Battlefield 3 You Need To Install Or Patch The Game
Yamila Comejo
Today(31/3/2014) naval strike for battlefield 4 came out.Origin said it had a new download available, and directly installed it(I have got premium).There also was an update for battlelog(also installed that).Now, when i am trying to join a game that has naval strike maps in it, it will give me an error saying:
REQUIRES ADDITIONAL EXPANSION PACK
BATTLEFIELD 4 - NAVAL STRIKE
YOU NEED TO DOWNLOAD AND INSTALL THIS EXPANSION.
I rebooted my computer twice, re logged in origin and battlelog, but i cant get it to work.Also in my update folder in bf4 there is only Xpack0 and Xpack1.I have searched on Google, and they say(for older expansion packs) that i need to go in regedit and add Installed with value true.Tried Xpack2 and Xpack3 but that didn't help.
If it does not exists -> Right-click on Battlefield 4 select New then select Key a new folder will be created, name it Xpack1 right-click on Xpack1 > New > String Value > name this string Installed on the right-pane, double-click on Installed, set Value Data to True
@BOT_Venator @FieryTomahawk I had this exact issue and I noticed that the EA App no longer saw BF3 as being installed despite still being installed on Steam. I uninstalled BF3 in steam and reinstalled it and everything worked after the reinstallation. I also did all of the steps that @BOT_Venator did before the uninstallation so hopefully this will work for you.
I and some friends are now having the same problem. A few months ago we had the "game could not be started" problem, which now seems to be fixed. But now we all have the "Update Required You need to install or patch the game before playing" problem....
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ROFLOL... I see you already posted here: =932
two suggestions. follow the suggestions for modification, but apply them to your install location (dice). In otherwords create the new registry keys/value under that.
If that doesn't work, then create brand new key with the full path as given.
only other thought... you are trying to install the full 1.41 patch and not the incremental?
I might find it weird that people don't read whole threads about a topic they think they have knowledge about. Just because you read the title, doesn't mean you have the answer. I've read over 10 complaints about this issue so far and have found the same genius come along with the Registry fix. If you read, Idk, the first post; he already tried that. It didn't work. Now if someone else on here found that it was a solution, please come back and share with us your splendors.
I've renamed my files, changed the string thread and registry paths so the install wizard would recognize the file path. Almost ever thing I find doesn't work.
-I am running on XP
-I play new EA games so I have two folders from Crysis and BF2142, and the older EA games folder, and the new Electronic Arts folder.
-BF2[BF1942] is installed on the older EA games folder
-I come up with the error "can't find install folder for Battlefield2"
-I have tried copies from 3 sources for the patch.
1.EA download LINK
2.EA BF2 Download host site
3.Anonymous DL site.
If anyone could please leave a descriptive fix to the problem for all others seeking help, and myself, all time appreciated.
I also cannot install the RtR and SW expansion packs found on the Battlefield1942f2p website
Does anybody know what registry edits I need to make in order to be able to install the mod into my game DIR? Thanks
Any advice would help. Also I have checked under "Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\EA GAMES\Battlefield 1942\GAMEDIR\" to make sure that the registry entry of the Game folder matches the actual location folder, both are an exact match.
I Downloaded the v 1.61 gamespy patch from team-simple website. The executable file managed to patch the battlefield1942.exe file in my game folder, but I still couldn't scan for multiplayer servers in game.
I have followed every different solution listed in the gamespy master server thread, all to the same avail, the game freezes when scanning for multiplayer servers and unfreezes thirty seconds later with no result.
