BF2 start up problem

[Curtis12]

ok well this isnt a major problem but its really annoying, ive had it for a while now, the problem is when i hit the BF2 icon it takes like 2 minutes to start the game, the screen will just go black and sometimes the monitor goes into sleep and than comes on after like 1-2 min. any solution? Could it be a virus? Ohh and reinstall does nothing

[Curtis12]

so no help for this, no suggestions?

[ColdCircuitCash]

I don't know exactly how long your wait time is, but i realized that it depends on your CDROM speed. Mine's not the best but I noticed that if my cd is already being read by the drive before i click the icon to start it up, it goes much faster.

I found this out one day trying to run COD2, my cd drive started to read the cd....but like an addict bf2 was still in. so i decided just to play bf3 instead and it loaded up in less than a second (compared to 30 seconds or more trying to run from a "cold start")

hope this info is somewhat helpful.....

CCC

[Curtis12]

well i got a cd/dvd rom combo but i could only get the cd rom version of bf2, but it used to go really fast like it should so im thinking its a virus