BF2 on Vista?

[Coolest-Tech]

Hello,

I'm planing on installing Vista, and would like to know if BF2 will run on it.

Cool_Guy

[Das Capitolin]

I couldn't get BF2 to work on my Vista installation. I have not spent much time on it though, since Vista hogs so much RAM it doesn't leave much for the game. Also, it would not improve BF2 performance, because it was not written in 64-bit code; instead it would use WOW32.

[dracos]

I tried installing a couple games on Vista and couldn't get any of them to work, got errors and such, one told me I had to have administrator privledges to run the game, even though I was the admin... dunno..

I'm happy I can get BF2 to run on Winxp64, most games will run fine on it, I've only run into a couple that won't

[werty316]

I don't think anyone could say a definite yes since Visita isn't even out yet. Since Vista can run DX9 why not?

[Kougar]

Sorry guys, but almost all the games work on Vista already! Will Vista Run Your Games? (http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1968995,00.asp)

Battlefield 2
We ran Battlefield 2 in both its native un-patched state and with the latest 1.3 patch, and both of them seemed to work just fine. There's one significant gotcha that crept up several times in our testing: Punkbuster. The Punkbuster anti-cheating code is a common part of many online games (particularly shooters), and it works by scanning game files to make sure they're not compromised. Most Battlefield 2 servers have Punkbuster enabled, and when we joined one, we got promptly kicked out of the game with a message saying Punkbuster failed due to "inadequate O/S privelages."


The solution is simple enough: right-click the BF2 icon, choose Properties, and then in the Compatibility tab check the box that says "Run this program as an administrator." After doing this, we encountered no problems joining any server.

[Victor]

i would suggest that you either stay at xp or do dual boot with vista. the game might run but the driver is definitely not up to the task. Not to mention that so far creative hasn't yet got a working driver for the beta 2.