thatbloke
Junior Administrator
For those of you who have or will soon have Windows 7, I thought I'd make a quick post here about getting BF2 working, as myself and alot of other denizens of the interweb are having problems patching the game. I'm not sure if this is limited to the 64-bit version but it's useful info
To cut a long story short, there appears to be some issue with the BF2 1.41 patch failing to install correctly, you run it but it normally fails at 8%.
If you experience this, then the following steps have been reported to solve this, and worked for me:
1) If you receive the Patching Failed message with the 1.41 patch, you will need to completely uninstall all traces of the game. Click here for instructions on how to manually uninstall
2) Make sure you have both the 1.41 (about 500MB) and the 1.5 (about 2GB) patches downloaded and available to run before you start.
3) Install the game as normal from the disks, this works. At the end of the install process, the game asks you to reboot. Do so, but BOOT INTO SAFE MODE.
4) When booted into safe mode, run the 1.41 patch file, this should now run until completion. Once this patch finishes, run the 1.5 patch.
5) When both have installed successfully, reboot back into normal mode, update punkbuster with pbsetup and then the game should run with no problems.
Now you can enjoy Falcon support, the two booster packs for FREE, and not having to have the disk in the drive to play, among the other changes to try and prevent griefing and a new map
To cut a long story short, there appears to be some issue with the BF2 1.41 patch failing to install correctly, you run it but it normally fails at 8%.
If you experience this, then the following steps have been reported to solve this, and worked for me:
1) If you receive the Patching Failed message with the 1.41 patch, you will need to completely uninstall all traces of the game. Click here for instructions on how to manually uninstall
2) Make sure you have both the 1.41 (about 500MB) and the 1.5 (about 2GB) patches downloaded and available to run before you start.
3) Install the game as normal from the disks, this works. At the end of the install process, the game asks you to reboot. Do so, but BOOT INTO SAFE MODE.
4) When booted into safe mode, run the 1.41 patch file, this should now run until completion. Once this patch finishes, run the 1.5 patch.
5) When both have installed successfully, reboot back into normal mode, update punkbuster with pbsetup and then the game should run with no problems.
Now you can enjoy Falcon support, the two booster packs for FREE, and not having to have the disk in the drive to play, among the other changes to try and prevent griefing and a new map