BF2 and BF2142 Yellow Texture Bug Fix

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007 at 1309

A common problem experienced by 8800 owners in BF2 is that if they have their lighting and shaders set to “high” or “medium”, after a short while they get the dreaded Yellow Texture Bug, where things appear in flat yellow, then it gets worse and worse until it looks like a bad accident at the Birds factory, then the game will crash.

Turns out the same fix that sorts out the OS Page Pool Memory error in TF2 also alleviates the problem with BF2. Looks like the yellow textures might be proxies for when the game can’t pull the required textures out of swap fast enough. Or something…

Anyhow, the fix works as follows (The following was scoured off a TF2 help thread)

First load regedit. Remeber to back up your registry first, I take NO responsibility for any damage you may cause at all. Ever.

Start Menu > Run > regedit

Head down to this branch:
HKEY\_LOCAL\_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Session Manager\Memory Management

Then find this key on the right hand side: REG_DWORD “PagedPoolSize”

Double click on “PagedPoolSize”. Hexadecimal is listed first.
Change the “Value Data” to one of these below:
Note: You only need to enter EITHER Hexadecimal or Decimal.

Code:

Megabytes Hexadecimal Decimal
192Mb 0c000000 201326592
256Mb 10000000 268435456
384Mb 18000000 402653184

As I’ve got 4gb of system memory, I set mine to 384mb and left it at that. Apparently it’s not wise to go above 400mb, though I’m unsure of the technical implications.

If this doesn’t work for you, try the 169.04 beta drivers from Nvidia, as I’m running those also. Now to find out if this fixes the Jinx in Bioshock…

Update:
Yes, indeed this also fixed the high-detail-shader issue on Bioshock. Whoo-hoo!

5 Comment for “BF2 and BF2142 Yellow Texture Bug Fix”

  1. FREEN Said this on

    First of all thanks for the fix, not sure why but the registry entry is slightly different to the addres you specified, none the less I managed to find it! i realy hope this works, its not only bf2 and 2142 it happens on its also civilisation IV and also UT3 is bugging about alot lots of simarla Black flat textures and ultimatly a grinding halt followed by a hard reset!

    I will love you forever if this fixes my problem ! ! 😀

    peace

  2. ENGLAND Said this on

    i will love u 2

  3. FREEN Said this on

    !!!!!! THANKYOU ! ! ! ! ! this fixed my problem completly. to date i’v had not a single glitch or graphic bug in any of the games i specified above! im realy pleased and thanks again!!!!

  4. weird shaders? - Project Reality Forums Said this on

    […] weird shaders? Well there is some nvidia issues that I’ve heasrd of like this, try Google "nvidia bf2 yellow", but if its not that sounds like a video card that at the end of its […]

  5. weird shaders? - Project Reality Forums Said this on

    […] weird shaders? Well there is some nvidia issues that I’ve heard of like this, try Google "nvidia bf2 yellow", but if its not that sounds like a video card that at the end of its […]

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