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9300 XP Pro - Battlefield 2 Splash Screen Hang

post #1 of 15
10/12/05 at 12:22am
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Hello all,
I was extremely excited to get my 9300 tonight and the first thing I did was format the drive, do a fresh install of xp pro, install the chipset drivers, install the latest drivers from laptovideo2go (with INF), complete windows update, latest wireless nic drivers, etc... Think I got everything...

Everything looks great... ok next test...

Installed Battlefield 2 and run... loads the splash, reads the cd.. and just hangs at splash...

Sooooo, I try the 1.03 (direct from 1.0 install to 1.03).... same behavior...

HELP!!

I know if anyone can help, you all can... Appreciate it... (I have tried rolling back to the second most recent laptopvideo2go drivers)...

Thanks.

EDIT: Ok, so I realized it sounded like the DVD drive was reading the cd the whole time it looked like it was hung.... The CD is perfectly clean w/ no scratches (I bought the game for the record, it's a legit cd.).... Soooo, for a test I installed the mini-image and everything works great now... BUT it doesn't answer the question of why the cd doesn't read...

Am I missing a drive for the drive? I show the following in device manager:
TSSTcorp DVD+-RW TS-L532B

Should I be complaining about this Toshiba drive?

Thanks folks... I know the topic isn't really related anymore, possible I should start a new thread?
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post #2 of 15
10/12/05 at 12:26am
This could be a corrupt install.

If your using a no-cd crack, that also causes this error.. same with the mini-image's. Since you say your using the cd, i'm assuming you are not using either.

I'd try a reinstall, then maybe new video drivers.
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post #3 of 15
10/12/05 at 1:37am
He said it runs fine the the cd crack....

Did you try installing any other games or programs that require a CD/DVD yet? I'd check that first to see if it was just something with BF.
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post #4 of 15
10/12/05 at 2:42am
Don't know if this will work, but if you have any firewall software, McAfee or Notran, make sure they aren't blocking BF2 from the internet.
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post #5 of 15
10/12/05 at 9:12am
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Well, it is a clean install of Windows XP Pro (With firewall turned off), and it's definately related to the DVD Drive. I guess I can try another CD, but it bothers me that a brand new computer would have difficulty reading this brand new media period.
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post #6 of 15
10/12/05 at 9:33am
hey mate I have had similar problems with BF2 when i tried to use drivers from laptovideo2go... i had to uninstall the drivers reinstall the dell drivers (78.11) and then uninstall and reinstall BF2 and presto! it worked fine
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post #7 of 15
10/12/05 at 2:28pm
I also had the same problem and the problem was the cd was in the drive but not reading, so I inserted it and took it back out and then it worked.

How'd you manage to make an image? I tried using Alcohol 120% and kept receiving errors.
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post #8 of 15
10/12/05 at 2:58pm
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Originally Posted by spirals
I also had the same problem and the problem was the cd was in the drive but not reading, so I inserted it and took it back out and then it worked.

How'd you manage to make an image? I tried using Alcohol 120% and kept receiving errors.
Well, I did try that several times (reinserting the disc.) I think I will just be forced to install Call of Duty and see how it works with it's cd check.

Ummmm, I used what's called a mini image. Meaning it contains only enough data to mount as a virtual drive (using daemon tools) and make the program pass it's cd check. The whole image is only about 1.5mb and is a much better solution than a full 700mb image ripped from the cd sitting on my HD. (Or carrying around the disc everywhere.)

Note: Before anyone starts flaming me, I bought and paid for my copy of battlefield AND it is 100% legal to use an image to bypass a cd check provided the software was purchased legally.

How to make a mini image: http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?t=131341

BF2 mini image:
http://j0lle.xdata.no/bf2/bf2mini-skl.rar
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post #9 of 15
10/12/05 at 9:43pm
thanks a lot for the link, way more convenient than keeping the disc in (and it always spins up for no reason)
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post #10 of 15
10/13/05 at 2:50am
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Originally Posted by spirals
I also had the same problem and the problem was the cd was in the drive but not reading, so I inserted it and took it back out and then it worked.

How'd you manage to make an image? I tried using Alcohol 120% and kept receiving errors.
Assuming the disc is protected by Safedisc....
Anytime you try to create an image of a cd protected by SafeDisc 2 or 3 with Alcohol 120 there will be errors between around 1,000-10,000....just ignore them...let the image creation keep going and the errors will stop
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post #11 of 15
10/13/05 at 2:56am
Uhmm, I heard from someone that you can get the mini image at gamecopyworld.com......
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post #12 of 15
10/13/05 at 3:26am
Man i leave for awhile and come back and everyone wants to talk all vague...what happened, did everyone on this forum get sued?
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post #13 of 15
10/13/05 at 12:41pm
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Originally Posted by [n-c0ns!st3nt]
Man i leave for awhile and come back and everyone wants to talk all vague...what happened, did everyone on this forum get sued?
Hehehe, I'm new here. So I didn't want to irritate any admins.
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post #14 of 15
1/2/06 at 11:50pm
Scaredy Cats ;-)
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post #15 of 15
1/3/06 at 1:01am
yeah i use ultraiso and daemon tools to create/mout iso images for games like bf2 and halo. and of course i am running legit
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