Vista - Battlefield 2 Problems?

Hi,
I'm on Vista x64 with 6GB of RAM, so I thought I would play a really cool game. I lost my copy of BF2 so I had to download a .iso of it. I patched (as in officially patched) the game after I installed it and now I have a big problem: the game then transfers to a black screen like it was loading, but then the game just crashes with no error messages. Can anyone give me a way to get this game to work?
900dogsrandy

Hello 900dogsrandy,
try this link, it may help, seems you are not alone with this problem, give it a try and get back to us, good luck


BF2 crash to desktop at start *FIX*

Hello again,
I'm not sure that my graphics card is high enough to run the game. I would try those steps in the link but with steps 2 and 3, I'm not sure where to find some of these settings, since those were for XP. My graphics card came built in, and it is a Intel G33/G31 chipset series. Hope someone can help.
Still frustrated,
900dogsrandy

P.S. My dads compy runs the game just fine and he has a ATI graphics card, not sure what model, but his is also 32-bit.

i think you may be right, heres a link i found with a list of games your chipset will run, its not an official list just somthing put together by a user but it may help in the future


What are the Games that Intel G33\G31 Express Chipset X3100 can run? - Yahoo! Answers

Thanks,
I guess for now I will have to play it on my dad's compy untill i get a better graphics card.
Thanks

900dogsrandy,

With Vista x64, have you tried running it in XP compatability mode as an Administrator? When I first installed BF2 on my new build with Vista x64, I got the black screen, back to desktop at first as well. Running in XP mode and as an Administrator fixed it.

R

I already did that, and that didnt work.
900dogsrandy

Hmm..if you search Google it seems that some people can run BF2 with that chipset and some can't. The only other thing I can recommend is to make sure all you're drivers are up to date and maybe spend $9.95 for a new BF2 disk (BestBuy). Not sure if running the game from an ISO image is going to cause you problems or not.

Yeah, I did have to download the game from an ISO. I didn't know that Best Buy still sold this game. Can you maybe recommend me some other games like it? (It's okay if you cant find any)

They just released a new patch just for Vista x64. Maybe that will help.
I am wanting to play this game again.