Battlefield 2142 Fixed Mini Image Request

[Zulu]

Originally Posted by Alien Firefox

the only way is to make a backup dvd with alcohol

... or to mount a full image (+deactivating optical IDE drives) ... or to read/burn with Blindwrite 6 (Be aware that Blindwrite's emulation driver EZ-Play is blacklisted by Securom since version 7.27, so before starting new Securom titles deactivate EZ-Play)

[Alien Firefox]

it doesnt matter

+ or - means jack shit

just follow the instructions i wrote in here and you'll have a working backup

[Alien Firefox]

disabiling anything on my computer is forbidden

thats percisely why my computer in in prime condition

when u start disabling things you start encountering problems

[Alien Firefox]

yes

that one

[Dr_Spielmann]

The "disable DVD drive - reboot - mount in Daemon" technique works for me too, just as genes|s said, and exactly the same way. Bit of a nuisance, but at least I can play without my DVD on the drive. I made the image myself with Blindwrite from the original DVD, and I am no expert, so I guess pretty much any image will work, providing that you have an original cd-key to play online with.

Don't mess around with No-CD cracks as it will be impossible for you to play MP with a cracked EXE. It's been said millions of times, but some people don't seem to realize yet. Punkbuster will check, and will know your EXE is not 100% correct.

Hope someone comes up with a mini-image that works, but i've also read that it's impossible so far. Sigh!

[oratio]

here is a working no_DVD-fix. enjoy. Thank god for the russians.

http://file007.mylivepage.com/chunk7...DVD_v.1.25.rar

[Megaschwanz]

Use Virtual CD v8. I play with full Image and it works (Virtual CD, no iso)

[Alien Firefox]

theres a 1.25 multiplayer fixed exe on gamecopyworld

i suggest you check it out

works good

[Talus]

I upgraded my motherboard, CPU, RAM and hard drive today and now my mounted image won't work for BF2142. So now I'm 'one of those people' who simply can't get the image to work without disabling something.

This fixed exe on gamecopyworld...there is NO way that this thing steals keys or gets picked up by punkbuster or anything?

I tried using the EXE from my EA Link copy, but no luck...

[Alien Firefox]

if you use the mp 1.25 exe file off gcw it'll work wonders

i use it and had no issues

its only the ea link and a modified dll file to make the server think its the same.

or something like that anyways

anyways hell download it and check it out

[Talus]

Ok thanks!!! I will certainly use it! I just wish I could use my own EA link version's files

[Alien Firefox]

if you have ea link then why would you need the fixed exe

ea link connects to the ea website and scans for a code and varifiees it if valid the game launches and f it aint the game shuts down

why do u need a exe file then

[Talus]

I have both versions. I have the DVD version on my main machine, and I bought the EA Link version for LAN play on my secondary machine.

All I did to solve my problem was to copy all of the files from the root of my EA Link version over to my main machine, then renamed BF2142Pace.exe to BF2142.exe and VOILA! No more DVD (and EA Link doesn't even load )

There must have been a couple of files I needed other than the exe and swiffplayer.dll

[qualitycontroller]

can someone find me a new no dvd patch for version 1.40 the new update they released as it has none yet i believe. or explain how i could revert my version back to 1.25/ maybe by unpacking an old image somehow? and using those files with a 1.25 no cd<---would this work

[Joe Forster/STA]

1.40 is a beta patch; wait for a non-beta release.