and now my problems have just begun.
I thought it would be easier to just buy the game booster pack in stores because I'd heard so much about people paying for the game and never getting the EA downloader to work right. So here I am with EuroForce and Armored Fury all conveniently on one DVD disc. I brought it home, downloaded it, and EA asked for my verification code and in-game profile name. Okay, that part was easy.
After all the paperwork, EA's web site says to just pop in the original BF2 CD and start playing.
I put the CD in and my CD rom starts spinning. And spinning. . . And . . . Spinning. . . It sounds like a gas-powered lawn-trimmer on crack-cocaine.
(Still spinning). (I go to make some coffee, check the weather, sew a sweater).
Still . . . spinning.
Anyway, when I come back, I figure that EA games has destroyed my CD rom, which I wasn't ruling out, because I couldn't even force it to stop spinning. I had to hold down the power button to shut off the computer because nothing responded (but the CDrom was spinning like a fat stripper on greased pole). I reboot, and to experiment with something else, I put in my sister's copy of Sims 2 (which I admit to playing, sometimes :)) It does the same thing - spins and spins but never seems to initiate any kind of auto play or even open the program by me going to "my computer" and clicking on the CD drive. Okay, so I've had various programs interefere with my drives before. In fact, I'm almost used to having programs help themselves to off-limit areas of my computer's registry. (Easy CD-creator killed my last CDROM by adding nasty junk into the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} key of my registry, which is associated with CDroms and DVDroms of computers). So I fix this by deleting the upper and lower filters from from the said registry entry and rebooting. Success as I expected. I have my CDrom and DVDre-writer drives back and functional. So, I delete BF2 from my computer and try a complete reinstall.
This is the problem I'm stuck on now. The install process gets to the map files (blah something Dalian Plant.zip file) and ERROR. "Battlefield 2 installation failed, try again from the beginning."
Have you ever seen that card that says "Want to know how to keep an idiot busy? Flip this card." And on the opposite side of the card, it says the same thing. Well, this isn't any different. After trying about four or five times and getting the error at the same point of the installation process, I figured that I was wasting my time. I've narrowed down my problems to either (1) there are some very very small traces of BF2 still on my computer which are disrupting a fresh installation of the game, and/or (2) EA has found a sleazy way to get $20 bucks from me. (And more than that if you consider that my $40 base-copy of BF2 is now worthless and incompatible with my computer.) This was a great game IMO, but I had to try my luck with the booster pack, and now I can't even play any of it. Sorry for the long post. Any help is appreciated.
Sys.SPecs
Hewlett Packard pavillion 763n
2.53GHZ P4
2 GB Ram
256MB ati Radeon 9550
Windows XP
200GB HD
I thought it would be easier to just buy the game booster pack in stores because I'd heard so much about people paying for the game and never getting the EA downloader to work right. So here I am with EuroForce and Armored Fury all conveniently on one DVD disc. I brought it home, downloaded it, and EA asked for my verification code and in-game profile name. Okay, that part was easy.
After all the paperwork, EA's web site says to just pop in the original BF2 CD and start playing.
I put the CD in and my CD rom starts spinning. And spinning. . . And . . . Spinning. . . It sounds like a gas-powered lawn-trimmer on crack-cocaine.
(Still spinning). (I go to make some coffee, check the weather, sew a sweater).
Still . . . spinning.
Anyway, when I come back, I figure that EA games has destroyed my CD rom, which I wasn't ruling out, because I couldn't even force it to stop spinning. I had to hold down the power button to shut off the computer because nothing responded (but the CDrom was spinning like a fat stripper on greased pole). I reboot, and to experiment with something else, I put in my sister's copy of Sims 2 (which I admit to playing, sometimes :)) It does the same thing - spins and spins but never seems to initiate any kind of auto play or even open the program by me going to "my computer" and clicking on the CD drive. Okay, so I've had various programs interefere with my drives before. In fact, I'm almost used to having programs help themselves to off-limit areas of my computer's registry. (Easy CD-creator killed my last CDROM by adding nasty junk into the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} key of my registry, which is associated with CDroms and DVDroms of computers). So I fix this by deleting the upper and lower filters from from the said registry entry and rebooting. Success as I expected. I have my CDrom and DVDre-writer drives back and functional. So, I delete BF2 from my computer and try a complete reinstall.
This is the problem I'm stuck on now. The install process gets to the map files (blah something Dalian Plant.zip file) and ERROR. "Battlefield 2 installation failed, try again from the beginning."
Have you ever seen that card that says "Want to know how to keep an idiot busy? Flip this card." And on the opposite side of the card, it says the same thing. Well, this isn't any different. After trying about four or five times and getting the error at the same point of the installation process, I figured that I was wasting my time. I've narrowed down my problems to either (1) there are some very very small traces of BF2 still on my computer which are disrupting a fresh installation of the game, and/or (2) EA has found a sleazy way to get $20 bucks from me. (And more than that if you consider that my $40 base-copy of BF2 is now worthless and incompatible with my computer.) This was a great game IMO, but I had to try my luck with the booster pack, and now I can't even play any of it. Sorry for the long post. Any help is appreciated.
Sys.SPecs
Hewlett Packard pavillion 763n
2.53GHZ P4
2 GB Ram
256MB ati Radeon 9550
Windows XP
200GB HD
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