Battlefield 2142 Problem W/ W7 64 Bit

[Rokspidr]

I have just done a fresh install of W7 64bit. Was running Vista 32 bit until today. BF 2142 worked fine in Vista. Now when the game loads I can log in and make adjustments to "Control" and "Video" profiles, but when going to "Audio" game crashes and get message:

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: BF2142.exe
Application Version: 0.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 4833ed6d
Fault Module Name: StackHash_efdf
Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 00000000
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 61657053
OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: efdf
Additional Information 2: efdf1b2031a369d9eef4e0d3309bb7d5
Additional Information 3: 2173
Additional Information 4: 2173638739b970799a6107fc8f621d5a

Tried not to adjust "audio" and started game on common server I used yesterday, game crashed again. Have done all updates on drivers and punkbuster. Any ideas?

 

[Zidane24]

Did you run the game as an administrator http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/11841-run-administrator.html and ran it in compatibility mode for Windows Vista http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/316-compatibility-mode.html

 

[stormy13]

What do you have the audio settings set too?

 

[Rokspidr]

I have tried running in Admin in Vista SP2 compatability mode and same thing happens. As for the Audio, I haven't made any changes to the game. Every time I click on the tab to enter that screen, the game crashes with the message I originally posted.

 

[DarkXeno]

Ok I think something got corrupt in the install. This is what I would try. One uninstall the game, reboot and install the latest sound drivers. Reboot again install BF2142 *do not do the autorun if you have the CD/DVD* go to the drive and right click the setup.exe and run as admin no other settings and remember to let the DX9 installer run threw, reboot and then install the latest patch.

 

[Rokspidr]

I'll try this tonight. Anyone else with any other ideas or opinons?

 

[LPDad]

The reinstall info is the place to start.
I have BF2142 installed and running without problem. In fact it runs very well for me on
win7 x64.

(and make sure that if you disable the onboard sound in your bios--- provided you are using your Auzentech sound card. -- whichever you are using, make sure the "other" is disabled. Windows 7 seems pretty good at keeping the different sound "systems" separate..but this is a new OS and you never know......)

 

[Rokspidr]

Thanks for the insite. However, after uninstalling BF and updating all drivers, then reinstalling BF in admin settings, I still have the same problem. It's quite aggrevating. Does anyone else have any other ideas?

 

[stormy13]

Want you to check something. Go to,

C:\Users\Your Name\Documents\Battlefield 2142\Profiles

find the folder for your current profile and open the Audio.con file in Notepad, then post back all the settings that are there.

 

[DarkXeno]

Ok will doing all those things here is one last thing to try. Since the settings are stored in a con file in your mydocs folder. I would delete that folder then start the game you will have to reset all your settings again but see if this works.

 

[stormy13]

Ok will doing all those things here is one last thing to try. Since the settings are stored in a con file in your mydocs folder. I would delete that folder then start the game you will have to reset all your settings again but see if this works.

That is one reason I asked to see what is showing for all settings in the Audio.con. The X-Meridian is the only non X-Fi card (not counting Asus and their GX 2.0 hack) that can trick BF2 and BF2142 into thinking that a X-Fi is installed. I have a feeling the game is auto-detecting it as such and if it is, that could be the cause of the crashing when he tries to change it.

 

[Rokspidr]

Ok, I've tried these things. But the problem is not my audio only. When I reinstalled the game, the first thing I did was try to go to a server. The game crashed. I don't think the problem is in the audio settings. I can loggin and go to the main screen, but when I try anything else, it crashs.

 

[Rokspidr]

Just tried the game again running in Admin mode. Started game and went to single player. Game almost loaded and then crashed with this error mess:

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: BF2142.exe
Application Version: 0.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 4833ed6d
Fault Module Name: StackHash_21ef
Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 00000000
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 61657053
OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 21ef
Additional Information 2: 21ef75dff546c3c4775a97c85b5d438c
Additional Information 3: 39c3
Additional Information 4: 39c3cf5ada230b114512d61bd0c89769

Any other ideas?

 

[DarkXeno]

hhmm, well let me just run down a list of checks here,
latest patch is loaded?
did you install the DX9 from the disc?
run a defrag on the system?
Do you have a swap file on the system and is it set to let windows choose a size? I find bf2142 works better with a set size swap.
I know im reaching for straws here but anything is worth a try right now.

 

[Rokspidr]

Lastest patches- Done.
Defrag- Done.
DX9- Downloaded from disc and tried from download from microsoft. Done.
not sure what you mean by "swap". haven't done this.

One thing I did during install, which hasn't mattered during previous installs of this game, was I installed it on a seperate drive than my OS. Using an SSD drive for OS only. Extra 500GB drive for anything else. When i installed W7 I did a reformat of SSD. Does BF2142 have issues running on 64bit OS? When I installed Vista 64Bit, I had problems getting BF2412 to run. Switched to 32bit. Game worked after a few tweaks. I have read where other people have gotten BF2142 to run on 64bit.

 

[DarkXeno]

Im one of the people that have it running fine on 64bit. I have it installed on my C: drive and have no other drives. hhmm I will look for more info once i get home tonight.

 

[denn77]

I had the same problem with my Windows 7 64 bit installation and Battlefield 2 where the game would cause the computer to freeze completely with a fast repeating buzzing sound. I had no problems at first with Windows 7 but then one day I enabled the US landscape theme and set it to automatically change the desktop background image every 5 or 10 minutes. This is when the freezing during game play started to occur.

The solution was to simply change the them back to the default windows 7 aero them with the windows logo in the middle. Ever since, no more freezing. I played BF2 for an hour straight with no problems, where as before I couldn't last for more than 10 minutes before I had to hard reboot my system. It took me a while to figure this out so I hope this helps.

 

[Fumz]

Lastest patches- Done.
Defrag- Done.
DX9- Downloaded from disc and tried from download from microsoft. Done.

Did you download just DirextX 9c from Microsoft, or did you get the Feb. 2010 redist that updates all DX versions?

If you only updated 9c, you may want want to grab this and run it: Download details: DirectX Redist (February 2010)

I ran 2142 on 64-bit Vista without issue and currently run it on 64-bit 7 without issue. I actually don't even have to run it as admin or in compatibility mode, so this one's a puzzler.