Recently I've been unable to play games that used to give me no problems whatsoever. All other programs seem to run fine, including some older games, but newer more graphics intensive games will usually completely freeze at the intro screen or right when a game starts. Some games that won't work include Civilization 4, C&C Generals, World of Warcraft, among others. The thing is that these games used to run perfectly fine for me, and I don't recall installing any new programs that could've caused this. I ran a complete virus scan which came up clear, and I checked task manager to see if any background programs were using memory, and this also seemed fine. I can't figure out whats wrong...does anyone have any ideas? Thanks.

I've completely reformatted my hard drive and although the problem isn't as bad, the games still won't work. Also, I ran a RAM testing program overnight and it reported no errors, and I ran an error test on my harddrive which came up negative. Does anyone have any idea what the problem could be? I ordered a gig of ram which I'm going to use to replace the ram I have now to see if that helps the situation, but unless the RAM I have now is broken I'm not sure why it would help since these games ran on my current ram without a problem for as long as I had my computer.

what du mean still dont work. what kinda error du receive. teh game crash to desktop without error? the game wont even start?

The games start but they freeze at the intro screen or a few seconds into the game. There are no error messages at all.

My first thought is 512 RAM is not enough. Did you actually upgrade to 1 gig yet? I'll concede what is odd is that the games used to play just fine. Hmm...

I found a huge difference in loading and game speed when I went from 1 gig to 2 gig RAM for BF2.

Hope it helps.

I just put in the extra gig now which brings me to 1.5 gigs of RAM and the problem is still there...im now gunna try just taking out the old ram and leaving only the new gig, that way i can tell if the old ram was the problem...if the problem is still there after that then i have a huge problem

Well I tried it with 1.5 gig and it didn't work, and I tried it with the 1 new gig and now the game will start and allow me to move around, but they freeze for about 8 to 10 seconds every 4 or 5 seconds, which still means theres a problem. What else could it be? Video card, processor? Any ideas?

Video card most likely... it depends on what you have.. Your processor is fine..

What kind of video card DO you have?

i have bought battlefield 2 recently and have installed it sucessfully but have a big problem trying to run it. The game starts running and the screen becomes black and then about 1-2 secs later goes back to the desktop, no error messages nor explanations that come up on the computer.
Can somene plz help me?

Anaseptic.. Does your computer meet these requirements?

- Operating System
Windows XP (32 Bit Version)

- CPU
Battlefield 2 supports the following processors:
Intel Pentium 4
Intel Xeon
Intel Pentium Extreme Edition
Intel Celeron D
AMD Athlon XP
AMD Athlon 64
AMD Athlon 64-FX
AMD Sempron processor

- Minimum Specification:
CPU: 1.7 Ghz
RAM: 512 Mb
Video Card: NVidia GeForce FX 5700, ATI Radeon 8500 or ATI Radeon 9500
with 128 Mb of RAM

- Recommended Specification:
CPU: 2.4 Ghz
RAM: 1 Gb
Video Card with at least 256 Mb of RAM

- Video Cards
Battlefield 2 only supports the following video cards:
Radeon X700 (PCIe)
Radeon X600 (PCIe)
GeForce 6600 (PCIe)
GeForce PCX 5900 (PCIe)
GeForce 5800 Series (AGP)
ATI Radeon X800 XT Platinum Edition
ATI Radeon X800 PRO
ATI Radeon 9800 Series
ATI Radeon 9600 Series
ATI Radeon 9550 (RV350LX)
ATI Radeon 9500 / 9700 Series
ATI Radeon 8500 Series
ATI Radeon X300 Series
NVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra
NVidia GeForce 6800 GT
NVidia GeForce 6800
NVidia GeForce FX 5950 Series
NVidia GeForce FX 5900 Series
NVidia GeForce FX 5700 Series

yeh i have all of those requirements but im not sure of my game card. It's a nvidia ge force 7300gs and has 256 mb of ram on the card its DDr2 also but i dont know what that means. you think i need a better game card to even start the game?

I don't think so. The GeForce 7300GS is more advanced than the previous GeForce 6800 which is supported by BF2.

But.. start a new thread on the gaming forums about your problem. I really can't help you.. Lol..

Good luck, though.

=D.

ok thankyou

yea i have the same problem with WoW, and Guild wars. i can get into the game and everything then it will freeze and come out of it but freeze again in like 30 secs. so does anyone know if its the graphic card, cause i think im goin to buy a new one if it is.
Thanks