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I purchased Battlefield Bad Company 2 for the PC and was eager to play some online multiplayer warfare. I pop open the DVD drive and load it onto my Gamer Laptop PC.

The specs of the Gaming Laptop -
Intel Core 2 Duo DUAL CORE
512MB nVidia GeForce 7950GTX PCI-Express Video
3gb DDR2 Ram
160gb 7200 rpm HD
Built-in Intel® PRO/Wireless 4965 802.11 a/g/n
Internal 7-in-1 Card Reader (MS/MS Pro/MS Duo/MS Pro Duo/SD/Mini-SD/MMC/RS)

After an hour of loading and online update it said play now! Woot Woot lets go! The game launches and everything loads to the menu screen, now time for some multiplayer action! Five minutes later loading the server list I click join. Then the game crashed to desktop or white screen, Big WTF! OK lets try single player mode, WTF that crashed to desktop too. So I go into settings change video to LOW settings with no luck it still crashes to desktop. Next I updated my video drives and audio drivers BFBC2 still crashed or freezes. Looking on my desktop there was no Battlefield Bad Company 2 icon or anything at all in the Start, Programs menu. Thinking that was odd i deleted and reinstalled BFBC2. Still no icons and not working.

Searching online I found some fixes that i thought might work.
1. Run as admin (did not work)
2. Go to Documents, BFBC2 Folder, find settings, click it, find “dxversion=” change it to dxversion=9 (or 10) (did not work)
3. Disable your virus scanner and re-install Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (did not work)

The FIX
I had this same kinda of problem installing Battlefield 2 and never got it to install with widows vista. Looking in my disk collection I found a copy of Windows XP Media Center. So i thought F*** it, I Backed Up my Gamer Laptop HD and deleted everything. I put the Windows XP cd in and installed it then updated all drivers next re-installed Battlefield Bad Company 2. Now on the desktop I see an BFBC2 icon, WooT WooT! Clicked the icon and the game started, single player and multiplayer work fine now.

So if you are running Windows Vista and cant play BFBC2 try loading up Windows XP and you will be Happy!