patching failed

[Drevor]

You got to love those whackheads (I think thats the right term) who created that patch. Not only does it insist on having 3GB free disk-space on your system partition - instead of the one where the temp directory or BF2 is located. It also fails 100% on my system. I reinstalled -PLAIN- BF2, no mods, no patches nothing. The patcher starts rumbling .. and after 1-2 minutes it says "Patching failed." Leaving me with a unuseable BF2 install which closes itself after a few seconds.
great work! WE LOVE YOU DIEACE

[ptegan]

Re: patching failed

Drevor, for the 1.03 patch you needed 2Gb. This time you need about 3.5Gb so nothing much has really changed. Besides that there's been a sticky on TotalBF2 letting people know since last week that we'd need at least 3Gb free on C:

If you do have 3.5Gb and still get the error then try turning off any antivirus and try the patch again. Also a defrag *could* help you too as the error is normally due to a md5 hash failing.

[Drevor]

Re: patching failed

yeah .. I figured that myself ... with the 5th try I disabled NortonAV auto protect and succeeded patching. NAV is a VERY unusual piece of software so EA doesnt really need to test their patcher vs that ... right?

btw: my vanialla BF2 install is less than 3 GB ... assuming that it creates a copy of each file while patching (which it doesnt) 3.5GB is still too much

[ptegan]

Re: patching failed

Your install is less than 3Gb because most of the files are compressed. The patch takes 500Mb zipped files, decompresses them, adds the new info and then recompresses.