EA Games fails YET AGAIN

[EyeMWing]

NFS Underground doesn't work out of the box. Keeps asking me to insert the CD when it's most definitely in the drive.

They blame my CD drive - say it's "defective." Yeah, I'm sure they're all defective. I'm even more sure that it went defective in the 10 seconds between installing the game and trying to play it. Or maybe I have the wrong CD in? Oh, they're both in one drive or another. I have more optical drives than their support guys have brain cells, it seems.

From here on out, for problems like this, I'm just skipping the tech support retards and going straight to the no-CD cracks. Which I should NOT have to do, but since copy protection has gone so far as to cause problems on legitimate setups, there is no longer any choice but to break it.

 

[SunnyD]

Werd.

 

[DannyBoy]

Amorphus couldnt play BF42 with his CD - Another failure for EA...

Whether or not that was straight out the box or not I dont know 😛

 

[Zim Hosein]

From here on out, for problems like this, I'm just skipping the tech support retards and going straight to the no-CD cracks. Which I should NOT have to do, but since copy protection has gone so far as to cause problems on legitimate setups, there is no longer any choice but to break it.

Amen!

Cheers EyeMWing :beer:

 

[EyeMWing]

Oh, and I should mention that this is far from the first EA Games title that has given me the same problem.

 

[Hector13]

Originally posted by: EyeMWing
Oh, and I should mention that this is far from the first EA Games title that has given me the same problem.

maybe it is your CDR drive then? I haven't had any problems with their games.

It seems like you are saying you use more than one CDR drive? Did you install the game just using one drive or did you switch drives during installation (if that is even possible).

 

[GtPrOjEcTX]

Originally posted by: Hector13

Originally posted by: EyeMWing
Oh, and I should mention that this is far from the first EA Games title that has given me the same problem.

maybe it is your CDR drive then? I haven't had any problems with their games.

It seems like you are saying you use more than one CDR drive? Did you install the game just using one drive or did you switch drives during installation (if that is even possible).

that's what I was thinking, multiple problems installing via cd from the drive? its not the cd's fault...

 

[Cfour]

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein

From here on out, for problems like this, I'm just skipping the tech support retards and going straight to the no-CD cracks. Which I should NOT have to do, but since copy protection has gone so far as to cause problems on legitimate setups, there is no longer any choice but to break it.

Amen!

Cheers EyeMWing :beer:

I do this with all the games I buy, I don't like having to shuffle through my book of CDs and put the CD in the tray.

 

[PowerMac4Ever]

learn how to build a reliable computer, noob.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: GtPrOjEcTX

Originally posted by: Hector13

Originally posted by: EyeMWing
Oh, and I should mention that this is far from the first EA Games title that has given me the same problem.

maybe it is your CDR drive then? I haven't had any problems with their games.

It seems like you are saying you use more than one CDR drive? Did you install the game just using one drive or did you switch drives during installation (if that is even possible).

that's what I was thinking, multiple problems installing via cd from the drive? its not the cd's fault...

My money's on the installation being fine, but the ever-popular SuckDisc2 protection owning any computer with a CD drive of brand X, Y, Z, Q, L, B, or M.

Protection's fault. Just patch and get the no-CD, you can still play online.

- M4H

 

[GtPrOjEcTX]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
My money's on the installation being fine, but the ever-popular SuckDisc2 protection owning any computer with a CD drive of brand X, Y, Z, Q, L, B, or M.

Protection's fault. Just patch and get the no-CD, you can still play online.

- M4H

ah. guess I didn't understand the OP. patch it, works great for me.... also note that DAEMON Tools 3.43 is now out and does quite well (have yet to find a game that won't run off the image)

 

[Wingznut]

Lonyo had the same problem.

Originally posted by: PowerMac4Ever
learn how to build a reliable computer, noob.

Dork.

 

[Sid59]

there was a thread where UBI SOFT didn't let people play the games because users installed a virtual cd drive. maybe it's the same problem?

 

[StageLeft]

Originally posted by: Wingznut
Lonyo had the same problem.

Originally posted by: PowerMac4Ever
learn how to build a reliable computer, noob.

Dork.

Yeah really! I hope powermac isn't implying that there is anything special to building a computer. It's simply throwing together a few parts, and reliability failure is the fault of them, not the installer (unless you don't have things hooked up together!).

 

[Amorphus]

Originally posted by: DannyBoy
Amorphus couldnt play BF42 with his CD - Another failure for EA...

Whether or not that was straight out the box or not I dont know 😛

bah, I'm supposed to complain about my problems, you jerk! :|


😉😀

and yes, it was straight out of the box. not a single imperfection on the disc. all my other discs work fine, really - the BF1942 discs just won't properly detect, or something.

 

[bandana163]

I like the copy protection of Westwood oldies. Try to play the original C&C/Red Alert on a new DVD or CD-RW drive and WinXP. It worked perfectly under Win98SE. Now it just asks me to put it in the drive. I even tried putting both discs in my two drives. No effect. Then I re-installed W98 and it worked just right.

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein

From here on out, for problems like this, I'm just skipping the tech support retards and going straight to the no-CD cracks. Which I should NOT have to do, but since copy protection has gone so far as to cause problems on legitimate setups, there is no longer any choice but to break it.

Amen!

Cheers EyeMWing :beer:

I got BF1942 for my Birthday a few days ago and have been battling thos problem. After many tries got to work but should not have to go through this. Do not support EA Games or Ubisoft.

I also got Call Of Duty by Activision and they do not do this CD-Rom garbage. Support Activision !!!

 

[boyRacer]

There were problems with a certain batch... Disc 2 wouldn't finish installing... if thats your problem just exchange it or something. Happened to me.

 

[Lonyo]

Your problem is that you have more than one CD drive (be it real or virtual)
I installed NFS: U from my one real drive, and it wouldn't run. After disabling my 4 virtual drives, the game ran fine.
There is a thing in the readme or somewhere that you should install it of CD drive #1 and run it off the drive you installed it from, but the game just seems to have an issue with more than one drive. Disable any virtual drives and see if that helps.
BTW: Their patch system sucks, my game won't run if I use the patched version, and the screen is always garbled (can't read half the stuff on it, I can still play the game though), easy mode is not really any easier than medium, and when I'm connected to the internet and try and play a game, it says it can't detect my connection.

I still think the game's great fun though, and quite challenging as you go along. And the above worked to fix my problem (which seems the same as yours), just try with only 1 CD drive.

 

[sandorski]

NoCD

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: Lonyo
Your problem is that you have more than one CD drive (be it real or virtual)
I installed NFS: U from my one real drive, and it wouldn't run. After disabling my 4 virtual drives, the game ran fine.
There is a thing in the readme or somewhere that you should install it of CD drive #1 and run it off the drive you installed it from, but the game just seems to have an issue with more than one drive. Disable any virtual drives and see if that helps.
BTW: Their patch system sucks, my game won't run if I use the patched version, and the screen is always garbled (can't read half the stuff on it, I can still play the game though), easy mode is not really any easier than medium, and when I'm connected to the internet and try and play a game, it says it can't detect my connection.

I still think the game's great fun though, and quite challenging as you go along. And the above worked to fix my problem (which seems the same as yours), just try with only 1 CD drive.

While disabling virtual drives works in theory - it doesn't help anything and also becomes an absurd inconvenience due to my production activities. That, and I have multiple physical drives. I tried disabling the virtuals and it still doesn't behave. And yes, I installed from drive 1 - which happens to be letter I. For some reason, I get the feeliing that by "CD drive #1" they mean "D:"