How to play battlefield 2 on vista

My Inspiron has only 59hz on any resolution so that means that i had to plug in an external monitor for BF2 to run. Joined Sep 19, Messages I think that the older DirectX 9 dll files were not included with my original install and I had the same kind of problems for every game I installed until I did this. Just re-run the DirectX installation and you might find that everything starts working.

Let me know if this helps, I've recommended it to a number of Vista users. Joined Oct 2, Messages 2. Uhh ok if you ask me your all wrong on this topic, sadly I do not have the right answer. When I try to run BF2 it goes to the black screen and crashes. So I looked around and found that BF2 needs to run at 60Hz on the refresh to run. BUT with the Inspiron for some reason it's locked at 59Hz.. God knows why but it is, now this is where everything gest interesting.

I plugged my desktop monitor into my lap top. Set it up to run dual screen and changed the monitor to run at x at 60Hz which in turn changed my laptop monitor to the same settings.

Ran BF2 again and it worked fine. Unplugged the monitor, all the settings went back to befor I plugged in the monitor and BF2 would no longer run. So trying to find out where the true problem is doesn't seem that easy.

Yes it is a video problem in that you need the 60Hz refresh which for some reason you can't change but when I plugged my monitor in it worked just fine. SO does anyone know how to change the refesh rate on an Inspiron ?

Any programs out their to force it? I've got tjhe 17inch wide runnin at x and its locked at Joined Nov 5, Messages 1. After I install the game and start to run the game it crashes and asks me to insert the disk. I have reformatted numerous times using both XP and Vista, and using various NVidia drivers nothing fixes the problem. I did some research and it appears that there are many people with the same problem. My monitor only runs at 59hz refresh rate, but when I plug in an auxilliary CRT or LCD monitor and select 60hz on the auzillary monitor, i can play the game on the auxilliary monitor.

A quick search on Google confirms that many people are having this same problem. Thank you for contacting Electronic Arts Technical Support. I apologize for the difficulty you're having with Battlefield Unfortunately, the game does not support and is not tested to run in 59 Hertz refresh rate.

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Previous Next. BoomerD No Lifer. Feb 26, 58, 6, Anyone have any luck getting BF2 to install on a Win 10 machine? I can get the install to start, it pops up the warning "This game was only tested on Windows XP" then the install starts I've tried "Windows 7 and 8 compatibility, "Run as administrator," neither make any difference. When it hangs up, it completely locks things up.

Can't shut the install down in any way. Have to reboot the computer to make it go away.