BF2S Forums CTD/Crash Reboots Comp BF2:SF and Patches

Please use the BF2:SF holding pen for threads about BF2:SF...

I have a question:

Why are you running 64bit hardware with a 32bit OS? Granted, there is no performance increase in gaming by using a 64bit OS and hardware, but why would you spend all that extra money on 64bit hardware and then slap a 32bit operating system on it? That's like having a dual processor system and running a version of windows that doesn't support SMP.

Also - don't use custom drivers. Just go to NVIDIA's site and download their latest set.

If you were running 64bit XP, I'd blame it on that. The game is not QAd or supported on 64bit XP and most drivers out there are sub-par on XP. Just enough to "get the job done". However, since you're running 32bit XP on it, I don't know that it would be a problem. The 32bit version of XP would have lower overhead, so you'd actually come out a little bit above on the performance front (64bit XP is even more of a resource hog). So even though there's all of that hardware going to waste, it's no big deal if you have to use it one way or another.

Don't install 64bit drivers. You aren't running a 64bit OS. You might want to make sure you've cleaned out all 64bit drivers that you might have tried to install before applying any other driver updates.

Last edited by Cronjob (2005-11-23 12:47:25)

keeps happening to my rig too...

Glad to hear other people are having simliar issues.  And no I am not a stupid moron that would run a 64 bit OS when there is no benefits for doing so.  Those people just need to be shot.  I submitted a topic to EA about this as well.

Solution for CTD/Mid Level Load Crashes SF XPack MUST READ Fixed My Bud's Problem.

Here is the story:

I dled the game from EA and then ran the 1.2 patch.  And my game runs crash free besides the occasional CTD that BF2 has always had.  My friends comp bought the disc installed then SF XPack and patched 1.2.  His game would CTD or reboot his computer always at the game loading screen especially for a NIGHT map (Single or Multi).  We tried everything from:

New Drivers Chipset, Video, Sound.
Reinstall BF2 and XPack.
Mem Test.
Video Card Bios Flash.
Everything we aren't computer newbies and knew how to troubleshoot since we do it everyday in our job. 
So nothing worked at all to solve his issues.  EXCEPT

We decided to try copying files from my computer which was working.  We copied all the zip files from c:\program files\EA Games\battlefield 2\mods\xpack\

Files Replaced and Overrite:
Common_Client
Common_Server
Fonts_Client
Fonts_Server
Menu_Client
Menu_Server
Objects_Client
Objects_Server
Shaders_Client
And the ENTIRE LEVELS FOLDER

Once all this was overrite run the game in BF2SF mode and try a new map.  It took a while to optimize shaders and thought it was going to crash but it finally LOADED.  And worked.  If anyone has a friend whos game seems to be working fine try this method and maybe this will solve your problem.  I hope this helps out some of you having these same types of issues loading any of the new maps.