Yea, my computer is less then a month old. Can you tell me where you found the alternative bf242.exe file? I just played lastnight w/out the patches.
Thoroughly checked hard drive, nothing close to Alcohol, or any other emulators.
Yea, i bought the game at Fry's (Deluxe Edition)
The only thing i downloaded was the patch. My computer is fairly new, so i don't know if there's something the game is detecting and 'thinks' is an emulator. DVD burners / DivX player and burners, etc. Guess i'll be periodically going through and...
Thanks for the link, read throughly. Got some good ideas what to try when i get home from work.
P.S. this shit is retarded. seems like a lot of people are having problems installing / patching.
I recently picked up 2142, A friend reccomended the game, i think he's a member here, although i don't know his screen name. Installed fine, used EA downloader to patch the game, (versoin 1.5 i think) and now i'm getting an error every time i try to boot the game. I don't have any emulator...