I, at one point in the past, managed to download battlefield from battlefield1942f2p.com, which came with a multiplayer server already patched into the installation. I could scan for multiplayer servers from there. But recently, i had to reinstall windows, and am now unable to find any download with the multplayer server patch.
sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this but im running out of options at this point. so i just bought BF1 and i let it install all 60-ish GBs and its now giving me a error that says i have driver version 0.0.0 installed and that it only works with 16.x.x or higher, i have the latest 18.5.2 installed so im really quite lost. iv uninstalled both game and drivers and tried the old trick from the open beta of going in a renaming the driver version but it dose not do a damn thing. iv contacted EA and they tried their best but that didn't end up getting me any where. im hoping someone will have the brains to help me out! i have a almost brand new system with all updated drivers and bios. I know enough to get a computer working and get past any normal issues say a bios flash and basic trouble shooting but nothing like this.
I would reinstall the driver. When you do, use custom install not express and choose clean install. This will likely remedy the situation. I have the same card and am running the 18.5.2 driver and play BF1 most the time. The driver is working very well, even in DX12 now. Give it a go and if reply back if that does not or does take care of it.
So that didn't work, i went and uninstalled everything that had to do with drivers and my card. Did a clean install and still getting the same error " detected AMD Radeon driver version 0.0.0. the required driver version is 16.25.1025 or later please update your drivers at amd...." Its for some reason not goimg a finding the drivers it wants but i have no idea how to make it see the drivers? Any other ideas? Is there maybe a way to program a work around? Like a way to bypass the programs need to look for what its not finding or a false driver name so it sees what it wants?
In other words what he is saying is that because you went with a chip with integrated graphics. You will always be limited to the latest driver the CPU uses not your video card, unless they match. AMD picks up the Video card driver from that APU driver. Not sure why they still have not found a way you can load 2 different drivers. You could easily pair that GPU with an Nvidia card and load both drivers. We have see a lot of complaints of this on these forums on past APU's. It becomes a real issue when one or the other becomes legacy and the other is still supported. For that reason I never bought AMD APU's ever, and still won't knowing this now. Did not realize that was still a thing with the new Ryzen's. Thanks for the information Ray.
When did this change? My understanding is on desktop computers, you choose the discrete card as 'primary' in the bios...just as you would if you had a Intel processor. The desktop computers do not have switchable graphics like a laptop computer....which only use one driver. But maybe Ryzen is different.
I'm no expert on any of this. I have never had an AMD APU out of a desktop. From what I have read here in the past is that you can only load the one driver. And that driver works for both APU and GPU. Which seems to be what Ray said to me. If not he didn't correct me where I was incorrect. I have also seen many posts where people did find ways to get legacy drivers to load in conjunction with the newer APU drivers. Can't say as I have ever seen where you could load say load the current .1 driver for the GPU and the .2 driver for the GPU, this would be optimal but from what Ray says you can't. Again, I am no expert on this by any means. I do IT for a living by 95% of all our machines are Intel with integrated graphics. My add-on card usage is limited to personal and building gaming rigs for a local system builder who is also my best friend. I think it is a shame when the bios doesn't allow you to disable onboard graphics and render these issues moot. I don't know if this is because recently the graphics are in the cpu itself verses chipsets of the past?
So i need to ALSO update the APUs driver, and make sure that they are the same driver version. should the amd auto detect work to update the APU or is there a separate file to download aside from the GPU driver file? Ill take a look at the APU and see what version It's at when i get home from class tonight.
Not because of that necisarily although could be. That is something your motherboard maker should have notes for of what the update does. Generally yes, it is typically good to have latest bios, firmware, application and driver versions.
Sorry didn't answer the auto update thing. I typically recommend you know what your hardware is and do the manual download of the drivers. I have had the auto stuff fail in the past where the manual install does not. I still see people complain of this recently. So I personally don't recommend it. AMD may have a different view. I am sure the options are their as the skill level of the end users varies greatly.
Yeah i had to update the bios when i built the tower anyways because of the cpu/apu bios not being on the bored. Amd was great and sent me out an older apu to do the bios flash so that was cool and went well so im good on bios then. Well il give this all a try and if all else fails ill just get my money back for the game and settle for BF4. Ill also do what kingfish said and make my gpu primary. One would think amd should have like an auto detect so this wouldn't happen?
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