BF1942 skip load screen (works for Desert Combat too)

Reaper

The following steps will eliminite the intro/credits screens when running BF1942 or Desert Combat. I haven't tested with SWoWW2 or RtR yet but assume it works as well.

1. Right click your game shortcut and click Properties. Make sure the "Shortcut" tab is selected.

2. Append to the end of the Target: field a space and then:
+restart 1

As an example, my Desert Combat shortcut looks like this:
"C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 1942\BF1942.exe" +game DesertCombat +restart 1

3. Click OK.

Repeat for each game shortcut you've got.

Randle · Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 11:31 am Post subject: Intro screens?

Do you mean when you start the game, or when loading levels? I've noticed that Desert Combat seems to take forever when loading levels and joining servers; any way to speed THAT up?

Reaper · Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 11:42 am Post subject:

I'm talking about the inital cutscenes and crap that show before you get to the ingame menu, when you start the game up. If you want to load levels quick, get fast hard drives, and 768MB - 1GB of fast RAM, and make sure your AGP aperture size is set correctly.

twodavez

What a great game, we were playing this at the mini lan i had over thanksgiving, i forgot how much i loved the maps!
This might be a good old school game to bring back from time to time!

Reaper

Yeah, FWG played it for YEARS before we started doing CoD4 and ETQW. At one point I had tried to make a program to auto-install everything because we ran so many mods and mods of mods that installation was complex. I'd be up for playing it once or twice at some point, though. That is if the game doesn't explode on modern PC's... it was written by EA after all. Very Happy

Black_Death

Since I only played this at LANs, I never got sick of it like a lot of people did, so I'd be up for it...now finding all the discs and downloading mods to get it installed on the other hand...how's that custom installer coming? Smile

jjsky5000 · Mr. Twitchy Fingers Joined: Dec 31, 1969 Posts: 189

Twodave has a copy,paste and play edition. I thought it worked great

PacoBedejo · Mr. Twitchy Fingers Joined: Dec 31, 1969 Posts: 792

jjsky5000 wrote:

Twodave has a copy,paste and play edition. I thought it worked great

Does that include the expansions & Desert Combat mod?

twodavez

Yeah is has the desert combat mod, but i'm not sure what expansion there is, i'd assume it has it on there. I can share it with whoever is going to be at the LAN Tomorrow. It's a classic that shouldn't die!
It also works very good on new pc's no problems except for a few of the maps freeze up. but it's a flukey thing...

Randle

I have original discs for plain 1942.

Reaper

twodavez wrote:

Yeah is has the desert combat mod, but i'm not sure what expansion there is, i'd assume it has it on there. I can share it with whoever is going to be at the LAN Tomorrow. It's a classic that shouldn't die!
It also works very good on new pc's no problems except for a few of the maps freeze up. but it's a flukey thing...

We had it lock up on certain maps as well. For a while Paco had the "no play" list memorized.