspeed07** · 03-09-09, 09:01 AM

So there's no way to run bf2 on vista 64?

**WileECyte** · 03-09-09, 09:03 AM

No... there's plenty of people who are running BF2 on Vista 64... Soy for sure is, and I know there are others. I'm currently only running Vista 32, and haven't had any issues. I'll make the 64-bit jump when Windows 7 comes out later this year.