FIX: Warning screen after launching with pr.exe

[mofette66]

Originally Posted by Deadfast

Great news for the Vista users here.

As you may already know, this fix didn't work on some Vista installations. Today I have finally discovered a fix (thanks to R.J.Travis for testing it for me).


Don't expect a miracle though. If it didn't work before, it won't work now either. Or at least not unless you do a few changes in the code. Don't worry though, everything is explained in the readme, so read it!
If you had no problems with the previous versions, then there is no need to download this one.

Thanks very much Deadfast. This works pretty much fine for me. I only bought bf2 to try and give PR a go and had already spent several hours trying to get Punkbuster to work on the standard installation of BF2 under Vista (while torrenting PR), and was initially thinking my digital purchase was gonna stop me playing.

The only issue I have had is that the IGI server boots me after 2 minutes for mod5tool punkbuster issue but the other servers I have tried so far including Tactics seem to work fine.

Not really bothered about going back to normal BF2 so I haven't tried reverting the batch file yet but would like to say thanks again for making it possible that I can actually get on a server !

Cheers pal

[decoy]

Great patch, this solved my problem. (XP)
Thanks...

[chris2005]

Yes it still works for v0.8. However it's too bad it's still needed though.

[lt.snakeplissken]

u can also uninstall all of bf2 and reinstall bf2, update to 1.41, then install pr v.8.



thats what i had to do to get it to work. and it works fine now. but take long tine!

[Iddins420]

This cleared up my shortcut problem on vista 64-bit with digital copy of bf2. Cheers,Deadfast.

[yafn]

Thanks, I can now start the mod on WinXP, with downloaded version of BF2, and non-default directory installation location.

[armed trooper]

I started getting the Alt F4 Warning Screen ever since a server I was on crashed. I uninstalled everything, repatched and then added the PR Core and Level files numerous times; nothing worked. I even tried the batch file, still nothing. My shortcut "target" and "start in" boxes were correct.

This is what worked:

After uninstalling everything, manually delete any file still left in these folders: (examples below are if you installed in the default area)

C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2 and all the files in ...My Documents\Battlefield 2

Apparently, when the PR server went down it corrupted one of these files that did not get deleted automatically in the uninstall.

[[R-DEV]Deadfast]

The scripts do fix the warning screen, that's something I'm 100% sure about.

[armed trooper]

Originally Posted by Deadfast

The scripts do fix the warning screen, that's something I'm 100% sure about.

I have no reason to doubt you but if the batch file instructs a corupt file to run, your game still won't work.

[[R-DEV]Deadfast]

Originally Posted by armed trooper

I have no reason to doubt you but if the batch file instructs a corupt file to run, your game still won't work.

The reason why I'm saying it removes the warning screen for 100% is the way the script works.

It renames warning.bik to warning.bik.removed (or similar - I can't say for sure now).


If the warning screen is still present after using the 2play_pr.bat script then something went wrong and the script didn't work as it should.
If this happened the script should have written out an error.