CoD2 on Vista

[Romeo]

greetingz,

i got myself a Windows Vista Business OS today (via MSDN, no warez ofc), started installing stuff and i'm getting the hang of things, but i cant run CoD2.
i have installed the ATI 32bit vista drivers for my Sapphire X1800XT 256, got the 1.3 patch, updated PB with pbsetup, but after the splachscreen i just get a black screen.

anyone has a solution for this problem? i searched the net for arcticles i found some saying cod2 should run without any problem

rig: P4 3.0GHz Prescott, 2x512 Kingmax 533 rams, Intel D945PVS mobo, the vga above, 350W psu, 200GB Samsung SATA2

tia

*just found out SP works

[Romeo]

since i cant edit the post above, i'll just make a new post feel free to merge them.

got a crude workaround, i set up the multi exe to be ran in winxp compatibility mode, plus run as administrator (so pb doesnt kick me for O/S privileges).

hmm yesterday i had to apply the run as admin, but today it runs without it, maybe its magic, or xfire has some tricks or the updates which came for vista today had some fix in them

[freeman152s]

i hav a problem the console says this:

CoD2 1.0 build win-x86 Oct 6 2005
----- FS_Startup -----
Current language: english
Current search path:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Activision\Call of Duty 2\main\iw_14.iwd (4038 files)
C:\Program Files (x86)\Activision\Call of Duty 2\main\iw_13.iwd (22624 files)
C:\Program Files (x86)\Activision\Call of Duty 2\main\iw_12.iwd (1016 files)
C:\Program Files (x86)\Activision\Call of Duty 2\main\iw_11.iwd (1462 files)
C:\Program Files (x86)\Activision\Call of Duty 2\main\iw_10.iwd (1936 files)
C:\Program Files (x86)\Activision\Call of Duty 2\main\iw_09.iwd (2142 files)
C:\Program Files (x86)\Activision\Call of Duty 2\main\iw_08.iwd (2723 files)
C:\Program Files (x86)\Activision\Call of Duty 2\main\iw_07.iwd (3384 files)
C:\Program Files (x86)\Activision\Call of Duty 2\main\iw_06.iwd (990 files)
C:\Program Files (x86)\Activision\Call of Duty 2\main\iw_05.iwd (928 files)
C:\Program Files (x86)\Activision\Call of Duty 2\main\iw_04.iwd (698 files)
C:\Program Files (x86)\Activision\Call of Duty 2\main\iw_03.iwd (26 files)
C:\Program Files (x86)\Activision\Call of Duty 2\main\iw_02.iwd (40 files)
C:\Program Files (x86)\Activision\Call of Duty 2\main\iw_01.iwd (16 files)
C:\Program Files (x86)\Activision\Call of Duty 2\main\iw_00.iwd (102 files)
C:\Program Files (x86)\Activision\Call of Duty 2/main
C:\Program Files (x86)\Activision\Call of Duty 2/raw
C:\Program Files (x86)\Activision\Call of Duty 2/raw_shared
C:\Program Files (x86)\Activision\Call of Duty 2/devraw
C:\Program Files (x86)\Activision\Call of Duty 2/devraw_shared
C:\Program Files (x86)\Activision\Call of Duty 2\main\localized_english_iw10.iwd (414 files)
localized assets iwd file for english
C:\Program Files (x86)\Activision\Call of Duty 2\main\localized_english_iw09.iwd (98 files)
localized assets iwd file for english
C:\Program Files (x86)\Activision\Call of Duty 2\main\localized_english_iw08.iwd (8 files)
localized assets iwd file for english
C:\Program Files (x86)\Activision\Call of Duty 2\main\localized_english_iw07.iwd (1014 files)
localized assets iwd file for english
C:\Program Files (x86)\Activision\Call of Duty 2\main\localized_english_iw06.iwd (3110 files)
localized assets iwd file for english
C:\Program Files (x86)\Activision\Call of Duty 2\main\localized_english_iw05.iwd (5310 files)
localized assets iwd file for english
C:\Program Files (x86)\Activision\Call of Duty 2\main\localized_english_iw04.iwd (6240 files)
localized assets iwd file for english
C:\Program Files (x86)\Activision\Call of Duty 2\main\localized_english_iw03.iwd (6580 files)
localized assets iwd file for english
C:\Program Files (x86)\Activision\Call of Duty 2\main\localized_english_iw02.iwd (6404 files)
localized assets iwd file for english
C:\Program Files (x86)\Activision\Call of Duty 2\main\localized_english_iw01.iwd (5510 files)
localized assets iwd file for english
C:\Program Files (x86)\Activision\Call of Duty 2\main\localized_english_iw00.iwd (4764 files)
localized assets iwd file for english

File Handles:
----------------------
81577 files in iwd files
execing default.cfg
couldn't exec language.cfg
========= autoconfigure
configure.csv: using CPU configuration 2 GHz 512 MB
execing configure.cfg
configure.csv: using GPU configuration "Radeon"
Measured CPU speed is 2.66 GHz
System memory is 1024 MB (capped at 1 GB)
Video card is "ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570"
Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE) supported

----- Client Initialization -----
----- Initializing Renderer ----
-------------------------------
----- Client Initialization Complete -----
----- R_Init -----
Getting Direct3D 9 interface...
Pixel shader version is 3.0
Vertex shader version is 3.0
Direct3D 7 code path is available.
Direct3D 9 code path is available.
Using Direct3D 9 code path because it is the best available path on this hardware.
Attempting 1024 x 768 fullscreen with 32 bpp at 60 hz
Game window successfully created.
Creating Direct3D device...
Com_TouchMemory: 0 msec. Using sum: 0
Initializing render targets...
Requested frame buffer to be 24-bit color with 8-bit alpha
DirectX returned a frame buffer that is 24-bit color with 8-bit alpha
Initializing static model cache...
Initializing dynamic buffers...
Initializing particle cloud buffer...
Creating Direct3D queries...
Setting initial state...
DirectX reports 2048 MB of video memory and 2228 MB of available texture memory.
Using video memory size to cap used texture memory at 2032 MB.
Texture detail is set automatically.
Using picmip 0 on most textures, 0 on normal maps, and 0 on specular maps
Error during initialization:
Create2DTexture( devfonts, 256, 256, 0, 894720068 ) failed: 8876086c = Invalid call

what do i do???