Windows 7: Battlefield 2142 doesn`t work

This maybe due to the resolution you are trying to run I think that bf2142 might have an issue with it since widescreen support wasnt a big deal then I would try to start with a lower resolution like 1440x900 I think I read somewhere once that 1440x900 was the max for the game but I could be wrong.

Oh after the updates it has support for 1600x1200 in the game itself and I've run 1920x1200 in vista and xp. You're right about the no widescreen though. I'd be happy just having any old widescreen setting to be perfectly honest but it seems that none work at present. All of them crash though oddly enough I have just tried it through the admin account and it did work but then I got disconnected from the server again, like before, and then when I tried again I got a "packet flow corruption" from punkbuster but I've not found anything about that yet.

Okay, now it crashes before I get into the BFHQ with the following message...

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: BF2142.exe
Application Version: 0.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 4833ed6d
Fault Module Name: ntdll.dll
Fault Module Version: 6.1.7100.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 49eea706
Exception Code: 4000001f
Exception Offset: 000a1c37
OS Version: 6.1.7100.2.0.0.256.1
Locale ID: 2057
Additional Information 1: d1ab
Additional Information 2: d1ab624ec7d094c26a73530c245a3468
Additional Information 3: d1ab
Additional Information 4: d1ab624ec7d094c26a73530c245a3468

I installed battlefield 2142 successfully on windows 7 32bit and I downloaded the patches. When I tried to install the patches it said it wasn't compatible with Windows 7.
What do I do?


I'm not very good with computers so it was probably novice mistake.

PS Sorry for using this thread if it annoyed anyone.

Just go ahead and run the patch, it will also say the same thing if run on Vista due to the OS no being out when they created the game. you should be good to just run the install of the patch.

Had the same problem. Try running in vista mode, I did and it works fine now.

Try running both battlefield 2142 and punkbuster exe files in vista mode, mine works fine in these modes.

I try running BF 2142 on windows 7 64bit but everytime i do the screen keeps going back to the desktop, it does this everytime i do click to bring the screen back up to.

Compatability mode does nothing for this and everything is up to date so not sure what i can do.

I think vista is great, but for game, it is not better than XP. I would return to Winodw XP.

...and how did u patched?
I'm trying to install the patch 1.50 and saying about Win 7 64 bit (wrong version)