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Video Settings
Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2009 7:05 pm
by Fiodis
Upon starting any map, I look at my video settings: all as low as possible.
That's not exactly what I want, so I set them to as high as possible, and it works perfectly: no crashes, no lag, etc.
Then I close BF2, or even just move on to the next map in the cycle, and the settings are all reset. How can I fix this so I can avoid having to reset them each time I start a map?
Re: Video Settings
Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2009 7:08 pm
by mswf
Are you accedently running SWBFII in safe mode?
Re: Video Settings
Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2009 7:23 pm
by Fiodis
I always run SWBF2 in safe mode, so I'm not troubled about the CD. I have the disc around here somewhere, if I need it to change settings....
Re: Video Settings
Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 5:21 pm
by MercuryNoodles
That's the problem. Safe mode is a minimum setting mode utilized to prevent potential problems caused by using settings that your system can't handle, more or less.
Re: Video Settings
Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 5:34 pm
by mswf
Indeed, I had been running SWBFII accidently running in safe made for some time as well, it took me some time to figure out the cause of the graphic changes.
Re: Video Settings
Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 9:35 pm
by Fiodis
Oh. I've always wondered what was so "Safe" about it. Thanks!
Re: Video Settings
Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 11:31 pm
by obiboba3po
yup i had this problem for a while. whenever you run safemode as everyone just explained it automatically starts off on lowest settings for everything no matter what they were on last session.
Re: Video Settings
Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 12:34 am
by sk8erkid6485
I wonder if any video settings need to be adjusted for my problem. For me, when I play maps such as alderaan, bespin escape, ect. - the ground is way to bright, its almost like white and when I look back at the screen shots on the threads of whatever site I got them from, thats not what they look like at all. Yes, lightbloom is set to off and my screen isnt even set that bright. Anybody know what else I can do?
Re: Video Settings
Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 8:33 pm
by myers73
fiodis, you can run it without the disk using battlefrontII.exe instead in BFIILaunch.exe, you can even map xfire to run it that way. I havent used the CD in a few years and play everyday.
Re: Video Settings
Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 7:57 pm
by [RDH]Zerted
myers73 wrote:...run it without the disk using battlefrontII.exe...
It depends on your battlefrontII.exe version if it will ask for the CD/DVD or not. There are at least 3 different versions of the v1.1 exe...
Re: Video Settings
Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 10:57 pm
by RogueKnight
[RDH]Zerted wrote:myers73 wrote:...run it without the disk using battlefrontII.exe...
It depends on your battlefrontII.exe version if it will ask for the CD/DVD or not. There are at least 3 different versions of the v1.1 exe...
My "research" shows that anyone with a CD version that comes patched to 1.1 can run with xfire without the CD.