Vista Black screen when starting up PR or BF2

[xcanadiansoldier]

When I start Project Reality 9.0 or just plain Battlefield 2, it always gives me a black screen, flashes, and then couple seconds later it exits on me back to desktop.

What do i have to do?

[css_matt]

Same problem here, advice would be great. Although mine doesnt flash, just goes from black to desktop.

[Pesticide]

Its a refresh rate problem. More commen on laptops, check your refresh rate setting if its 60 hrz and play around with some different settings.

On a laptop you will have to hook up an external monitor in order to play.

[Will3PK]

I too have the same problem. And as I installed PR, now none of my battlefield -mods nor the basic BF2 itself won't start!

I could only change my refresh rate to 59 other than 60, but it didn't help a thing.
What to do now? Oh, and I'm operating on Vista, if it makes any difference, since I've been playing BF2 and many other mods just fine..

[MisterSparkles]

I had the same problem... but I updated my graphics drivers and reinstalled BF2 patch 1.5 and it worked perfectly. PM me if you need any help on how to do these

[thepalerider]

Make sure your running BF2 and PR as 'Admin'

And (forgot who I got this from, sorry) check this:

The problem is that something is telling BF2 to load a resolution that your monitor or video card doesn't support. In my case it was my new widescreen LCD.

That "something" is actually 3 files in the "C:\Documents and Settings\[Your User Name]\My Documents\Battlefield 2\Profiles" directory. In that Profiles directory are 3 folders called 0001, 0002, and Default. Inside each of those 3 folders is a file called Video.con. You need to open each of those 3 Video.con files and search for the line that says "VideoSettings.setResolution 1280x960@75Hz". Change all 3 files to a resolution & refresh rate that you know the monitor and video card support, and BF2 should work like a champ again.


If you still have trouble run battlefield cleaner to flush out your video cache files

Still no joy?

Trash your BF2 cache files
Path:
C:\Users\'your user name here'\Documents\Battlefield 2\mods\bf2\cache

Throw EVERYTHING inside the folder named cache away.
don't worry the files will be replaced with new ones when the game restarts.

OK
Some other things you can try before you uninstall/reinstall.


Delete the original BF2 folder from your documents folder.
Some other things you can try before you uninstall/reinstall.
Backup your BF2 folder that's inside your documents folder. Once you have a backup delete the

original from your documents folder.
Try starting PR from your new PR shortcut
a new default folder is created
link to your online account.
If all goes well (CTD gone) all you have to do to get your custom settings back is copy your

'control' file from your backup to the new profile folder.
path:
C:\Users\your user name here\Documents\Battlefield 2\Profiles\0002
note: you may not have a 0002 folder so use 0001

Good luck

[SgtGunny]

Originally Posted by [R-COM]thepalerider

Make sure your running BF2 and PR as 'Admin'

And (forgot who I got this from, sorry) check this:

The problem is that something is telling BF2 to load a resolution that your monitor or video card doesn't support. In my case it was my new widescreen LCD.

That "something" is actually 3 files in the "C:\Documents and Settings\[Your User Name]\My Documents\Battlefield 2\Profiles" directory. In that Profiles directory are 3 folders called 0001, 0002, and Default. Inside each of those 3 folders is a file called Video.con. You need to open each of those 3 Video.con files and search for the line that says "VideoSettings.setResolution 1280x960@75Hz". Change all 3 files to a resolution & refresh rate that you know the monitor and video card support, and BF2 should work like a champ again.


If you still have trouble run battlefield cleaner to flush out your video cache files

Still no joy?

Trash your BF2 cache files
Path:
C:\Users\'your user name here'\Documents\Battlefield 2\mods\bf2\cache

Throw EVERYTHING inside the folder named cache away.
don't worry the files will be replaced with new ones when the game restarts.

OK
Some other things you can try before you uninstall/reinstall.


Delete the original BF2 folder from your documents folder.
Some other things you can try before you uninstall/reinstall.
Backup your BF2 folder that's inside your documents folder. Once you have a backup delete the

original from your documents folder.
Try starting PR from your new PR shortcut
a new default folder is created
link to your online account.
If all goes well (CTD gone) all you have to do to get your custom settings back is copy your

'control' file from your backup to the new profile folder.
path:
C:\Users\your user name here\Documents\Battlefield 2\Profiles\0002
note: you may not have a 0002 folder so use 0001

Good luck

I tried all of these and it still doesn't work. It starts up loads the screen and then the monitor goes black with little flashes and then returns to the desktop. I also tried to change the refresh rate but it still did not work. I don't know what to do anymore. If you have any suggestions please reply.

[Sonders]

I had the exact same problem.

Try uninstalling everything, then install BF2, and then 1.41, then 1.50, and then PR

Thats what I did and now it works.