BF2S Forums Running BF 2 with Vista 64 bit....PROBLEMS?

Hello, i run on vista 32 bits, this worked for me good. Go to btf2 icon, click in properties, compatibility, and mark win xp compatibility mode and run as admin. NExt, in vista, i dont know why, pnkbsterb stop with no reason, and for that i get kicks as pnkbstrb.exe handshacking failed, pnkbstrb.exe initialization failure... there are 2 ways to solve. (you must do it evrytime befor playing btf2. I know is boring, but this will solve it)
Way n 1- download this: http://files.filefront.com/pbsvcexe/;85 … einfo.html
Then, click install/reinstall. When all its done, go to task manager, and services. click on services again, that is at the right bottom of the window of the task manager and look for pnkbstrb.exe . Right click on it, and press start. when it started, close all the windows, and start btf2.
Way n 2- Just click start, run, and type: pnkbstrb.exe. If they apear security messages, because in vista appears in all things, press continue. And now start btf2. this fix can fail sometimes.
And the thing of punkbuster updates. In my vista, i have always to update manually. So download this http://www.evenbalance.com/index.php?page=pbsetup.php
Hope that it help. Regards!

Runs fine here m8

Scorpion0x17 wrote:

@OP: From memory: If you right-click on the BF2 desktop/startmenu icon and select Properties, in one of the Tabs, there's a check-box to make BF2 always run as Administrator. Also on that same tab is an option to run under various 'compatibility mode' settings - you may find selecting one of these also helps.

(or in other words, what ^^^he sed)

Yeah, but it Nags you to confirm every time you launch it

I  tryed the fix and i can change compatibility to me/98 bit i can not click run this program as an Administrator??? it is grayed out like i see it but i cant click it???? help plz