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    EA games not working (BF2 and LOTR: Battle for Middle Earth2)

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by prelude_prince, Aug 23, 2007.

  1. prelude_prince

    prelude_prince Notebook Enthusiast

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    I had these games installed and working on my pc a while ago, and I have this strange problem now, as whenever I try to play these games they say "Please insert DVD/CD" in drive. This is really weird since, the DVD autoplays when I insert it into the drive, but when I try play it does not work. My pc is fairly new, and I have no idea why it doesn't work. The game DVDs are genuine, and clean discs, and the games themselves have worked on the same laptop before. It seems to be only my EA games that are doing this, as I can play DVDs and FEAR on the same laptop.

    Anyone offer any advice as to why this is happening?
     
    prelude_prince, Aug 23, 2007
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  2. Jeff

    Jeff Notebook Retard

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    try a re-install. patches. thats all i can think of. are these the only EA games that you own? do you have any others that do work.

    also, what OS are you using?
     
    Jeff, Aug 23, 2007
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    Many EA games use copy protection (SafeDisc) that does behave well with other parts of the system and other programs. Things as small as adding/changing a piece of hardware in a system can make EAs games go nuts. Hopefully one day EA will wake up and stop using the problematic SafeDisc in their games. :rolleyes:

    Here are a couple of things you can try:

    http://forum.eagames.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=35046&sid=f0e3e1d320e48269b5e8d296b99ea45e

    http://members.shaw.ca/pholland/tfd/faq.htm

    If all else fails:
    Contact EA, usually they are not of much help in these types of situations, but you may get lucky and have them actually fix your problem. ;)

    You could also try making sure you have to most recent version of SafeDisc on your system.

    If EA is of no help and you can't get it to run any other way I recommend you look for no-cd patches for the game(s). At least then you'll be able to run your games until you EA/SafeDisc makes a patch, or another solution is found.
     
    Avid Gamer, Aug 24, 2007
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  4. prelude_prince

    prelude_prince Notebook Enthusiast

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    Jeff: Yeah, I already tried those... no dice =( And I'm running XP SP2.

    Avid Gamer: Thanks, I searched through the EA forums, and it seems like its probably the SafeDisc... I'll definately try those fixes after work tonight, lets hope it works...

    Thanks again guys!
     
    prelude_prince, Aug 24, 2007
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