Ok, the game has played fine for 6 months or so. I recently noticed that there was a new patch (1.22) out. I downloaded the incrimental patch 1.21-1.22 from EA's site then tried to install it. The patch failed repeatedly. I then downloaded the 1.22 patch (full) and tried to install it with no success. At this point I decided to uninstall and reinstall the complete game. After uninstalling the game I tried to reinstall it and time after time I encounter MD5sum errors all over the install Dalian Plant map, Object_client, Fu-She map. I know my DVD Key by heart at this point. Now one time I actually got the game to install w/ no errors and installed the patch succesfully tried to load a map on multiplayer and at 64% it would crash to desktop every time. My disk is in great condition. My HD has been tested and retested. Tried Manual install. Optical drive checks out. I'm lost. Please help me.
SYS info:
System Information report written at: 04/08/06 00:37:36
System Name: STUPID
[System Summary]
Item Value
OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name STUPID
System Manufacturer Shuttle Inc
System Model SN85V30
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 15 Model 4 Stepping 10 AuthenticAMD ~2411 Mhz
BIOS Version/Date Phoenix Technologies, LTD 6.00 PG, 6/15/2005
SMBIOS Version 2.2
Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS
System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)"
User Name STUPID\Michael Cassidy
Time Zone Central Standard Time
Total Physical Memory 4,096.00 MB
Available Physical Memory 1.60 GB
Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB
Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB
Page File Space 3.35 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys
[CD-ROM]
Item Value
Drive E:
Description CD-ROM Drive
Media Loaded Yes
Media Type CD-ROM
Name _NEC DVD_RW ND-3500AG
Manufacturer (Standard CD-ROM drives)
Status OK
Transfer Rate 12000.00 kbytes/sec
SCSI Target ID 0
PNP Device ID IDE\CDROM_NEC_DVD_RW_ND-3500AG___________________2.18____\5&D2317E0&0&0.0.0
Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\cdrom.sys (5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158), 48.38 KB (49,536 bytes), 8/10/2004 7:00 AM)
[Sound Device]
Item Value
Name NVIDIA(R) nForce(TM) Audio
Manufacturer NVIDIA Corporation
Status OK
PNP Device ID NVAX\NFORCE_VAD\4&1E6FEC7E&0&0000
Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\nvapu.sys (6.14.0462.0 built by: NVIDIA, 404.75 KB (414,464 bytes), 5/25/2004 3:58 PM)
[Drives]
Item Value
Drive C:
Description Local Fixed Disk
Compressed No
File System NTFS
Size 74.52 GB (80,015,491,072 bytes)
Free Space 21.56 GB (23,145,295,872 bytes)
Volume Name
Volume Serial Number A4426D5F
Drive D:
Description Local Fixed Disk
Compressed No
File System NTFS
Size 279.46 GB (300,066,406,400 bytes)
Free Space 43.52 GB (46,733,615,104 bytes)
Volume Name Media
Volume Serial Number 9464BBBA
Drive E:
Description CD-ROM Disc
[Disks]
Item Value
Description Disk drive
Manufacturer (Standard disk drives)
Model ST3300831AS
Bytes/Sector 512
Media Loaded Yes
Media Type Fixed	hard disk media
Partitions 1
SCSI Bus 0
SCSI Logical Unit 0
SCSI Port 2
SCSI Target ID 0
Sectors/Track 63
Size 279.46 GB (300,066,439,680 bytes)
Total Cylinders 36,481
Total Sectors 586,067,265
Total Tracks 9,302,655
Tracks/Cylinder 255
Partition Disk #1, Partition #0
Partition Size 279.46 GB (300,066,407,424 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 32,256 bytes
Description Disk drive
Manufacturer (Standard disk drives)
