Everytime I try to install BF2 it crashes right after I insert Disc 2. Any help would be great! Thanks!
disable firewall and anti virus protections
your computer might just suk........no-just kidden-it did that for me once, i just tried again and it worked.
Turned everything off....still no good..... GRRRR!!!
After several installs after patch 1.21 caused unacceptable lag, my following installs of BF2 just stops after prompting for disk 2 or disk 3, no error, just the CD stops reading and it hangs... Evidentially, a BF2 unistall is not clean. I'm now working on resolving this issue. I wonder if there is a lockout due to installing the same CD key too often... piracy protection or something... I have no idea, I'm just speculating. I found that shutting virus software off doesn't make any difference either. I have 2 copies of BF2 for 2 computers and I tried the install using the other set of CDs with the original CD Key in case it was a bad disk... This didn't work and I am confident that it is not the CDs.
To be complete, the installation begain to fail after... I updated my x600 SE video card driver, Dell BIOS to from A01 to A02, chipset drivers for my Dell Dimension 9100, and network card driver for Intel PRO/100 VE integrated NIC...
I looked through my registry for lingering BF2 junk and didnt see any except for HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\microsoft\directinput\... There are some interoperability issues with the latest hardware drivers I think, either that or in the unlikely event that the CD key was locked out for installing it too many times... I do see that Microsoft released a new version of DirectX in Dec 05'. I was using 9.0C. I'm going to see if a newer version of directx has anything to do with it. Maye there is a limit to the amout of times you can install a particular CD KEY in a given day??? Who knows?
Someone else is having exactly the same problem I am having at:
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/battl … =293604335
To be complete, the installation begain to fail after... I updated my x600 SE video card driver, Dell BIOS to from A01 to A02, chipset drivers for my Dell Dimension 9100, and network card driver for Intel PRO/100 VE integrated NIC...
I looked through my registry for lingering BF2 junk and didnt see any except for HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\microsoft\directinput\... There are some interoperability issues with the latest hardware drivers I think, either that or in the unlikely event that the CD key was locked out for installing it too many times... I do see that Microsoft released a new version of DirectX in Dec 05'. I was using 9.0C. I'm going to see if a newer version of directx has anything to do with it. Maye there is a limit to the amout of times you can install a particular CD KEY in a given day??? Who knows?
Someone else is having exactly the same problem I am having at:
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/battl … =293604335
Last edited by joe_shmoee (2006-03-11 21:50:41)
OK I think i have the solution: At least when I made this change the empteenth installation worked. The problem is due to the Sonic CD/DVD software that is shipping with Dell PCs. Here is a piece of a thread off of Dell's website. It sounds like it is an intermittent problem.
If you have Sonic recordNow on your system, disable the DLA part
of it and try again here .............
- Double-click on the My Computer icon
- In the My Computer window, right-click on the CD device then choose Properties
- On the CD Drive Properties screen, click on the DLA tab, then remove the checkmark
from Enable DLA on your drives
- Click the OK button, then restart computer
I've been following the threads were the Sonic DLA is mentioned. Quite interesting. Is this something new that has only just recently occured?
well the funny thing is its only on battlefield 2 it did that but i turned it off and installing worked great guess i will have to keep an eye out to figure out why thats happens.
This started showing up when Dell started to supply the Sonic OEM software
as the starter burning software with its systems. It is very intermittent
in how it affects a system.
If you have Sonic recordNow on your system, disable the DLA part
of it and try again here .............
- Double-click on the My Computer icon
- In the My Computer window, right-click on the CD device then choose Properties
- On the CD Drive Properties screen, click on the DLA tab, then remove the checkmark
from Enable DLA on your drives
- Click the OK button, then restart computer
I've been following the threads were the Sonic DLA is mentioned. Quite interesting. Is this something new that has only just recently occured?
well the funny thing is its only on battlefield 2 it did that but i turned it off and installing worked great guess i will have to keep an eye out to figure out why thats happens.
This started showing up when Dell started to supply the Sonic OEM software
as the starter burning software with its systems. It is very intermittent
in how it affects a system.