WHAT?!? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[strongholdx]

My answer should work.​

However, I dont see the exactly error message but I know that if it isnt installed, BF3 wont run.​

BF3 was coded based off of VCR 2010 (or later) so that depend is a requirement.​

Well I DO have VCR 2010, in fact when trying to download it I'm told I have a newer version.

I think I know what I might do here. A while back when I had an illigitament copy of Windows 7 I kept getting blue screens (I didn't know that the copy was illegal). My old man brought it into the IT director that workd for him and he fucked up a lot of stuff, put a lot of shit on my hard drive that means absolutly nothing to me.

They had file names like '4563adm941gfynlt2379'

Needless to say I was kind of conserned, I put them all in a folder never to be opened again. I think Ill just back up all the stuff that I want to keep and reinstall windows, I have a feeling that will fix most of my problems. This is not the first time I've run into a problem like this. Take Magika for example, I need XNA Framework 2010, well I have XNA 2011 but for whatever reason, the game can't tell that I have it, tires to install it, freaks out and aborts install. I bought that in June and still havn't been able to install it

This baby is a $1500 computer built for gaming but it can't run games...

*facepalm*

 

[Aerokii]

Damn, sounds like you've got your bases covered. Could always try my old fix for when I had bad spyware/malware, but that included an old priest, a young priest, dunking a hard drive in holy water and formatting it. Usually that got it to stop terrorizing my home and family by casting the devil out. Might help with BF3. hard to say.

Edit: Ok if you actually are willing to just reinstall then do that, it'll make life easier.

 

[strongholdx]

Edit: Ok if you actually are willing to just reinstall then do that, it'll make life easier.

I may, I honestly don't know if I have the disk, and I know for sure I dont have an external her drive, I'll have to borrow one. Reinstallign windows will just take a really long time when you add in the amount of free time I have in a day (aprox 15 seconds) and accounting for screw ups.

Ill try your suggestions first

Off topic: Today is Taco Tuesday, yum

 

[Aerokii]

Huzzah for taco tuesday! I've got leftovers enough to make tacos tonight, actually.

and actually you don't need an external or anything. (The following is assuming he has a legal copy of windows, for sake of the TOS.) If you get a windows 7 ISO and mount it using Daemon tools, when you run it you can choose to do a reinstall/upgrade where all your old files should be kept in windows.old. At least it should, I guess I haven't used a windows 7 disk on windows 7 itself...

or if you have somewhere to back your stuff up, you can take that same iso, turn it into a bootable on a flash drive (I can provide help with this), format the drive, then reinstall fresh from there. I had to do that with my laptop just last week, it actually runs a bit better now.

Option 3 is going for windows 8. But you're on your own there.

 

[strongholdx]

and actually you don't need an external or anything. (The following is assuming he has a legal copy of windows, for sake of the TOS.)

Its legal

If you get a windows 7 ISO and mount it using Daemon tools, when you run it you can choose to do a reinstall/upgrade where all your old files should be kept in windows.old. At least it should, I guess I haven't used a windows 7 disk on windows 7 itself...

I'll look into it. I just dont like the thought, or remote possibility of losing the 100's of Gbs of games

or if you have somewhere to back your stuff up, you can take that same iso, turn it into a bootable on a flash drive (I can provide help with this), format the drive, then reinstall fresh from there. I had to do that with my laptop just last week, it actually runs a bit better now.

mumble?

Option 3 is going for windows 8. But you're on your own there.

Not gonna happen

 

[Razael6]

Windows Xp is good

 

[Aerokii]

Hmm... there's no way I can think of to save all the games as programs, only the saves/data that you already have. And usually such data isn't very large, it can be saved on a single flash drive. However, if you're talking about installed games or ISOs, you'd want to back them up. Speaking of back ups, have you tried running a windows restore from before all this hooplah happened?

Also if we can get Origin working, I'd suggest uninstalling VCR2010 from the control panel and reinstalling from one of the links given here.

As for mumble, we can do that, though I'm hopeful we won't need to start you from scratch.

 

[strongholdx]

Who has two thumbs, and got Origin working? This guy!
Now to attempt BF3

 

[Aerokii]

awesome- how'd you fix it?

 

[strongholdx]

got Origin fom their website (Yay comon sense)

Still having the VCR problems though - working on it

 

[strongholdx]

Ok, here is what I can figure out. when I remove VCR from my computer compleetly, the arror message hase (flase) at the end, however when VCR is installed it has (1603) at the end.

BF3 seems to use VCR 2008 (in the actual data files) while I have 2010. I honestly don't see where the problem is, I think I'll try to force 2010 into the files and remove 2008

 

[strongholdx]

Fix'd!!!

Thanks guys, see you in game