1 Topic by firemcd (edited by firemcd 2015-09-29 11:37:59)

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Topic: [SOLVED @ Page 2] Cannot play the game after several good installs

ARGHHHH! Installed LEGIT, NEW DVD copy of 2142 bought on Amazon. When I tried to update to 1.51, it said I already have the latest version. Installed 1.6 First Strike  MOD and installed and ran the Launcher Setup 1.6.6 which updated a lot of files but nothing else and then just disappeared never to start again, so I ininstalled it. Was tearing my hair out trying to get past the EA login screen and found on here how to go offline and use the "singleplayer" profile. This got me to the options screen which works fine. HOWEVER, When i have selected a map to play in Singleplayer, the next screen has the Weapon Classes and the Spawn Map. My mouse is invisible and only goes up and down highlighting and de-highlighting the weapons. All i can do is hit "Enter" which momentarily acts like I am going into the game then pops right back into the same screen again.
Would the SinglePlayer Mini-Mod allow me to play or am I just screwed?
Frustration on a GALACTIC scale to even get to this point. Drooling over all the awesome Youtube footage of what you can do in this game, but all i can do is watch....... Help me Obi-Wan u r my only hope   sad

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Re: [SOLVED @ Page 2] Cannot play the game after several good installs

Here is a BF2142.exe that bypasses the master account server.  Copy it over FirstStrike.exe to use with the launcher:

http://www.battlefieldsingleplayer.com/ … opic=18474

FirstStrike should work with BF2142 1.5 or 1.6, so you should not need to update. 

Check your PMs.  I will send you a copy of the new Beta version to test out.

Also, this is the latest version of the launcher:

http://www.battlefieldsingleplayer.com/ … 1_6_6a.exe

Note that the updater portion won't work with the beta version of the mod.

3 Reply by firemcd (edited by firemcd 2015-09-26 14:50:34)

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Re: [SOLVED @ Page 2] Cannot play the game after several good installs

Frustrated and tearing my hair out......6 hours in Installing, and re-installing, try this exe, that exe, uninstall 1.5, install 1.6, uninstall 1.6, install beta, uninstall beta. Will not even run at all now. Every single attempt starts with several black screens flashing in and out, after 3-5 seconds it ends with windows white error window "FirstStrike has stopped working"
#1 BF2142 is a brand new unopened DVD purchased directly from Amazon with all plastic shrink wrap and seals intact when I received it. It installed without any trouble at all.
#2 At ALL TIMES I am running as administrator.
#3 I have tried all versions, properly installed to the C:\Program Files (x86)\Electronic Arts\Battlefield 2142\mods folder in my C drive. The launcher/exe finds the files it needs, it just will not run.
#4 I am NOT running a wonky, out of date rig. I have;
Clean LEGIT upgrade install of Windows 10 Home-Fully Updated

2.50 gigahertz AMD Phenom 9850 Quad-Core processor 64-bit ready
Multi-core (4 total) Not hyper-threaded

8192 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory (Backed up by 16Gb readyboost USB)

1000.20 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
356.31 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space
WDC WD10EZEX-00BN5A0 [Hard drive] (1000.20 GB) -- drive 0, s/n WD-WMC3F1563083, rev 01.01A01, SMART Status: Healthy

MotherBoard: ASUSTeK Computer INC. M4A785-M Rev X.0x
Serial Number: 101440630002455
Bus Clock: 200 megahertz
BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. 1101 11/20/2012

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB (Updated to latest drivers just 5 days ago)

Why will this game run for everyone else, but not for me? I am so NOT a NOOB! I can tear apart laptops and PCs in my sleep, build, test, benchmark, you name it. ALL of my other games run flawlessly!

ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHH! I feel exactly like Charlie Brown after his 101st attempt to kick the football.
GALACTICLY BUMMED!!!!!!
This game is so beautiful in the Youtube Videos..........  sad

UPDATE; I uninstalled BF2142 both through Uninstaller and Manual delete of remaining folders, Then did a fresh Install. Did fresh Install of FS 1.6 and FS Launcher 1.6.6a and I am back to getting the following screen again when I run Launcher as Administrator;
http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w194 … 20Fail.jpg

I am leaving things as they are for now in the hopes that some day soon I can play this awesome looking game......  sad

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Re: [SOLVED @ Page 2] Cannot play the game after several good installs

Don't mean to be funny, but have you followed this installation guide? Is a bit old now, but should still be valid:

http://www.moddb.com/mods/first-strike/ … uide-video

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v600/TALON_TAW/TALONSIGNEWB-1.jpg
http://stats.fsmod.com/fssig.php?player=Talon-UK
http://stats.fsmod.com/sig/pilot.Talon-UK.png

FSDev| TALON's Website

5 Reply by firemcd (edited by firemcd 2015-09-27 03:10:17)

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Re: [SOLVED @ Page 2] Cannot play the game after several good installs

Yes, i have done everything to the letter as prescribed both inside the video you mentioned and numerous other things i searched here on the forum.
One solution apparently missing from my launcher is the "Arguements" entry box where you can insert "+widescreen 1 ".
I DO select the resolution in the launcher.
NOTHING WORKS! No matter what I try  I get the error window I posted in above reply.
Is there any chance this has anything to do with Windows 10?
I would also be willing to send screengrabs of my file structure to whomever would like to take a  look at it.
P.S. is this 1.6 the same as the "News" mentioned "play testing the new singleplayer focused version of First Strike" ? ( Is this the "Single Player Mini Mod" ? )
If not, maybe I could get that working?
Very in the dark about all of it, never having experienced a single moment of gameplay yet.
Willing to try anything at this point and I have done a fair amount of Alpha and Beta testing in the past.
SUFFERING.......   sad

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Re: [SOLVED @ Page 2] Cannot play the game after several good installs

firemcd,

Unfortunately, since EA has dropped support of BF2142, it has made it difficult to to get it to work, requiring additional hurdles.  Which is one of the reasons I am looking into the the possibility of releasing First Strike as a stand alone game.

The link I sent you is the new Beta singleplayer version of First Strike.  It is a full mod and replaces the current public version of First Strike.

I have tested First Strike with Windows 10 and did not have any issues.   I have only tested installing the digital download version of BF2142.  I have not tested installing the disk version on a windows 10 system.   I did have issues with patching the disk version of BF2142 on a windows 7 system with the error that a newer version already exists.  I think it was a conflict between the digital download version and the disk version, because I have not heard of the issue popping up otherwise, but it's possible it could be an issue with windows 10.    EA Origin no longer sells or supports the game and I have not found a solution for the upgrade issues.   However, like I said before, First Strike will run with 1.5 version of BF2142.

Make sure you are running BF2142 in XP compatibility mode. Right click on the shortcut to the BF2142 game and choose properties.  In the compatibility tab, click on Run this Program in compatibility mode for and choose windows XP Service Pack 3.   Also select to run this program as administrator.

Now, find where your game is installed and replace the BF2142.exe with the one from the link that I posted earlier.   This will allow the game to run without having to disable the internet.

Next in your personal document folder, extract this default BF2142 profile.  This will set up an offline account to use.   

http://www.battlefieldsingleplayer.com/ … rofile.zip

If your are still having issues, you man need to install the C++ redistributables as in this help guide:

http://oceanofgames.com/battlefield-2142-free-download/

You can also try downloading and installing Bf2142 from the link above.  I do not recommend disabling the anti-virus while access this site.

I will send you a PM with my email address

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Re: [SOLVED @ Page 2] Cannot play the game after several good installs

HALF of the problem is solved! I was able to succeed in tricking the Vanilla BF2142 into getting far enough along that i could go into the "community" tab of BF2142 to check my version and SURE ENOUGH, even though the DVD Install had communicated to the 1.51 Patch installer that it was ALREADY the most current version, in fact, in the "Community" version check trick it lists my FirstStrike as version "1.6" and my BF2142 as "1.0"
This explains alot! So how do I update to 1.51 Patch if the DVD install is incorrectly reporting it is newest version and the 1.51 Patch installer keeps giving me the brushoff text box because it thinks it is already newest version? Not a complete moron, I thought the reason it was doing that during the Patch installer was that the version on the DVD was already up to 1.51, when it clearly is not.

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