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 Re: Changing my BF 2 CD-Key
Posted by French Toast on Thu Jul 7th at 10:40pm 2005

Recently, when I've been playing BF2, it's given me errors -- "Your CD-Key is already in use" etc. etc. -- when I try to join multiplayer games. I want to change my CD-Key to get rid of this problem. I know I can do it by reinstalling the game, but I don't want to lose my progress or my controls (pain in the ass to change).

I'm pretty sure I just have to change the numbers in a registry file or something along those lines, but I can't find the file.

Anybody happen to know how I can do this?




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Posted by Myrk- on Thu Jul 7th at 10:43pm 2005

I take it you didn't actually buy BF2...




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Posted by satchmo on Thu Jul 7th at 10:53pm 2005

On a separate note, does BF2 have a single-player campaign? To my understanding, it's a multiplayer game only, kind of like Unreal Tournament.


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Posted by ReNo on Thu Jul 7th at 10:53pm 2005

I was going to ask the same question - you shouldn't ever be "changing" your CD key when you reinstall; you will have a CD key provided with your copy of the game which you should always use. If you own a legitimate CD key and you are getting "key is in use" errors, then rather than using a keygen or whatever to work around your problem (and thereby "passing the buck" onto some other poor legitimate owner), you should try and get in touch with customer support who can possibly help with your problem. Then again, BF2 was published by EA right?

As for keeping your key config and campaign progress, you should back able to make backups of your config and save files easily enough.




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Posted by RaPtoR on Thu Jul 7th at 11:35pm 2005

Well, that didn't sound a bit suspicius French Toast... you w****r...



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Posted by French Toast on Fri Jul 8th at 4:31am 2005

I did purchase a legit copy, and I knew it would sound suspicious so I tried to word it the least-suspiciously that I could.

Satchmo - Yes, it has a singleplayer, but not really a campaign. You just play the maps with bots.

ReNo - I was trying to avoid talking to tech support because I just plain don't like human interaction, and tech support people tend to be dumbasses. However, I'll take it up with them.




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Posted by Crono on Fri Jul 8th at 6:45am 2005

It's the same thing as 1942, which was just the same maps with bots.

You kind of have to take it up with EA since it checks with the MP servers to see if the key is on the level ... are you sure you didn't register the key already?


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Posted by ReNo on Fri Jul 8th at 11:53am 2005

French - You could probably just do it all through email if you aren't keen on talking to them through the phone. We all know what tech support people are like <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif"> That said, you may well just get standardised replies back, but even that might be of some use to you.




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Posted by Senshi on Fri Jul 8th at 11:57am 2005

French Toast, all of your progress and config will be saved in your My Documents folder. When you uninstall the game it will give you the option to keep these files or to remove them. So you can re-install without losing any of your settings/progress.



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Posted by Leperous on Fri Jul 8th at 1:47pm 2005

So, er, what do you want to change your CD key to?





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Posted by French Toast on Fri Jul 8th at 3:29pm 2005

I got one off (censored). I guess that's the illegal part...





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