Vista pr.exe has stopped working

[thejollyroger12345]

nothing works! AHHHH


EDIT: plus i cant run anything as admin even though im the only person on my PC

[thepalerider]

There are two service packs for Windows Vista. Service Pack 1 (SP1) was released in April 2008, and might already be installed on your PC (to find out, click on the Start button and enter "winver" in the search box). Service Pack 2 (SP2), released in May 2009, contains all the updates they've released since SP1 plus support for new types of hardware and emerging hardware standards. You should install both Service Packs, and you need to install SP1 before SP2.

What is the current path to your PR.exe?

[[R-DEV]Twisted Helix]

Originally Posted by thejollyroger12345

it still crashs on map loads for me, Lan servers work but internet it has a strop about.

Check your permissions settings for your firewall. It might be that you are not allowing BF2.exe to have TCP and UDP traffic to pass across it (thats the only reason I can think of internet and LAN experience being different).

Also make sure that your graphics resolution is not 800*600, as that will always cause you to crash on map load.

[thejollyroger12345]

"C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2\mods\pr\pr.exe is my target

"C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2\mods\pr" is my start in

Ill try installing sp 2 but changing the res didnt work and i can run vanilla BF2, FH2 and OPK fine its just PR that dosnt work

[thepalerider]

Originally Posted by thejollyroger12345

i cant find the error thingie in the red posts

Did you read this one?
Read This If You Have Pr.exe problems

[[R-DEV]Twisted Helix]

jollyroger, can you explain again the exact point at which you are having and error and exactly what happens ?

[thejollyroger12345]

My game loads up, loads LOCAL Servers, if i try and join an internet server it crashs on 99%, on all maps.

[[R-DEV]Twisted Helix]

Ok well this means your PR exe works fine, and it also means that your BF2 works fine ... and that you can load maps (so it would seem its not a memory issue). Just the online thing ?

Very puzzling.

As I have said before , the only thing I can think of is that your firewall is blocking traffic somehow.

how does it crash ? Does it hang up , or do you crash to desktop ?

[thejollyroger12345]

i crash to desktop


EDIT: firewall didnt work

[[R-DEV]Twisted Helix]

In your short cut to the pr.exe ... add this parameter at the end of the Target box

+fullscreen 0 +szx 1024 +szy 768

This should cause an error message to be generated when you CTD ... and if you could tell me what that error message says, I might be able to get an idea what is going on.