   I just got BF2!! (yeah, I hate EA now)
  I played the demo and thought it was awesome(I love online FPS games) and today I got my paycheck from work so I thought it'd be a good idea to go over and buy BF2! So I did! I got home and installed it and everything went fine. After installing, when I started up the game I got an error telling me that I did no have Install CD1 in the CD drive. I double checked, and of course I have Install CD 1 in my CD drive. So I try it with CD's 2 and 3 but those don't work. I have also emailed EA telling them thier software blows(not really, I was polite and told them my problem) and now, while I wait I want to see if anyone here has any suggestion on what might fix this. All my other games work fine and the CD drive works fine and everything. (and I meet the sys req. for the game).Any suggestions?   
  i'm not sure what could be causing it but if worse comes to worse you can just crack it, i think in this case it would be fine. all you need to play online is just a valid cd-key anyway, just make a backup of your current .exe and crack/patch it. if you don't want to do this i would wait to see what they say.   ;  DON'T crack the game. You WILL get banned by Punkbuster when it checks the EXE. (Unless you play on non-punkbuster servers... but then you can't get ranked). I've never had problems with copy protection on games before. But I would just rip the image of disk and use Daemon tools to mount the image as a drive.I really love BF2. (I have over 70 hours of play since I bought it a month ago). It's really a great game after you get used to the super-long load times. Also, buy the SF expansion. It makes the game 100x better, and it feels more like DC. It's just very fun to grapple up on a building and zip line across the map and get to the best sniping/deployment spots ever.   ;Quote:Original post by curtmax_0DON'T crack the game. You WILL get banned by Punkbuster when it checks the EXE. (Unless you play on non-punkbuster servers... but then you can't get ranked). I've never had problems with copy protection on games before. But I would just rip the image of disk and use Daemon tools to mount the image as a drive.I really love BF2. (I have over 70 hours of play since I bought it a month ago). It's really a great game after you get used to the super-long load times. Also, buy the SF expansion. It makes the game 100x better, and it feels more like DC. It's just very fun to grapple up on a building and zip line across the map and get to the best sniping/deployment spots ever.Yea, I realy don't want to crack it. Doesn't punk buster have its orgasm if I use a CD daemon? I thought it did.   ;  You should remove all your drive imaging software because I have noticed that many recent games coming out will not start if they detect these programs installed. If you don't want to uninstall them, you could try getting software to hide them from other applications.   ;  This happened to me also (with CnC:G).It really helps if you have a second computer, because for some reason, it wouldn't recognize the disc as disc 1 using my cd drive.I have two computers networked, so I just shared the second computer's cd drive and installed it from there.. Unfortunately though, I had to crack the executable, otherwise I'd have to have both computers on everytime I wanted to even play it.Just another reason why sometimes copy protection is bad.   ;  It isn't because of Deamon tools or anything, cause when I first tried to start the game I didn't have that installed. I am going to install deamon tools and get the CD image and mount it with deamon tools and see if that works. The only problem I have now is that I cannot rip that CD image to my HDD! (This of course is not for anyhting illegal) anyone know of free software that'll let me rip the CD image?   ;  exactly, punkbuster won't mess with you just as long as you use a crack, if you try to use a mini-dvd backup it will kick you. as i said if wose comes to worse you can crack it and it would be fine, punkbuster doesn't care about cd cracks, i had to do this wit my bf2 also actually if you're wondering. although i did it because i hate having to have the cd in the drive forever. and its seems i was rated down for making the "crack it" comment. please don't rate me down for this, cracks aren't always bad, some use them for the same reason i do, not having to have the cd-rom in the drive forever (its a pain to keep switching over and over again since i have one drive).   ;Quote:Original post by lethalhamsterIt isn't because of Deamon tools or anything, cause when I first tried to start the game I didn't have that installed. I am going to install deamon tools and get the CD image and mount it with deamon tools and see if that works. The only problem I have now is that I cannot rip that CD image to my HDD! (This of course is not for anyhting illegal) anyone know of free software that'll let me rip the CD image?clonecd and daemon tools go well together. good for when you don't feel like digging through cd's all the time and have the hd space.edit: also good for GREATLY extending the life of my original cds. all my original cds look brand new and the copies i use are mostly scratched to hell. [grin]   ;  Here's something I've often wondered...Why do games in the US always come on a million CD's?  BF2 and all the latest AAA releases here in the UK are DVD only, hardly a CD-ROM in sight.  Why do other countries do it differently?You wouldn't have a problem with "Disc 1" if you'd come to the UK and bought the DVD.   