Vista - BF2142 problems

I'm not sure if this will help you, but that memory.dll sanity check usually occurs with 32-bit games running under 64-bit OS's like Vista x64. This fix might very well work for your problem too.

MS has just released a hotfix that addresses problems with games which CTD because of the incompatibility. It's especially bad with certain games, such as BF2 and BF2142, which I had a problem with. There's a few more, but I only had this problem with those two games. It's completely fixed now, thanks to MS! Here's the hotfix and apparently it's not just limited to Vista x64, but Vista x32 as well. Both hotfixes are here: Virtual address space usage in Windows game development

As I said earlier, I personally tested it and I actually first found out about this at the forums at nvnews.net and I recently saw it at fudzilla.com here: Fudzilla - Microsoft release Vista game hotfix
Nvidia.com Hotfixes apparently has this fix posted too, or maybe it's a link to MS. In any case, it's a welcome fix because the previous fix that I posted does work for BF2142, but not for BF2. It actually works for BF2, but the wonderful PunkBuster thinks you're cheating and so you get kicked after a map change or shortly after you first enter a game. This fix allows you to play the game without having to modify anything, as it should be!

So, with this new fix, you should no longer have to implement any sort of fixes in order to get games to work if you have high memory and/or if you're running Vista x64.

*EDIT*
Sorry, I see now that DizConnected posted the same link earlier....sorry. Anyway, he's right.....hopefully that should help you too and should definitely help everyone with a CTD during games that give this type of error or no error report at all. If you look in Event Viewer you'll see something but many times Windows won't tell you what's wrong when this error occurs.

No need to be sorry. I'm glad to see that it has worked for you and I hope helps others here also. I also first read about the hotfix on Fudzilla so I guess I should give them the credit they are due.

Yes and Fuad is one of my friends...as much one can be without ever meeting someone. I don't know him personally, but I've talked via email with him many times...he's pretty friendly and I think he'd talk to anyone who emailed him. Anyway, I first saw this fix on Nvnews.net and I think they might have gotten it from Anandtech or Dailytech.....can't remember which.

I found it at Anandtech, so I think it was there....not taking anything away from Fudzilla though!
AnandTech: A Messy Transition (Part 3): Vista Buys Some Time

Anyway, it really doesn't matter who posted it first, only that it's out there quite a bit now and I'm happy about it. I'm trying to spread it around wherever I can because I remember what a pain it was trying to get BF2 to work. At the cost of sounding arrogant, I can usually find a way to get any program to work on a computer, provided it's actually supported, but I couldn't get BF2 to run smoothly, without CTD since I built my computer in June.

I hadn't been playing BF2 very much since I got BF2142 last year, but of course when you find out that you can't get something to work, it drives you nuts if you can't get it work, especially with your new PC that you just built! Now that, that's taken care of, I just have one more thing I can't get working. I can't get BF2142 or BF2 working on my new Dell E1505 laptop and it's driving me nuts. It's not so much that I want to game on it, because it's certainly not a gaming computer, but that those games should run and they don't. I can run HL2/CSS, Call of Duty 2, Company of Heroes.....etc. It's got a C2D T7200, 2GB of RAM and a crappy Radeon Mobility X1400 with integrated Sound Blaster Audigy with Vista x32 in it. You'd think if I can get Vista x64 to run BF2 and 2142, Vista x32 would run it. Some people have said that it's not supported, but I don't see that officially and besides, if it can run HL2/CSS, COD2 etc....those games pretty well, then I should be able to run BF2 and BF2142, albeit at medium or even low detail, but it should still run!

I just got this error.....I'm going to check out that link above.......see what's up.

This is the exact link you need. MS KB940105 Virtual address space usage in Windows game development

I installed it last night and I haven't had any errors since then....played for about two hours after the patch. Thanks!

NP, glad to help! I know how much of a pain it was for me to try to find a fix and no one knew, so it's very satisfying to finally find one!

I tried to install the KB940105 fix from MS but it gave me the message "The update does not apply to your system." I have vista 32bit, how does it not apply to my system? I thought I'd finally be able to play BF2142 and Supreme Commander in peace, but no...

Make sure you have the correct file. You might be trying to install the Vista 64bit patch on the 32bit version of Vista. Other than that the only thing I can think of is maybe the patch is already installed on you system and it won't take it again.

No, It's definitely the right patch, I even tried the 64bit one too in case they were mislabeled. BF2142 keeps crashing with a "memory error."