BC2 Crash

[[AK]Nuts]

After two days of non-stop playing, I had my first Crash to Desktop. Event viewer showed something odd:

A request to disable the Desktop Window Manager was made by process (Battlefield Bad Company 2)

The Desktop Window Manager was unable to start because composition was disabled by a running application

The Desktop Window Manager did not start because an analysis of the hardware and configuration indicated that it would perform poorly

[[AK]Kidd]

I froze up solid three times in thirty minutes last night.

That's why I disappeared. I was so angry I walked away.

[[AK]StitchJones]

No freezing or lock ups for me last night. I am happy with the patch to this point.

[[AK]Hylander]

I didn't have any last night for the hour I played, but had 3 the night before.

[[AK]Swae]

I read something about DirectX causing this problem - I'll try to look up the details and post the "fix" here this afternoon.

[[AK]Squidly]

I had one lockup in about 2-3 hours of playing. Not bad. It's definitely client-side, as the server just kept plugging along.

As an aside, they're patching servers to R7 today. Included:

Changelist:

• Several common crash fixes. Especially those which have monitoring scripts that rely on the Remote Admin interface should see stability improvements.
• PunkBuster can send commands to Remote Admin interface (so ‘pb_sv_task 0 -1 <stuff to send to admin interface>’ works)
• Veteran-rank handling corrected (it was broken in R6 and possibly earlier)
• Switched back to Release version of the low-level networking library; less debug output but higher performance
• Increased the initial server reconnection interval to 30+rand(30) seconds
• PB GUID generation is now based on EA account IDs (it used to be based on persona names)

[[AK]Nuts]

Again, I had the same crash and event logs last night. I've disabled Desktop Window Manager... I'll see how this works out
(Windows Vista Premium)

[[AK]Squidly]

Another item that I've found to help is disabling Steam's "Update News" popup. I was getting issues whenever that thing decided to let me know about some $14 game that was going on sale for $13.

[[AK]The Beast]

Another item that I've found to help is disabling Steam's "Update News" popup. I was getting issues whenever that thing decided to let me know about some $14 game that was going on sale for $13.

Quoted for truth. And to say thanks. I didn't know you could disable their stupid sales pitches.