Battlefield 2142: Desktop Frozen
Sep 15, 2009
I just recently bought the game and installed it, when I went to go run it my entire computer locks up and has to be hard booted. Looking on forums I ran it as administrator and also in Windows XP SP2 compatibly mode. Unfortunately, this did not solve the problem and my computer still locks up and requires a hard boot. I do not even get into the game before this happens. The screen stays at the desktop frozen. Another program I have also mimics this, Autodesk Inventor. Not sure if they are related but my teacher said that Vista 64bit seems to always be the problem. I would like to get both of these programs running, especially Battlefield 2142, but my computer seems to be fighting me. Many other games work, it is the deluxe edition, patched till 1.50.
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Apr 21, 2007
I have a pretty decent system with 1800XT, P4 3.2Ghz, 2GB ram Battlefield 2142 used to run OK on XP -- not stellar, but it ran ~ 30fps at max settings @ 1024x768 In Vista, I get 100% CPU usage as soon as game starts -- even while only menu is displayed. In the game, at lowest settings @1024x768 I get about 15fps max, most of the time it is a completely unplayable <10fps. Moreover, it is not consistent, but lags for short period, then plays ok, then lags. In my previous Vista x64 install (where game was running worse than xp, but ok), I accidentaly enabled EAX on non SB sound card which caused huge CPU load and therefore huge lag -- I checked the settings this time, sound quality is at minimum and EAX is disabled.
I'm out of ideas -- why is CPU @ 100% all the time? Why is lag not constant, but does not depend on the complexity or amount of displayed material? While I play a game like Need For Speed Carbon -- Videocard is noticably stressed as fans kick in to full power, but with BF 2142 -- videocard seems to be chilling while processor almost never drops below 100%!!!! I have the most updated Videocard drivers available for Vista x64. This is pretty much the only game I play so I would really love to see this solved.
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Mar 23, 2008
Crashes whnever I try to joing a server... Faulting application BF2142Pace.exe, version 0.0.0.0, time stamp 0x471f4bc6, faulting module unknown, version 0.0.0.0, time stamp 0x00000000, exception code 0xc0000005, fault offset 0x61657053, process id 0x584, application start time 0x01c889ea1b1203c6. Any workarounds?
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Mar 19, 2008
Crashes whnever I try to joing a server...
Faulting application BF2142Pace.exe, version 0.0.0.0, time stamp 0x471f4bc6, faulting module unknown, version 0.0.0.0, time stamp 0x00000000, exception code 0xc0000005, fault offset 0x61657053, process id 0x584, application start time 0x01c889ea1b1203c6.
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Sep 24, 2009
Looked on this site yesterday as I had frozen icons on my desktop, very helpful advice to go to taskmanager and end process. Since then I have not been able to send and recieve emails, does anyone know if this is something to do with the frozen icon situation?
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May 15, 2010
After I close Internet Explorer my desktop Icon's become frozen. The tool bar and start menu work fine. I'm running Windows Vista with IE8. I'm running Microsoft Security Essentials, have used SUPERAntiSpyware and Malwarebytes Anti-Malware as my malware removal tools. I've used system restore and still having the same problem. I don't have a recovery disk, just the disk that Dell issues with it's new computers.
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Sep 4, 2009
I've been experiencing some problems running bf2142 on my new HP Dv6z-1100. I've poked around, but could not find the answer to my questions. If this has been solved, please provide a link. Installing bf2142 and the system patch goes smoothly, its when I want to play that vista (or whatever the problem is) rears its ugly head. I can load the game, login to my account, and proceed to the main menu. However, my game automatically quits a couple seconds after I access any of the secondary menus. Windows tells me that it had to automatically quit, and that it will notify me when a solution is available. Predictably, it has not notified me yet (nor do I suspect such a feature actually works).
I've updated my audio and graphic drivers, so I don't think that is the problem. I've run as an administrator (with the updated drivers) and still nothing. My computer should be able to handle this game, and I don't understand why it won't. I've got the turion graphics card in it.
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Feb 3, 2007
Had problems with Battlefield 2.
You have to run in admin mode , else you will be booted by Punkbuster
Also had problems with online play being jerky. (where BF2142 is smooth as glass)
Rectified problem by running BF2 in XP Sp2 mode
Running Core 2 Duo
Nvidia 7850 GX2
2 Gig Ram
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Oct 4, 2007
I have this problem on Vista x6 which doesnt occur on x86. I install BF2 and the extras and patch to latest version available. The game runs fine (With tghe exception of nasty Widescreen support) But after playing for a while, no more than 20 minutes, it just crashes to desktop. This crash is silent, no error messages or anything.
