BF2 Problems

[lowcar100]

Hello, I recently purchased BF:2 and the SF Expansion. The install went smoothly, and now when I go to play BF2 SF or regular BF2 it shows the battlefield 2 picture with a tank right before going into full screen and normally that would go away then it goes into the game. Well, it just goes away and nothing else happens. What's wrong? It does this on my friends computer too, different copy of course.

My pc is good enough for it (sig)

Any help is appreciated, id rather not see $70 in games go down the drain.

 

[Iluvpenguins]

have you tried a simple reinstallation?

 

[lowcar100]

twice

 

[lowcar100]

I just installed the 1.4 patch and still nothing..

 

[lowcar100]

anymore ideas

 

[Rambo]

anymore ideas

Did you remove your profiles?

Go to My Documents, and delete the Battleifield 2 folder. If you want to keep screenshots, remeber to take out the Screenshots folder before deleting. Then reinstall the game

 

[lowcar100]

Ok i removed the files and reinstalled with anti-virus on then again with anti-virus off, still nothing.

 

[Redbull{wings}]

update drivers? or even since you have nvidia try an older version of the drivers that has worked before because sometimes nvidia drivers are tricky with games

 

[leetkyle]

your spec isn't actually that good for bf2..

 

[yaMI pleHouY]

your spec isn't actually that good for bf2..

Are you stupid. Make sure you're looking at the list on the right.

 

[lowcar100]

ok i think we are getting somewhere with these drivers.

I downloaded the most recent ones and it said that the setup could not find any drivers compatable with my hardware so it just closed.

"The NVIDIA Setup program could not locate any drivers that are compatable with your current hardware. Setup will now exit"

So I guess I just download the previous one, then the one before that and so on until I find the right one? I know it detects my video card cause my games that do work play fine.

EDIT- ok that is the only driver update available from nvidia.com so now I need to get the hardware to match the driver?

 

[Archangel]

you can download older drivers elsewhere i think

edit, i had the same with my 6800GT,.. i dont know why the newest drivers didnt want to instal for me either.

 

[lowcar100]

I think I found my problem

I don't have a legit copy of windows and windows won't let me get anymore drivers until I do, so I'm screwed until I get windows it looks like.

I don't understand though cause I mean, it worked before on this pc, different copy. FEAR works too.. Is there a way to make it work without getting the copy of windows?

I'm itching to play cause ive been bored of all my other games, and im suspended until next week lol.

 

[knockout34]

Why don't you just get a legit copy of XP? Its not all that expensive.

 

[Redbull{wings}]

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp-2k_archive


thats the driver archive

 

[lowcar100]

Why don't you just get a legit copy of XP? Its not all that expensive.

I was trying to avoid it because it's $150 down the drain but I will be purchasing it with my next check, might as well.

And thank you redbull, I will experiment with those for a while