• Gwynzer
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Re: FS launcher doesn't seem to work

Grab the no-CD crack from gamecopyworld.com.  I'm totally theorising here, but if you possibly rename it "firststrike.exe" and replace it with the one in your 2142 install directory, it *MAY* fix the problem.

Again, total theorising, but if it DOES work you will most likely be more prone to crashing.  let us know though, it would be interesting to find out.

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Re: FS launcher doesn't seem to work

Gwynzer wrote:

Grab the no-CD crack from gamecopyworld.com.  I'm totally theorising here, but if you possibly rename it "firststrike.exe" and replace it with the one in your 2142 install directory, it *MAY* fix the problem.

Again, total theorising, but if it DOES work you will most likely be more prone to crashing.  let us know though, it would be interesting to find out.

Gwyn, read his post, he mentions no launcher error popup, just that it pops up the bf2142 window then drops. Sounds much like a resolution issue to me.

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Re: FS launcher doesn't seem to work

I might try and revert back to version 1.3, however what might be a problem though highly unlikely is i have a copy of the 2142 folder in the same electronic arts folder which i use for the bf2editor. I had this in the past which didn't conflict with first strike 1.4

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Re: FS launcher doesn't seem to work

reverting to 1.3 will not work. The launcher is not compatible with it and you will not be able to join any server should you be successful. First Strike is still on 1.4, the launcher just adds in bug fixing patches etc, if it worked once before it should work again, but if you have two copies of the 2142 folder..are you sure you had it install to the right one?

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33 Reply by UKWF Chaos_Marine (edited by UKWF Chaos_Marine 2009-09-10 07:58:05)

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Re: FS launcher doesn't seem to work

screenshot of launcher (doesn't work with and without the quotation marks)
http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t11/Chaos_Marineuk/launcher1.jpg

when attempting to run first strike via launcher
http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t11/Chaos_Marineuk/nocderror.jpg

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Re: FS launcher doesn't seem to work

yes it is in the right folder

C:\Program Files (x86)\Electronic Arts\Battlefield 2142\mods\FirstStrike

launcher is installed here

C:\Program Files (x86)\First Strike

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Re: FS launcher doesn't seem to work

shortcut info for fslaucher
target: "C:\Program Files (x86)\First Strike\FirstStrikeLauncher.exe"

start in: "C:\Program Files (x86)\First Strike"

2142 shortcut

target: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Electronic Arts\Battlefield 2142\BF2142.exe" +menu 1 +widescreen 1

start in: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Electronic Arts\Battlefield 2142"

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