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2006-08-06 19:07:02
dlbenson1979
Mr. 20,000
+23|6491
OK, so I got an ATI Raedon 9250 256 mb video card. When I try to start the game i get the opening video fine, but then when it trys to go to the first screen, BF2 quits. My video card then brings up a messege that states that it has reset itself to default settings.

I then went into the EA easy info, and now instead of saying that I have a 256 mb card, it says I have 0 mb (i'm guessing this has something to do with going back to its default settings).

I then I to reinstall the video drivers..........only to have the same thing happen again if I ever try to run BF2.

I'm not really smart with video cards at all, so I could use some help. I'l like to get on and play this game.

Thanks
2006-08-06 19:18:24
RichyCizzo
Member
+9|6495|Florida
Card is overheating. Most cards have a feature where if it overheats too much, it underclocks itself and or pretty much disables itself. In your case, it's pretty much turning itself off. Could be a defective card or your case isn't getting enough air circulation. By the way, a 9250 is NOT going to run BF2 too well.
2006-08-07 05:58:07
RedneckSloth
Member
+12|6611|MI
The 9250 is not supported by Bf2. It ran somewhat before 1.22 but now won't work at all. Time to get a new card.
2006-08-07 06:04:20
[FB]Eraser
Back in battle after 3-year break
+39|6739|Switzerland
Mmmhhh... I think it should run with this card. This is found on EA:

Video card must have 128 MB or more memory and one of the following chipsets:

    * NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 or greater
    * ATI Radeon 8500 or greater

And here something that could be usefull. It's from the Readme File of Patch 1.2:

ATI CROSSFIRE CARDS
- Crossfire cards with 256 Megs of memory, running in CrossFire mode will
run out of memory at very high resolution settings.
On very high resolutions, such as 1920x1440 with 6x antialiasing. In
CrossFire mode the ATI drivers are more restrictive
about where resources are allocated, and as a result run out of memory
sooner than with a single board. This running out of memory causes
the device context creation to fail. The result is that the game just
sits in a loop with a black screen. If you experience a context creation
failure
change your resolution to a lower setting (e.g. 1024x768 or even lower).

Last edited by [FB]Eraser (2006-08-07 06:10:10)

2006-08-07 06:13:19
RedneckSloth
Member
+12|6611|MI
I had the 9250 and after talking to EA about a million times they finally told me that it wasn't supported.
2006-08-07 06:35:25
RichyCizzo
Member
+9|6495|Florida

[FB]Eraser wrote:

And here something that could be usefull. It's from the Readme File of Patch 1.2:

ATI CROSSFIRE CARDS
- Crossfire cards with 256 Megs of memory, running in CrossFire mode will
run out of memory at very high resolution settings.
On very high resolutions, such as 1920x1440 with 6x antialiasing. In
CrossFire mode the ATI drivers are more restrictive
about where resources are allocated, and as a result run out of memory
sooner than with a single board. This running out of memory causes
the device context creation to fail. The result is that the game just
sits in a loop with a black screen. If you experience a context creation
failure
change your resolution to a lower setting (e.g. 1024x768 or even lower).
Crossfire has got nothing to do with his ugly 9250.
2006-08-07 06:40:30
[FB]Eraser
Back in battle after 3-year break
+39|6739|Switzerland

RichyCizzo wrote:

[FB]Eraser wrote:

And here something that could be usefull. It's from the Readme File of Patch 1.2:

ATI CROSSFIRE CARDS
- Crossfire cards with 256 Megs of memory, running in CrossFire mode will
run out of memory at very high resolution settings.
On very high resolutions, such as 1920x1440 with 6x antialiasing. In
CrossFire mode the ATI drivers are more restrictive
about where resources are allocated, and as a result run out of memory
sooner than with a single board. This running out of memory causes
the device context creation to fail. The result is that the game just
sits in a loop with a black screen. If you experience a context creation
failure
change your resolution to a lower setting (e.g. 1024x768 or even lower).
Crossfire has got nothing to do with his ugly 9250.
I'm not so familiar with ATI chipsets. But the problem sounds almost the same...
2006-08-07 06:55:03
DeltaGrey
Member
+1|6542|Finland
I'm actually playing with ati radeon 9250 (128mb) and hell old piece of trash metal actually runs game with latest drivers... maybe setting up from catalyst settings all to max performance or something...

And yeah... game surely doesn't look too good xD (all settings on low or off if possible )
2006-08-07 07:54:55
MECtallica
Member
+73|6522|jalalabad
if its a PCI 9250 your not going to be able to run it , AGP, probably not either, youre telling me you just bought  a9250, wtf do you live in the 90s?
2006-08-07 10:13:31
bennisboy
Member
+829|6664|Poundland
guys he wanted some help, not his card to be slated, if it cant run it thats all he wanted to know, or a possible solution. I'm running all high except dynamic light n shadows with 6xAA and 12xAF without lag, only a gig of RAM as well, dunno how, but it looks truly sweet with an X600 256mb

Last edited by bennisboy (2006-08-07 10:14:00)

 

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