BattleField Problem: Ive searched and tried all the so called "fixes"

[SonOfDeath]

**WARNING THREAD MIGHT BE A LITTLE LONG :P**
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Im going to copy and paste what my manager said on the bfcentral forums:

I run an internet cafe in Sydney. We have 25 PC's and none of them have CDROMs. We buy bulk loads of games, and just use the keys and stash the disks. Unfortunately we have to crack the games to get them to run most of the time. Battlefield was patched to 1.2, cracked and running fine on the net but since 1.3 we cant get the bastard to run on any PCs that dont have CDROM. .. its patched to 1.3 and cracked and works fine on a PC that does have a cdrom (even though the disk isnt in the drive).
Goddamnit! we are losing customers because of this..
Im going to email EA but I doubt that it will help much, so I figured I'd try my luck here.
Im sure part of the reason Counter-Strike is so popular today is the massive internet cafe population that play it (especialy in Korea) and Battlefield could be set to be the new Half-Life engine... EA should be embracing the netcafe community!

Im yellin in the wind here... nvm me

Any ideas? .. anyone? ...

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Ok now, ive done a seach on this messageboard and i am gonig to list every way that i have attempted and failed. **Reminder: This is BF WITHOUT R2R**:

1. Install BF1942, Install v1.3 Patch, Install the .exe and the .dll cracks, install the playfix [Ive tried running it with and without the playfix to no avail]

2. Same as 1. + Change the AllowAllVideoRefreshRates to 1 [Seeing as these comps are running Win98 i knew it wouldnt work]

3. User: "corinb18" had the idea of creating a batch file which sadly didnt work

Before you say anything like "check if the files are corrupt and are the correct size", i did crc checks on the .rar and checked the sizes of the mod.dll to see if they were 3kb [which they were].

I noticed that the cracked exe is the exact same size as the original exe. Usually when you have a nocd crack for most games it cuts/increases the size of the file but this one didnt. hmm..

I also did a little bit of experimenting. I copied the cracked 1.2 exe and tried running BF1942 off that which worked but ofcourse you need 1.3 to play as it says 1.2

Now as soon as ive posted this im sending a PM to "Mplayer-WarLard" and asking for his fix

Thanks for ya help if you can respond.