BF2 CD Key is invalid??!!

[dguy6789]

So I felt like playing some Battlefield 2 tonight(I haven't played it in six months). I pop in my game disc, open the game up, go to the server browser, find a server I want to play on and try to join it.

I get an error message saying CD Key is Invalid.

I think "That's odd, probably just something wrong with that server" so I try again with another server. After a couple minutes, I find that every single server gives me this message when I try to join.

I then google the issue and find out this is an extremely common problem. There are a whole bunch of solutions people have posted on various forums that some people say worked for them and others have no luck. Not one of these solutions worked for me. I spent the last hour and a half trying to fix it. Multiple game installs didn't help either.

Fuck EA.

Any ideas? I made this post mainly just to vent and make people more aware of how terrible EA is. I don't expect anyone to be able to solve the problem.

 

[Zenoth]

Strange, maybe the servers you tried are running the beta patch 1.5?

 

[dguy6789]

Originally posted by: Zenoth
Strange, maybe the servers you tried are running the beta patch 1.5?

That's a possibility but I did try a very large range of servers so I'm not counting on it.

 

[AmberClad]

I had this problem a while back. The fix was to manually enter the CD key into the registry. If you Google, you should be able to find the exact procedure to take.

I never had the issue back when I played BF2 on XP.

 

[Sam25]

I found these 2 links which might be useful:

http://support.electronicarts...._li=&p_topview=1&skin=


Scroll down to the 'CDKEY Issues - Invalid CDKEY' section:

http://forums.electronicarts.c...-bf2-techy-thread.html

Hope this helps in solving the error.

 

[1ManArmY]

Originally posted by: dguy6789
So I felt like playing some Battlefield 2 tonight(I haven't played it in six months). I pop in my game disc, open the game up, go to the server browser, find a server I want to play on and try to join it.

I get an error message saying CD Key is Invalid.

I think "That's odd, probably just something wrong with that server" so I try again with another server. After a couple minutes, I find that every single server gives me this message when I try to join.

I then google the issue and find out this is an extremely common problem. There are a whole bunch of solutions people have posted on various forums that some people say worked for them and others have no luck. Not one of these solutions worked for me. I spent the last hour and a half trying to fix it. Multiple game installs didn't help either.

Fuck EA.

Any ideas? I made this post mainly just to vent and make people more aware of how terrible EA is. I don't expect anyone to be able to solve the problem.

I had this problem 3 weeks ago, you have to manually edit your registry because your CD Key is corrupted. I had to remove all regisry entries for DICE, BF2, EA Games (pertaining to BF2) and SF. Once all of these were removed I reinstalled BF2, Special Forces, patch 1.41, then Armored Fury, Euroforce and then patch 1.41 and now I have been enjoying BF2 all over again. EA customer service suxored on this issue. If you just reinstall BF2 with no patches you can play it because your CD Key has not been encrypted yet. After you install SF your CD key gets encrypted and eventually corrupted.

Good luck, after you get this problem fixed you will next encounter the Punk Buster issues :disgust: Just download the manuall exe and install it and add BF2 and update it enjoy.

 

[dguy6789]

Thanks for the help, I'm going to try it tonight.

 

[JAG87]

Originally posted by: 1ManArmY

Good luck, after you get this problem fixed you will next encounter the Punk Buster issues :disgust: Just download the manuall exe and install it and add BF2 and it still doesn't work.

fixed! :laugh:

 

[Stuxnet]

Originally posted by: dguy6789
BF2 CD Key is invalid??!!

The whole damn game is invalid.

 

[dguy6789]

Originally posted by: jbourne77

Originally posted by: dguy6789
BF2 CD Key is invalid??!!

The whole damn game is invalid.

That gave me a chuckle

 

[fatpat268]

What do you expect? It's battlefield, nothing works like it should.

 

[WaitingForNehalem]

Re-enter your key using one of the .exe's (can't remember which one) in the Program Files folder and then re-patch with 1.41.

 

[DannyLove]

lol