I went and bought bf4 at gamestop at midnight (for PC) because my download speed is very bad. I pop the disk in and load up the install menu but after clicking continue the menu disappears and nothing happens after that. Any help!? I don't want to wait a whole day to download the game!
@eanils wrote:
@OneEyedJohnny wrote:
This solved the problem for me. You need to uninstall Origin you won't lose any game info from other games in Origin so don't worry about that. Restart the autorun from disc and let it reinstall Origin and download the update for Origin. If you tried to start downloading BF4 you can cancel that. Then restart the autorun to begin installing BF4 from disc. Hope this helps.
Outside of the confirmed solution above (thank you for documenting it), there are a few more things you can try:
- Logging on as administrator / running the installer as administrator
- Disabling compatibility mode
- Disabling any emulation software (clean boot as described in my previous post should also take care of this)
It was my antivirus(Kaspersky). Thank you!😕mileyhappy:
@fatalmexicantaco wrote:
@eanils wrote:
@OneEyedJohnny wrote:
This solved the problem for me. You need to uninstall Origin you won't lose any game info from other games in Origin so don't worry about that. Restart the autorun from disc and let it reinstall Origin and download the update for Origin. If you tried to start downloading BF4 you can cancel that. Then restart the autorun to begin installing BF4 from disc. Hope this helps.
Outside of the confirmed solution above (thank you for documenting it), there are a few more things you can try:
- Logging on as administrator / running the installer as administrator
- Disabling compatibility mode
- Disabling any emulation software (clean boot as described in my previous post should also take care of this)
It was my antivirus(Kaspersky). Thank you!😕mileyhappy:
After spending another 6 hours I figured out it was a program running in the background causing me problems when trying to update anything. My new motherboard had come with software including something that's supposed to speed up the ram called AS_Ram. I only figured this out because I would be warned that the extra drive that the software created and used to store temp files was running out of space. Clearing up space didn't help but installing the program did. I've installed the game but haven't played it yet so here's hoping I won't have anymore issues!
Spent countess hours yesterday trying to install this damn game. Started with the disc, that didn't work. Moved on to the download. After 6 hours it craped out. Tried the download a second time, again no luck. After following tru3turk's path of manual loading (thanks for that) I finnally got it to install from the HD even though it took me many many tries to get it to recognize. I think the key to that is to run it as an administrator. Not sure why this is because I am the admin but what the hell it finally started to install. 2 hours later it finally finished. Seems a little excessive but again what the hell I now have an icon on my screen. Spent the next 3 hours installing the update, installing the update, installing the update.....you get the picture.
So my question,
How many damn updates are required? I pretty much gave up after the 4th one at 45 minutes a piece and I hate giving up. I'm pretty sure there isn't that many updates but none of them seem to stick. Note sure what else to do. So here I sit with a game that doesn't work cause it needs an update and $60 bucks out of my pocket.
@dricyxhot wrote:
I went and bought bf4 at gamestop at midnight (for PC) because my download speed is very bad. I pop the disk in and load up the install menu but after clicking continue the menu disappears and nothing happens after that. Any help!? I don't want to wait a whole day to download the game!
OMG this works,i was actually gonna wait for it to download but please dont. do this instead :
1: uninstall origin
2: run autosetup
3:install origin and let it update
4😕tart the game download and cancel it straight away:
5: run autosetup again and this time origin will start installing it from cd instead of download
hope this helped
I had this problem too, i fixed it.
This was my solution:
Step 1. Go to your battlefield 3 (Or other origin game) folder/directx/redist. Remove all .cab files (delete them) while leaving the .dll and .exe files
Step 2. Copy your directx folder and place it in the __Installer folder (Or the main game directory).
Step 3. Install through Origin (If this doesn't work the first time repeat it at least 3 more times)
i hope this'll help
Uninstall origin
use the discs Autorun exe
Let it reinstall Origin then when it starts the installation and you in your Origin Account with the picture showing in - My games the same picture on the BF4 Cd case you bought - it starts off slowly 0% for quite some time - dont panic - go to the bottom of the screen where it says 0% complete click on the orange arrow and a screen will pop up - in the top right of that white screen it should say - copying from disc
Thanks EA for the wonderfull entertainment you provide.
after days of numerious attempts to install, uninstalling origin, loading from disc, downloading from origin, nothing is working. The logs are all the same main issue "ERROR: Failed to install 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin\Battlefield 4\GDFBinary_en_US.dll' for install path 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin\Battlefield 4\'". see full install log below:
23:38:10 Installing GDF ...
