Battlefield 2 running on vista beta 2?

G

Guest

Since it is pretty much the only game I play, I can fully explore and test
out the rest of Vista for office, media and art projects and not have any
real issues. But I need to know if the one game I play is going to work?
 
G

Gamer

Quote from http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1968998,00.asp

"We ran Battlefield 2 in both its native un-patched state and with the
latest 1.3 patch, and both of them seemed to work just fine. There's one
significant gotcha that crept up several times in our testing: Punkbuster.
The Punkbuster anti-cheating code is a common part of many online games
(particularly shooters), and it works by scanning game files to make sure
they're not compromised. Most Battlefield 2 servers have Punkbuster enabled,
and when we joined one, we got promptly kicked out of the game with a
message saying Punkbuster failed due to "inadequate O/S privelages."

The solution is simple enough: right-click the BF2 icon, choose Properties,
and then in the Compatibility tab check the box that says "Run this program
as an administrator." After doing this, we encountered no problems joining
any server."
 
G

Guest

It runs, but with a huge performance drop.

slightly longer map loading, lagging ingame, inability to now use Fraps to
make videos, shutting down the game takes you to desktop and about 15 seconds
of music! It was like this before i doubled my initial 1gig of ram, so a
step backwards for now.
 
M

_mark

For some reason, that option is greyed out..

Gamer said:
Quote from http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1968998,00.asp

"We ran Battlefield 2 in both its native un-patched state and with the
latest 1.3 patch, and both of them seemed to work just fine. There's one
significant gotcha that crept up several times in our testing: Punkbuster.
The Punkbuster anti-cheating code is a common part of many online games
(particularly shooters), and it works by scanning game files to make sure
they're not compromised. Most Battlefield 2 servers have Punkbuster
enabled, and when we joined one, we got promptly kicked out of the game
with a message saying Punkbuster failed due to "inadequate O/S
privelages."

The solution is simple enough: right-click the BF2 icon, choose
Properties, and then in the Compatibility tab check the box that says "Run
this program as an administrator." After doing this, we encountered no
problems joining any server."
Click to expand...
 
G

Guest

I've got a problem with Real Bad screen Flicker when updating Server List. I
have not resolved it yet. Good luck
 
G

Guest

Battlefield will run OK - Finally.
I had to reinstall twice but it finally started working Great!!
It now runs at least as fast as in XP
Run Battelfield as Admininistrator
Don't run as XP
This worked for me.
Vista build 5384, ATI X1900XTX, 2GB Ram
 

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