battlefield 2 running vista beta 2

Since it is pretty much the only game I play, I can fully explore and test out the rest of Vista for office, media and art projects and not have any real issues. But I need to know if the one game I play is going to work?

Quote from http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1968998,00.asp
"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."

Since it is pretty much the only game I play, I can fully explore and test out the rest of Vista for office, media and art projects and not have any real issues. But I need to know if the one game I play is going to work?

It runs, but with a huge performance drop.
slightly longer map loading, lagging ingame, inability to now use Fraps to make videos, shutting down the game takes you to desktop and about 15 seconds of music! It was like this before i doubled my initial 1gig of ram, so a step backwards for now.
"Gamer" wrote:

Quote from http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1968998,00.asp
"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."
Since it is pretty much the only game I play, I can fully explore and test out the rest of Vista for office, media and art projects and not have any real issues. But I need to know if the one game I play is going to work?

For some reason, that option is greyed out..
"Gamer" wrote in message

Quote from http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1968998,00.asp
"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."
Since it is pretty much the only game I play, I can fully explore and test out the rest of Vista for office, media and art projects and not have any real issues. But I need to know if the one game I play is going to work?

I've got a problem with Real Bad screen Flicker when updating Server List. I have not resolved it yet. Good luck
"Tim D" wrote:

Since it is pretty much the only game I play, I can fully explore and test out the rest of Vista for office, media and art projects and not have any real issues. But I need to know if the one game I play is going to work?

Battlefield will run OK - Finally. I had to reinstall twice but it finally started working Great!! It now runs at least as fast as in XP Run Battelfield as Admininistrator Don't run as XP This worked for me. Vista build 5384, ATI X1900XTX, 2GB Ram

"Tim D" wrote:

Since it is pretty much the only game I play, I can fully explore and test out the rest of Vista for office, media and art projects and not have any real issues. But I need to know if the one game I play is going to work?

Mine is greyed out too. Cant figure out how to change that
"_mark" wrote:

For some reason, that option is greyed out..
"Gamer" wrote in message Quote from http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1968998,00.asp
"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."
Since it is pretty much the only game I play, I can fully explore and test out the rest of Vista for office, media and art projects and not have any real issues. But I need to know if the one game I play is going to work?

Mine is too. Cant figur out how to change that
"_mark" wrote:

For some reason, that option is greyed out..
"Gamer" wrote in message Quote from http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1968998,00.asp
"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."
Since it is pretty much the only game I play, I can fully explore and test out the rest of Vista for office, media and art projects and not have any real issues. But I need to know if the one game I play is going to work?