Battlefield 2142 crashes

I just built new pc for gaming, when I start bf2142 I can go as far as the graphics options menu and thats good but if I even click to change my audio it crashes. If I dont touch any options it will load map and as soon as the game start crash. All new hardware... graphics card is a 8800gts, im running vista basic right now. I have downloaded all the newest drivers for everthing. This is pretty much the reason I wanted a new pc to play this and crysis. I dont know what to do, I fished around and changed my screen resolution so that it matched my native resolution and that didnt work as well. Is this a driver issue or something on EA's end? Oblivion runs perfect and so does wow.

 

Vista apparently has siginificant issues with some games. I visit this other forum regularly, it may be of some help:
http://www.totalbf2142.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5198

That link will take you to the Vista-related thread. Hope it helps!

 

Hehe. Vista is released and the flood gates of gamers having issues opens. What a shock.

 

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