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Black/Grey Screen when I go to crosshairs
« on: 31-05-2009, 13:05:52 »
Is this a bug or intended? If so how can I fix this? Thanks :)

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Re: Black/Grey Screen when I go to crosshairs
« Reply #1 on: 31-05-2009, 14:05:01 »
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Note that the easiest way to try to fix the Wavy Black and White Ironsights bug is to go into My Documents>Battlefield2>cache and delete the stuff in there (it has a weird name made of random numbers and letters).  The game will recreate it when you load it up and it might fix the bug and you won't have to try the fix in that thread and/or reinstall.

Also, make sure you are playing through the FH2.exe and not BF2.exe.
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Re: Black/Grey Screen when I go to crosshairs
« Reply #2 on: 31-05-2009, 14:05:30 »
Thank you sir.  ;D What do you mean playing through FH2 not BF2?

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Re: Black/Grey Screen when I go to crosshairs
« Reply #3 on: 31-05-2009, 14:05:01 »
Thank you sir.  ;D What do you mean playing through FH2 not BF2?
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Re: Black/Grey Screen when I go to crosshairs
« Reply #4 on: 31-05-2009, 14:05:01 »
Thank you sir.  ;D What do you mean playing through FH2 not BF2?
Running your game always through FH2.exe if you go to play FH2

Fixed that, but still no luck with the shaders.

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Re: Black/Grey Screen when I go to crosshairs
« Reply #5 on: 31-05-2009, 15:05:23 »
Did you do as was  said above?
"go into My Documents>Battlefield2>cache and delete the stuff in there"

And what version of BF2 are you running and on which OS?
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Re: Black/Grey Screen when I go to crosshairs
« Reply #6 on: 31-05-2009, 15:05:21 »
If nothing works what they say -> uninstall FH2.15 -> go to c:\program files\ea games\battlefield 2\mods and delete FH2. -> re-install FH2.15.

Note: if you have problems with FH2 often, save it when downloading. I re-install it quite often.
Another note: if this doesn't work do a clean install of BF2 and then FH2. Google for a step by step clean install for BF2.
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Re: Black/Grey Screen when I go to crosshairs
« Reply #7 on: 01-06-2009, 02:06:59 »
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Note that the easiest way to try to fix the Wavy Black and White Ironsights bug is to go into My Documents>Battlefield2>cache and delete the stuff in there (it has a weird name made of random numbers and letters).  The game will recreate it when you load it up and it might fix the bug and you won't have to try the fix in that thread and/or reinstall.

Also, make sure you are playing through the FH2.exe and not BF2.exe.

You seem to love quoting my posts that I make to help people, N24.

Thank you sir.  ;D What do you mean playing through FH2 not BF2?

Anyway, since no one answered this question (fully), I'll give it a go:

A certain patch of BF2 made it impossible for mods to use different graphics shaders in the game.  To remedy this, the FH2 devs made the FH2.exe, which switches around some files before launching the game, thus allowing them to use their own shaders and improving the quality of their work.  If you play FH2 from the "Community" tab in BF2, those files never get moved, and can result in some bugs (including wavy black and white iron sights, as well as psychedelic sandbags and bland camo nets). 

Always play FH2 through the FH2.exe that it came with.  If you lost it, it should be in Program Files>EA Games>Battlefield 2.  It's an application (sized 64 Kb) called FH2, and it's icon is the FH2 logo.  Create a shortcut of it on your desktop and play FH2 through that.

If you deleted the shader cache (the thing noted in N24Reporter's first post) and play through the FH2.exe, but the problem persists, you can either try reinstalling, or you can give us some more info (which OS you use [XP, Vista, etc], which version of BF2, etc) and we can try to help without you having to reinstall.
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Re: Black/Grey Screen when I go to crosshairs
« Reply #8 on: 01-06-2009, 07:06:47 »
You seem to love quoting my posts that I make to help people, N24.

There is an old saying here: "Why invent the wheel a second time?"
And instead of posting a "USE THE FUCKING SEARCH" I wanted to be nice this time. :D
And you gave a  good answer. Cudos
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Re: Black/Grey Screen when I go to crosshairs
« Reply #9 on: 10-06-2009, 13:06:41 »
Best way to fix this bug is reinstall

Like almost every problem with BF2 :)