Originally Posted by portwineboy

I've run into this type of problem 2x recently. One was caused by some pc tweaking software I ran that disabled unneccessary services. It set my Windows Installer service to disabled. That took forever to figure out. The second problem I've run into is that my DVD drive was too old for the latest version of whatever copy protection software (secure rom?) is on the BF2 DVD. I had to install from my laptop's DVD over a network share and use an image file to play the game.