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    Battlefield 2 crashing on Vista X64

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by smood, Jul 11, 2009.

  1. smood

    smood Notebook Evangelist

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    Hey all I haven't played bf2 on Vista in a long time but tried recently and its crashing at the end of loading a game (just before it gets in the game). Its patched to 1.41 and I tried to run the exe in windows XP SP2 compatibility mode as well and that didn't work.

    My specs:
    Sager 5793
    Vista X64
    8800M GTX
    4 GB ram

    Crash data:
    Problem Event Name: BEX
    Application Name: BF2.exe
    Application Version: 0.0.0.0
    Application Timestamp: 451992e5
    Fault Module Name: StackHash_e52f
    Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0
    Fault Module Timestamp: 00000000
    Exception Offset: 65746962
    Exception Code: c0000005
    Exception Data: 00000008
    OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.256.1
    Locale ID: 1033
    Additional Information 1: e52f
    Additional Information 2: e98dfca8bcf81bc1740adb135579ad53
    Additional Information 3: 860f
    Additional Information 4: 6eabdd9e0dc94904be3b39a1c0583635


    Any ideas? Thanks!
     
    smood, Jul 11, 2009
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  2. flipfire

    flipfire Moderately Boss

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    This is probably the refresh rate issue. See here

    BF2 works fine for me, im using Vista 64t
     
    flipfire, Jul 11, 2009
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  3. talin

    talin Notebook Prophet

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    I didn't realize BF2 had any issues with refresh rates, but I can say the game is pretty fickle and crashed a lot for me at random.
     
    talin, Jul 11, 2009
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  4. smood

    smood Notebook Evangelist

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    Hey flipfire, thanks for the effort but that didn't seem to fix it. I wonder whats going on.
     
    smood, Jul 13, 2009
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  5. HTWingNut

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    First of all, are you sure that your refresh is set to 60Hz?

    Second, try to visit http://www.microsoft.com/directx and update your directx. That has fixed issues for me in the past as well.

    IIRC, I had issues with my P-7811FX with Vista x64. Don't recall one specific issue, just a lot of installing using Administrator privileges, and making sure drivers and directx were up to date.

    Also, try going into:

    {USERNAME}\Documents\Battlefield 2\Profiles\0001

    and edit video.con and set the following to 800x600@60Hz

    VideoSettings.setResolution 800x600@60Hz

    I believe my settings got screwed up somehow and wouldn't correct until I reset it to this.
     
    HTWingNut, Jul 13, 2009
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