How to use Deomon tool and anti-blax for BF2

[Predator1967]

Any one point newbie in right direction?

[kosmiq]

I only mount the mini-image in Daemon-Tools and then I play the game. No need for antiblaxx or anything here.

As a note, I did change the busdriver name during installation of DT.

[Grumpy]

Yeh I too only use Daemon tools to mount a mini image, without using anti-blaxx.
But I 'didnt' change the names of the busdrivers when installing DT's!

[Muji-FightR]

Originally Posted by Grumpy

Yeh I too only use Daemon tools to mount a mini image, without using anti-blaxx.
But I 'didnt' change the names of the busdrivers when installing DT's!

Me, too Grumpy !
I use the standard bus names and it works without Antiblaxx
But if i try to play Spellforce it says "blabla detected" so i have to use Antibalxx for Spellforce
any other games work great !
Another way is just changing the windows user, often this works well...

[Predator1967]

I have a dvd iso for BF2,(Which I made from my dvd)
(which I made a dvd with the iso)
I have a bf2mini-ski.mdf and a bf2mini-ski.mds file
What I did without instructions was burn a dvd of iso installed game then Install deomon tools and antiblax .
NOW how should I configure deomon tools and should I remove anti blax ?
All I did was install deomon tools as is Nothing added while I installed it.
I did a fly by wire and attemted to configure dt but I got as far as pick single game and multiplayer I hit single and lockup then I restarted game and got configure online something and it locked then. Now it is asking for cd to play
I just want to perserve my dvd copy so it will not get ruined and I have to spend another 40 bucks for new one . God I wish they made a simple no cd for this.
Remember New to this ... thanks

[kosmiq]

Here is what I did:

1. Installed Daemon-Tools (long time ago so already there, but still), with custom bus-driver name.
2. Installed Battlefield 2 using the DVD disc
3. Downloaded the mini-image by BleH! and mounted it with Daemon-Tools
4. Played the game

And after that I of course patched the game whenever a patch came and so on...

[Predator1967]

WHat is that and how do i do that?

[henry]

I mount the mini image in an Alcohol virtual CD/DVD drive and it works fine.
Running ver 1.02.

[GLH]

Originally Posted by Predator1967

WHat is that and how do i do that?

During the installation process of DaemonTools & Alcohol 120% you can choose to use different names for the installed drivers. (In Alcohol120% Installation choose ExpertMode). For me i used the names "glhbus" and "glhscsi".

[DABhand]

Also remember, if you have AnyDVD or any other type of DVD macrovision emulation, do disable it or games will pick up on it as emulators.

[Predator1967]

It looks like you need to set up a account if you do how would you get around the id key check I belive it has?

[Pigdog Ratsnake]

Originally Posted by Predator1967

It looks like you need to set up a account if you do how would you get around the id key check I belive it has?

It just asks for an email address, doesn't check anything. At least, ver 1.0 didn't, not sure about 1.03.

[kosmiq]

As far as I know there are no special checks during game start.
It checks that you have a valid serial when logging in and that it is registered to your account.
It checks for CD/DVD when launched. The mini-image will get pass that and allow the game to start.

No more checks. However I hope that EA/DiCE will remove the cd-check/safedisc protection later on because it still has serial check and that is the best protection for online games anyway.