Need at least 3000mb for patching?

[theguy]

I just downloaded the new patch, and when I try to install it, I get the error message saying I need at least 3000mb to install. My BF2 is installed on my D drive which has 16gb free, but my C drive has only around 1.3gb. How can I get this thing working? Thanks!

[Gunny Highway]

Re: Need at least 3000mb for patching?

You need to have 3 GB free on the dir that has your TEMP folder and where Windows is installed .


Try this: open cmd.exe in Run Menu, type:

SET TEMP=D:\TEMP
SET TMP=D:\TEMP

and try again. Maybe create the TEMP folders on D: first, but probably not needed.

Else free up some harddrive space on your C: drive.

Remember that your Desktop is part of C: so clean that up if you use it for your primary storage location

[theguy]

Re: Need at least 3000mb for patching?

Hey thanks, but I'm still having trouble. I tried running those commands in cmd.exe, but nothing is happening. Do I run those commands one at a time? BTW I am running WinXP Home.

[Smiley_ie]

Re: Need at least 3000mb for patching?

I had 2.8 free on c: and this worked.
1:Turn of system restore.
2 Turn of Virtual memory - Reboot + rember your settings
3:Install patch.
4 Turn back on system restore / Virtual memory - Reboot
5:All done

[Gunny Highway]

Re: Need at least 3000mb for patching?

Hey thanks, but I'm still having trouble. I tried running those commands in cmd.exe, but nothing is happening. Do I run those commands one at a time? BTW I am running WinXP Home.

Yes one at a time and press ENTER after each.

After typing them try SET TEMP and it will show you D:\TEMP if you did it right.

If it doesn't work then just free up some harddrive space from C:

[fungi]

Re: Need at least 3000mb for patching?

Yes one at a time and press ENTER after each.

After typing them try SET TEMP and it will show you D:\TEMP if you did it right.

If it doesn't work then just free up some harddrive space from C:

Setting a new temp directory doesn't work just like before. I'm in the same boat with only 2GB free on my C: drive, 10GB free on D: where BF2 is. Problem for me is my C: drive is already very peeled down with nothing but windows on it ... not even the pagefile.sys.

Before I was able to free up enough space but now it seems like they want even more.

[theguy]

Re: Need at least 3000mb for patching?

Ok this is bad. I just uninstalled MOHAA from my C drive getting me past the 3gb free mark on my C drive. But the thing still says I don't have 3000mb...

I don't know if this is related, but when I try to defrag my D drive, it gives me this error message:

Disk Defragmenter has detected that Chkdsk is scheduled to run on the volume: (D:), Please run Chkdsk /f


So okay...I run cmd.exe again and I run Chkdsk /f and it tells me there that the volume is in use by another process. I'm assuming that this is normal because I remember chkdsk always telling me to restart and run it then on bootup.

But I reboot (without running CHKdsk) and I'm still unable to install the patch. Whats up with this?

[JarEme]

Re: Need at least 3000mb for patching?

My friend's C: partition isn't even 3 GB in total size. Does he have any hope?

[shift]

Re: Need at least 3000mb for patching?

theres another thread about this
http://www.totalbf2.com/forums/showthread.php?t=42242
but nobody there has any solutions either. Someone could come up with a way to trick the Patcher to recognize another drive as the root drive for the game.
What i dont understand is why does it have to be specificaly the C drive. ****ing EA/DICE
I also have no way of clearing up 3 gigs on my system drive.

[BlueVoodoo]

Re: Need at least 3000mb for patching?

ok i freed (sp?) some space on my c: and i now have 3.12 gigs in it, and the patch still gives me the same error message

[theguy]

Re: Need at least 3000mb for patching?

edit still working on it

[BlueVoodoo]

Re: Need at least 3000mb for patching?

I had 2.8 free on c: and this worked.
1:Turn of system restore.
2 Turn of Virtual memory - Reboot + rember your settings
3:Install patch.
4 Turn back on system restore / Virtual memory - Reboot
5:All done

Smiley_ie you rock, i tried this and it worked, now i can play some more bf2 , thanks

[)v(aD.Reaper]

Re: Need at least 3000mb for patching?

I have the solution for this -- However at the moment when I try to run BF2 i crash back to desktop so i have to double-check everything.

Its a manual process, but not too hard. I had to do it for 1.03 as well and it worked then. I will post a how-to shortly.

[)v(aD.Reaper]

Re: Need at least 3000mb for patching?

http://www.totalbf2.com/forums/showthread.php?t=42200

There is the answer.

[nedfu]

Re: Need at least 3000mb for patching?

Doesn't fix the "need 3gb of space" error. Setting all temp folders to a drive with enough space doesn't work either.

It's nice to know that EA/Dice only use the lamest beta testers who all use Dell computers with standard installations. Way to go you retards.