so i played a few hours on wolf tonight, game played great (my score sure didnt show that though)

then at the end of cobra,  i got the  punkbstrb  heartbeats thingy i read about.

im going to try to start fh2 again.  ill let you know how it turns out!

At what point does the black screen appear? After loggin in to a server or at the start of the game?

As soon as i double click the fh2 icon.

and i have to ctrl alt delete to get out of it.

when i do that bf2  is only using  50k or so of memory,   usually when its actually running and i check, bf2  is using 1000k + of memory,  its like bf2.exe just wont start up some times,  but then ill get like last night and it worked 2 times,  not back to back.   not sure why it would work sometimes, but not  others..  this is sooo strange!

tried again and all entry points to fh2 didnt work..  black screen

except the one inside the bf2 programs folder,  it crashed to desktop..

i agree it shouldnt make a difference which shortcut or icon i started fh2 from, but sometimes one will work, and the others dont..  lol


i tried the windowed mode, and it crashed to desktop,  report.

this is the line  -     "C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2\FH2.exe" +fullscreen 0

tried it again and it just does black screen,  but in windowed mode....

desktop is one,  start all programs fh2  is another starting point,  start recently used programs is another, and all the way inside the bf2 program folder is another fh2 starting point..

sorry if that confuses you.. i would love to only have to use the desktop one...  but if that doesnt work i move on to the other options 

yes xp sp3  i am admin,  there arent any other profiles or users...

xpsp3

so now just a few minutes since my playing fh2,   desktop fh2 - blackscreen

start all programs fh = black screen

start  recent programs list =  fh2 opened up,  got to multiplayer tab, but while servers were auto refreshing   it totally locked my computer up, had to restart....

Ah it seems that your vanilla shader cache is either corrupted or missing. You could reinstall BF2 from scratch (you don't need to restart the PC after every patch). Then start BF2 at least once, load a map till you're in game, then quit correctly and then start FH2.

Edit: That is at least what I read from the error log, but the black screen really hints at a firewall problem which is odd. The EA Masterservers are up and running again today, so the problem on that side should have gone by now. How up to date are your drivers?

First off thanks for helping me!!!

My drivers are up to date, had to redo them when i replaced mobo's...  twice....
I figured I didn't need to restart after every patch, but since the other 8 or 9 times I have uninstalled and reinstalled didn't work, I would try that.  when I uninstall I do it as complete as I can. bf2 uninstall,  then I do searches for the word bf2  and then the word fh2.  delete all the files it finds..  then do a registry cleaning..   one strange thing is that fh2 is never in my programs list in add/remove programs.. is that normal?  I thought it used to be in that list as well? It shows up when I click start programs,  but its never in the add/remove programs!?!

made sure fh2 and bf2 are on the windows firewall exceptions list...


found a way for bf2 to start up,  actually was online playing a round (hated it)   quit bf2 the correct way...


tried fh2,  and it made it all the way to multiplayer server screen and when i clicked to join, it dumped me back to desktop with bf2 crashed report or not to fh...

now it wont do anything but go to black screen  any of the paths to the games... icons etc...

bf2.exe gave exitcode: 00000001
bf2.exe gave exitcode: 0000002a
bf2.exe gave exitcode: c0000005
bf2.exe gave exitcode: 00000063

those are from the fh2 txt file, heres an example....

fh2.exe -- starting log
IsFirstInstance? Yes
MoveIntoPlace: executing task 'move aside vanilla shader cache'
Moving 'C:\Documents and Settings\KEVINOS\My Documents\Battlefield 2/cache' to 'C:\Documents and Settings\KEVINOS\My Documents\Battlefield 2/cache-vanilla'... Failed (2).
MoveIntoPlace: executing task 'move in fh2 cache'
Moving 'C:\Documents and Settings\KEVINOS\My Documents\Battlefield 2/cache-fh2' to 'C:\Documents and Settings\KEVINOS\My Documents\Battlefield 2/cache'... Failed (2).
MoveIntoPlace: executing task 'move aside mods/bf2 shader cache'
Moving 'C:\Documents and Settings\KEVINOS\My Documents\Battlefield 2/mods/bf2' to 'C:\Documents and Settings\KEVINOS\My Documents\Battlefield 2/mods/bf2.tmp'... Done (0).
MoveIntoPlace: executing task 'move in mods/fh2 shader cache'
Moving 'C:\Documents and Settings\KEVINOS\My Documents\Battlefield 2/mods/fh2' to 'C:\Documents and Settings\KEVINOS\My Documents\Battlefield 2/mods/bf2'... Done (0).
MoveIntoPlace: executing task 'move aside vanilla shaders'
Moving 'mods/bf2/shaders_client.zip' to 'mods/bf2/shaders_client.zip-vanilla'... Done (0).
MoveIntoPlace: executing task 'move in fh2 shaders'
Taking a backup of 'mods/fh2/shaders_client.zip' to 'mods/fh2/shaders_client.zip.backup'... Done (0).
Moving 'mods/fh2/shaders_client.zip' to 'mods/bf2/shaders_client.zip'... Done (0).
MoveIntoPlace: executing task 'move aside warning video'
Moving 'mods/fh2/movies/warning.bik' to 'mods/fh2/movies/warning.bik-disabled'... Done (0).
Starting profile processing...
Found a profile directory here: 'C:\Documents and Settings\KEVINOS\My Documents\Battlefield 2\Profiles\0001', processing...
Cleaning up any old FH2 controls in Vanilla controlmap: 'C:\Documents and Settings\KEVINOS\My Documents\Battlefield 2\Profiles\0001\Controls.con'...
Moving 'C:\Documents and Settings\KEVINOS\My Documents\Battlefield 2\Profiles\0001\Controls.con.tmp' to 'C:\Documents and Settings\KEVINOS\My Documents\Battlefield 2\Profiles\0001\Controls.con'... Done (0).
Moving 'C:\Documents and Settings\KEVINOS\My Documents\Battlefield 2\Profiles\0001\Controls.con' to 'C:\Documents and Settings\KEVINOS\My Documents\Battlefield 2\Profiles\0001\Controls.bf2'... Done (0).
Moving 'C:\Documents and Settings\KEVINOS\My Documents\Battlefield 2\Profiles\0001\Controls.fh2' to 'C:\Documents and Settings\KEVINOS\My Documents\Battlefield 2\Profiles\0001\Controls.con'... Done (0).
Execing 'bf2.exe +modPath mods/fh2 '
Waiting...
bf2.exe finished. Clearing up...
bf2.exe gave exitcode: 00000001