Model ST380013AS
Bytes/Sector 512
Media Loaded Yes
Media Type Fixed	hard disk media
Partitions 1
SCSI Bus 0
SCSI Logical Unit 0
SCSI Port 1
SCSI Target ID 0
Sectors/Track 63
Size 74.53 GB (80,023,749,120 bytes)
Total Cylinders 9,729
Total Sectors 156,296,385
Total Tracks 2,480,895
Tracks/Cylinder 255
Partition Disk #0, Partition #0
Partition Size 74.52 GB (80,015,491,584 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 32,256 bytes
SYS info:
System Information report written at: 04/08/06 00:37:36
System Name: STUPID
[System Summary]
Item Value
OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name STUPID
System Manufacturer Shuttle Inc
System Model SN85V30
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 15 Model 4 Stepping 10 AuthenticAMD ~2411 Mhz
BIOS Version/Date Phoenix Technologies, LTD 6.00 PG, 6/15/2005
SMBIOS Version 2.2
Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS
System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)"
User Name STUPID\Michael Cassidy
Time Zone Central Standard Time
Total Physical Memory 4,096.00 MB
Available Physical Memory 1.60 GB
Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB
Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB
Page File Space 3.35 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys
[CD-ROM]
Item Value
Drive E:
Description CD-ROM Drive
Media Loaded Yes
Media Type CD-ROM
Name _NEC DVD_RW ND-3500AG
Manufacturer (Standard CD-ROM drives)
Status OK
Transfer Rate 12000.00 kbytes/sec
SCSI Target ID 0
PNP Device ID IDE\CDROM_NEC_DVD_RW_ND-3500AG___________________2.18____\5&D2317E0&0&0.0.0
Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\cdrom.sys (5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158), 48.38 KB (49,536 bytes), 8/10/2004 7:00 AM)
[Sound Device]
Item Value
Name NVIDIA(R) nForce(TM) Audio
Manufacturer NVIDIA Corporation
Status OK
PNP Device ID NVAX\NFORCE_VAD\4&1E6FEC7E&0&0000
Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\nvapu.sys (6.14.0462.0 built by: NVIDIA, 404.75 KB (414,464 bytes), 5/25/2004 3:58 PM)
[Drives]
Item Value
Drive C:
Description Local Fixed Disk
Compressed No
File System NTFS
Size 74.52 GB (80,015,491,072 bytes)
Free Space 21.56 GB (23,145,295,872 bytes)
Volume Name
Volume Serial Number A4426D5F
Drive D:
Description Local Fixed Disk
Compressed No
File System NTFS
Size 279.46 GB (300,066,406,400 bytes)
Free Space 43.52 GB (46,733,615,104 bytes)
Volume Name Media
Volume Serial Number 9464BBBA
Drive E:
Description CD-ROM Disc
[Disks]
Item Value
Description Disk drive
Manufacturer (Standard disk drives)
Model ST3300831AS
Bytes/Sector 512
Media Loaded Yes
Media Type Fixed	hard disk media
Partitions 1
SCSI Bus 0
SCSI Logical Unit 0
SCSI Port 2
SCSI Target ID 0
Sectors/Track 63
Size 279.46 GB (300,066,439,680 bytes)
Total Cylinders 36,481
Total Sectors 586,067,265
Total Tracks 9,302,655
Tracks/Cylinder 255
Partition Disk #1, Partition #0
Partition Size 279.46 GB (300,066,407,424 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 32,256 bytes
Description Disk drive
Manufacturer (Standard disk drives)
Model ST380013AS
Bytes/Sector 512
Media Loaded Yes
Media Type Fixed	hard disk media
Partitions 1
SCSI Bus 0
SCSI Logical Unit 0
SCSI Port 1
SCSI Target ID 0
Sectors/Track 63
Size 74.53 GB (80,023,749,120 bytes)
Total Cylinders 9,729
Total Sectors 156,296,385
Total Tracks 2,480,895
Tracks/Cylinder 255
Partition Disk #0, Partition #0
Partition Size 74.52 GB (80,015,491,584 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 32,256 bytes