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I’m hoping someone can help me out.
I’ve had BF2 running fine for a while. Yesterday I decided to uninstall BF1942, DC, BFV Vietnam, & Sky-by-broadband to clear up my disk a bit. But when I now try to play BF2, whenever I click on a server to join it, I just get an immediate crash to desktop.
Anyone got any suggestions on what to do to fix this, outside of a complete reinstall of BF2 + SF + patches + AF? I really want to avoid that if I can.
In theory uninstalling the earlier games should not have made any difference, but I swear that is the only thing I have done between BF2 working fine and it not.
My gut feeling is that it is something to do with Punkbuster, as part of the BFV uninstall asked to remove “Punkbuster for BFV”. I don’t know how to just install PB to test this out. But that is just a theory. It just seems to me that PB probably invades the system a bit more than a regular game in order to prevent hacking. Perhaps the uninstall of PB for BFV has killed part of the PB for BF2?
Any hints gratefully recieved.
Try pressing Escape instead of Join Game.
If that doesn’t work there are some post over at totalbf2 about this.
Crashing shortly after joining a server is a classic punkbuster problem. Probably means PB is out of date on your system and for some reason it can’t update automatically. Go to
http://www.evenbalance.com/index.php?page=pbsetup.php
follow the instructions and download pbsetup.exe to do a manual update.
btw – you may need to run it a couple of times before it works!
@=XDC=iNSANE wrote:
Have you tried reinstalling Red Orchestra?
Ffs are you on commission or something? You’ll be moving down to Devon next… 😉
Thanks guys. Tried the PB thing – no joy. Currently working my way through this post:-
http://www.totalbf2.com/forums/showthread.php?t=75427
from TotalBF2. I have to wait a while to fetch the full 1.3 patch, however.
Reinstalling the entire game is probably the next step tbh. Here’s what i’d do….
Uninstall it, making sure you whack your bf2 graphics cache while you’re at it.. (if it hasn’t already been removed by the uninstall process)
Documents and Settings[username]My DocumentsBattlefield 2modsbf2cache (i think)
Delete the folders in there, then run a defrag to tidy up your disk.
Reinstall everything, run another defrag, then create a local game so the graphics optimization process runs populating the cache directory again. Run a final defrag.
Try and join an online game.
try regcleaner before reinstall to be sure to clear the registry of bf/pb keys…
make sure to save the folder called profile in my documents/BF2 so that you dont have to configure your keyboard and sensitivity stuffs….Ffs are you on commission or something? You’ll be moving down to Devon next…
lol no.. i’m like a bible teacher trying to teach you the ways.. hehe
Mind you after me hearing ont news that Cornwall are gettin BB speeds of 100mb a sec download.. i might just do that hehe
Still not sorted this 🙁
It now looks like the uninstalls I did have screwed BF2 uninstall info – I cannot either uninstall BF2 or even reapply the 1.3 patch. If I try to do either, then I get a message saying unable to locate BF2 install location.
This is really crap. Uninstalling other apps should not affect anything else. Bloody crappy installation programmers – I used to do this for a living and it is really not hard. Grrrrrr 😡
look around the net and find out what registrey files you need to remove…ie bf2 shitz…then reinstall
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