BF2 question..if u have bf2 please look

[edub2006]

once you click the BF2 shortcut on ur desktop how long does it take till the ea logo appears?. I feel like mine takes a while. i say about 30 seconds or so. I click it goes black..i wait i wait ..then it goes 'ea games blah blah". it didnt take that long before could it be cuz i recently bumped all the settings to high on vid card? or is this just nomal?

 

[GTaudiophile]

It's hunting for the CD. Perhaps install a no-CD patch?

 

[Thor86]

Try defragging the partition/drive that your BF2 install is in. May help a bit.

 

[edub2006]

i defragged, re installed bf2 aswell.....could it be a scrachted cd?

 

[LittleNemoNES]

use a mini CD image. Thats what I do -- takes 3 seconds to run

blh-bf2.mdf

 

[Thor86]

If you Optical drive has no issues reading other CDs, then it could be your BF2 CD. As the previous posters stated, try using a mini-image and use Daemon tools.

 

[edub2006]

but is this normal..that it takes so long?

 

[imported_BadKarma]

You can also remove the EA, DICE and the BF2 intro movies if you want.
Just go into the "Battlefield 2\mods\bf2\Movies" directory and move all of the files there to a different folder.
I made a temp folder and moved all of the movies there.