Battlefield 2142 Install Error

[jimmiejoefro]

I'm having an issue installing this game onto my computer. I'm running Vista, but I know that other people have had little or no problems playing it on Vista. I doubt that is the problem. Anyway, when I put the disk in, the autorun starts and the little menu pops up asking my if i want to look at the read me or EAsy or choose install. I click install, and after about .5 seconds I get this message:

An error (-5003 : 0x20) has occurred while running the setup.
Please make sure you have finished any previous setup and closed other applications.
If the error still occurs, please contact your vendor: EA Games.

Error Information:
>SetupDLL\SetupDLL.cpp (1057)
pAPP:Battlefield 2142 Deluxe Edition
PVENDOR:EA Games
PGUID:ED50ECE9-EC54-4C05-B5ED-EE4741A9F2EC
$10.50.0.125
@Windows XP Service Pack 2 (2600) IE 7.0.6000.16575



What is going on?? I have no idea what would cause this. I'm hoping it's not a faulty disk. I would greatly appreciate anyone's help.

[DABhand]

Can you try this, goto my computer and open up the drive with the game in it, not autorun or play.

Find the setup.exe and right click it, and run it in compatibility mode with Windows XP.

And then try installing.

Failling that, goto Start > Control Panel > User Accounts > *your account if applicable* > turn of UAC at bottom of page.

Restart the PC and try installing again :)

UAC, is a pain when it stops older games from writing to the program files folders.

[nikolja]

hi, i have same problem before installing battlefield 2142 like " jimmiejoefro "
and i don't know what to do, i tryied to do everything what you ( DABhand )say, but it doesnt work, because i can't find UAC, it isn't there where you say...
please if someone could help me! i really want to play it...

[DABhand]

That is only for vista so if your on XP it wont be there