Battlefield 1942

[esnetsc]

Hello, I am trying to play Battlefield 1942 on my Laptop
the loads the game, but when I try to play it it like crashes or just closes. It goes to a little black box and closes. Why? I have 512 MB Ram on and SP2, also it has Pentium 4 and not Celeron.

[TechZ]

What vga card? ANd did u apply all the latest patches?
XP SP2 has some problems with games
http://forums.windrivers.com/showthr...365#post507365

[esnetsc]

What vga card? ANd did u apply all the latest patches?
XP SP2 has some problems with games
http://forums.windrivers.com/showth...7365#post507365

* ATI M6-P
* 256-bit 3D and 2D graphics accelerator
* Support 64-bit DDR SDRAM
* ACPI compliant
* 16-MB DDRAM

[TechZ]

for one thing, that vga card would make the game crawl.

checked google and lots of probs with bf1942 on sp2, also read the minimum requirements for that game!

Here are the Minimum System Requirements for Battlefield 1942:

-Windows XP, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows 98 (Windows NT and Windows 95 are not supported)
-500 MHz Intel Pentium III or AMD Athlon processor
-128 MB RAM
-4x CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drive
-1.2 GB free hard disk space plus space for saved games, swap files and DirectX 8.0a installation
-32 MB Direct3D and Hardware Transform & Lighting capable video card using the NVIDIA GeForce4, NVIDIA GeForce3, NVIDIA GeForce2, NVIDIA GeForce 256, ATI Radeon 8500, ATI Radeon 7500, ATI Radeon, or Matrox Parhelia chipset with DirectX 8.1 compatible driver.
-DirectX 8.1 compatible sound card
-Keyboard
-Mouse

Recommended:
-800 MHz or faster Intel Pentium III or AMD Athlon processor
-256 MB or more RAM
-16x or faster CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drive
-64 MB or greater Direct3D and Hardware Transform & Lighting capable video card.