Bf 2142 Intsalls Fine, Tho..

[Xavier Cage]

I played this game recently at the local gaming store and I've installed it on my comp and I go to play and it has a black screen, then the Windows crash thing comes up, my specs are as follows....

Display Adapter:
Intel 82915g/gv/910GL
NOTE: This is an onboard card.... Ideas?
Driver: 6.14.10.4363
Anyone else had this problem?

Processor:
Intel Pentium 4 Cpu,
3.2 GHZ

[Random Ping]

The vast majority of Intel Video cards are 64mb, 2142 requires a 128mb card minium. I'm pretty sure your video card is the issue here.

I would get an older ATI or Nvidia card that fits into a PCI slot; unless you have a PCI-express slot, which you could get a 7800 or 7900 Nvidia for fairly cheap these days. It all depends on how much you want to spend and how "shiny" you want the graphics to look. As long as you you get a card that has at least 128 mb of video ram and it fits into either a PCI, AGP, or PCI-express x16 slot (whichever you might have on the motherboard) you should be fine.

[Xavier Cage]

The Card has 128 mb of onboard memory and the EAsy Info thing says that the display memory isn't the problem. I was thinking that maybe it was an issue regarding whether or not my onboard crad has pixel shader 2.0 or not. Once again is there any way to check whether it has the pixel shader 2.0 or not?

-Ideas?

Thanx for your time, and effort! = )

[Caslon]

Type in Google your video chip and "BF.."

[Random Ping]

After looking for a few forums, it appears your onboard card might have pixel shader 2.0, but it missing something called vertex shader, or something like that. It would figure that 2142 would implement all the newer graphics technologies, so you might be stuck.

You could try updating to the newest drivers for Intel onboard video "card."

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Most people seem to find a need to upgrade from their onboard video in the forum posts that I read. Onboard video is usually meant just to provide the ability to play videos, pictures and text, but not really meant to power most of the more recent games. If it was, graphics card companies like ATI and Nvidia wouldn't be coming out with new cards every 6 months or so.