when ever i start Battlefield, my screen will turn black for about 3 seconds and return back to my desktop as if nothing happened

help

my specs are :
2.8 ghz
pentium 4 Windows Xp pro
512 mb ram
ATI RADEON 9200 128mb VIVO with latest catalyst drivers

I had this problem the only thing i could do to sort it was to reinstall BF

I had the same problem as well, and yes, the solution to this problem is to reinstall Battlefield 2.

thanks dudes

Did you try updating the drivers to this video card? That may be a simple fix

Negative dude... That graphic card is not supported in battlefield 2.

Try one of these:

Radeon X700 (PCIe)
Radeon X600 (PCIe)
GeForce 6600 (PCIe)
GeForce PCX 5900 (PCIe)
GeForce 5800 Series (AGP)
ATI Radeon X800 XT Platinum Edition
ATI Radeon X800 PRO
ATI Radeon 9800 Series
ATI Radeon 9600 Series
ATI Radeon 9550 (RV350LX)
ATI Radeon 9500 / 9700 Series
ATI Radeon 8500 Series
ATI Radeon X300 Series
NVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra
NVidia GeForce 6800 GT
NVidia GeForce 6800
NVidia GeForce FX 5950 Series
NVidia GeForce FX 5900 Series
NVidia GeForce FX 5700 Series

I beg to differ on the last statement. I was using a radeon 9000 pro with 128mb of ram and I ran pretty smooth on all low settings. This also was with a P4 1.6 which was under the recommendations. I just ovecompensated on the ram using 2 gig's. :giddy:

Yah. you´re right. that list is just an small part of what you can use.

Im using an 6600gt AGP, and i´ve seen it rolling in 9550, 9600 and so´on.

:unch:

But the sintoms were the same that happened to a friend of mine and he had to buy a new graphic card!

i hate ATI !!!
why didnt they...!?
damn!!! this stupid graphic card cant play SO many games!!!

try srtest.com

Hi guys,

Also, what may result in the BF2 kick-off, is not updating to the newest patch ... and sometimes, even if you did update, if you install BF2 SF, you may need to re-patch ...

Best Regards

The proble is that Battlefield demands one small requirment that not everyone notice:

1.4 pixelshade( or pixelview or something like that)

some ATI are very good but only have 1.3 and the game just don´t start... when you start the game, the screen goes black and then back to windows...

Sorry about the bad news... :hotouch:

Yeahhh ... !!!

Reformado said it all ... check your videocard specs and compare with BF2 minimum specs ... I had to change my ATI RADEON 9200 128MB AGP ...
I had the same problem ... "INTRO & BLACK SCREEN" ...

Now I have the BFG 6800 ULTRA OC 256MB AGP ... :unch:

But beware ... the BFG 6800 needs 480watts and a free PCI slot beside the AGP slot.

Good Luck & Best Regards ...

The "black screen then desktop" is usually a symptom of unsupported hardware. You can't be 100% sure though since a bad installation can also cause this.

If you look in My Documents, Battlefield2- there are some folders.. some containing logs and mini-dumps. These mini-dumps and logs can be used to determine realistically what the REAL problem may be.

I'd see if there is a mini-dump or log of the failure. Often times, some 9000-series cards are stripped- missing the vertex engine or T&L engine (these usually are "SE" or similar modeled on the box/product number). These will most definately not play BF2 as it needs hardware T&L and at least DirectX 8.0 shader support.

Old drivers or Windows Update/Windows cd drivers can also cause this. You need Catalyst drivers from ATI in order to get full DX8.0+ support from your videocard.. as well as have the correct AGP/chipset drivers for your mainboard installed for these to work properly.

When I had that problem it was because I forgot to disable my internet security. Also, hit contro alt delete and in taskmanager click on processes and close out(end process) any under "owner" except taskmangager and explorer. This worked for me.

Good Luck

I´ve seen 2 similar problems.

1 - a friend of mine had a TI4200(i think) and had to change because he couldn't play, same MO... Double click, blank screen, desktop.

2 - another friend of mine with a 9200 and same MO... that one is waiting for a new card oportunity...

Sorry to say this but NVIDIA rocks...

Question Has anyone had any success in running bf2 on ati 9200 pci cards or is everybody on the black screen boat with me? i have updated my drivers and directx to 9c and removed bf2 and reloaded it. no luck would consider changeing video cards however runing on laptop with builted in ati 9000 mobile card with standard pci slot for external video card. cant find ati other than the 9200 or 9250 card. can you run nvida card with ati disable through xp?

i dont see any text files
i see .DMP files... which i cant open!!!

yea! has anyone played bf2 on 9200 in success ?

