Battlefield 2142 and Vista x64

KNiVES · 9 Jun 2008 at 20:44

So I'm redownloading Battlefield 2142 off EA Store (used to be EA Link when I last used it) after hearing of a new patch for the game. Last time I tried to play the game it was a very hit and miss affair with my operating system. Sometimes the game would refuse to play at all, or crash intermittently. On contacting EA support they said the game has no proper support with Vista and is not guaranteed to work. It's been a while now, what with the middleman program recieving updates (from Link to Store) and the game recieving a patch, has compatibility and usability with Vista x64 improved?

KNiVES · 9 Jun 2008 at 23:32

Good to hear. I've almost finished downloading it off the store now. Is that addon worth the £5 fee?

KNiVES · 10 Jun 2008 at 01:06

Upon attempting to open the game I get this;

KNiVES · 10 Jun 2008 at 01:26

Folder doesn't exist. Search for video.con showed up nothing.

KNiVES · 10 Jun 2008 at 12:36

Tried that, tried everything x_x It seems some people just can't get it to work at all. Google is filled to the brim with links of people complaining that they can't get theirs to work when I put in bf2142pace.exe. This is the issue I had before that stopped me playing it before. Really hope BF3 works with Vista.

KNiVES · 10 Jun 2008 at 14:50

Yeah, I reckon it's an issue with the downloader - bf2142pace.exe is an anti-piracy tool that works specifically with the downloader to ensure it's not just a copied version. Any disc-based version wouldn't need pace.exe, it would just check for the disc in the drive instead.