Hey guys...i have searched the forum for the answer to this, searched the internet EVERYWHERE, phoned EAUK and spoken to a technical advisor and nothing has worked, so please don't flame me for this post.
It is 11:26PM and exactally 24 hours since i uninstalled BF2 and SF due to technical issues i was having with the game. I totally took the game and everything to do with it off my computer, including cleaning the reg.
When i put the Vanilla BF2 DVD into my DVD drive and tried to install it i got an MD5 Error 'Objects_Client.Zip' so i had to uninstall the game and try again...then i got:
FuSHe Pass.Zip Error
Gulf Of Oman.Zip Error
Lots more Objects_Client.Zip Errors
Intro Movie Errors
I have installed, uninstalled, cleaned the reg 24 times now and have tried everything known to man to get this game to work again.
I have changed my DVD drive to PIO transfer setting
Manually installed the game
Tried to install in 'safe mode', as instructed by EAUK Technicians
Tried using a pre-patched 'Objects_Client.Zip' but the install just errors on a different part.
I have managed to get the game to install twice so far and both times i got the 'Patching Failed' message when trying to install the 1.3 patch.
So, i have downloaded 2 full 1.3 patches and 1 set of incrementals...all of them error and state 'Patching Failed'.
Once again i went into safe mode, but this time with networking because EAUK told me that "Downloading the patch in safe mode will avoid any corruption"...once again, it failed.
I haven't even tried to install SF yet because after 12 straight hours sitting here, reading everything i could find about MD5 errors and patching failed reasons, drinking lots of stella artois, smoking lots of smokes and trying and trying 24 times in total, i am very very tired of this...
Please can one of you BF2 Gurus help me?
MaK