Hi Dale,
Thanks for trying to be supportive and offer suggestions. Unfortunately,
I've tried all your ideas, I've updated drivers, downloaded hotfixes, and
even spent a couple hours on the phone with some really helpful and nice
techs at EA Support. There is simply no solution.
After playing one map in multiplayer, when the next map loads the game
crashes. Other things I've tried are running the game in a window, and only
letting one processor run the game. EA support in the end told me that they
couldn't guarantee that the game will work under Vista.
So, for now I'll just play one map at a time and have to reboot the game at
the end of each round, just like lots of other folks do. There's really no
point in getting pissed off about it, since there's really nothing any of us
can do but hope that Battlefield 3 will destroy the Vista Titan and work
properly.
-Emory
"Dale White" wrote:
> Have you tried loading the maps in Single player mode ? I'm going to assume
> it's not any single map, but any map at all.
>
> Does you're event log under program-Admin tools, show any errors or anything
> that has a yellow or red flag ?
>
> Obviously, it's possible that one of the updates is causing a problem. If
> you run windows update, you can look at the last set of updates. Can you
> post what the last 2-3 updates where ? There might be a tech article on it
> and any problems caused.
>
> I'm assuming you already tried the usual un-install and re-install the game
> and patches ?
>
> Note there is a 4 page thread on this in the EA forums, assuming this is the
> same thing you are seeing. There is a fix posted that might work for you
>
> http://forums.easports.com/mboards/t...rt=45&tstart=0
>
>
> "Zero" <Zero@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:A47D78B8-78A0-4223-931F-687802795769@microsoft.com...
> > First of all - let me apologize for my long rant. I am just pissed. If
> > something worked fine and with no glitches under the old OS then I fully
> > expect it to work that way inder the new one. I want the new stuff to be
> > backwards compatible and i do believe it was advertised that way. You are
> > correct though - I am not 100% sure it is Microsoft's fault but I cannot
> > see
> > anyone else to blame. If you release somethign that is new and improved
> > then
> > it should do all the same things the old one did with no issues.
> >
> > But I will try and stay open minded...
> >
> > "Dale White" wrote:
> > Battlefield 2142 was working and you were able to play it until your hands
> > went numb. You stop playing, for a week came back and it's broke.
> >
> > So the fact that it worked and worked well for X number of weeks\months
> > doesn't tell you there isn't a compatibility problem ?"
> >
> > Again - it worked good for a few weeks and then I left it alone for a
> > week.
> > In that time frame the ONLY thing that happened was several auto updates
> > from
> > Microsoft. Nothing else was loaded or changed. So why wouldn't I point
> > my
> > finger at that? I instinctively tried to rollback the computer to before
> > i
> > left to see if it would work again and (I promise) it keeps failing during
> > the rollback. I have tried it 3 times and refuse to waste anymore time
> > trying.
> >
> >
> > "Dale White" wrote:
> > Have you tried turning off the UAC and see how the game runs there ?
> > Have you tried logging in with the True Admin account and see if there is
> > a
> > difference
> > have you tried logging in under a different user account, namely a
> > different
> > profile ?
> >
> > I haven't had the issue of the CD\DVD disc not working, but I've read
> > other
> > people having issue with the different Anti-Piracy software and Vista's
> > own
> > security fighting it out."
> >
> > Yes and Yes and no help. The CD/DVD issue only happens when i try and run
> > the game in XP SP2 compatibility mode. If I am running it under plain
> > Vista
> > Admin mode it does not occur.
> >
> > Again - my problem is that I load the game fine and find a server fine. I
> > go
> > to connect to the server and it gets halfway there and crashes. I get a
> > generic error as to why the crash happened and have no information on how
> > to
> > proceed. Just a "we will look into it and get back to you".
> >
> > So understand my frustration. I have done all the tricks and tried all
> > that
> > I know to do and all I am getting is the ability to play Texas Hold
> > 'em......
> > I am jaded and my windows experience is not so great now.
> >
> > I have had numerous other glitches with stuff freezing up for no reason
> > but
> > that is all expected. I know there are bugs that need to work out on the
> > new
> > OS but this one thing erks me. It erks me because it worked fine and now
> > it
> > doesn't. I try all these fixes and they don't help. I try to take my
> > computer back in time to before the updates and it won't let me go there
> > so i
> > am stuck here typing on a BB instead of shooting people....... frustrating
> >
> > I apreciate your time and help. If you have any ideas please let me
> > know...
> >
> >
>
>
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