Battlefield2 problem advise plz?

[lokiguesty]

Hi all,

i friend of mine has the BF2 delux addition, he used to play it no problem. he then changed his dvd drive and started getting an error message asking him to insert the cd even though it was in the drive.

he the formatted his harddrive and did fresh installs of windows and the game (note the installs were from cd so i guess the drive is working)

now when he trys to play BF2 he clicks on the bf2 icon and gets "BF2.exe has encountered a problem" everytime

has anyone got any idea what could be wrong? and if so any suggestions for fixing the problem?

thanks all

LOKI

 

[lokiguesty]

Uninstall game and search for the registry entries that have been left, delete them.
Install game then Patch 1.3 then set your settings then Defrag. Then never touch your settings again.

hopefully not the stupidest question ever? how would he go about searching for the registry entries that were left over?