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?

Are you accedently running SWBFII in safe mode?

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....

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.

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.

Oh. I've always wondered what was so "Safe" about it. Thanks!

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.

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?

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.

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...

[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.