The Black Flash

Though Im sure most everyone has herd of this problem before, I will continue to post it everywhere until this problem is solved. When I double click my BF2 the screen flashes black a few times and Im back at my desktop. Thats it. I have an ATI Radeon PRO 128mb. I have installed not only the latest 5.6 Catalyst driver, but a few others including the 2 previously released Catalyst drivers. I meet the mininum requirments for this game no prob, and noones going to tell me this game doesnt support my video card, because I know someone who has the exact same one and he plays fine. Ive messed with every configuration file I can, and have been to every forum around, and though there have been numurous suggestions, none have been able to solve my problem. I beg of someone to help me, I NEED to play this game.

are you using a downloaded game or no?

Sounds like you are launching from the infamous No-CD executable. Try re-installing the game from the source DVD/CD-ROM.