XP PR closing when trying to connect to server :(

[Pancho]

Yo, PR is just closing whenever I try join a multiplayer server.

It just closes to desktop with no error message or anything, the weird thing is that I can create an offline server myself and join the map no problem...

Any ideas?

PS this is a brand new gaming rig and i've transfered PR via an external USB straight onto it
I used to run this on my Vista laptop (transfered onto an XP operating system now)

System specs:

ATI Radeon HD4850 1gb
AMD PHENOM II X2 545 3.00ghz
4gigs of ram
Windows xp

[Sgt. Mahi]

There might be some complication trying to transfer a Vista-installed program to XP. If you have the opportunity try to make a fresh install of PR on your XP machine.

Also you could try to see if your firewall is trying to block the program??

I'm just guessing here though.

[Pancho]

Hi thanks for the reply, tried turning off firewall - no joy

I also did a full re-install of BF2 from disk onto system, now i have the same problem with that... i double click on the bf2 icon to start it and it gets the black loading screen for like 3 seconds, then crashess to desktop immediatley with no error message or anything...

This is seriously doing my head in, this is a brand new system and all I wanna do is get back onto PR

Any other help would be very welcome

[Booyak]

Originally Posted by Pancho

Hi thanks for the reply, tried turning off firewall - no joy

I also did a full re-install of BF2 from disk onto system, now i have the same problem with that... i double click on the bf2 icon to start it and it gets the black loading screen for like 3 seconds, then crashess to desktop immediatley with no error message or anything...

This is seriously doing my head in, this is a brand new system and all I wanna do is get back onto PR

Any other help would be very welcome

I had the same problem, did you try to disable EAX in audio options? That helped for me.

[Pancho]

Well since i couldn't enter the game at all - no

However i searched computer for all BF2 related files and deleted, then reinstalled and bf2 opens fine... i think it may have been the external HD i had left plugged in by accident conflicting with the install

Installing patches/PR right now, hope this works.

Will update if it does

[Pancho]

Yeah all is working now, must have been moving vista installed version straight onto XP creating issues.
Also I left external HD left plugged in after installing bf2 again for the first time which probably conflicted with the installation causing more problems.

In short I am an idiot