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HolidayHouston Oct 7, 2015 @ 6:24pm
Battlefield 2 wont run on windows 10 (Resolved)
Any help on the windows 10 battlefield 2 probelm. When I start the game its just a black screen
Last edited by HolidayHouston; Apr 4, 2017 @ 2:52pm
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Mr. G Oct 7, 2015 @ 7:09pm 
Have you tried running it on compatibility mode?
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anonym0 Oct 8, 2015 @ 4:01pm 
It went black here as well, but started after a minute or two. Have you left it on or just force closed it after some time?
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HolidayHouston Oct 8, 2015 @ 4:57pm 
I forced closed it, I will try to let it load, and yes I ran it in compatibilty mode
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Tony Ford Oct 9, 2015 @ 4:57am 
It works on 10 you just have to wait a while for it to load up. Mine goes black too but if you wait it will load up. My only problem is I cant play online, but I know its possible because I have found lists of servers, just no way to login or connect to them.
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Ank Oct 9, 2015 @ 10:48am 
Works fine without problem on mine. Windows 10 Home. Must be problem on your end. Maybe you just need to wait, Battlefield 2 is quite old.
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Cloud Oct 10, 2015 @ 2:48am 
there not supossed to be selling this game it needs freaking windows xp
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Moderator Abuse Oct 10, 2015 @ 10:45am 
Add Dns directly to your NETWORK Adapter settings in Windows 10
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luggi Jun 6, 2016 @ 4:00am 
Originally posted by AWFordJr:
It works on 10 you just have to wait a while for it to load up. Mine goes black too but if you wait it will load up. My only problem is I cant play online, but I know its possible because I have found lists of servers, just no way to login or connect to them.

Originally posted by wikipedia:
On June 30, 2014, EA shut down the online play functionality, citing low player counts. The game can still be played online by using one of these providers: GameRanger (via official endorsement by EA) or community solutions which offer stat-tracking and recovery (unlike GameRanger) such as Revive BF2 or BF2Hub.
I think also shutting down the gamespy service is one reason why they decided to shut down the online play functionality.
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Mr. G Jun 6, 2016 @ 6:49am 
Originally posted by Stahlhelmine:
Originally posted by AWFordJr:
It works on 10 you just have to wait a while for it to load up. Mine goes black too but if you wait it will load up. My only problem is I cant play online, but I know its possible because I have found lists of servers, just no way to login or connect to them.

Originally posted by wikipedia:
On June 30, 2014, EA shut down the online play functionality, citing low player counts. The game can still be played online by using one of these providers: GameRanger (via official endorsement by EA) or community solutions which offer stat-tracking and recovery (unlike GameRanger) such as Revive BF2 or BF2Hub.
I think also shutting down the gamespy service is one reason why they decided to shut down the online play functionality.


Umm, why are you grave digging?
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Coffeecup Jun 6, 2016 @ 10:08am 
I use the Steam version of BF2 on Windows 10, and play online on the biggest BF2 community network at: {LINK REMOVED}
If you search in the Battlelog.co forums, there are tons of threads and advice to enable to play BF2 on Windows 10. If you cant find your answer, just post in the forums and the mods and community are very proactive and helpful to help you fix your specific problem.

Background history to clear up some confusion in this thread:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=492227223

Snapshot of server list now running BF2 on Battlelog,co:
http://i.imgur.com/jCHAQaK.jpg?1
Last edited by Coffeecup; Jun 6, 2016 @ 10:12am
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Enco Aug 30, 2016 @ 2:05am 
Originally posted by CFESANDMAN37©:
Originally posted by anonym0:
It went black here as well, but started after a minute or two. Have you left it on or just force closed it after some time?
yea,it does that,screen is black long enough for one to panic then it starts right up,it works fine just takes a bit to fire up.
and if you get a error that you need directx 9.0?
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ddanjovi Aug 30, 2016 @ 7:10am 
If your still having issues, guranteed it will be direct X error, the game runs on Direct X 9 and I have had a black screen issue to desktop error on Windows 7 64 bit.
Best way is to look into a direct x fix, you do not need to install custom registries you need to get an older version of direct x, eventually you will get results. Hope this helps :)
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Hopper Sep 1, 2016 @ 9:59am 
Sometimes you just need to wait like up to 2 minutes for it to load.
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techienumber1 Apr 4, 2017 @ 3:18am 
Originally posted by Orange Sunshine:
Originally posted by anonym0:
It went black here as well, but started after a minute or two. Have you left it on or just force closed it after some time?
yea,it does that,screen is black long enough for one to panic then it starts right up,it works fine just takes a bit to fire up.
what version of windows 10 do you have unless you have 1607 the game will have some problems as the game correction detection in windows 10 in previous editions the auto correct isnt in windows 10 on the latest windows 10 1607 the auto correct is so anything before this version will have problems
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Coffeecup Apr 4, 2017 @ 6:43am 
I have Windows 10 version 1607 and the versions before as well before this, which worked nicely - lucky for me. There are a lot of discussions and different solutions you can try about black screen and othrr problems here:

You can post in these forums and someone may help you out or point you to some solved threads to try if it works for you (some of the solutions for BF2142 do work for BF2 as well):
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https://bl2142.co/post.php?id=30192&page=1
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