Battlefield 1942 Graphics Problem

Ok, now that I've reinstalled, and found this file "VideoDefault.con", I get the message, "Windows cannot open this file". What do I do to get it to open?

Make sure you've not changed the extension on it. If you have, change it back to '.con'. If you need help creating a new one, I can post the contents of the default one here when I get home.

I haven't changed anything yet, I haven't been able to get any farther than the "VideoDefault.con" file, which I can't open. I need to get it open so I can change the refresh rate value, as per the instructions I posted.

Can you get into safe mode and do it? I can't understand why it won't let you normally......

Someone just told me, when it asks what I want to use to open, to use NotePad. I did that and changed the value from 1 to 0, and that solved the problem. I can now see the menu normally.

Thanks to everyone who replied. I appreciate it.

Gawd, I had completely forgotten about that (happens alot at my age). Actually, I do that normally and hadn't even thought twice about it. I should know better. Happy you've got it working.

Let me know if you can actually get online with it.

I guess you haven't looked at my age!!! HeHe.

I haven't had time to try online, but tried the single player for just a minute, and it was OK. I'll let you know when I try online.

Single-player worked fine for me as well. Online kicked me out halfway through the load. Really got me ticked off. Oh well, we'll work with it.

So, are you post-50 yet?

Only had time for a quick try online, but I tried a couple of different games and didn't have any trouble at all. The main thing I notice different is much better loadiing times and almost immediate exiting from the game. Haven't had time to load Desert Combat yet, I"ll give it a try later.

(Quite a bit past 50, look in my profile)

Yeah, you've got a few on me.

Looks like I might try a fresh install. Could be the DC is the problem. Thanks.

Yea, haven't had any issues with BF1942 in a long time, it was with the Desert Combat mod's last few version that I had issues. Now, everything works great .

I envy you. I can't even get online now. I have no idea what this patch did. Still looking at it.

OK, I've finally got DC installed, (latest version, .6), and I've tried it on several different games and it works great, as far as gameplay goes. But the scoreboard doesn't work. There is a patch for this, but I couldn't get it to work. There is supposed to be an official patch out this Friday, Feb.6, it'll be ".7", that will fix this issue along with some others. Guess I can live with it till then.

Well, I just found out that it's probably "our" servers may be configured wrong. I'm sending our admin a note. I 'was' able to get into another server via the game browser last night.

I'll probably give this a try later tonight.
Going for a game of badminton, then pickup a copy of DC 0.6 from my mate (to save from downloading it again), then patch and try it all out. I'll post back how I get on.

Hehe, I just noticed that yesterday. When I realized it about 2 guys were asking on that server "where is the scoreboard"?

Well, I was right....it was a server issue on both of them (Punkbuster was the cause). The admin's looking into the proper configuration for it though we were able to get onboard last night and play. Hope things went well for you olefarte.

It seems to be working fine now. Kind of miss the scoreboard though on DC, (like to see when I'm number one, HeHe).

Ok, played BF1942 1.6 last night on the system in my profile with the 4.1 Cats. No problems whatsoever.

wow, almost a year after the last post on this threadand it has completely helped me out... i was havin the same exact problem when i decided to get back into BF today. Thanks everyone