Battlefield Vietnam Problem

[E_J]

I just installed Battlefield Vietnam and updated it to v1.02. However, when I go to run it by double-clicking on BFVietnam.exe, the game does absolutely nothing: no error message or dialog box. The dedicated server executable runs fine though.

The EA technical support website has absolutely nothing that relates to this problem. The game does run when I replace BOTH the mod.dll and BFVietnam.exe files with cracked ones, but I don't like the idea of paying for a game and only being able to run it using a crack especially since this game is frequently updated and cracks are not immediate.

I have the latest version of Alcohol 120% installed, however I have disabled its virtual SCSI adapter in the device manager so that should not be the problem. Plus, this game uses Safedisc v2.90 so blacklisting should not be an issue. In addition, there is no error message like there should be if this was a blacklist issue.

So, has anyone else experienced this problem when running the game from either copies of the CD-ROM's or the originals? Right now I can't even get the original CD's to work so I don't know if the copies I made are good or not.

[Talus]

that happened to me when I updated BF1942 to v1.6 from v1.5. Try uninstalling BF:V altogether and then just applying the 1.02 patch. Make sure the game works first, then try your crack.

Should work.

[E_J]

Originally Posted by Talus

that happened to me when I updated BF1942 to v1.6 from v1.5. Try uninstalling BF:V altogether and then just applying the 1.02 patch. Make sure the game works first, then try your crack.

Should work.

I already tried that. I tried playing the game without cracking it first. I only resorted to using the crack when I couldn't play otherwise.

[E_J]

On a related note, I just installed and ran the game on another PC using the copies I made, and it worked. This PC did not have Alcohol installed, and I also did not install the v1.02 update.

The CD-R copies were made at 4X read and write in a Plexwriter 48/24/48A with v1.05 firmware using the latest Alcohol 120% trial version with "bypass EFM errors" checked and with the subchannel data read and rectified during writing and in RAW DAO write mode. So, if you are looking for a drive/software/settings combination to do Safedisc v2.90 without emulation, that combination apparantly works.

I still don't know why the game wouldn't run on my main PC unless it has something to do with Alcohol being installed.

[Talus]

Easy..uninstall Alcohol, reboot, try BF:V.

EA has stated that BF:V has issues with Alcohol for some users. Thank goodness I'm not one of them Alcohol is what I use for playing BF games to avoid problems with PB.

[E_J]

Originally Posted by Talus

EA has stated that BF:V has issues with Alcohol for some users.

Yes, but the problem I am having does not fit EA's description of the problem, i.e. I am not getting the emulation error message.