First bug in 1.03

[Ind1go]

If you download the patch and try to install it with less than 1.6GB free space on your C: drive it's impossible to install it. Even if you copy it to another drive with stacks of space, such as that people may use for games & data etc., it still doesn't work.

Still, after moving a gig of pr0n it's all sorted now :)

[rombaft]

Re: First bug in 1.03

that is not a bug, was the same story for the 1.02 patch .
Seems they just need lots of swapping for patching.

and wich moron has less then 1.6gig left on his hard disc ??????

[Harmor]

Re: First bug in 1.03

If you download the patch and try to install it with less than 1.6GB free space on your C: drive it's impossible to install it. Even if you copy it to another drive with stacks of space, such as that people may use for games & data etc., it still doesn't work.

Still, after moving a gig of pr0n it's all sorted now :)

You don't have 1.6 Gigs free? Stop downloading porn and music files or upgrade to a larger hard drive - they are CHEAP:

Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 ST3250823AS 250GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache Serial ATA150 Hard Drive - OEM for $111.00

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148065

[imported_Ivanhoe76]

Re: First bug in 1.03

Still, after moving a gig of pr0n it's all sorted now :)

That is a lot of pr0n.

[HellzxFluffyBunny]

Re: First bug in 1.03

And that was all just jpegs! Ba-dum-bump!

[{sr}MajorMishap]

Re: First bug in 1.03

:shakehead

[rombaft]

Re: First bug in 1.03

my god

[wbcninjaofmist]

Re: First bug in 1.03

im curious as to how many gigs of "used" space you have there on that hd...?

[F[a]CE]

Re: First bug in 1.03

hey, pc newbies -- most intelligent users keep their OS drive as small as possible, so if a service pack ruins your install or something else goes horribly wrong, its an easy and painless (no huge dataloss) operation to fix said drive.

as opposed to your dumb asses reformatting 120gb of personal files.

with that said, there was a resolution posted in another thread which i will now summarize:

-go to your %TMP% directory
-copy the directory that is created after running the patch executable, it will be some gibberish like {4386934-3468934-34689304-43638946},
copy it to a drive with enough free space (1600+mb)
-get to the bottommost directory, it should contain patch.exe and some other files
-execute patch.exe "x:\wherever\battlefield 2\" , replacing the quoted path with your real one

all should be well, unless you get that invalid CD-Key error...

[Ind1go]

Re: First bug in 1.03

I'm not short of space. I keep about 5 or 6 gig free on my main C: drive for windows and most of that has gone. Page file on another drive. Most other stuff on another drive.

The pr0n was somewhat tongue in cheek, I can see the humour (not humor ) isn't lost...

[Drevor]

Re: First bug in 1.03

alrighty .. just to drop some more information ... at NO POINT during the 1.02->1.03 update does the patcher take up more than 400MB discspace. I have no idea what the EA/dice ladies where thinking when they hardcoded 1.6GB and drive C: But there is quite a number of people who drop their games on a extra partition and/or seperate the user profiles/temp dirs from the system.

[jerin222]

Re: First bug in 1.03

I really don't think that is as bug.

[Drevor]

Re: First bug in 1.03

Its a design flaw ... which is ... well ... a stupid mistake. A bug would be something that wasnt meant to be this way. But this one is just plain stupid.

[imported_DwarfVader]

Re: First bug in 1.03

Some of us don't set our windows partition as all of our hard drive like morons.

My Windows partition was only 2 gigs, and contained ONLY windows, nothing else. The rest of my 300 gigs was partitioned out, but the install requires you to have 1.6 gigs on the same partition as windows.

it screwed me too, had to redo some partition stuff to fix it. And it was a pain in the ass.