Battlefield 2142 1.5 No-DVD?

[Psipherious]

Blindwrite image from above user Quazimojo confirmed working.

It seems Y.A.S.U is indeed not required. Shorty after reading the above post I downloaded Blindwrite 6 and created myself a maxi image (using blindwrite 6 native image format) using it as well.

I tried to mount it immediately after and after turning off Y.A.S.U. and I received the error Emulation Software Detected with both the Blindwrite (using blindwrite 6 native image format). Then I tried enabling Y.A.S.U. again and remounting my previous image and was still getting the emulation software detected error.

At this point I used the 'uninstall driver' command from Blindwrite and then I completely uninstalled Blindwrite from my computer, restarted my system and immediately after startup tried mounting the blindwrite image without Y.A.S.U. and it worked!

Well after that working I unmounted it and remounted the Alcohol image again and it also worked! Without Y.A.S.U for some reason this time. I'm not sure what changed upon reboot other than installing and uninstalling Blindwrite. Also I suppose disabling Alcohol 120's emulation would have come into effect after reboot as well (I don't reboot often) but it's working now with just the straight image in both formats.

So if you're still having trouble getting 2142 to run from a full dvd image, give some of the above options a try, reboot your system, try an alcohol 120 image, try a blindwrite 6 image and lastly you can try Y.A.S.U. - one of these or a combination of them I believe will likely work fine for most people.

EDIT: I went to sleep, got up and tried to execute 2142 again using the Alcohol image and I started to recieve the error: can not run from a backup copy, again, so I switched to the blindwrite image again and it still works fine without Y.A.S.U. using soley D-Tools with no emulation options on and a B6T (blindwrite 6) image. The only things I'm aware of that have changed since I ran it successfully yesterday with both images and no Y.A.S.U is that I now have Firefox and my instant messenger running, nothing else, I haven't changed any services, added or removed any virtual drives, nothing that I can see that would cause it to display the backup error again. All I can tell you is that the blindwrite one still works just fine so I'm going to delete the Alcohol one since the B6T clearly seems to work better.

Thanks for the info Quazimojo.

Good luck with this to all!