BF2 doesn't work with my new monitor?

Karl Hungus

Ok, might be a little odd right here, but I just got a new monitor, plugged it in, everything seems fine, but suddenly Battlefield 2 won't work for me. It starts up, the screen goes black, then it just crashes back to the desktop for some reason.

Anyone experienced this before? Could it be any new settings or what? Please help, because I am addicted, and I need my BF2 or I'll go into shock! What can I do?

AnCapaillMor

Try fecking around with your resolutions.

Karl Hungus

AnCapaillMor wrote:

Try fecking around with your resolutions.

Did that already, no luck.

Hal1

You got it patched up to 1.41?. No, then get it here. Check your refresh rate and resolution that they are not too high for your GFX, and also check the in game settings so they are not crippling your GFX. I presume you play other games and your display drivers are up to date too, hope this helps.

Dcully

Plug back in your old monitor,then reduce res to 800x600 and join a server.
Quit out,plug in new monitor and then adjust from 800x600 to whatever you wish.
Had the same issue myself with my new 22 inch LCD

Hal1

Dcully wrote:

Plug back in your old monitor,then reduce res to 800x600 and join a server.
Quit out,plug in new monitor and then adjust from 800x600 to whatever you wish.
Had the same issue myself with my new 22 inch LCD

You play all games in that res? ughh *shudders* 1024x768 meh.

Dcully

You play all games in that res? ughh *shudders* 1024x768 meh.

No i play them at 1680x1050,i stated 800x600 as a safe setting to start with purely to be sure his new monitor would boot BF2 up.

d22ontour

Bf2 has to be started in 800x600 then change once in options as dcully stated.So many peeps have the same problem.If you have a refreshrate lock uninstall it then change res to above then install again.

Hal1

Ok, diagnostic res for troubleshooting i get ya. Didnt read you properly. There may well be nubs that like the 800x600 res maybe good for older games though.

ambro25

Have to use 800x600 on my laptop (coz 1024 = 15fps). Not all of us have multi-€ms to spend on hardware. And I ain't no nub, ya tube-jockey

Hal1

ambro25 wrote:

Have to use 800x600 on my laptop (coz 1024 = 15fps). Not all of us have multi-€ms to spend on hardware. And I ain't no nub, ya tube-jockey

How they hell do you manage with yer 15 - 20 fps? ya poor bastrd. And your a noob

ambro25

Hal1 wrote:

How they hell do you manage with yer 15 - 20 fps? ya poor bastrd. And your a noob

I don't, I'm just experimenting - and @ 800x600, I pull a very respectable 25-30FPS (which ain't bad for a 1.6 Centrino, 512RAM and 32MB Radeon mobility gfx card ).. and I can still own ya, tube-jockey

Hal1

ambro25 wrote:

I don't, I'm just experimenting - and @ 800x600, I pull a very respectable 25-30FPS (which ain't bad for a 1.6 Centrino, 512RAM and 32MB Radeon mobility gfx card ).. and I can still own ya, tube-jockey

Yeah well I can easily match the size of your A64 system, but lets not talk about e-penis's. Whats the point of having a powerfull system if its no use to ya .

Ponster

Easy one this. Just try searching the forum

Or you could just delete the 'cache' folder here :

\My Documents\Battlefield 2\mods\bf2\cache

Hal1

Bf2 cleaner. Clean your bf2 logo and graphics cache.

ambro25

Hal1 wrote:

but lets not talk about e-penis's

Hal1 wrote:

(...)There may well be nubs that like the 800x600 res maybe good for older games though.
(...)
How they hell do you manage with yer 15 - 20 fps? ya poor bastrd. And your a noob

The above notwithstanding, BF2cleaner's well handy, so thx for that

the_syco

You have to delete some video config file. I'm at work now, so I don't know which one it is, but in BF2, you deleted this file from your profile, and when you went into BF2, it created a new one.