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I use the following shortcuts for BF2 and BF2 Special Forces:
"C:Program FilesEA GAMESBattlefield 2BF2.exe" +menu 1 +fullscreen 1 +szx 1680 +szy 1050

"C:Program FilesEA GAMESBattlefield 2BF2.exe" +menu 1 +fullscreen 1 +modPath mods/xpack +ignoreAsserts 1 +szx 1680 +szy 1050
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Try renaming all your video.con files (there should be two of them) and see if all is well. If that works, start restoring your old settings and see if all stays OK. You may get to some setting that is causing the poor behaviour.

Roy

I was running 1680 x 1050 before I installed the patch and it continued to run fine after installing, with no additional edits required. Both of my video.con files (see locations in above post) currently have the same thing in them.

VideoSettings.setTerrainQuality 1
VideoSettings ...

I'm running 1.41 at 1680 x 1050 and all is fine. You could try renaming the .con files (both of them) to something like .conOld and see if it will start (simulating a first time startup?).

I don't think it's your resolution. I've been running 1680 x 1050 with no problems. If you post the exact message, someone might be able to help more.

Roy

So... still no fix? The one above doesn't work with the 1.41 patch, sadly.

-xav.
I first added the size tags to the shortcut I use, as others have discussed, as follows:

"C:Program FilesEA GAMESBattlefield 2BF2.exe" +menu 1 +fullscreen 1 +szx 1680 +szy 1050 ...