Forgotten Hope for Battlefield 1942 on Windows Vista

[pvt. Allen]

Originally Posted by runcorn92

Its okay now folks i managed to fix my problem. All i did was run BF1942 as an administrator

Good to know.
Could some moderator edit my original post then? It appears that afterall running the game as an administrator might be nececary in some cases (I didn't have that problem although I left the setting disabled).

Originally Posted by Eatlead

does anyone know how to fix the no crossair problem with fh on vista? the video card is a nvidia geforce 6150le integreted

Yes, make sure that your drivers are up to date. From what I've heared, such bugs used to occure some months ago, but it was sorted out by now.

[pvt. Allen]

After participating in latest hslan Map Pack 6 evening I found a couple more problems. I'm quite sure they're very common, I just didn't encounter them before as infact this was my real first time longer FH gameplay experience on Vista. Okay, this is what I encountered:

Punkbuster failing to auto-update
After several minutes Punkbuster decides to kick you because it failed to auto-update. After you leave the server it provides you with a link to its website, where you can learn on the methoods of updating it manualy. I have chosen the PBSetup, described as the easiest way. It worked for me.

Once Punkbuster was updated, it will require you to grant administrative privilages to BF1942.exe described in the first post. Ofcoruse it's only required for Punkbuster-enabled servers.

This has been tested with Forgotten Hope 0.7 + Forgotten Hope Official Fan Map Pack 6 installed on Battlefield 1942 v. 1.61b running on the most recent version of Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit version with up to date hardware drivers.

1. Go to PunkBuster Online Countermeasures.
2. Choose whichever way of manual updating you see fit.

Game dissconnecting you from the server during map-change
Game appears to disconnect you from the server you're playing on each time it finalizes the map-change process and lets you load it on the client-side.

This has been tested with Forgotten Hope 0.7 + Forgotten Hope Official Fan Map Pack 6 installed on Battlefield 1942 v. 1.61b running on the most recent version of Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit version with up to date hardware drivers.

I have no idea how to fix this. The best solution I can advise is to leave the server immediately after a round (if it's followed by a map-change) ends, and keep refreshing the server browser untill you see that a new map is played on the server, and join back.

[Bowie69]

Have you tried making the punkbuster executable 'run as administrator'?

[pvt. Allen]

1. Punkbuster doesn't seem to cause this crash.
2. Punkbuster doesn't have an executable.



As I was saying, it will require you to grant administrative privilages to the BF1942.exe once it was updated, or else it'll just kick you out of the server second after you join, explaining that you need administrator rights. That's all the privilages it seems to need.

[MrsT]

Thanks for the informative post pvt. Allen.

Unfortunatly FH still won't work under VISTA (latest drivers, under or not under administrator, ANY compability mode) for myself, a few friends and others on this site.

Since it works fine under 42 (not fine really, we get the same crash now and then at the start of a new map, but at least it's playable) it's a specifik problem for FH.

Haven't heard anything about this in a while... any solution out there or should we just wait for FH2 or install an older OS?

I'm running a Intel quad 6600, Asus P5k, Geforce 8800 GS 320mb and 2gb RAM.

Edit: Vista home premium 64

[pvt. Allen]

I recently switched to a Dx10 card but I didn't try FH with it yet. So far the described executable settings worked for me, so I didn't realy search for any new sollutions to these problems.
As for FH2, I still didn't get around to testing it with the new hardware, but there's small chance that some kind of a Vista-incompatibility exists for it too. I experienced some unnice freezes and lag with highest texture settings on my old graphics card, if it persists with my new one (GeForce 8800 Ultra) it means there's some serious problem there. Hard to tell werther it might be FH2's issue or Bf2's engine incompatibility.

[Lodian05]

So I've been having that same problem, I'm running windows vista 64-bit with an 8800gtx and it crashed every time a map loaded...but here's what I've done thats helped, but it may not work for everyone. I first uninstalled all bf1942 and FH. Then fresh install of BF 1942 followed right after that with the 1.61 patch (NOT THE 1.61b) and started bf42, played a single player map then exited and installed FH .70 1, 2, and 3 just like normal. loaded up played a single player map, then quit. after all those installs I then went and installed 1.61b patch! I can now play FH online!!!!!!!!!!!!! so to recap: BF1942---1.61 Patch---Forgotten Hope v.7---1.61b Patch. good luck

[vanhelsing]

Well I finally got my FH to work except my mouse and keybord aren't working at all any ideas why? I have all updates for Vista 32 bit

[Strokes]

Ok i've got a fix, it worked for me (64 bit premium 8800GTS) but possibly not for you:
Turn lightmaps off and run in 98 compat mode.
runs fine apart from when you hit escape it crashes

[Kev4000]

Any more tips for running 1600x1200 in 98/ME compatibillity mode? I am desperate for a solution.