I did a search for this and have seen the problem referenced in other threads but not in a thread that discusses it in detail. Does anyone else have/had this issue and if so any solutions known?
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May 15, 2009
I'm on Vista x64 with 6GB of RAM, so I thought I would play a really cool game. I lost my copy of BF2 so I had to download a .iso of it. I patched (as in officially patched) the game after I installed it and now I have a big problem: the game then transfers to a black screen like it was loading, but then the game just crashes with no error messages. Can anyone give me a way to get this game to work?
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Jun 21, 2008
i just installed battlefield 2 on vista home premium 32bit i have a dell xps m15300 with 4 gb ram 2.4ghz so its fast enough to run the game..
my computer uses nvidea geforve and it seems that my non-PnP monitor is set to 63hz refresh rate and i think it needs to be 60 for the game to work... how do i fix it? when i go into monitor settings its got a dropdown menu with only 62hz as an option.
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Nov 4, 2007
i tried to get my mic and headphone to working running 64bit vista my pc sees and works fin in vista just when i try to use it in battlefield 2 it does not seem to even see it i have no clue how to get it to work i ran the mic setup and nothing comes up no sound levels nothing to each other in battlefield 2
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Mar 25, 2008
how restart my laptop ? i tried to log off but it has froze on the logging off screen. have tried turning it off and on but still shows logging off.
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Jul 16, 2009
i got a new computer and i wonder if the grafic card will work with game such as BAttlefield 2 and 2142? My grafic card is: NVIDIA eForce g100 512 mb, and when i bought it the salesman told me it would work on this games but im not sure if it will.
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Feb 14, 2009
after installing my Warcraft 3 Frozen Throne on my Windows 7 beta, 7000build. I can run War3.exe after the installation. When I restarted my computer, the problem starts here. very time I open my War3, It minimizes on my task bar. When I click it again, it maximizes for around 1 second then minimizes again. I know its running fine because I can hear the sounds of the program and I can see the menu for 1 second. I search the internet for similar problem but it looks like I'm the only one having this kind of problem. I tried Updating my Video Card driver, I think I have the latest. Reinstalling my War3, it works. But, whenever I restart my computer, the problem appear again. I need to shutdown my computer.
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Oct 3, 2009
I am trying to install Microsoft's Screen Recorder on Vista Home Premium with SP1 & 2 and this is my second try. I created a new folder on my desktop and labeled it Screen Recorder download. I downloaded the UtilityOnlineMarch092009 03.exe file to my desktop. I clicked on it and selected to save it to this new folder I created.
There are 3 files: Screen Recorder, setup and WMEncoder. It is my understanding the encoder has to be installed first so I clicked on that. The install box opens and seems to run right along. The fills with green as it installs and according to that the install should be done and I should click Next. But above it says "Installing Windows Media runtime files ..." and there it sit frozen. It's been that way now for 20 minutes.
If I go to C/Program Files there is a folder called Windows Media Components and within that a file called Encoder and it is full of files. I have attached screen shots of the encoder downloade box that is frozen and of the files appearing in my C drive in that encoder folder.
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Every now and again, a strange thing happenes to my start bar. It completely freezes, and I can't click anything on there apart from the start button. I can't select any tabs, or use the system tray. If that doesn't happen, sometimes the Start button decides to freeze instead. Basically it goes dark (like it does when it has been pressed) and then it stays like that and it won't let me open it.
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Jan 24, 2009
I can't use my touchpad. My arrow/cursor is frozen in the middle of the screen.
1) I can still use external mouse
2) I saw in similar post somebody suggested using memory tool scan from microsoft. I did find that but when I clicked on it the owner was not microsoft but some other name. I am tired of downloding stuff on my computer and find out later that they are spyware etc..
3) I purchased Norton 360 which does not help
4) I ran system restore, did not help. First when I ran system restore it gave me error message "unspecified error during system restore" I ran it in safemode and now I could restore. Then I had to do the updates again. Rebooted toshiba laptop agai and the cursor still frozen
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Sep 3, 2008
I recently built a computer with Vista Ultimate 64bit. I absolutley love it and have only had two problems. LOCKED UP Randomly the computer will just lock up. No graphical glitching, no errors, no nothing. In fact if you just came in the room and looked at the screen everything would appear normal. This happens when doing any manner of things. It has happened when playing games, surfing the net, working on a document or even when the computer is left on overnight.
Its very sporatic too. I have gone a whole week without it happening with turning the computer on and off. I have also had it happen a few times within a few hours. Sometimes I can leave the computer on for a few days and it wont happen, sometimes it will happen right after I have signed in..............
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I'm wondering if this is fixable. I search the internet for similar problem but it looks like I'm the only one having this kind of problem. I tried Updating my Video Card driver, I think I have the latest.
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