Call of duty 2 won't run on Windows Vista! Why?

[g33k]

Well cheers to all and to all MVPs here.
So I have problem with Call of duty 2 game, when I am trying to open
CoD2 then suddenly shows only black screen and nothing more, then after
that I must manually restart my PC. I have the latest drivers for my
ATI's card (7.7 release). I have patched CoD2 with 1.3 patch and I tried
everything to run this game on Windows Vista Ultimate which is placed in
second boot. IN the first boot I have Windows XP Pro SP2 with latest
patches and drivers for my motherboard, grapich card and so one.
Everything is there updated as in Windows Vista and I cannot run CoD2 on
Windows Vista, dunno why... :-(
I have 12 years of expirience in Windows NT/Win9x/MS-DOS OSes and I
really don't know what causing that behaviour on Windows Vista with CoD2
game.
I am having p4 3.0ghz, 1gb ddr1 400, Radeon9600pro 256ddr - my mashine
is well patched with all latest drivers and updates from Microsoft.
Anyway does CoD2 work on Windows Vista or not?

Cheers from Croatia.

 

[=?iso-8859-1?Q?VRG_Scotty=A9?=]

Well cheers to all and to all MVPs here.
So I have problem with Call of duty 2 game, when I am trying to open CoD2
then suddenly shows only black screen and nothing more, then after that I
must manually restart my PC. I have the latest drivers for my ATI's card
(7.7 release). I have patched CoD2 with 1.3 patch and I tried everything
to run this game on Windows Vista Ultimate which is placed in second boot.
IN the first boot I have Windows XP Pro SP2 with latest patches and
drivers for my motherboard, grapich card and so one. Everything is there
updated as in Windows Vista and I cannot run CoD2 on Windows Vista, dunno
why... :-(
I have 12 years of expirience in Windows NT/Win9x/MS-DOS OSes and I really
don't know what causing that behaviour on Windows Vista with CoD2 game.
I am having p4 3.0ghz, 1gb ddr1 400, Radeon9600pro 256ddr - my mashine is
well patched with all latest drivers and updates from Microsoft.
Anyway does CoD2 work on Windows Vista or not?

Yes it works fine..your problem looks like lack of hardware...get more RAM
for starters

 

[g33k]

Yes it works fine..your problem looks like lack of hardware...get more
RAM for starters

1gb isn't enough??
Terrible

 

[Guest]

1gb isn't enough??
Terrible

1GB of ram is FINE as far as running it, performance will be worse then on
XP. The problem is you need to run the game in XP SP2 compatibility mode and
as ADMIN! This used to happen to me.

SPECS:
Core 2 Duo E6600 @ 3.6
4GB DDR2-800 Corsair
7900GT
GA-965P-DS3
Vista Ultimate 64-bit (I was running 32bit a month ago)

Don't be quick to blame it on hardware

 

[Andy [Ex-MSFT]]

"g33k" wrote:

1GB of ram is FINE as far as running it, performance will be worse then on
XP. The problem is you need to run the game in XP SP2 compatibility mode
and
as ADMIN! This used to happen to me.

SPECS:
Core 2 Duo E6600 @ 3.6
4GB DDR2-800 Corsair
7900GT
GA-965P-DS3
Vista Ultimate 64-bit (I was running 32bit a month ago)

Don't be quick to blame it on hardware

Scotty is of the firm belief that you have to have 2, 8800 GTX cards to
enjoy solitare.

Just to echo what I've said before, you're running an old game on a new OS,
this seems to be a universal fix for any game that "won't run" just run as
an administrator. Something to keep in mind in the future.

Expanding on what Scotty suggested you might consider an upgrade, that ATi
card is a little old in the teeth. You can get a decent entry level ATi or
nVidia AGP card that'll run circles around your 9600 for $100, but if you're
not in a position to upgrade now, you should still be ok.

 

[Guest]

Scotty is of the firm belief that you have to have 2, 8800 GTX cards to
enjoy solitare.

Hehehe I like my cards to look right

Just to echo what I've said before, you're running an old game on a new
OS, this seems to be a universal fix for any game that "won't run" just
run as an administrator. Something to keep in mind in the future.

Expanding on what Scotty suggested you might consider an upgrade, that ATi
card is a little old in the teeth. You can get a decent entry level ATi or
nVidia AGP card that'll run circles around your 9600 for $100, but if
you're not in a position to upgrade now, you should still be ok.

Deffo...I've seen this in so many occasions where more RAM or better
graphics have solved a gaming problem.

 

[Verger]

1GB of ram is FINE as far as running it, performance will be worse then on
XP. The problem is you need to run the game in XP SP2 compatibility mode and
as ADMIN! This used to happen to me.

SPECS:
Core 2 Duo E6600 @ 3.6
4GB DDR2-800 Corsair
7900GT
GA-965P-DS3
Vista Ultimate 64-bit (I was running 32bit a month ago)

Don't be quick to blame it on hardware

Do you think that the performance would increase the better your
hardware is in general in such cases with games under Vista?

Because I will own a E6850 Core2Duo and a 8800GTS 640MB soon, with 2
GB of 800 Mhz Ram kit on a 1333MHZ FSN mobo.

 

[=?iso-8859-1?Q?VRG_Scotty=A9?=]

Do you think that the performance would increase the better your
hardware is in general in such cases with games under Vista?

Definitely

 

[Andy [Ex-MSFT]]

Do you think that the performance would increase the better your
hardware is in general in such cases with games under Vista?

Because I will own a E6850 Core2Duo and a 8800GTS 640MB soon, with 2
GB of 800 Mhz Ram kit on a 1333MHZ FSN mobo.

I am of the opinion that you don't need to spend thousands of dollars to
have a good gaming experience, so I tend to post, "Well, if you don't want
to upgrade now, here's what you can do." Then once the game is running you
can decide if you want to upgrade.

Yeah throwing new hardware at a problem will usually fix the problem, but if
the game says it supports X, Y, and Z hardware, and you have X, Y, and Z,
then the game will run with a little proding. Not everyone loves spending
tons of money just to play 1 game.

That said, your new system should be fine, just make sure you do all your
updates, which I'm sure you're used to by now if you got the game running on
your old system.

 

[Frenchy]

I am of the opinion that you don't need to spend thousands of dollars to
have a good gaming experience, so I tend to post, "Well, if you don't want
to upgrade now, here's what you can do." Then once the game is running you
can decide if you want to upgrade.

Yeah throwing new hardware at a problem will usually fix the problem, but
if the game says it supports X, Y, and Z hardware, and you have X, Y, and
Z, then the game will run with a little proding. Not everyone loves
spending tons of money just to play 1 game.

That said, your new system should be fine, just make sure you do all your
updates, which I'm sure you're used to by now if you got the game running
on your old system.

Just installed this on my system (Intel Cored Duo, 4Gb RAM and NVIDIA 7600
cards)

Some initial problems getting it to run but if you RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR and
DO NOT tick the XP Compatible it should run fine

There was a Punkbuster error last night (World wide for some) so if you had
on line connection problems there is a solution on the PB Forum pages.

Frenchy

 

[Shannon]

the game runs fine with vista 64 bit your vid card and ram are fine...just
turn off the AA (anti alias) in the games video control panel thats how i
got mine to work with vista64.