The US version is the same as the UK version and the UK version also gets sold in some other european countries like Belgium and the Netherlands. It can be that some versions are localised, but in general you should have no problems. There was a bad version of the 1.2 patch spread, you can check if you've got the right one by looking at the size. The correct 1.2 patch is 22,956,029 bytes big, the bad one is 22,955,046 bytes. Make sure you haven't got the bad one. I'd reinstall your game, patch to v1.2 and then try out with the originals to see if you're getting online. If that works, try the idx crack. You should have a mods\bf1942 directory. I'm running without any crack here and I've got that directory and file (\mods\bf1942\mod.dll). I don't know whether that file was instlled by the v1.2 patch or was already installed with bf1942 itself. Oh, and that crack DOES NOT for the moment work with any mods. That's why I ask you to reinstall, there's all kinds of reports about problems with mods. I think someone here had a crack that worked for mods too but I forgot who