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x2pixel
01-24-2006, 08:31 PM
I just thought I should post this in case anyone is wondering if their CTD at startup is due to their game copy.

The CTD is this:

The game runs fine before 1.12, but after 1.12 the spalsh screen appears then goes away and you get the error message saying BF2.exe has encountered a problem, would you like to send a report?

I tried everything to fix this, 3 complete reinstalls of windows on a new HDD, multiple reinstalls of the game, including in safe mode, new admin account, new & old drivers etc and NOTHING worked.

Last weekend I built a new PC and the game runs 100% fine on it with the patch (yay, now I can play BF2:SF)

I thought it might have been something to do with my DVD copy as nothing else made sense, but this shows that is not it.

So I have 2 suggestions:

a) try getting a new DVD drive (someone pm'd me to say this fixed it for them)
b) flash update your BIOS - I think that some of the 'old' settings on my Asus A7N8X might have caused the fault.

Failing that, a complete new PC is not going to be in everyones reach

good luck

DrunkenPirate
01-26-2006, 09:01 AM
Just out of interest, are the same "pixel" from the Egosoft forums?