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clive22

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Cant get gamespy patch to work

I had to reinstall bf. I downloaded the exe to patch the game, picked the directory to install to and it says battelfield 1942 isnt there! What do i need to do?

nämeless

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Re: Cant get gamespy patch to work

Please, download the patch you need, unzip to the game directory and replace all the files.

http://team-simple.org/download/

ATF_SurrenderMonkey

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Re: Cant get gamespy patch to work

there are two program file locations for battlefield
pretty sure, (someone correct me if wrong) that you need to be using

C:\Program Files (x86)\EA GAMES\Battlefield 1942

as the location for the patch....

joint

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Re: Cant get gamespy patch to work

depends on instalation dir i say
clive22 i had same issue, you need your gamedir path in registry, nameless has regfile that help, you just need edit game path line and aply the reg file and instalation could see the game
in other words you need entry here
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\EA GAMES\Battlefield 1942
or install patch in an other way

Last edited by joint (2015-07-04 05:24:16)

clive22

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Re: Cant get gamespy patch to work

depends on instalation dir i say
clive22 i had same issue, you need your gamedir path in registry, nameless has regfile that help, you just need edit game path line and aply the reg file and instalation could see the game
in other words you need entry here
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\EA GAMES\Battlefield 1942
or install patch in an other way

Can you give me some more info? I need to edit the registry. How do I do that?

ATF_SurrenderMonkey

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Re: Cant get gamespy patch to work

see the executable files here in box "game updates"; have to add in the order given.  Won't need to edit anything, the patches do it for you.  you might want to rightclick the download and go to security and run as administrator.
you didn't say which windows version you are running....I now have windows 8.1 and have set my game to run as windows xp version 2...I don't know if that
still needs to be done. 

good luck

http://atfclanmaps.com/

this is for cd installation of game; not the origin freebie...

Last edited by ATF_SurrenderMonkey (2015-07-08 22:58:34)

Trench

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Re: Cant get gamespy patch to work

For what it's worth I hit a "No Battlefield 1942!  Setup cannot continue" error when trying run the Gamespy fix installer during a clean installation of Origin-based Battlefield 1942 on Windows 8.1 today.

There was a BF1942.EXE and MOD.DLLs under the "C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Battlefield 1942\" directory, I was giving the "battlefield_1942_gamespy_patch_v1.61.exe" installer the "C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Battlefield 1942" path rather than the default EA Game path, etc.  But it just wouldn't accept that the game was there.

Turned out to be because I had initiated "Download" but not yet "Install" of the Origin game.  I don't recall that being a two-step process before (download always did install as I recall, else what's the point of download within the Origin client), but regardless, all the files were in the program directory yet apparently it had never been "Installed".  Invoking "Install" on the now-downloaded game in Origin corrected the issue.

So I'm sure it's still the "missing registry information" condition just like SurrenderMonkey is describing; just wanted to relay a specific reason (and specific stupid reason) why I was able to hit that kind of condition.

-Trench