Shoutbox

Recently got battlefield 2, well today actually, come to installing it and it goes on fine. Come to play it and it says 'disable any emultion software', so i do. then finally the splash screen comes up, then a black full screen and finally it crashes. hmm.... strange eh? ive looked on the EA/Battlefield 2 website and thats VERY helpful, it COULD be this, it COULD be that, i need someone to talk to about this... any1 know what the problem is??

Tried updating your video card's driver?

how can i?? i dont know how... i know ive got something among the lines of a radeon, but dont know what to do...

You can download Radeon drivers from the Ati site. Just select your OS, choose RADEON and download the Catalyst drivers.

will this harm/change my computer in any way shape or form???? (its the family computer so i am getting in shit if this fucks up the comp)

No, it's just a new version of your video card driver. You already have this driver on your PC, it will update that one to the latest version.

Ati spends alot of time on testing their drivers and making sure it won't screw up things.

so, i dowload the following feature... 'CATALYST 5.8 Windows XP - Driver Download' yes? btw, how do i check my video card, im checking it IS a radeon just in case

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Originally posted by Methos2
i dowload the following feature... 'CATALYST 5.8 Windows XP - Driver Download'

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Yes.

Press "Start" > "Run..." > Type "dxdiag" > hit "OK" > Click the "Display" tab (or "Display 1"). In the "Device" section.... "Name", "Manufacturer" and "Chip Type" should give you an idea on what card you have installed. When your system isn't a laptop and there is something that mentions Radeon there you can download the Catalist drivers without a problem.

Make sure you have at least 512 MB memory, cause the same thing happened to someone I know, new drivers and all didn't help, so I called the hotline and they said you need a minimum of 512 MB or else it will do that. Splash Screen, black screen and then Boom, back to windows

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Originally posted by Ezra
Make sure you have at least 512 MB memory, cause the same thing happened to someone I know, new drivers and all didn't help, so I called the hotline and they said you need a minimum of 512 MB or else it will do that. Splash Screen, black screen and then Boom, back to windows

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erm.... 512mb of memory?? how the hell do i find that out... unless you mean on my graphics card, i quote hear what the thing reads...
'name: GIGABYTE RADEON 9200
manufacturer: ATI tech
chip type: RADEON 92-- AGP (0x5961)
approx. total memory: 128.0 MB'

Hmph, any chance i can boost that upto 512mb?