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Kampfzentrum
07-27-2009, 12:58 AM
Alright, I'm trying to launch my favorite game Battlefield 2, however, as I start it the splash screen comes up, I get a blink, and it crashes to desktop. I cannot figure out what this is so I have these 2 errors in the Event Viewer:


Event ID: 9010
A request to disable the Desktop Window Manager was made by process (BF2.exe)

Event ID: 9013
The Desktop Window Manager was unable to start because composition was disabled by a running application

Can anyone make anything of this? Could my graphics card (ATI CCC) have anything to do with this?

Please help!
sciencewis1
07-27-2009, 04:45 AM
What OS are you running, do you have any antivirus or other maleware programs installed? It could be that an antimaleware program is preventing the program from starting up otherwise you may consider re-installing the program. I hope this helps.
haapy
07-27-2009, 05:05 AM
I do not think it is an ATI issue.

Desktop Window Manager is a Vista thing.

Seems like Battle Field 2 is trying to disable DWM.

Have you checked with BF2 to see if it Vista compatible?
sciencewis1
07-27-2009, 09:44 PM
Haapy is right, also there may be an issue with BF2 and DEP (Data Execution Prevention) which prevents games and other programs from using system resources. You may have to disable it for that program (BF2).
Kampfzentrum
07-28-2009, 04:33 AM
Well, now that I got your attention. Here's the whole story. I'm running Vista x64 and learned from a few threads - months ago - that BF2 had to run with a +60 refresh rate. After repeated crashing and tinkering, I finally got BF2 on Vista to work from toying with ATI's CCC.

However, recently I installed SolidWorks on my computer and tinkered around with CCC to get it working good. What happened? BF2 ceased to work. So BF2 is Vista compatible, but there are some issues. I want to say it is in the graphics card software/drivers, but the error codes are saying different.

I hope this can shed some more light.
haapy
07-28-2009, 05:14 AM
If that is the case, do you have the latest ATI drivers?
Kampfzentrum
07-28-2009, 09:46 PM
Yeah, I do. Wow, I never knew this problem was this serious. I really cannot get a solution from anyone about this. I hate to chalk it up as a loss, but it seems to be going south - I'm on 5 other forums asking for this solution and this was the best I got.

I think maybe I'm going to have to run a 2nd OS (XP) and play my games off of that - it seems more stable.