I used to play a lot of the 1942 SW mod, and now I've got high hopes to give this one a go. Vista Ultimate 64-bit, AMD Phenom II X4, GTX285, 4gb ram, etc. Yet, after updating all my drivers, disabling UAC, running it as admin anyway, checked widescreen, trying the affinity trick but I can't figure out how to set the affinity for bf2142.exe and firststrike.exe (tried through the task manager and the code but I wasn't exactly sure about it). Still always crashing right after the flicker to black before the game would load. claiming a renddx9.dll fault. first time installing bf2142 or FS on this machine, but bf2142 ran fine before FS and still runs fine now, just through FS it doesn't work.

Here's my dxdiag hope we can get this thing running :]
http://www.filedropper.com/dxdiag