Full game issue - Games appears to load - crashes to desktop

[Dot.com Cowboy]

Guys,

I have the full game, all drivers are updated. I just tried to play BF2, the game appears to try and load, the screen flickers then it just goes back to desktop and nothing more happens. I"ve tired this from the desktop short cuts, the start menu short cuts as well as the main files on my hard drive.

I've turned my firewall and AV off before trying to play. What's weird is I've had some occassional luck playing BF2 before where it did this but now I seem to be completed unable to play.

The only thing I can think of that changed is I just installed Microsoft's recommend updates to my computer. You know the kind where they're ready to install from MS and you click OK.

Now BF2 doesn't seem to load at all? Coud it be a MS issue? Maybe the XP firewall turned itself back on with the patch?

Sadly the game won't even load now, in any mode. Really, really wierd.

EDIT: Checked windows and it did not turn on it's firewall so that can't be it. Teh only other thing I did was try and use ASE to connect to BF2, and that kind of worked but then the game locked up and I had to reboot. Could I now be banned some how, as I heard BF2 thinks you're hackign if you use an non BF2 browswer?

I just want to play the fricking game I paid $50 for!!! Is that too much to ask EA? Jesus Chritst this is rediculous!

[maverick514]

Seems like a driver issue. Try completely uninstalling your NVIDIA stuff (ATI has a prgram that does it inside the directory file), restart, and reinstall the drivers.

My game kept crashing whenever I was in a ranked server and the game ended. I reinstalled the drivers (actually rolled back, but ATI has that problem), and the game works fine now.

[Dot.com Cowboy]

But I just updated my Nvidia drivers, even removing the old one's per Nvidia's specifications before installing BF2.

Ahh well, hopefully the upcoming patch will fix this.