Vista - BF2 messes up! help!!

hi all, well i installed vista business, deleted the partitions so it showed
one, clicked on format, took like 10 secs and it was done, surprised but ok.
i installed the nvidia driver for geforce x86 as i am running a 32-bit
version of the O/S,

until then its all good, now that i installed bf2 and pacthed to 1.41 i
start it, it aoutomatically new my ingame name, password and prefix, so by
the looks of it, it picked them up from the old er version of win xp that i
had installed before, so thats telling me that it did not format properly.

anyway, i run the game and on the main screen where i can choose options and
join servers, i get really funny shapes tjhat change colour all the time,
when i click on options i see funny binnary in yellow wiriting. i havent gt a
clue whats going on. can any1 help

im running a asus a8n sli-deluxe motherboard, with amd 4200 x2 processor,
and 2 6800GS Cards in SLi.

any recomendations please let me know.

I am noticing the exact same thing..

Weird thing; I installed Vista x86 on 2 machines one machine running an
Gigabyte GA-K8N51PVM9-RH, AMD 3800+ 64 single core, with an Geforce 6600GT.
BF2 runs flawlessly

My main machine running an Asus A8N-SLI Premium, AMD 4800+ X2, Geforce
7800GTX. Same installation procedure and am experiencing those crazy
artifacts like yourself.... Perhaps its something to do with the A8N series
board?

"Grigor" wrote:

> hi all, well i installed vista business, deleted the partitions so it showed
> one, clicked on format, took like 10 secs and it was done, surprised but ok.
> i installed the nvidia driver for geforce x86 as i am running a 32-bit
> version of the O/S,
>
> until then its all good, now that i installed bf2 and pacthed to 1.41 i
> start it, it aoutomatically new my ingame name, password and prefix, so by
> the looks of it, it picked them up from the old er version of win xp that i
> had installed before, so thats telling me that it did not format properly.
>
> anyway, i run the game and on the main screen where i can choose options and
> join servers, i get really funny shapes tjhat change colour all the time,
> when i click on options i see funny binnary in yellow wiriting. i havent gt a
> clue whats going on. can any1 help
>
> im running a asus a8n sli-deluxe motherboard, with amd 4200 x2 processor,
> and 2 6800GS Cards in SLi.
>
> any recomendations please let me know.
>
>

maybe, although i havent installed any chipset drivers for my board because
there arent any out there! except rc1 but i dnt think i should try those,
until nvidia bring out proper ones.

my NFS Carbon wont work either, loads up and then crashes to desktop

"jearlosky" wrote:

> I am noticing the exact same thing..
>
> Weird thing; I installed Vista x86 on 2 machines one machine running an
> Gigabyte GA-K8N51PVM9-RH, AMD 3800+ 64 single core, with an Geforce 6600GT.
> BF2 runs flawlessly
>
> My main machine running an Asus A8N-SLI Premium, AMD 4800+ X2, Geforce
> 7800GTX. Same installation procedure and am experiencing those crazy
> artifacts like yourself.... Perhaps its something to do with the A8N series
> board?
>
> "Grigor" wrote:
>
> > hi all, well i installed vista business, deleted the partitions so it showed
> > one, clicked on format, took like 10 secs and it was done, surprised but ok.
> > i installed the nvidia driver for geforce x86 as i am running a 32-bit
> > version of the O/S,
> >
> > until then its all good, now that i installed bf2 and pacthed to 1.41 i
> > start it, it aoutomatically new my ingame name, password and prefix, so by
> > the looks of it, it picked them up from the old er version of win xp that i
> > had installed before, so thats telling me that it did not format properly.
> >
> > anyway, i run the game and on the main screen where i can choose options and
> > join servers, i get really funny shapes tjhat change colour all the time,
> > when i click on options i see funny binnary in yellow wiriting. i havent gt a
> > clue whats going on. can any1 help
> >
> > im running a asus a8n sli-deluxe motherboard, with amd 4200 x2 processor,
> > and 2 6800GS Cards in SLi.
> >
> > any recomendations please let me know.
> >
> >

if u download the latest vista rtm drivers from guru3d it will work i have
tried it here is the link.

http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=1527

im having the same problem with bf2 and carbon. at least those two are the ones i remember. call of duty 2 works for me though. im also getting the funky shapes changing white to green to purple (well those are the colors they typically are). im running windows xp 64 bit, but i saw this post through google.

has anyone figured out whats wrong?


i have DFI Lanparty nF4, amd 3700+, 1.5gb ram, and 2x6800gt by BFG.