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BF1942 crashing
Hi folks,
I am having a very bad problem with Battlefield 1942, which just began this morning. Every time I try to load the game, the screen will go black for a second and then it will fall back to desktop. This happens both with Road to Rome/BF1942 and the Secret Weapons demo.
I upgraded my ATI drivers to the latest version a couple of days ago, and had no problems ... but I wonder if that might be the issue.
I have:
PIV 2.66 gHZ
SB Audigy 2 soundcard
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro video card
512 megs PC800 RDRAM
I'm really upset ... I was having a great time with the demo ... and then nothing works.
Any ideas? I have already reinstalled the demo to no effect.
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What's the date on those ATI drivers you installed? I've got a 9500 Pro and I just updated my drivers (drivers only, not the apps/control panel) a couple-three weeks ago in a vain attempt to fix a GTA:VC crash problem. I haven't installed the Secret Weapons demo either.
My vitals:
1.1 ghz Athlon
896 MB PC133
ATI Radeon 9500 Pro
SB Audigy
Sounds like you might want to try uninstalling the ATI control panel applications. Let me know how it goes--I meant to install that like last week, but I'll skip it if that turns out to be the cause of your BF1942 problems.
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I fixed it!
The first time I installed the ATI drivers, I used a combined package I downloaded from the front page of the ATI website. It installed the drivers and the control panel all at once, instead of with two reboots.
I went back and DL'd the 3.6 control panel and drivers files and installed them the regular way (drivers, reboot; control panel, reboot). All the problems went away.
I have heard no complaints about the 3.6 drivers.
Thanks,
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Aha--excellent. I'll grab the 3.6 control panel and see if that fixes GTAVC. Thanks for the heads-up, Ab!