Battlefield 2 (BF2), legal copy, and emulation CD/DVD software

[sygyzy]

I have a legally purchased, retail copy of Battlefield 2. I have been playing it with no problems. I updated it last night with the latest patch. Now it says to disable CD/DVD emulation software. I did. Clone CD is not running emulated (or at all). Same goes with Alcohol 120% and Nero. To make sure, I even tried using Anti_Blaxx and SR7.Stop. No help. What gives? I want to play my game.

To clarify, the retail CD is in the DVD drive. There are no images or mounting here. No cracks, not cheats.

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

Try using this with Daemon Tools.

Works fine, even with the 1.12 patch.

 

[sygyzy]

I will download it when I get home tonight. Why would I need Daemon Tools though? Again, I am not working with images here.

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

Humor me

You're sure you've disabled all the emulation options in CCD, A120%, etc though?

Didn't miss a service somewhere?

 

[sygyzy]

Yes I am sure. And I just downloaded the file and looked inside. I see why you need Daemon now. That's really unfortunate that the only way to play my game is to use a mini image.

 

[ShadowBlade]

did you disable virtual drives too?

 

[sygyzy]

I sure did ShadowBlade. I have no virtual drives as far as I can tell. Is there a tool that can tell me for sure?

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

My Computer

 

[bob4432]

i use the mini img, anti-blaxx and daemon tools. but i have to stop and restart anti-blaxx each time i start the game, which is no biggie, otherwise it will work the first time and each subsequent time it says "cd emulation blah blah blah".

 

[sygyzy]

JAG - Well I figured as much. No virtual drives aka no drives I cannot account for.

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

I just use Daemon Tools 4 and the above mini-image with no problems.

I've never even heard of anti-blaxx

 

[bob4432]

Originally posted by: JustAnAverageGuy
I just use Daemon Tools 4 and the above mini-image with no problems.

I've never even heard of anti-blaxx

maybe deamon tools 4 takes care of the protection that "knows" of 3.xxxx

 

[sygyzy]

Not having any luck. Installed Daemon Tools 4, enabled all options, mounted the image in the zip. Left original CD in dvd-rom. Double clicked BF2 icon and I get the same error. I tried removing the physical disc and that didn't really help. What's am I doing wrong here?

 

[spacelord]

I use the DT4 and the BF2:Special Forces image and things run great for me.

Before I had SF, I upgraded to 1.2 and my older BF2 MiniImage worked fine too.. even with an older version of Daemon Tools.

Although, when I had Alchohol installed on my system, it was not happy.

 

[xtknight]

D-Tools 4 crashes unless I virtually eject the CD. Alc-120% is fine though.

 

[sygyzy]

Here is how I got it to work finally after trying Daemon Tools, AntiBlaxx, and SR7.Stop - I uninstalled Clone CD. What a load of crock.

 

[sygyzy]

Son of a gun. Now the same error is coming up again!

 

[sygyzy]

Can anyone help? I can't play my game no matter what I try!

 

[bob4432]

daemon tools 4 fixed any issues with having to use anti-blaxx for me, even the sf expansion pack

 

[sygyzy]

Sorry, I don't understand what you are saying. Which mini image did you use? I have two to choose from, one from one of the users here and another I downloaded. Both don't work. Do you use daemon tools 4 AND anti-blaxx? What settings do you use in DT? I don't see why I need to use a mini image. I have the legit game in my drive!

 

[bob4432]

if you hav the legit game, the only thing i could suggest is to reinstall it and take out any emulation software you have running. i just use the mini-image because i only have 1 optical drive. these new copy protections are really starting to f*ck up legit buyers, which is not too cool of them...

 

[sygyzy]

I agree bob!

 

[sygyzy]

Bump. Any new workarounds?

 

[bob4432]

Originally posted by: sygyzy
Bump. Any new workarounds?

still using the same setup even with sf too...

 

[duragezic]

I had to get a Special Forces mini image when I bought SF since the old -skl one didn't work. The SF image works for regular BF2 and SF. I simply unisntalled Daemon 3.47, installed newest Daemon 4.whathaveyou, then used the SF mini image, and no problems since.