Windows Error when starting BFBC2

[commando47]

i played the game fine yesterday.it stopped working after a while,giving windows error saying it stopped working.i restarted my computer and it worked.today after school i played fine,closed the game and took a break.at around 7 o clock i tried playing again and it gave windows error.i restarted my computer and it didnt fix it.tried to run the game alone without steam,didnt work.changed my DXVersion to 9 in settings.ini(In documents),didnt fix.

Anyone got a solution to this?i would really appreciate it

[Jarppi]

well, what does the eror says (picture of somting?)

[Koen]

Yeah and also, there was server maintenance yesterday.

[Raener]

Not sure what the problem is. Could be various things. But you should Google the error that pops up. That usually can help a lot.

You should also update your video card drivers to the latest available. Also, if you're with Nvidia, get the beta drivers. I read somewhere they give a FPS boost in-game of BFBC2.

[commando47]

Joey,the error says "EA: Battlefield Bad Company 2-BETA has stopped working.Windows will notify you when a solution is available."then theres only the close Program option available.
Koen,even after the server maintenance it didn't work.i know this because i luckily i was able to launch the game after the maintenance and at the bottom there was no more posts about maintenance on tuesday.
I googled the problem and found a really long thread about BFBC2 bug.someone else had this problem and he posted a screenshot of it.one person said to change the DXVersion to 9 in Settings.ini and run BFBC2 standalone(without steam running). That worked the first time,second time(which was yesterday) i tried it didn't work

[commando47]

Also,im running Windows Vista,12GB RAM DDR3,Nvidia Geforce GTX285 graphic card.
sorry if this is a double post,please delete if it is.

[Jarppi]

i got gtx295 beated!!!!

but, just re-install the game if you dont find issues!

[commando47]

i tried all of the solutions above BEFORE i even posted here.
any other solutions? pweeeese?

[commando47]

Surprise of all surprises,i came home today and i was able to start the game with steam off,no admin privileges.I just kept it open.then the power went out X_X...when it came back on i turned the computer on and did the same thing and it worked! this might be the solution,even though sometimes it doesnt work,but thats the only thing i got.

[Koen]

Oh well could be a beta-only bug too