Installation of Bf2 and FH2 on Windows 10?

[ColonelDeepthroat]

Hi.

I installed some new hardware (mainboard and CPU). After that (surprise, surprise) my Windows 7 64-bit Pro didn't start anymore which is pretty common when making major hardware changes.

I've installed Windows 10 Pro 64-bit now and have the old system and all the files (BF2 and FH2) on the other harddrive.

But now I need to re-install everything, including BF2 and FH2.

Does this work easily? Does anybody have some tips how to make this smoothly? I would also like to use my configuration files from Fh2/BF2. I should still have the original BF2 DVD/CD.

 

Thanks and happy holidays.

 

 

 

[michaelau999]

Oh! thank you very much so I can download one more FH2 and promote FH2 to my friend

[Gravelight]

Type "regedit" in your cmd window

Location -> Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Electronic Arts\ea games\battlefield 2

everything after "WOW6432Node" wont be there for you so you need to create it by rightlicking and "Create new Key" ( Keys are "Folders")

inside the "Battlefield 2" Key (Folder) you Need to rightclick and create new "String Value"

You Need these two "String Values"   the rest will be created automatically!

• installdir           (Root Location from your BF2 Folder)
• ergc                  (Your CD-Key  Format WIHTOUT  "-")

 

 

Edited December 22, 2017 by Grabfunzel

[Gravelight]

Move the Folder to your healthy Harddrive and reassign the registry stuff again.

[Gravelight]

You can keep the old Files you just need to setup the registry in win10 

[ColonelDeepthroat]

1 hour ago, Grabfunzel said:

You can keep the old Files you just need to setup the registry in win10 

 

Thanks for the reply.

How exactly do I do that? Manually?

[truth_hun]

I usually reinstall the game in the same folder (registry keys get inserted)

Move or copy my old config files into place (Documents\Battlefield 2 and Documents\Forgottenhp 2)

That's about it as far as I can remember. I do not reinstall very often.

[kummitus]

Install from scratch with disks

Copy over Battlefield 2 and Forgottenhp2 directory from My documents from the old to the new.

[Gravelight]

Try my solution first.. thats like 2 minutes of work... 

[ColonelDeepthroat]

3 hours ago, Grabfunzel said:

Type "regedit" in your cmd window

Location -> Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Electronic Arts\ea games\battlefield 2

everything after "WOW6432Node" wont be there for you so you need to create it by rightlicking and "Create new Key" ( Keys are "Folders")

inside the "Battlefield 2" Key (Folder) you Need to rightclick and create new "String Value"

You Need these two "String Values"   the rest will be created automatically!

• installdir           (Root Location from your BF2 Folder)
• ergc                  (Your CD-Key  Format WIHTOUT  "-")

 

 

 

Thanks for your replies guys.

@Grabfunzel: So I need to re-install BF2 though? Now I have a completely new Win10 and the old Win7 isn't working anymore and on another harddrive. So I don't have the registry entry yet.

[Gravelight]

No just Point the registry to your old bf2..

[ColonelDeepthroat]

Thanks. It actually worked, I tried Singleplayer.

 

I just realized though that the old bf2 folder is on the old win7 harddrive which I intend to format (has some "bad sectors") in the near future. So I have to re-install it anyway.

Or could it actually work to move the oldf bf2 installation to the new hard drive and update the registry?

[ColonelDeepthroat]

Will try that. Thanks.

[Humledrik]

Here's an interesting one... I have 2 BF2 discs but lost the key for one of them. As we're going to be playing 2 players next campaign, I thought I would have to get hold of another key. But it turns out the insert key in registry in unencrypted version registers as a different key so we can play 2 on servers using effectively the same key. I tested it on public and it works. Using the same standard encrypted registry key only allowed one online at a time last time I tried this a couple of years ago. Anyone know what's changed or why this is now possible? Was all set to buy another copy second hand just for the extra key....

Edited February 1, 2018 by Humledrik

[michaelau999]

How can I get BF2?

Battlelog.co has stopped distributing and it is extremely hard to buy a BF2.

[RayderPSG]

21 hours ago, michaelau999 said:

How can I get BF2?

Battlelog.co has stopped distributing and it is extremely hard to buy a BF2.

Link removed.

If you want to play bf2,  try buying it via amazo... Others tricky solutions we all know about 

[RayderPSG]

52 minutes ago, michaelau999 said:

Oh! thank you very much so I can download one more FH2 and promote FH2 to my friend

Exactly mate! with the standalone all is easier