BF2 Waits At Splash Screen FOREVER - Copy Protection?

[thekangas]

Hello everyone,

I recently picked up BF2 and am anxious to play. However, sometimes when I attempt to launch the program I encounter a fairly major problem.

The splash screen for BF2 will load in a small window on my desktop, and processes BF2.exe and ~e5.0001 both launch (I see this in the Task Manager). My CD-ROM drive begins to spin up wildly. Then nothing happens. The BF2 logo sits in a window, and the resolution never changes for game launch.

During this period of time I can't eject my CD-ROM drive, Windows loses the ability to launch new processes (but anything that is currently open still works fine), and ending the BF2/~e5 processes from the Task Manager has no effect.

A few minutes later a message comes up saying that BF2 has crashed, and my system returns to normal.

I do have Daemon Tools installed on my system, but I am using the actual game CD in my actual CD drive. This problem only occurs about 1/2 of the time. I have run the game a few times and enjoyed myself, and it runs great on my machine once it actually launches.

I have read a few similar posts to this, but haven't seen any advice that works in my case.

Please advise!

[bitvomit]

Re: BF2 Waits At Splash Screen FOREVER - Copy Protection?

This could be the culprit. The moment the black screen pops up is about the time when BF2 checks the validity of your CD. Try to explore your CD drive. It will probably freeze up explorer and force you to kill it. It could be that your CD is borked or your drive is. Open up BF2 and get the game to hang again while taking note of the time. Right click on My Computer, goto Manage, then expand the + by Event viewer and check the logs for System and Application. You may have some errors listed pertaining to your cdrom drive. This happened to me awhile back but it was not as bad as it is for you. More random than anything. I had to junk my LITE-ON POS and buy a superior NEC CD/DVD combo drive.

Just posted this in another thread.