Battlefield 2: Bad Company 2 problems

[bielius]

Hey! After long time, i came back here with my problems. Hope not to disturb you all, just looking for some advice

Ok, i got Bad company 2, not in CD, but the d/l -able version.
First time i ran the Autorun.exe , it gave me an error, Saying that Autorun.dat is not there in folder, or just missing. I've spent like 4 days browsing internet, and lastly gave up and reinstalled windows. I again downloaded the game, and voila.. another error.
so what do I have now is, when i press on autorun.exe , then Install, it gives me error that setup.exe has encountered an error and needs to close, AKA don't send thing ( as I call it).
If i press setup.exe , some bat window comes up and after one second it closes. as i was writing this, and opened the folder, i saw a .bat file there, named setup.
I pressed on it, and got this:
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16 bit MS-DOS Subsystem
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D:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1\MYDOCU~1\DOWNLO~1\BFBBC2\rld-bbc2\rld-bbc2\Setup.PIF
Invalid program file name, please check your pif file. Choose 'Close' to terminate the application.
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Close
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As I've read through internet, i must delete the .pif file somewhere and it should work, or something. So what i ask you people is advice in what shall i do now, to get it working.
my specs are there written near my name.
THANKS!!!

 

[gobbybobby]

where did u get the game from? was it D2D, Xfire store Need more info.
What OS are you on.
Edit: I see your specs. they are not that good but should run the game on low maybe medium settings. Download SP3 for Windows XP.

 

[bielius]

it was from xfire store.
I am on Windows XP SP3.
P.S. I actually have SP3, just old info.
and thanks for your replay!

 

[gobbybobby]

never bought a game off Xfire store so don't know too much about it. try running the setup as an administrator. (right click the setup.exe and click run as admin)

 

[bielius]

well, my name is administrator, i have those rights, but when i try to use the "default" admin, like the real admin, i don't know a password for it, so maybe there's a default password for it? else i don't know :/

 

[gobbybobby]

U say you re installed windows? It should not ask for a password. can u screenshot the box that asks for a password.

 

[bielius]

yeahh, i did.

as you see..

 

[gobbybobby]

ahh well it says you are an admin so thats not the problem. Windows XP media Center edition. I used it before and never had a box like that. Im gonna do some research, Will see if I have a solution in a min.

 

[gobbybobby]

reading the how it works section on Xfire store. Does the Xfire Client not install the game for you?

 

[bielius]

i dont have xfire installed, will try in a second.. it may probably be the problem lol.

EDIT:
no, neither it installed nor xfire installed it auto.
probably i have to install it with the setup.exe, just to walk around the error.. somehow.

EDIT2:
It is XP professional, i am 99% sure.

 

[bielius]

SOrry for double posting.. but can anyone help me on this? i am so desperate to play this game, everyone has tried but I didn't.. please!.

 

[Relic]

Have you tried there official technical support forum? The community is very active and you might have better luck with them. I personally use Xfire but never bought anything so I don't know how they do things, only digital vendors I used are Steam, Impulse and GOG.

 

[bielius]

Ok, i will try, but i thought that it will be easier to do it here, because it is kind of WIndows error, not CD-key errors or such, who I need to contact official support. but if anyone knows a way how to overcome this error, i will be VERY! pleased to hear it!!!

thanks for all replies!