Did someone mention that BF2142 had some bugs?
Don't get me wrong - I have played the demo a fair bit and like what I see. I have also gotten sick the hind teeth with the EA-BS that me and many like me have had to endure. This thread is not about either issue or intended to be a place to voice opinion about the game. Please there are enough threads already, I would like to keep this one vaguely on topic - it's a technical issue.
Should someone have suggestions, questions etc then their not having to wade through a morass of dirge to read the real content will really help me and all who encounter the same problem.
So... the problem
I downloaded the demo Saturday evening and played a couple of rounds that night. Not bad.
I got up Sunday and thought I'd have a couple of hours blast before lunch. On round two my system locks up. This has happened once or twice with BF2 (system lock up, the game crashes with the well known regularity) so once I was sure it wasn't about to recover I hit the reset.
All comes back and seems well except that my desktop images are missing (yes, plural. I have 2 screens). 'Odd' thinks I but shrug and double click the 2142 icon again.
I receive a message telling me that some memory (gave me a couple of what looked like hex references) could not be found as they were "missing".
I'm just sighing (and cursing a little) to myself and getting ready to reinstall the demo, I go to open my documents (where the installer is) but no dice - can't be found. Turns out that not only is My Docs missing, the entire drive has gone AWOL.
First thing I test is reassigning the My Docs to my c: drive and this makes all work again (including BF2142).
I have a look in Disk Management and it's not there. I rebooted and looked in the RAID setup in the BIOS and they can see it but the drive specification is invalid.
I have been able to remove the RAID and reassign it and the drive now appears in Disk Management but it wants to format it. I have a lot of data on there that I would rather not lose if at all possible (yes, more than just porn )
My system specs:
Asus A8N
AMD 3200+ (IIRC)
2x GeForce 6800GTs (not currently in SLI)
2 iiyama monitors running off one of the cards
1 Segate Barracuda 160gig IDE (system drive)
2 WD Raptors 74gig SATA RAID 0 (Game installations)
2 Seagate Barracudas 160gig SATA RAID 1 (My Docs & dross)
Thanks for your patience and any help you can offer.
Don't get me wrong - I have played the demo a fair bit and like what I see. I have also gotten sick the hind teeth with the EA-BS that me and many like me have had to endure. This thread is not about either issue or intended to be a place to voice opinion about the game. Please there are enough threads already, I would like to keep this one vaguely on topic - it's a technical issue.
Should someone have suggestions, questions etc then their not having to wade through a morass of dirge to read the real content will really help me and all who encounter the same problem.
So... the problem
I downloaded the demo Saturday evening and played a couple of rounds that night. Not bad.
I got up Sunday and thought I'd have a couple of hours blast before lunch. On round two my system locks up. This has happened once or twice with BF2 (system lock up, the game crashes with the well known regularity) so once I was sure it wasn't about to recover I hit the reset.
All comes back and seems well except that my desktop images are missing (yes, plural. I have 2 screens). 'Odd' thinks I but shrug and double click the 2142 icon again.
I receive a message telling me that some memory (gave me a couple of what looked like hex references) could not be found as they were "missing".
I'm just sighing (and cursing a little) to myself and getting ready to reinstall the demo, I go to open my documents (where the installer is) but no dice - can't be found. Turns out that not only is My Docs missing, the entire drive has gone AWOL.
First thing I test is reassigning the My Docs to my c: drive and this makes all work again (including BF2142).
I have a look in Disk Management and it's not there. I rebooted and looked in the RAID setup in the BIOS and they can see it but the drive specification is invalid.
I have been able to remove the RAID and reassign it and the drive now appears in Disk Management but it wants to format it. I have a lot of data on there that I would rather not lose if at all possible (yes, more than just porn )
My system specs:
Asus A8N
AMD 3200+ (IIRC)
2x GeForce 6800GTs (not currently in SLI)
2 iiyama monitors running off one of the cards
1 Segate Barracuda 160gig IDE (system drive)
2 WD Raptors 74gig SATA RAID 0 (Game installations)
2 Seagate Barracudas 160gig SATA RAID 1 (My Docs & dross)
Thanks for your patience and any help you can offer.