BF2 loads with one ROM drive but not the other

[kmillerusaf]

Hey all,

Not sure if this belongs in the gaming section or here but it is related to both. I decided to get back into BF2 after I installed my new HDD over the weekend and I used my 2nd drive which is an ASUS DVD-ROM drive to install and play it. Worked fine. I then installed the 1.41 patch for BF2 a couple of days later and when I tried to load BF2 afterwards, the screen to click "Start BF2" popped up but it refused to load the game. I put it into my top drive, a NEC DVD Burner (ND3550A I believe), it loaded just fine? I'd prefer to keep the NEC burner free for any DVDs or CDs that I want to write and keep the BF2 DVD in the ASUS drive just in case I ever want to play. Any suggestions? I looked to see if there were any firmware upgrades for the ASUS drive and there was one released in July 2006 which was like 6 months after I built this machine. Do you think that could be a cause or fix?

[pam123]

Wait a minute, you're not clear.

Once you install/put the game disk from/in your primary drive the drive doesn't work for anything else ?

[kmillerusaf]

hey pam,

I thought it was very clear but I'll explain again briefly...

After installing the patch for BF2 (1.41), the game no longer loads on my ASUS DVD-ROM drive... but will load with the NEC DVD-Burner drive. Before the patch, I could load the game on either. The startup screen up comes up on the ASUS drive, however it gives me an error when I click "start bf2". How's this sound?

[shadowpr]

Have you verified that the drive is still working properly?

[pam123]

Which drive is primary ?

edit : That's not really accurate, I think the drm stuff just got increased and you're losing your RW drive to it.

[kmillerusaf]

The ASUS is a DVD ROM drive, not a RW drive. It works because the BF2 splash screen starts when I put the DVD into the drive. The game will just not load when I press "Start BF2". So I have no clue at this point why it won't anymore because it would before I installed the 1.41 patch

[glc]

Is that the drive which was used to originally install the game, and is the drive letter still the same?

[kmillerusaf]

I believe it was the drive I used to install but I did changed drive letters around with my new HDD and one of the optical drives... which might have been the ASUS drive. Will I need to edit something in registry?

[glc]

You can use Disk Management to change drive letters around. If it works with the burner, swap drive letters between the burner and rom drive. It will take multiple steps.

[kmillerusaf]

Yeah I know how to change drive letters but is that the only fix? I changed F (NEC drive) to D and D (2nd partition on HDD) to F. So the ASUS drive was never messed with


EDIT***


As a matter of fact, I did the drive letter changes when I first installed the XP before I installed BF2 so that would be a non-issue

[kmillerusaf]

UPDATE:

Put the DVD into the ASUS drive today just to test and it worked. LOL! Weird. Thanks for all your suggestions guys. I still don't know why it happened but oh well