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More info?)
Tracked it down to a missing file.
D3dx9_24.dll now the game works fine. play at 1024by768 high detail
it chugs alittle. But still ok.
On 12 Jun 2005 12:37:23 -0700, "Blig Merk" <blig_murk@yahoo.com>
wrote:
>Sounds like the problems I had. On my main PC game machine, I have a
>3.4GHz P4 Northwood, 1GB RAM, 256MB Geforce 6800GT and WindowsXP Pro
>SP1. My native resolution is 1280 by 768 since my game monitor is my
>HDTV (played Doom 3, Half Life 2, Far Cry, The Suffering, Second Sight,
>Flight Simulator 2004, Unreal Tournament 2004, Unreal 2, Battlefield
>1942, Cold Fear and probably about two dozen other games with this
>setup with few problems, playing Boiling Point now). Usually, I start
>trying PC demos at 1024 by 768 at 75Hz, if they don't support HDTV
>resolutions/aspect ratio. I tried all kinds of things with this demo
>and it would kind of go into the setup but CTD during the optimization
>load. Finally, I went into the Documents and Settings\username\My
>Documents\Battlefield 2 folder and there are two directories, Default
>and Profile 2 (Profile 1 is the default account). There is a Video.con
>file in both (just open it in Wordpad). I found I had to edit both of
>them to finally get it to run. I had to finally change the resolution
>to 800x600@60Hz, no AA. So far, that is the only one that will work.
>Otherwise, not sure about the bad comments about the game graphics.
>They are about 3 times better than Battlefield 1942. The single player
>is a lot more fun than in BF1942, the bots actually do things that make
>sense. They will collaborate to take over flag positions, flanking in
>groups, other stuff. They detect you pretty well also. There is a tweak
>to up the AI. People have to be crazy or stupid to say this is the same
>engine. It runs a lot better although it is somewhat unstable. I was
>able to play single player for several hours before a crash. But it
>does crash and sometimes is still finicky about starting up. The
>expansion packs for BF1942 also started acting this way and it took
>manual tweaking to finally get them to run smoothly. They really should
>fix this. Will see how the multiplayer goes from here.
>
>Jill haoulder wrote:
>> Ive got Xp Pro. I have no idea why it no worky. I installed the 77.30
>> from the game to. I even installed Noton utes 2005 to look for Invalid
>> Active x and stuff thought that might be it.
>>
>> Iam going to try A regcleaner next, you never know.
>>
>>
>> Where did you download the demo. Maybe its a DUD download i got. Url
>> Please :0
>>
>> Thanks anyway.
>>
>> /ps ive got 20 gigs a month of limt. 500 megs is nothing man
>>
>>
>>
>> On 11 Jun 2005 20:53:05 GMT, Knight37 <knight37m@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >Jill haoulder <43434.com.au> once tried to test me with:
>> >
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> It wont start just pretends to load and back to desktop
>> >>
>> >> It Says it needs a Vidcard with 256megs is that True. If so my 6600 Gt
>> >> only has 128 megs.
>> >
>> >The demo works fine on my 128 MB Radeon 9800 pro. P4 3.2ghz, 1mb RAM.
>> >
>> >> Anyway i have Brton 2500 Mobile running at 2.5 ghz, 1 gig of pc3200
>> >> and Audigy 2 ZS. So i would think my system is good enough.
>> >
>> >I would think so. If not they are putting themselves out of the market by
>> >targeting too high a spec.
>> >
>> >> It says it should install the 77.30 Nivida Graphics drivers. But maybe
>> >> i did not install them ???
>> >
>> >I have no idea about that.
>> >
>> >> ANY HELP i downloaded this demo to play the demo :0
>> >
>> >I thought maybe you downloaded it to use up your HDD space and bandwith.
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