Battlefield 2142

Post by **Zerofactor** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 4:03 pm

Ok, this game is cool and all, I even purchased it the day it came out. Played it non-stop, had no problems. But now, now the problems are arising. It's gotten to the point where I can't even launch the damn game. I've tried almost everything too;

Re-installing; Registry Cleaning; Deleting and replacing the directory with a friend's game directory; I killed AVG Free; Updated Windows; Updated nVidia Drivers; Updated DirectX drivers; disabled all processes except for EA Link; etc etc etc

The only thing I haven't done is reformatted. I seriously despise reformatting. I'm posting this because I know there is at least one person out there in the world of Q3W Forums that probably knows what's going on, so I'd like to know why exactly the stupid freakin' thing won't launch at all.

Post by **4days** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 4:07 pm

reformat.

Post by **Foo** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 4:07 pm

express yourself

Post by **MKJ** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 4:29 pm

Post by **Zerofactor** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 4:36 pm

I assume DRM has something to do with reading the manual? I'm pretty damn sure EA didn't put anything about this in their game manual.

edit: And we all know how EA handles things.

Post by **SOAPboy** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 4:41 pm

Sucks to be you.

I didnt buy it. But then again, i refuse to support EA anymore.

Post by **The HavoX** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 4:50 pm

Zero, I remember you telling me at Leetforum you had a Koolance EXOS equipped to your rig. How's it holding up?

Other than that, I believe you might have no other choice but to reformat

Post by **Zerofactor** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 4:53 pm

The Koolance is still going strong, even broke it at one point and fixed it up with some PVC tubes from my local hardware store.

Post by **seremtan** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 5:17 pm

Zerofactor wrote:I assume DRM has something to do with reading the manual?

Post by **Zerofactor** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 5:19 pm

Ok so I'm not an abbreviation enthusiast.

Post by **HM-PuFFNSTuFF** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 5:28 pm

format or /kill

Post by **Doombrain** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 5:37 pm

Zerofactor wrote:I assume DRM has something to do with reading the manual? I'm pretty damn sure EA didn't put anything about this in their game manual.

edit: And we all know how EA handles things.

Post by **Cory** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 7:22 pm

Zerofactor wrote:Ok so I'm not an abbreviation enthusiast.

DRM is the anti-piracy software they have builtin to the game.
You may have something on your computer it doesnt like?

Post by **Zerofactor** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 7:26 pm

Well I said earlier that I bought the game, which was downloaded via EA Link software. So it's not that. I don't see why it would matter if other programs, completely unrelated to 2142, were 'bad'.

Post by **Doombrain** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 7:28 pm

Post by **Captain** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 7:36 pm

Draw yourself killing the game. Then kill yourself but post the drawing first.

Post by **Foo** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 7:39 pm

Zerofactor wrote:Well I said earlier that I bought the game, which was downloaded via EA Link software. So it's not that. I don't see why it would matter if other programs, completely unrelated to 2142, were 'bad'.

DRM (see the wikipedia entry here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Rights_Management) includes a lot of different technologies but one form of DRM involves checking your PC to determine if any program on the company's blacklist is present on your system, and halting the DRM-enabled software if it is. Examples of software that may be blacklisted are Daemon Tools and Alcohol (ISO image loading/ripping/secuROM emulators).

This may be directly relevant, even though it's quite old copy: http://www.engadget.com/2005/11/15/ea-d ... -software/

Post by **Captain** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 7:41 pm

Interesting Foo, Daemon still works perfectly for me

Post by **Zerofactor** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 7:45 pm

Yea, I disabled Daemon and Power ISO, unmounted all drives and turned them off. So that wasn't affecting it, although I suppose I'll have to assume that there are other things on my h/d that it 'doesn't like'.

Post by **Doombrain** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 7:46 pm

hahaha fuck off

Post by **dzjepp** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 7:46 pm

your computer must be gay

Post by **Captain** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 7:50 pm

Zerofactor wrote:I'll have to assume that there are other things on my h/d that it 'doesn't like'.

rofl even your computer hates you. Just die already and stop taking up space on earth.

Post by **Zerofactor** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 7:55 pm

dzjepp wrote:your computer must be gay

It's funny you say that, because a buddy of mine, one that I religiously hang out with every week (mostly to get smashed out of my mind), says the exact same thing everytime something goes wrong with my computer.

Post by **Zerofactor** » Sun Nov 19, 2006 7:33 pm

It's fixed, all I had to do was trick the game into thinking that I wasn't running Windows XP and bam it works.