So my friend bought a Dell XPS M1530 and we thought we'd revisit some old memories and play some BF2, but for some reason whenever it boots it just shuts down immediately.


Has anyone had this problem before or know why it might be doing this?

He had the same problem with other games, and I was wondering if it was a vista issue or what?


Suggestions?

Is it from a clean install or a copy? Does it crash to desktop on running the game or when you try connect to/create a game?

If copy, chk the cfg files to see what res the menu's and game are set to, they might be out of range/freq for the XPS screen.

Also try renaming the 0001 folder in My Documents\Battlefield 2\Profiles to something like 002, 003 etc... (or create a new profile if you can get to the login part of the game).

GL

You should probably thank the xps.

Let me guess, windows vista? if so change computability to win xp SP2 if its not that, i would just turn your pc off for a while. That happened to my NWN2, crashed before it loaded up.

When you say
"whenever it boots it just shuts down immediately"
Do you mean just the game or the whole PC?

If just the game, make sure you have the latest updates for Vista applied. Just cause it's a new XPS doesn't mean it has the required MS patches for games to run correctly under VISTA. Make sure it has at least got SP1 applied to it.

I mean, the game crashes (whoops) but yeah, I tried the 'boot with XP SP2' and 'run as admin' type stuff.

It gets the "BF2" splash screen, then screen goes black for a second then it crashes to desktop.

I tried running at a lower resolution but that didn't work.
Tried patching to latest bf2 patch, updated everything I could think of really.
I will try renaming the folder in My Documents, but I'm not entirely sure it will fix it.

I've seen that the same laptop has been able to run BF2, the only difference being that my friends has a 2.1gig processor rather than the 2.4 shown in the videos but I really dont think that would make a huge difference.

Fairly certain it will be a driver issue from your description.

Get all the latest drivers for you hardware (sound, vid + chipset)

Do all the windows updates, really, this is important. If the XPS is straight out of the box, it WILL need to have the game compatibility patch that VISTA requires, again, keep doing windows updates.

You may need to reinstall the game after doing the updates to ensure s*** goes where it should.

He had the same problem with other games, and I was wondering if it was a vista issue or what?

Let me guess, windows vista?

How the hell did you work that one out, Einstein?