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    BF2 on new laptop issues!!!

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by skubasteve, Mar 3, 2006.

  1. skubasteve

    skubasteve Newbie

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    Was just wondering if anyone could help me out here.
    Just bought a new Dell Inspiron 9400 with following:
    1.8 Ghz Centrino Duo
    Windows Xp Media Centre 2005
    1 Gig Ram
    256MB nVidia Geforce Go 7800 Graphics card
    plenty of disk space and other things

    I got BF2 and it wont work at all. So far I am geting the idea that BF2 due to system requirements wont work with a centrino duo processor. The game loads the splash screen, sits there and then just disappears. Am I wrong with this assumption or is there something else wrong that I could maybe change to get it working? Also had simliar problems trying to play Americas Army - but Call od Duty 2 and Brothers in Arms work fine.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated.
    Thanks.
    Skubasteve.
     
    skubasteve, Mar 3, 2006
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  2. coriolis

    coriolis Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    I would believe it is a driver issue, have you installed all the latest drivers?
     
    coriolis, Mar 3, 2006
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  3. sublime

    sublime Notebook Evangelist

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    Yeah, it's gonna be another issue. Many people have had BF2 up and running with no problem with the core duo processor, from what I have seen in other threads. I too would start with uninstalling/reinstalling the latest drivers. Then if it still doesn't work, we can go from there
     
    sublime, Mar 3, 2006
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  4. Darbyjack

    Darbyjack Notebook Evangelist

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    try updating the game if u haven't done already
     
    Darbyjack, Mar 3, 2006
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  5. tullnd

    tullnd Notebook Evangelist

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    Uninstall and reinstall. Not sure of your order...but I know a few people who had issues with BF2 after installing CODII. I never looked into it to see if that's a common problem...as I only installed CODII to play a LAN game once with a few friends(and BF2 promptly stopped working until i reinstalled), but that might be it.

    BF2 was kind of picky to install for me anyways. Once I got it in, it's been fine though.
     
    tullnd, Mar 3, 2006
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