Need a bit of help here..

[Sayril]

Hey "I" just bought bfbc2 through steam, I got the game installed and everything worked fine untill I tried to play it. I got through the menu and all that crap, but as soon as i joined a server the screen turned white. I have no idea how to fix it... I'll post my specs -

Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2
3,00 gigahertz AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core
256 kilobyte primary memory cache
2048 kilobyte secondary memory cache
64-bit ready
Multi-core (2 total)
Not hyper-threaded
ATI Radeon HD 3800 Series <- Graphic card

I have no idea what's wrong, maybe my computer is to old or somthing.... fucking piece of shit

[IXL]

I very much suspect, its what you have pointed out allready, the Gfx card.

It does depend on what edition that is of course, but I thnk, that card you have is below the min spec. I dont know exactly without looking it up.

The min specs for bc2 are:

Minimum Frostbite PC Specifications for BFBC2 & BF1943
Processor: Core 2 Duo @ 2.0GHz
Main memory: 2GB
Graphics card: GeForce 7800 GT / ATI X1900
Graphics memory: 256MB
OS: Windows XP
Free HDD space: 15GB for Digital Version, 10GB for Disc Version (BFBC2)
10GB for Digital Version, 4GB for Disc Version (BF1943)

I assume you have tried all the usual driver updates etc....?

Some others have had what appears to be a simular issue and its card related...

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/s ... ?t=1181713

[Para]

i would agree its your GPU, i had to change mine to get the game to run and i was running a much more powerfull 7950 GTO, i used to get blank screens and when the game did run i got terrible slowdown & framerate.
time for an upgrade chief !

[Sayril]

Thanks for the help guys. Bought a game and now I need a graphic card!

[OFCNOFEAR]

to be honest i had the same thing its all to do with the settings folder that gets put in your documents i am at work at mo and cant talk you thru it , but if you go into your bfbc2 folder in your documents you will see a folder that controls the seetings for the game , make a few adjustments and it will run fine

also you have to chnge the direct x number your using in this folder and a few other settings and i bet it will work mate.

i will do a screen shot tonight and post it in here for you

every time i loaded the game to start with it crashed to desktop or went to a white screen so i am sure its the same problem ,

you have to change these settings before you even click on the game in your steam list

i also have the steam version mate gavac talked me thru it when it was happening to me or better still mate i will give you my mobile if you want it pm me and i will talk you thru int on the phone, i will be on all night tonight from 8 pm

[Sayril]

Cheers NoFear!

[Schlack]

watch out, that phone call will probably cost as much as a new GFX card!

No Fear runs a sex-chat-line


he's caught me out with that "I'll give you my mobile number" trick before

[Sayril]

Lol, I would cost me a lot either way cause I live in Sweden :p

[Sayril]

Anyone know somewhere to get a new cpu and a grahpic card good enough for bfbc2 pretty cheap?.. Or does anyone here have a graphic card and a cpu for sale?

ps. I'm not sure what a cpu is .. lol

[OFCNOFEAR]

right heres the screen shot mate shows my settings


set up your screen resolution to the one your moniter is set at mine is only 1280*720
you can see that in pic ,thats the most important one

try it out mate main one is direct x = 9
full screen = true

[Sayril]

Cheers mate, I'll try it exactly the way u have it!



I tried it but it didn't change a thing, tried everything possible, diffrent resolutions and everything, nothing happend, I think I'll have no choice but to buy a new graphic card, and everything else in this piece of shit computer....

[OFCNOFEAR]

lol sorry i did not work mate

[Sayril]

ye me 2 :p