battlefield 1942 - display dilema

[neongenesis]

I have had this issue since the first install of BF1942 when it came out. I have tried updating to latest full updates and it happens even after installing Road to Rome, Desert Combat and latest ATI Catalyst 03.8 - as well as doing my regular Windows Updates for XP. System is a Athlon 1800, 1gb RAM, Gigabyte Radeon 9600 PRo 128Mb and I have no similar issues with other games.
Issue is this - once the game is ran and a battle started (happens in both Singleplay and Multiplay) - if in battle I hit ESC key to say, go back to the menu and change a control key or whatever, the display becomes corrupt. This means - there is no mouse pointer visable, icons and parts of the screen are black or missing, and then if I hit ESC key again to go back to the game - it is impossible to make out anything or continue play. The only way to go ahead is to CTRL+ALT+DEL and kill the app then start from scratch. Nobody I know has this issue - Im the first to see it and I've searched a few tech forums already with no results. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE can anyone shed somelight - Ive contacted EA but perhaps (begs!) someone has seen this. Such a great game!!

 

[ravenjy]

yes this is a great game. have u tried updating to the new 1.6 patch? does this happen to u in another game? if you hit the esc key and NOT change anything, does the display become corrupt? and if this problem happens with other games, maybe u should try to uninstall the driver completly and then install it again from scratch.

 

[Masque]

Originally posted by ravenjy
yes this is a great game. have u tried updating to the new 1.6 patch? does this happen to u in another game? if you hit the esc key and NOT change anything, does the display become corrupt? and if this problem happens with other games, maybe u should try to uninstall the driver completly and then install it again from scratch.

Agreed.....use a driver cleaner to get rid of all traces before you re-install your drivers. I'm using the 4.2 Cats with no prob in BF42 at all. BTW, you don't have this vid card modded or overclocked at all, do you?

 

[neongenesis]

Thanks for the reponse guys - to answer the q's: RAVENJY - Have already updated to latest 1.6, the prob happens regardless of what game/map or single/multi I play & happens whether i make a change to the controls or not. MASQUE - im getting the latest cat now to try - also - the mobo/cpu/ram/vid card are not tweaked or modded/overclocked in any way - all factory. This is driving me stupid - I am sure im the only person in the world with this issue and may just have ta live wid it (*sobs) - see what EA say but im not holding my breath! Cheers again.

 

[neongenesis]

sry i made something unclear - All my other games (UT2003, Vietcong, etc) work percectly. What i meant is that this problem happens with all BATTLEFIELD game mods and maps, not with all my other games. So it's definately a BF issue only.

 

[ravenjy]

Im not too sure if this will help or not but this is wat I have my video settings on.