BF2 Menu Flickering and Going Crazy!

2008-06-04 15:25:32

#1

Miniman7474: Banned.; +30|6411|Daqing Oilfields?

Alright, this is the weirdest problem I've ever had and I could only log on to one of my secondary accounts. Basically once the intro is done, it gets to the log in and everything is flickering and whatnot making it nearly impossible to use. Most importantly, its not possible to retrieve an account via nickname because I can't press that button! Once logged on, its the same deal and I barely can see anything. Luckily, I was able to launch a singleplayer game and the loading is flickering also. Once I got into the game, everything was PERFECT, but when I press ESC to go to the main screen the flickering is back. This makes it nearly impossibe to get into a game!

I reinstalled vista last night and just installed the newest patch for BF2 after installing it.

Any known solutions? Heres a screeny, but imagine this constantly flashing and different bars and shapes popping up.

https://img405.imageshack.us/img405/868/26264609yy7.jpg

2008-06-04 15:28:17

#2

Miniman7474: Banned.; +30|6411|Daqing Oilfields?

Here's another SS, notice how the menu buttons are in the middle of flashing:

https://img239.imageshack.us/img239/235/44926691nl2.jpg

2008-06-04 15:31:39

#3

bugz: Fission Mailed; +3,311|6524

Back it up first, but delete your movies folder in C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2\mods\bf2

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2008-06-04 15:50:20

#4

I'm Jamesey: Do a Research Noob; +506|6344|Scotland!

You need video card drivers, google to find the most recent ones that go with your card.

2008-06-04 16:54:57

#5

Miniman7474: Banned.; +30|6411|Daqing Oilfields?

If it was the drivers, why is it that gameplay is not effected one but?

What would deleting the movies folder do? I mean, the intro and whatnot are not effected, just the menus so I don't thnk the movies folder is part of it, unless this is a repeting problem.

2008-06-04 17:37:42

#6

Adamshannon8: Member; +94|6397

Miniman7474 wrote:
If it was the drivers, why is it that gameplay is not effected one but?

What would deleting the movies folder do? I mean, the intro and whatnot are not effected, just the menus so I don't thnk the movies folder is part of it, unless this is a repeting problem.

cause ea made it...

2008-06-04 22:24:46

#7

TopHat01: Limitless; +117|6117|CA

With this, and the rest of the torubles that Vista and BF2 get, I simply made a small partition on my HDD (about 60 GiGs), put Windows XP on it, and now I play all of my old games on that now. BF2 runs perfectly fine on XP, but is really shaky w/ Vista.

Aside from that, good luck. I'm not sure what you can do.

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2008-06-05 04:14:04

#8

Vub: The Power of Two; +188|6706|Sydney, Australia

Bypass the loading screen. When you right click the Battlefield2 icon go to "run", and add the modifiers which instruct BF2 to automatically log in to a designated account.

2008-06-05 04:23:03

#9

Cheez: Herman is a warmaphrodite; +1,027|6651|King Of The Islands

Vub wrote:
Bypass the loading screen. When you right click the Battlefield2 icon go to "run", and add the modifiers which instruct BF2 to automatically log in to a designated account.

Or get a program that does it for you.

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2008-06-06 06:59:21

#10

I'm Jamesey: Do a Research Noob; +506|6344|Scotland!

Miniman7474 wrote:
If it was the drivers, why is it that gameplay is not effected one but?

Because you said you reinstalled windows but you didn't say you installed recent non beta drivers.

When I reinstalled windows I had the problem until I reinstalled non beta drivers which fixed it.

But okay, I won't twist your arm.

2008-06-06 10:00:12

#11

Miniman7474: Banned.; +30|6411|Daqing Oilfields?

Bypassing the loading screen won't help me one bit-all of the other screens, like Options and BFHQ are also like this. It makes it nearly impossible to do server searches, unless you know what you're looking for.

I'm Jamesey wrote:
Miniman7474 wrote:
If it was the drivers, why is it that gameplay is not effected one but?
Because you said you reinstalled windows but you didn't say you installed recent non beta drivers.

When I reinstalled windows I had the problem until I reinstalled non beta drivers which fixed it.

But okay, I won't twist your arm.

I see, I was under the impression you were just yelling out the first thing that popped into your head-when I saw this, I thought the same thing but threw it out when gameplay was not effected (other than an occasional flick or 2 when pressing Tab). I'll go look for some non-beta drivers, if I can.

2008-06-06 10:07:14

#12

Miniman7474: Banned.; +30|6411|Daqing Oilfields?

I'm downloading the NVIDIA drivers right now, hopefully this will work.

Thanks for the help so far!

Edit: Downloaded drivers and the set up told me it could not find suitable drivers so I tried again and it told me I already have some of the files on my computer, so I'm guessing I have the most up-to-date drivers?

Last edited by Miniman7474 (2008-06-06 10:09:09)

2008-06-07 16:38:44

#13

Miniman7474: Banned.; +30|6411|Daqing Oilfields?

It turns out I have the latest drivers from NVidia.

What can I do?

2008-06-08 09:50:35

#14

Fateless: Member; +36|6454|Jennifer Connellys Pants

As someone mentioned above, disable the movies.

2008-06-08 12:04:59

#15

Miniman7474: Banned.; +30|6411|Daqing Oilfields?

Like I said above, that will do absolutely nothing. The problem occurs in more places than just the movies, and I'm not going to go through and make fixes that ignore the true problem, the Video Card Drivers.

I had the same problem with 2142, on I never play 2142 so I was unable to navigate the menus.

I updated my drivers from the newest to some from October 2007 and now everything is just peachy. Thank you Jamesey!

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