23:38:10 Installing C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin\Battlefield 4\GDFBinary_en_US.dll ...
23:38:10 Alternate GDF game name Battlefield 4
23:38:11 IGameExplorer for Vista
23:38:11 ERROR: Windows IGameExplorer is unable to AddGame (80004005)
23:38:11 Assuming a re-install and attempting to retrieve previous install's GDF GUID.
23:38:11 ERROR: Attempt to retrieve GDF GUID failed (80004005)
23:38:11 GameExplorerInstall returns 80004005
23:38:11 ERROR: Failed to install 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin\Battlefield 4\GDFBinary_en_US.dll' for install path 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin\Battlefield 4\'
23:38:11 Installing C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin\Battlefield 4\GDFBinary_en_US_64.dll ...
23:38:11 Alternate GDF game name Battlefield 4
23:38:11 IGameExplorer for Vista
23:38:11 ERROR: Windows IGameExplorer is unable to AddGame (80004005)
23:38:11 Assuming a re-install and attempting to retrieve previous install's GDF GUID.
23:38:11 ERROR: Attempt to retrieve GDF GUID failed (80004005)
23:38:11 GameExplorerInstall returns 80004005
23:38:11 ERROR: Failed to install 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin\Battlefield 4\GDFBinary_en_US_64.dll' for install path 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin\Battlefield 4\'
23:38:11 Failed to install GDF
23:38:11 Installer finished with exit code: 3
23:38:11 Shutting down data reader.
****************************************
23:38:11 Stopping install logging
****************************************
Any help or ideas?
OK, I just bought my BF4 today ($39 at GS) put disc in, it installed Origin, I needed to update some Origin profile stuff (I entered the game's code so it's recognized on Origin but only "download" was available and NOT install), then it wouldn't load from disc. Every time it says you need to 1. Install Origin, 2....., 3. Install BF4. But every time you click "Continue" it runs the disc for a few seconds and terminates (and YES, everything is permitted in Comodo firewall). I uninstalled Origin (I used revo uninstaller that removes every last trace of whatever you delete by using the game's built-in uninstaller and then it scans the registry for left overs), clicked start, reinstalled Origin, updated, THEN it finally went into the install page, only it immediately terminated with a stupid error saying to come back later..... (this is really ridiculous people. Stupid DRM is destroying the game industry (which pirates can apparently bypass on day 1 so what's the point if you have online safety checks anyway??)
Finally, out of frustration I copied the entire contents from disc 1, the .z02 file ONLY from disc 2, and the .zip file ONLY from disc 3 (which apparently isn't a real "zip" file as I couldn't open it or extract anything from it) to a separate, empty folder on my desktop. If you do one disc at a time, it'll prompt for disc 2, copy and paste into folder. Once the system is done transferring the data it'll auto resume. (I don't recommend doing it that way, though if you DO have an error, you'll at least know which disc is culprit. In my case the 1st time running from the folder it was disc 3.) I closed Origin, then in the folder clicked Autorun.exe. (NO compatibility set and NO Administrator were checked; it was just run as-is in my case) It finally opened Origin and went straight to the install stuff (something is labeled wrong in the .inf or one of the files for installation but I haven't the time or care to find out or troubleshoot EA's mishaps). I clicked OK, and it FINALLY started installing 😕mileylol:
Warning, it takes a little while to copy/paste the files from all 3 discs to the HD folder (more so on older CD/DVD drives), so be patient. Also, I ran into a hiccup the 1st time trying to install from folder as I apparently got a finger print on disc 3 that apparently went ignored and allowed a corrupted version of the zip file to copy to the folder, and cause the install to hang at 71%. When it hung, I could NOT cancel the install nor could I close Origin (COMPLETE JOKE). It just froze the install claiming it was paused. I had to force Origin to close in the task manager, manually delete the game folder as it was an incomplete install with no "uninstall" available, THEN restart the autorun.exe. from the folder. From there it finally installed the game!!
So for whatever reason, if it installs Origin but then closes after clicking "Continue", there is something wrong with how it proceeds from disc to online. Just copy everything from disc 1, the .z02 file from disc 2, the "zip" file from disc 3 and paste into a folder somewhere on the HD (preferably on your main drive where the Origin files are and avoid using a partitioned drive in case there are registry issues ). Open the folder, click autorun.exe (or start it from an elevated prompt) and you are good to go. Why EA or Origin aren't posting this as an answer is rather disheartening, especially when I'm just some average guy trying to get his "new" game to work. Too bad this took nearly 4 hours to get straightened out....... GL and hope this helps.