Negative... Read the posts before!!

This weekend I experinced a similar problem. I send my 17" for exchange friday night, but because i'm an battlefield addicted I clean the dust and put on work my good old 15"...

Problem: When start bf2.exe the screen goes black and back to desktop.

I went to my documents/profiles/default00/video.anything like this
edit the file and changed from 1024x768@75hz to 1024x768@60hz

started bf2.exe the game started but when I choose the player the screen black again and desktop...

I went to my documents again but this time in the profiles I choose the 00002(I think) it's the other one and changed the same thing.

My 15" couldn't support >60Hz :o

Maybe I could help anyone with this ;)

:darth:

Its weird just when im done loading battlefield2 and i go in to choose my weapons and stuff BUT my mouse or keyboard wont move and sometimes my PC crashes and restarts PLZZZ HELP...

i installed bf2 on my computer and i downloaded the pathes for it upto 1.41. after doing this i decided to play this and it ran perfectly, the second time i tried i came up with an error message of somesort... so i keeped clicking the desktop short cut and eventually with about 10 double clicks later i got in and played fine.the next time i couldent even get in even while i was spamming the shortcut and i couldent get past the error message. i have deleted the caches in my docs>bf2 aswell. and i have uninstalled and reinstalled and still the same problem and i have selected the corrected screen setting and hertz

i am running mad athlon 2.2ghz
1gb of ram
512 Nvidea en76000gs top silent
and dirctx 9.0^

someone plz help me i love this game

Does any one know if Battlefield 2 is compatible with a NVIDIA Geforce 7900 GT/GTO graphics card?

What is the error message? Next time could you make a note of it?

What is the error message? Next time could you make a note of it?

Hi, there is no error message. I've updated DirectX, Install BF2, Install the patches. Then i try and run it but the screen just goes black. So i was wondering if it was something to do with my NVIDIA Geforce 7900 GT/GTO graphics card?.

Actually, I was talking to the poster, kazer989. He/she mentioned an error message.

hey, im having a problem with my battlefield 2 aswell, i put the cd in and click install, then the install wizard comes up and completely loads the blue bar and then nothing happens, ive tried going through my computer and deleting all previous files of battlefield 2 and when i go into add/remove programs it says that theres still something there even though when i click remove nothing happens at all, can someone please help me?

specs are
pentium 4, 3.2 ghz
2 gb of ram
6600GT

It would be best if you didn't post the same problem more than once. It creates confusion when different members try to help you in two different threads. More is not better in this case.

Try downloading Ccleaner and clean the registry of all traces of BF2. Ccleaner is a freeware program.

ive tried cclleaner but it didnt get rid of the files, any other suggestions please?

Just so I understand better, which files did it not get rid of?

hey guys
i've been playing battlefield 2 for a while now and suddenly when i enter a game it will load up fine but then i go to select my spawn point and my mouse doesn't respond same with my keyboard
plz help me

ok i just got the game battlefield 2 so after instaling it i restarted me computer like it says. so when i went to go play the game i clicked the icon battlefield and the little screen that says battlefield 2 came up after that my screen went black for 3 seconds and then went back to my desktop.

i think the problem is that i have windows vista?

can anybody help me????

Have you tried changing the compatibility mode to XP?

how do i do that..?

how do i get battle field 2 to work on vista....my screen goes black for like 3 sec

You change the compatibility mode while the game is not running. I don't have Vista so I'm taking this from a Windows website page:

Open the Program Compatibility Wizard by clicking the Start button Picture of the Start button, clicking Control Panel, clicking Programs, and then clicking Use an older program with this version of Windows.

Follow the instructions in the wizard.

i did what you said and it still just goes black for 3 sec.....then brings me back to my desktop......?what should i do know?

Re-install the game. It apparently fixes this issue. Look at the first couple of posts in this thread.

I had the same problem, mine would load up until the point were I tried to connect to a server, then crash back to desk top.

I found out that it was actually my sound card, I have a sound blaster X-Fi Elite Pro, running in Windows Vista x64, I simply uninstalled it and used the intergrated sound card on the motherboard, all is fine.

Don't know if this helps

i already reinstaled it and did the compadibility thing.........

Hmm, do you have the required hardware for the game? Also, have you installed the appropriate drivers for all your hardware?

how do i know what drives i need...

dose the game just not work for vista???

Post your system specs using SIW or Everest Home Edition and we'll see what we can do. Google for the above programs BTW.