Posted September 20, 200816 yr Gentlemen, from what i gather "why i cant rejoin" thread this has occurred to others.... Problem= PR just won't start up. Description= i click on PR icon and it goes to the black screen, the next thing should be the "blacksandsstudio" logo but this does not appear. nothing happens in fact. so i just control-alt-delete. IA drill= restarted computer result; reinstalled PR core and levels from dl; and reinstalled battlefield 2= all to no avail, no change, PR still won't start up. I was playing like 5 hrs ago, and now this!!!! What i might have done= i tried deleting a whole lot of crap there is a i see running from the task manager under "processes" i tried taking a screenie using fraps but this wont work so im unable to show exactly what was on it. Im aware that there are important processes running here!! An AVG virus screen shows a file named "NT user.dat" that is locked...looks mighty suss to me. i cant delete this folder or nothing, just says "being used by another program/user." What is wrong? anyone got any ideas?
September 20, 200816 yr exactly what happend to me i re installed like 3 times then i installed a 4th could play the fresh unpatched bf2 then patched it and it was doing exact same thing.. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
September 20, 200816 yr An AVG virus screen shows a file named "NT user.dat" that is locked...looks mighty suss to me. i cant delete this folder or nothing, just says "being used by another program/user." What is wrong? anyone got any ideas? I would suggest that you leave any NTUSER.DAT files alone as they are absolutely essential. NTUSER.DAT files are the HKEY_CURRENT_USER hive for the registry. One NTUSER.DAT for each user on the machine, some templates and repair. C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator C:\Documents and Settings\Default User C:\Documents and Settings\LocalService C:\Documents and Settings\NetworkService C:\Documents and Settings\Your Name Here\NTUSER.DAT So how do you become an expert suicide bomber? teabagging is for kids .... Real Men "Potato Sack".
September 20, 200816 yr Author exactly what happend to me i re installed like 3 times then i installed a 4th could play the fresh unpatched bf2 then patched it and it was doing exact same thing.. so what should a man do? no PR means an angry little person. btw, bf2 vanilla wasnt working either, same symptoms. thanks, i will leave the nt file untouched but could u explain A) why it suddenly appeared under my doc folder, and B) why it was saying it was being used when clearly, bf2 was not running.
September 20, 200816 yr you have installed the bf2 1.41 patch after installing everything else haven't you? There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die. http://bigdgaming.net/images/added/awards/goodconduct.bmp http://bigdgaming.net/images/added/awards/valorousunit.bmp http://bigdgaming.net/images/added/awards/riflemanspecialist.bmp http://bigdgaming.net/images/added/awards/infantryofficer.bmp http://bigdgaming.net/images/added/awards/bullettime.bmp reportplayers@bigdgaming.net
September 20, 200816 yr this started happening to me today too... so it's not just you - I tried a few different things... it's a strange coincidence for this specific problem to hit us both at the same time, I feel... and I found that if you wait for a few minutes the black sands logo finally pops up... which is silly... and I usually CTRL-ALT-DEL'ed it too.. soo I dunno... I will try again now and report back later EDIT: a few minutes later - it takes two minutes for the Black sand logo to appear... Very Strange... just started this evening... wasn't happening earlier today "When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite." - Winston Churchill
September 20, 200816 yr you guys know you can also disable the startup vids if you want to, not hard. Just go into your Battlefield 2 folder, navigate through this path: C:\Program Files\EA Games\Battlefield 2\mods\pr\movies there in this folder you can rename the extension on the file to disable the movie playing on startup. For example rename bss_intro.bik and pr_intro.bik with the .bak extension (can be anything really). Might not fix your problem but it is usefull nonetheless. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
September 20, 200816 yr you guys know you can also disable the startup vids if you want to, not hard. im getting the same random long pause black screen aswell takes several minutes for it to get past, i have my start up vids disabled already so its nothing to do with that. an easier way to get rid of the vids is to add "+restart" to the command line part of your PR shortcut http://img534.imageshack.us/img534/6989/25156655.jpg
September 20, 200816 yr Is it similar to this? http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=1039307&p=28#r547 http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee94/psyrus_uraya/awards-1.png QFT: Your computer is smart man. It tells you not to play the second worst PR map [burning Sands] (first is Wanda Shan). QFT: if you dont get pissed off when you lose you dont care enough
September 20, 200816 yr oops Edited September 20, 200816 yr by Sapper28 http://i783.photobucket.com/albums/yy116/IINoddyII/aux1_zpsab5224fd.png
September 20, 200816 yr this started happening to me today too... so it's not just you - I tried a few different things... it's a strange coincidence for this specific problem to hit us both at the same time, I feel... and I found that if you wait for a few minutes the black sands logo finally pops up... which is silly... and I usually CTRL-ALT-DEL'ed it too.. soo I dunno... I will try again now and report back later EDIT: a few minutes later - it takes two minutes for the Black sand logo to appear... Very Strange... just started this evening... wasn't happening earlier today happening to me to , takes about a minute or so for the blacksands to kick off ? , normally comes up straight away . but it does come up . [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
September 20, 200816 yr Yeah I though mine had frozen but as I waited and was about to tab out the blacksand's came through, surely theres no server connection checks or anything that early? So why the pause all of a sudden and if everyones getting it seems like EA at work http://matt.itsthemadhouse.com/na/sigs/na-sig-gruanch5.png http://bigdgaming.net/images/added/awards/bulletmagnet.bmp http://bigdgaming.net/images/added/awards/gren.bmp http://bigdgaming.net/images/added/awards/ocrs.bmp http://bigdgaming.net/images/added/awards/opagamaserv.jpg
September 21, 200816 yr http://www.realitymod.com/forum/f27-pr-help-hardware-support/46532-failure-start.html seams like it could be something like that, maybe it asks a certain IP for the master list servers IP or something at that stage and its just not responding http://img534.imageshack.us/img534/6989/25156655.jpg
September 21, 200816 yr thanks, i will leave the nt file untouched but could u explain A) why it suddenly appeared under my doc folder, and B) why it was saying it was being used when clearly, bf2 was not running. A. Maybe you accidentally dragged it there, "while deleting a whole lot of crap" B. NTUSER.DAT is locked and being used while YOU are logged in or using the computer. It has nothing directly to do with the BF2 executable. If you login to your machine as another user (administrator for example) after a reboot, then it won't be locked and you can delete it or copy it. DO NOT DELETE IT! If you do you will loose all your registry settings and the next time you login (if you can) you will have nothing... Edited September 21, 200816 yr by Shtarker So how do you become an expert suicide bomber? teabagging is for kids .... Real Men "Potato Sack".
September 21, 200816 yr Author A. Maybe you accidentally dragged it there, "while deleting a whole lot of crap" B. NTUSER.DAT is locked and being used while YOU are logged in or using the computer. It has nothing directly to do with the BF2 executable. If you login to your machine as another user (administrator for example) after a reboot, then it won't be locked and you can delete it or copy it. DO NOT DELETE IT! If you do you will loose all your registry settings and the next time you login (if you can) you will have nothing... fella thanks so much for the info. ill be on track anytime soon i think, glad it isnt a virus and not just something im experiencing. again, thanks heaps for the tips, these forums really can be helpful...and a great way to procrastinate on. ta.
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