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Herodarrion
5 years ago

Battlefield 1942, 2, and 2142 Create two black windows and crash. Help?

I know that nobody plays these games anymore, but I love collecting the entirety of franchises new and old. The recent collection I've been porting over to my new laptop is the Battlefield franchise, and I love BF so I was eager to get this one running again. However, the games simply create a couple black windows and crash. However, Battlefield Vietnam runs perfectly. I've tried going into video.con files and changing the resolution and making it windowed mode and such and it still doesn't work. I tried patched .exes and I have directplay installed and all my overlays I.E Discord, Geforce, and Game bar are all disabled and there is no luck. I have the exact same copies on my other Pc and they work perfectly. I've tried completely clean installs and still the same problems arise. If this helps at all I have a HP Gaming Pavilion - 15

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  • emile44's avatar
    emile44
    5 years ago

    Did you fully patch up Battlefield 1942 including the game spy patch ?
    what is the lowest resolution your laptop supports ?
    bf1942 requires a monitor that supports at least 800 by 600

  • Herodarrion's avatar
    Herodarrion
    5 years ago

    Yes, everything is patched. The lowest my monitor seems to go is 1024 x 768. 

  • emile44's avatar
    emile44
    5 years ago

    well then that is the actual problem because Battlefield 1942 requires 800 by 600
    to be supported by the display monitor.
    a workaround would be to connect your laptop to a TV which supports that resolution or a monitor

  • Herodarrion's avatar
    Herodarrion
    5 years ago

    Am I able to change the display in the game itself, so I can use my laptop monitor or would I have to plug in a new monitor each time? 

  • emile44's avatar
    emile44
    5 years ago

    I'm afraid that won't help because the main menu still requires 800 by 600 despite the hd fix that is included in the gamespy patch which actually allows the game to run in full HD or 4K resolution. the main menu will still stay in 800 by 600.

    by the way the hd fix made  fhsw  look gorgeous in 4k
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpDMLK05G1Y

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