Battlefield tomorrow?

[[AK]Abaddon]

I have a lot of torrents running tonight, so I'm gonna settle down with my new sci-fi books for a while. I will be on tomorrow to kill Kidd for a bit. :-)

[[AK]Kidd]

your assuming i can patch this POS in that amount of time.....

[[AK]Abaddon]

Just install BF2, install SF and apply the huge 1.3 patch ... 486 megs, I think. That should do it.

[[AK]Kidd]

I did that, now when i launch the game...it pukes.

I'm soo mad that i cant describe it in this forum

[[AK]Bribo]

This same thing happened to me with BF1942 and BF2 (thanks EA). Try changing the default video setting in your video.con file:

Launching/Loading Issues: The most common problem with BF2 is that the game crashes to desktop or goes to a black screen when you first launch it. The reason for this is either incompatible hardware (make sure you meet all the minimum specs), or more usually the fact that you're not running at the default Windows XP refresh rate (60Hz). By default the game tries to launch at 800x600@60Hz initially, so your system must be able to run that same resolution and refresh rate, otherwise the game will abort. If you are using any refresh rate override program/method, disable it (e.g. if you're using Refresh Force, click the 'Restore Original Settings' button and apply). Alternatively, see the Advanced Tweaking section of the guide for details on how to set a different startup resolution, in case your graphics card/monitor simply cannot do 800x600@60Hz resolution. Once you've got the game running, you can then change the resolution to suit your taste in the in-game settings, and importantly you can select a higher refresh rate. Then you can reapply any refresh rate override and the game will launch without any problems. To set a non-standard resolution see the Advanced Tweaking section.

Video.con

VideoSettings.setResolution 1280x960@75Hz

This setting controls your current resolution in Battlefield 2. The format is Width x Height@Refresh Rate. If you cannot start up BF2 and change the resolution from within the game, try altering it here to help you startup the game. In particular when you want to launch BF2 for the first time and the game just crashes back to desktop (See Troubleshooting Tips section), you can change the resolution from its default of 800x600@60Hz to one your monitor supports. Note however that certain resolutions are unsupported and entering them here will not work - see the Command Line section further below.

VideoSettings.setTerrainQuality 4

VideoSettings.setGeometryQuality 4

VideoSettings.setLightingQuality 4

VideoSettings.setDynamicLightingQuality 4

VideoSettings.setDynamicShadowsQuality 4

VideoSettings.setEffectsQuality 4

VideoSettings.setTextureQuality 4

VideoSettings.setTextureFilteringQuality 4

I got this info from http://www.tweakguides.com/BF2_7.html.

[[AK]Kidd]

i finally got it to work about 1am...

now i gotta learn how to play