Installing battlefield 2142 on vista

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Battlefield Error In vista. Search Join Now Login. Sort By. Notification Preferences. Forum Actions. The typical unknown windows API function error. I have tried different compatibility settings, disabled themes gone to the old windows theme , tried the PB Service login settings, but none of this has worked.

Any help with this will be greatly appreciated. Friday, January 23, PM. Saturday, January 24, AM. I was having the same problem. Sunday, January 25, PM. I've never tried those games. So, I don't know if it will work for them. I've tried this same method for Battlefield , and Battlefield 2.

Both those games still won't work. So, I don't know what is different with BF than the others. I'll continue testing, though. Monday, January 26, AM. Install game. Set shortcut if that's what you use to initialize the game to compatibility mode I used Vista Compatibility. Uninstall PB services. Download and install PB services. So far, I have played for 6 hours uninterrupted, and my friends have played for 10 and 14 hour uninterrupted by PB errors.

Runs fine after setting to "always run as admin". Vista drivers suck so far.. Slower than Xp by far. Nvidia might start losing gaming ground if they dont shape up.. Will load up and start but after a min. Punkbuster boots you out of game. Run game does run ok. Much lower frame rate, minor glitchs in graphics, seems like the Aero theme and possibly indexing cause some of the lower frame rate as turning these off stabilizes the game somewhat, went back to XP for gaming, use the dual boot system if you really want Vista now.

Turn it off!! Sometimes the system will begin to thrash and use swap regardless of swap size and settings. This causes mid-action freezes, and being dropped from the servers.