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How to get Battlefront 2 to work on Vista
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 9:13 pm
by SilvaDalek
First ZE, then modtools, now I can't even run stock maps. I have Nvidia 8800 which should be able to handle BF2 any day. I also have vista, which is skrewing up everything.
I open up BF2, go to instant action, lower bots to 0, and try to run any stock map. I press launch and crash. I look in my BF2log and no severity 3.
Help?
Edit
I finally found the problem and it was sound. So:
-Open up control panel
-Go to Hardware and Sound
-Press sound
-Go to recording
-Right-click and press show disabled devices
-Activate Stereo mix and CD audio
This allowed me to play maps instead of just getting menus and then crashes.
Re: How to get Battlefront 2 to work on Vista
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 9:15 pm
by obiboba3po
i have vista and mine has always worked fine. but i do know that sound is the number one thing for bf2 to malfunction on vista
Re: How to get Battlefront 2 to work on Vista
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 9:18 pm
by SilvaDalek
obiboba3po wrote:mine has always worked fine
Why is it always me?
Re: How to get Battlefront 2 to work on Vista
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 10:36 pm
by obiboba3po
SilvaDalek wrote:obiboba3po wrote:mine has always worked fine
Why is it always me?
lol i ordered my comp so it could run bf2 (got right soundblaster, graphics, etc. ) but hey, at least you fixed it
Re: How to get Battlefront 2 to work on Vista
Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 5:55 am
by Darth Revan
its not just you it happened to me and EraofDesaan to begin with
Re: How to get Battlefront 2 to work on Vista
Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 12:27 pm
by [RDH]Zerted
Re: How to get Battlefront 2 to work on Vista
Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 1:36 pm
by Nova Hawk
Yeah, I have a vista and BF2 works great for me! Runs better than my old PC which was a Windows. Plus I have the DVD version.
Re: How to get Battlefront 2 to work on Vista
Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 3:54 pm
by obiboba3po
Nova Hawk wrote:Yeah, I have a vista and BF2 works great for me! Runs better than my old PC which was a Windows. Plus I have the DVD version.
yea thats the good thing about vista it runs fast
(because hes telling us how he fixed this problem, should this be locked or not?)
Re: How to get Battlefront 2 to work on Vista
Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 4:02 pm
by Fluffy_the_ic
Nova Hawk wrote:Yeah, I have a vista and BF2 works great for me! Runs better than my old PC which was a Windows. Plus I have the DVD version.
...Vista is windows...
At least you got it to work, yay! More maps!
Re: How to get Battlefront 2 to work on Vista
Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 7:25 pm
by SilvaDalek
Eh, munge is still broken...
Re: How to get Battlefront 2 to work on Vista
Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 7:42 pm
by Fluffy_the_ic
Scratch what I just said, then...
Re: How to get Battlefront 2 to work on Vista
Posted: Sat May 16, 2009 12:45 pm
by Thire
Alright, I apologise for bumping this thread as well, but I'm having some problems with me SWBF 2 and Vista Compatibility. I can play the game when audio is off, but I'm crashing to the desktop whenever audio is on. I tried turing Stero Mix on, however, I checked my recording disabled devices, and no such device even exists on my laptop. Help would be much appreciated.
Re: How to get Battlefront 2 to work on Vista
Posted: Sat May 16, 2009 12:47 pm
by Fusion
Yeah, I was stumped as well as to why it wasn't there.
Also, I thought it would be better if we just necromancer'd this thread instead of making a new one, seeing as it does have the tutorial on how to fix BFII.
Re: How to get Battlefront 2 to work on Vista
Posted: Sat May 16, 2009 8:05 pm
by Frisbeetarian
If this were all in one topic, we wouldn't have this problem. The topics are barely a month apart.
http://www.gametoast.com/forums/viewtop ... 99#p261599
The link in Era's first post has a possible solution on the second page of its topic.
