BF2S Forums BF2 Crash upon join.

So BF2 has worked fine, maybe a crash once a day, which seems standard for bf2 but all of a sudden whenever I try to join a multiplayer game the second I click "join" I crash to desktop. 

So to make sure it wasn't some hardware problem or resolution thing I loaded up BF2 demo which worked completely fine. 

The problem lies with BF2...I tried re-patching...nothing.  Is this really worthy of a full re-installation?

thanks