A question about Battlefront 2 on Steam

[ShadowDude112]

So I just downloaded BF2 on Steam since I wanted to play it with my friends. Now I have the retail copy with the four discs and everything but it wouldn't let me play it unless I was in Safe Mode. So I downloaded it on Steam and booted it up. I went to join an online game and it closed on me. So I booted it up again and went to Instant Action and it still crashed on me. So do you guys know what I should do?

 

[muckinscavitch]

Sounds like, to me atleast, it might be an issue with your video card. I had similar issues with the original Mass Effect. The game did not like my video card at all (as it is a lap-top card).

Perhaps try "Run as Administrator" instead of safe mode. It worked for me and the problem sounds similar. Safe mode for running games is sort of useless.

 

[ShadowDude112]

Sounds like, to me atleast, it might be an issue with your video card. I had similar issues with the original Mass Effect. The game did not like my video card at all (as it is a lap-top card).

Perhaps try "Run as Administrator" instead of safe mode. It worked for me and the problem sounds similar. Safe mode for running games is sort of useless.

Well, it runs without safe mode now and my video card worked fine with my Battlefront 2 retail copy so I don't know why the Steam version isn't working. I restarted my computer and it still doesn't work. I don't think it's the graphics card. Also, sorry about the mix up, the game ran on Safe Mode when I put it on Steam a while back using my retail copy. My bad.

 

[ShadowDude112]

Well, first of all, make sure all your drivers for your videocard and everything are up to date.
Then, you might want to try verifying the cache in Steam. To do this, select the game in the Steam library, right click on it, go to properties, then Local Files, then "Verify integrity of game cache". If it's missing any files, it'll download them again. Finally, make sure Steam community in game is turned off.

If none of those work, then it's a slightly more complicated problem.

Dude, I restarted my CPU after updating the processor and I verified the game cache and everything is fine, I disabled steam community in the game and it's still fucked up.

Nevermind! This is what was up: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=914670