Well I was a little bored tonight and decided to reformat my hard drive because I hadn't done it in a long time and thought I'd see if I had any luck with BF2142 starting from scratch. No luck, game still gives the same disk error, even with no sign of any disk imaging software on my hard drive/registry. This is really frustrating, the game works on my laptop though so I guess I can still play even though my laptop isn't quite as fast.
I really hope EA comes up with a solution to this problem, I'm not going to give them any of my money anymore until they get their shit straight.
If youre open to unorthodox solutions, this has always worked for me with games that dont mix well with emulation software.
1. using your preferred alcohol version create an .mds image of the entire cd. this is important . if youre havin the sort of errors u r gettin , its the only way it will work. ok now u have your bf2142.mds image.
2. I use daemon tools to mount my images, but if you have something else thats known to be reliable, go for it. anyhow, mount ur giant bf2142.mds image you just created .
3. heres where the unorthodox comes into play . especially with this game. theres days where i use one in the morning, and at night theother method works, lol. first off , go ahead andt try to play and see what happens , hell , it might just work. mor ethen likely youll get oneof the following errors .
the "emulation software detected" error - if you get this, disable all your cd drives, and
the game should start fine. bf2142 is the only
game ive ever had to do this with.
the "incorrect cd in drive" error - if you get this , lol, this ones funny,but it works, just
put any cd rom into ur drive and try again, it should
work.
if i remember anything else , ill edit this to update. ifu stil cant get it le tme know. remember bro , the majority of the population are of average intelligence. ea employees are no exception. theres always a way. dont let software another man created get in your way , lol. ill check back .
