Well, I hope you're not actually going to throw out the disc. In a year or
so, I'm sure you'll want to use it. it seems Vista has a bit of problems
with the different Piarecy protections of some CDs\DVDs. Shame that after
this time EA won't remove the Copy protection, Like Supreme Commander did in
only 3 weeks of their game being released, because it was wreaking havoc for
laot of people.

My first thought would be to suggest going over to gamecopyworld.com and
trying a CD or DVD crack. This might cause a problem for On-line, play but
if nothing else, might allow the game to run once. Though your laptop
appears to be fairly new, you might look around and see if there is a
firmware update for the CD DVD drive.

The current patch level for BF2142 is patch 1.20. You cna grab it at places
like filecloud.com and fileplanet.com




"Johnl" <Johnl@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Well I seem to be one of the many people having problems with Battlefield
> 2142. It was bad enough that I removed Vista from my system and
> reinstalled
> XP (which works just fine). But before I throw Vista in the trash, i
> thought
> I would try one more time since EA basically is of no use....
>
> I have a brand new Compal Hel 80 notebook with a Core2Duo 7200 chip, 2
> gigs
> of memory, and a Nvidia GO 7600 video card.
>
> I had a hard time finding drivers for the Nvidia video card, but finally
> found some at www.laptopvideo2go.com. I believe the model I used was the
> 97.46, but I'm not 100% on this. I've looked again and it seems the 97.19
> might be the better video.
>
> Anyway, everything installed just fine once I was able to find Nvidia GO
> drivers.
>
> The next thing I did was install Battlefleld 2142 (my favorite program).
> No
> matter what I couldn't get it to work. Once again I'm not 100% I had the
> BF
> 2142 update installed or if I tested it before loading the update.
>
> Either way the game never started. It would always say enter the correct
> disc even though the purchased disc was in the drive and it only comes
> with
> one disc. I played with the compatability settings, administrator
> settings
> and the security settings mentioned on EA's website. This did not help
> and
> one time caused the computer to lock up with a flashing screen.
>
> No matter what I did I never got the program to get past the initial
> loading
> set.
>
> My question is before I throw out Vista, are there any recommendations to
> BF
> 2142 to work properly? And any updates/downloads I need for this to work?
> I
> currently do not have Vista installed.
>
> John