Vista 64 - "pr.exe stopped working" message

[CmdUnknown]

erasing all folders in my documents/Battlefield 2 folder did the magic. BF2 now starting again - will try my backup profiles now and PR

thank you so much twisted helix - I havent played pr for a week and feel kinda... this is awkward - I'm bloody addicted to a video game xD

[[R-DEV]Twisted Helix]

Yeah its probably a good idea to keep a safety of your profiles somewhere. Basically if the game crashes or something while active, its possible for them to get corrupted. If that happens, then just restore your safety versions and away you go.

And there is absolutely nothing wrong with being addicted to PR. In fact we positively endorse that attitude

[CmdUnknown]

I figured that the profiles get "corrupted" if trying to set my audiosettings to "Creative X-Fi".
Whenever I do that - the bleeping sound of the menus changes into some distorted noise and after that bf2 will not start again.
I've tried it with the newest creative x-fi drivers and with some experimental drivers called "XFI Support Pack 2.0" but both with the same result - I'll try gaming with the "Hardware" settings later this evening...

[Invincible]

Ok... Well I have been having the same problem for a few days now. I too am running Vista 64bit...

Whenever I click to launch the game whether it be from the shortcut or directly from the exe itself, I get the message that the program has stopped working. I have tried numerous different things that Twist has suggested to others. Things like deleting My Docs, running bf2 and then trying to open PR; checking the target of my shortcut and even putting in the WRONG target info to point to BF2.exe actually lets pr open but then I get the message to change the target; I have also done the "regedit" thing and checked the location of BF2 and found that it was in the wrong local so I pointed it to the correct location, however it did not make any difference to BF2 or PR...

Also, I do not want to uninstall BF2 and do a new install bc everytime I do it NEVER works and I just have to copy and paste from a backup copy of bf2 to get it to work again.

I first tried to do the simple patch to .086 and it kept saying that PR was not installed. I then uninstalled PR and did the FULL install of .086 with the core and levels.

I have attached a screen shot to try and show ALL of this at one time...

Specs:
-Intel(R) i7 920 @ 2.80 GHz
-6GB DDR3 @ 1333MHz OCZ
-Intel(R) DX58SO LGA 1366 Intel X58 Motherboard
-OS and BF2 installed on a Velociraptor HDD
-Visiontek HD Radeon 4870X2 2GB GDDR5
-Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit, Service pk 1

If need be, I would be willing to let someone remote connect to my computer so long as we were both on TS. We could use Moongamers TS, as I am an Admin there...

TWIST, PLEASE HELP

[[R-DEV]Twisted Helix]

Originally Posted by Invincible

I have also done the "regedit" thing and checked the location of BF2 and found that it was in the wrong local so I pointed it to the correct location, however it did not make any difference to BF2 or PR...

This kinda means that somehow you installed BF2 to somewhere else other than where the registry thinks it is. No idea how folks are doing this though ...

Is your version installed from a CD ?

The only foolproof solution I am afraid is for you to reinstall BF2 , uninstall and clean your registry, profiles and programfiles folder of any reference to Battlefield2 and reinstall ... and try to install to default places if you can.

[Invincible]

Well the way it is being done is by taking an ENTIRE BF2 file, and pasting to the place you want to run it from... If I uninstall then reinstall BF2 (from my CD) I will NOT be able to even get BF2 to work properly... Then at that point I would have to copy and paste a back up of the BF2 file I have and paste it back to the location I would like it in... I even recently tried to unistall and reinstall bf2 bc I could not get the AIX2.0 mod to work right, then when I reinstalled bf2 i couldnt even get that to work right, I would just CTD over and over over again... hmm, idk, there MUST be a different way to do this, if there isnt then I will just have to live with PR for now until someone can come up with another game plan... Thank you for your response though

[Invincible]

Also... Being that BF2 works perfectly fine as well as the AIX mod, I further support my feeling of not wanting to uninstall and reinstall... plus PR worked perfectly fine before this update...

[[R-DEV]Twisted Helix]

Well that is entirely up to you, but if your registry entries for your programs do not refer to the programs, then they are called 'ghost' or 'orphaned' entries. Any program that tries to read from your registry to get information about your software (which is a VERY common process for programs to do), will get erroneous information.

Its like swapping your door number with a neighbour and wondering why you don't get any mail.

This ...

Well the way it is being done is by taking an ENTIRE BF2 file, and pasting to the place you want to run it from...

... is a surefire way to bugger your PC.

If I uninstall then reinstall BF2 (from my CD) I will NOT be able to even get BF2 to work properly...

This is because your registry is buggered, and is full of orphaned entries. Uninstall and clean it like I said.

Honestly ... with a corrupted registry you are going to find that your software does weird and inexplicable tihngs. Its all the advice I can give you I am afraid, its entirely up to you what you do with that advice.

[Invincible]

...ok ok, I will go for it and try to do this. Question though, what should I use to clean my registry? I cant say that I have done this before... Also, should unstall and clean out EVERYTHING BF2 related? (ie. AIX2.0) I am going to try and figure this out on my own and start to do it now but, I will check back to this thread periodically... Thanks Again...

[[R-DEV]Twisted Helix]

I explain how to clean your registry of entries by hand here --> http://www.realitymod.com/forum/f27-...-problems.html

(but remember to uninstall FIRST !!)

If you feel nervous about doing it by hand then you should perhaps use a tool like one of the ones found here.

http://majorgeeks.com/downloads15.html

However do be careful please when mucking about in the registry, you can do a lot of damage. Don't erase anything but the Battlefield 2 references, no matter what the tool reports to you.

(if you read up on the tool and how it works and you fancy a go at tidying your machine up, you want to remove orphaned entries, nothing else)

And yes its probably a good idea to remove everything BF2 related, clean all your directories , registry and start from a clean slate.