Battlefield 2142

[Guest]

Well,
I guess i am going to just go back to XP Pro. Too bad - this whole deal
reminds me of the Me OS experience. I am on a Microsoft board and i cannot
get my problem solved. I have done all the fixes suggested by EA and all the
tricks offered here to make Vista compatible but it seems that the problem is
compatibility and while I can fault EA some I still blame Microsoft. You
should release an OS with backwards compatibility. Assuming all software
manufacturers will instantly bow to your new standards is BS and once again I
am dissapointed. I don't know how all this stuff works in the coding or
anything else but what I do know is - everytime I upgrade to your new OS all
I get to hear is how everyone else is to blame for the problems.........
Sooner or later you need to take some blame for knowing the problems will be
there and doing nothing to prevent them.

 

[Charlie Tame]

To be fair I don't think we can expect backwards compatibility in every
case since that would prevent the latest technology developing in some
cases, however it is equally unfair to sell the product without some
serious warnings about compatibility.

 

[Emory]

A-men brother. I couldn't have said it better myself. I just bought a new
Dell notebook. I had the option to have XP installed instead of Vista. Wish
I'd have known that Vista was so crappy for gaming a month ago.

-Emory

 

[Emory]

Hi Dale,

Thanks for trying to be supportive and offer suggestions. Unfortunately,
I've tried all your ideas, I've updated drivers, downloaded hotfixes, and
even spent a couple hours on the phone with some really helpful and nice
techs at EA Support. There is simply no solution.

After playing one map in multiplayer, when the next map loads the game
crashes. Other things I've tried are running the game in a window, and only
letting one processor run the game. EA support in the end told me that they
couldn't guarantee that the game will work under Vista.

So, for now I'll just play one map at a time and have to reboot the game at
the end of each round, just like lots of other folks do. There's really no
point in getting pissed off about it, since there's really nothing any of us
can do but hope that Battlefield 3 will destroy the Vista Titan and work
properly.

-Emory

 

[Andy [YaYa]]

A-men brother. I couldn't have said it better myself. I just bought a new
Dell notebook. I had the option to have XP installed instead of Vista.
Wish
I'd have known that Vista was so crappy for gaming a month ago.

If the game box has Vista listed as a "Supported" operating system, call the
EA warranty help line and ask for a refund. If the game doesn't work, but
it's supported with your system, just return it.

You already went through toubleshooting with EA support, so if they can't
get it working it's not really your fault.