DCF and windows 7

[fluffy]

Is there something special I have to do to run DC with windows 7. I had my hard drive crap out on me and upgraded to windows 7. Everytime I go to install DCF is says "this programs might not have installed correctly"...

HELP lol

[fluffy]

ok...now i got it to install and load the game...Then PB just kicks me...WTF

[fluffy]

ok now it wont work at all....I want my windows xp back lol

can anyone tell me how to get this game to work with windows 7....??

Thanks

[Trench]

Hmm, I don't remember special settings during the installation itself.

Once installed, definitely running BF1942.EXE itself is best done by right-clicking BF1942.EXE and on the "Compatibility" tab select "Windows XP SP3" and "Run as Administrator" (although I think "as Administrator" is redundant when you already said XP). So that every time you launch BF1942.EXE it will run under those settings.

Note you definitely want to do the "XP SP3" and "as Administrator" part before you start trying to configure your controls profile, video.con and such. Battlefield is old enough that it assumes it can write to the Program Files directory, which isn't going to be true in Windows 7 until you enable the compatibility stuff.

Maybe someone else will remember anything special during install, but I thought that part went straight forward.

-Trench

[Nightstalker]

Trench nailed it for Win 7 as for PB... Since this is a fresh install do not forget to update your PB and check the enable PB box in the multiplayer screen.

[opus]

What they said.. ^^

[BoOn]

If PB still kicks you after updating it and running your game in "admin" mode , look in your PB folder located here "C:\Program Files (x86)\EA Games\Battlefield 1942\pb\Windows\System32" (Im on 64bit). Inside that folder you will see two files named "PnkBstrA" and "PnkBstrB" , right click and change the permissions to run as "admin" . Im not familiar with Windows 7 but I know that sometimes on XP or Vista you needed to do that in order for PB to run.

[watapus]

my solution to this problem is to buy bf3

[fluffy]

thanks guys...I will give it another try....

[Trench]

I think it was also assumed you're already using everything that is listed here: http://www.ea117dcfanfavorites.com/view ... =62&t=1655

Specifically with regard to the TanksPBUpdate, to work around the fact Battlefield 1942 isn't actually supported by PB any more. Not having installed in a while, if you used only the PB that got installed by the game itself, that could relate to the "working, but now PB kicks me".

-Trench

[fluffy]

ok reinstalled everything. Launch game and it gets to the ingame menu and then it force closes...I get a "bf1942 stopped working blah blah blah"....

I did everything mentioned in this thread except editing punkbuster files...Ran the tankdudes updater thing...

Still no worky...

[Nightstalker]

Try setting your target to go directly to the EA117 server.

Here .. from the mouth of Specialist....

Try this:

Make a shortcut from your battlefield1942.exe on your desktop. Right click, properties. In the 'target box' add this:

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"C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 1942\BF1942.exe" +restart 1 +game "mod type" +joinServer "server IP address:14567"

To make a direct link to the EA 117 server, it should look exactly like this:

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"C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 1942\BF1942.exe" +restart 1 +game DesertCombat +joinServer 8.12.64.130:14567

Let me know if it works.

[C'mon Son]

I'm running Windows 7 with DC and didn't have any real issues. I was getting booted after playing a while or map changes then all I did was set to run program as XP.....

[Trench]

ok reinstalled everything. Launch game and it gets to the ingame menu and then it force closes...I get a "bf1942 stopped working blah blah blah"....

Something sounds vaguely familiar about seeing a crash upon reaching the main menu, but I think that was while I was playing with different video.con settings trying to get the best widescreen experience. Random guess could also be to update video drivers from whatever Windows delivered to whatever your manufacturer has as latest.

Something I realized hadn't been specifically acknowledged but you probably already took care of anyway is that the Windows firewall would need to be told traffic from the Battlefield and PunkBuster programs is to be permitted. Windows /should/ end up putting up one of those "would you like to permit" prompts to add the exception to the firewall rules, though as I recall its something that pops up "in the background" and you don't see it until after you exit Battlefield.

Are you using Windows 7 64-bit or 32-bit? In the System control panel applet (same place you see your "Windows Experience Index" rating) it will tell you 32-bit or 64-bit operating system. I have an aternate machine just for testing that I can go through a re-install on just to make sure nothing else comes to mind, but I would want to do it on the same version of Windows 7 you're using.

There is only a small chance of it being truly helpful, but if nothing else is working out I would be happy to stop by and see if we can convince Windows to show us what exactly the program is crashing in. Since we don't have source code or debugging symbols for any of the game, a definitive conclusion is somewhat unlikely. But it's possible that the crash could point us to something external to the program that we could fix, remove, or at least throw empty beer cans at.

-Trench

[fluffy]

I am running the 32bit version...all my drivers are from the nvida, creative and so forth..Not using windows drivers...

I have once again just uninstalled everything...Gonna try it again...This is the last way i did everyting..

Installed 1942...

installed 1.6 patch..

installed 1.6 to 1.61b patch..

installed .7

installed DCF..

went to the bf1942 exe file and changed the comp to run with win xp sp 2, xp sp3, even tried win 98. set to run as admin...

ran the tankdudes PB update...


when I double click on the desktop bf1942 quick launch icon windows stops me and ask permission...It did not do that the first time I tried this...I have no idea what I am doing lol....

[BoOn]

Its asking you for permission because your now running the game in admin mode.

[fluffy]

well i have installed it once again...Now this time i get a error i guess after the DCF install...Says something like this might not have installed correctly...I think i am going to retire from DC lol....

[fluffy]

ok...So if I let it load to the ingame menu and not touch the mouse it will just sit there...Soon as I move the mouse over anything it force closes...WTF>>>!!!SS#$##@$$@#$

[C'mon Son]

I had the same error when I did my install but continued anyway.

[fluffy]

Trench i have some beer calling your name lol...I cant figure it out lol....

[Trench]

That's cool; I sent you a PM here on the forums with my contact info. This weekend happens to work well for me, if you happen to be available either of those days.

-Trench

[fluffy]

replied...

[fluffy]

ok this is driving me nuts...If i use xfire to load the game...It will load the game and load the map on the ea server...If i just sit there it stays running...As soon as I move the move the mouse over the ready button it crashes...I even just hit enter rather than using the mouse at the ready button and it still crashes..WTF..!

[Trench]

Pretty damn bizarre. I hope it lets us see where the crash is occurring once we get a debugger on it. If you run EVENTVWR.EXE and under "Windows Logs" look at the "Application" event list, does it show an "application terminated unexpectedly"-type event for BF1942.EXE? If it does, maybe there is some more configuration I could have you do to upload a process dump of the BF1942.EXE process from whatever kind of crash is going on.

There are several types of crashes that Windows Error Reporting (WER) won't get a shot at reporting, so if you don't see anything that seems to correlate to when BF1942.EXE crashed, don't sweat it.

-Trench

[fluffy]

I ran the evenvwr and it does show stuff for BF...I have no idea what Im doing with this or how to really use it..But here is some of the info it shows for BF.....


Faulting application name: BF1942.exe, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x417564c4
Faulting module name: BF1942.exe, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x417564c4
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x003fbeb2
Faulting process id: 0xbac
Faulting application start time: 0x01cdbadddb0e4f74
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 1942\BF1942.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 1942\BF1942.exe
Report Id: 23d02338-26d1-11e2-808e-00226bbdcc0e