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Feral Kat
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Hey y'all,

 

I got myself the boxed version of Battlefield today as it was quite heavily discounted however I am having problems with the installation. To start off, I have a 120GB SSD as a boot drive with a 1TB drive for all of my games and game clients. I was hoping to install from the DVD as my download speed isn't great and its a pretty huge install file however when I try to run the installer it tells me that I first need to install Origin so I click next assuming that it says that whether you have Origin or not and it doesn't go any further.

 

I have checked and I definitely have Origin installed, however it is installed on 'G' rather than 'C', if I open origin and opt to download the game there is no issue. Has anyone come across this before? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

TL; DR When I try to install BF4 from the disk it doesn't detect that I have origin installed.

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OK, go into Origin and activate your game with you key online. Then it should be added to your library of games. Insert the CD and click install. Hope this helps :D

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OK, go into Origin and activate your game with you key online. Then it should be added to your library of games. Insert the CD and click install. Hope this helps :D

 

Thanks for the suggestion, just tried this but I still only have the option to download :(

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Try cancelling and uninstalling,  remove the disk and then reinsert with Origin running and logged in.

 

Delete the BF4 folder also before you reinsert the drive.

 

I tried what you suggested but still no joy unfortunately. I have managed to solve it however, un-installing Origin and allowing it to reinstall from the BF4 disk seems to be the fix.

 

EA Everybody!  ;)

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I tried what you suggested but still no joy unfortunately. I have managed to solve it however, un-installing Origin and allowing it to reinstall from the BF4 disk seems to be the fix.

 

EA Everybody!  ;)

 

I was going to suggest that.

 

BF3 was worse because it was a bug in Origin that forced some people to download their copies.

 

 

The key with games on disk and Origin is you first register the key BEFORE inserting the disk

doing it the old way, insert disk, expect to be asked for key can cause Origin to cock up and start downloading the game.

 

You might want to check "Ignore non-critical updates" in the Origin settings so you can test the install without have to wait for the 4.4GB China Rising DLC if you have it.

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I was going to suggest that.

 

BF3 was worse because it was a bug in Origin that forced some people to download their copies.

 

 

The key with games on disk and Origin is you first register the key BEFORE inserting the disk

doing it the old way, insert disk, expect to be asked for key can cause Origin to cock up and start downloading the game.

 

You might want to check "Ignore non-critical updates" in the Origin settings so you can test the install without have to wait for the 4.4GB China Rising DLC if you have it.

 

 

I think I take Steam for granted (I know it has had issues in the past but these haven't ever affected me).

 

Ooh thank's for the heads up, I'll make sure to do that! Also thank you for helping with troubleshooting :)

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I think I take Steam for granted (I know it has had issues in the past but these haven't ever affected me).

 

Ooh thank's for the heads up, I'll make sure to do that! Also thank you for helping with troubleshooting :)

 

Just for note. I highly suggest that you install/move BF4 into SSD. It makes loading maps way faster than with HDD. This is pure fact. In our gaming group 3 ppl have game on SSD, others have it on HDD. So when new map loads the 3 of us can decide which vehicles we take this time. Or be at first M-COM before opposing team is even loaded game.

 

I bought boxed version and still used DL. But my internet downloads it faster from net than from disc :P You will have to download all those huge patches though. China Rising is 10gb, latest fix was 8gb etc.

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Just for note. I highly suggest that you install/move BF4 into SSD. It makes loading maps way faster than with HDD. This is pure fact. In our gaming group 3 ppl have game on SSD, others have it on HDD. So when new map loads the 3 of us can decide which vehicles we take this time. Or be at first M-COM before opposing team is even loaded game.

 

I bought boxed version and still used DL. But my internet downloads it faster from net than from disc :P You will have to download all those huge patches though. China Rising is 10gb, latest fix was 8gb etc.

China rising is 4.5 gb, latest patch was 1.2 gb...

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China rising is 4.5 gb, latest patch was 1.2 gb...

 

Hmm... then I must remember BF3 patch sizes. Oh well, last time it was installed in 5-10mins so I didn't even had change to check how big file was.

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Just for note. I highly suggest that you install/move BF4 into SSD. It makes loading maps way faster than with HDD. This is pure fact. In our gaming group 3 ppl have game on SSD, others have it on HDD. So when new map loads the 3 of us can decide which vehicles we take this time. Or be at first M-COM before opposing team is even loaded game.

 

I bought boxed version and still used DL. But my internet downloads it faster from net than from disc :P You will have to download all those huge patches though. China Rising is 10gb, latest fix was 8gb etc.

 

I would do but I don't really have enough room on there at the moment, and I'm not playing it enough to justify taking off the games that I have on there although I'll keep this in mind :)

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