Copy to new hard drive

[Winters 1]

Hi,

The only way i can get OFP installed and patched to 1.96 is to do this on a different computer. It will install but thats an older computer and it wont really run OFP well at all.

I tried taking that hard drive and putting it in my computer and copying the directory to my C drive but whenever i try to launch the game i get the Codemasters splash screen and then it will CTD and give me an "bad serial number given in setup" message.

How can i get this to work?

thanks

[Placebo 29]

Have you exported the relevant registry section and installed that onto your other hard drive?

[Winters 1]

i looked at my regedit and it has the correct path for OFP

[Placebo 29]

Yes but there's something wrong in there hence the error message. Why not put the hard drive into the other PC and install Opf up to 1.96, it may keep asking you to install drivers and such because of the different hardware but simply ignore that and only install/patch?

[Winters 1]

I tried that but the other PC kept restarting no matter what option i tried Safe mode/normal mode always ended up in a restart.

EDIT - how about the setup text files? when i look at them they have multiple drive letters.

[Placebo 29]

Is it using XP? Can you find an option to disable automatic restarts?

[Sniperwolf572 758]

More important have you exported serial number witch is in hex format from your weak PC to your strong one?

[Winters 1]

No, all i did was copy the entire folder over, can you tell me where i find this?

@Placebo - my computer uses XP and hers' uses '98/2K i installed on the 2K partition.

[Sniperwolf572 758]

Well this is what I do:

1. Install OFP to one pc with constant setup path being C:\Games\OFP\...

2.Copy OFP folder to other PC to same path

3.Export all OFP relevant registry keys to a file named OFPREG

[ALL OFP RELEVANT REGISTRY KEYS ARE IN: My Computer>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>SOFTWARE>Codemasters]

(Right click Codemasters then export)

4.Copy OFPREG file to other pc

5.Double-click OFPREG file

6.It will ask for confirmation to import registry keys to registry,answer "Yes"

7.Start OFP

EDIT: BTW all of my pc's are identical so i havent had trouble with partitions,only thing is if its installed on main partition on Win2k install it on main partition on witch is XP

[Winters 1]

Ok, i will give that a shot next, when i ran regedit i noticed only a path for Resistance and not CWC so i popped in the CWC CD and it only has an option to install and not to play, i will install it now and see what happens, if that doesnt work i will get the other HD and try it again but this time if it want to try any disc check when i start i wont allow it to do it. The last time it gave a message about changing OFP stuff.

EDIT: only the other PC has a 98/2K partition. My comp. just has XP on it.

[Sniperwolf572 758]

I know and I meant it that way,it only came out bad

[Winters 1]

Ok i have the HD with OFP installed in my computer now as the slave and am about to copy again to my C drive. I tried checking the registry on the slave but it just gives me the list of files on my master. Whats my next step?

EDIT: nothing seems to work i guess my OFP days are over.

Goodbye.

[benu 1]

It's not too difficult really. Install ofp on the slower computer, then start regedit (from the start menu). Select the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Codemasters\Operation Flashpoint branch and the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Codemasters branch and export them both into your ofp folder. They will both be text files, so you can open and edit them with notepad if you want to. You can eg change path names in there, except that it uses two backslashes instead of one.

Then copy over the folder from one computer to the other. After checking that the path names are correct doubleclick on the registry files. You have to have administrator rights for the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE branch. After that ofp should work again.

[Sniperwolf572 758]

Even better explanation,sorry cuz I have cut out last night my internet connection broke and couldn't restore it

[shinRaiden 0]

I keep my dump on my linux box, and when ever I flatten my windows box I just copy the folders over, and import the registry keys.

There are two keys in each folder benu mentioned, the serial and the path. You need both, so that's why benu said to grab the whole parent folder. Once you've exported you will have a nice little text file that you can confirm in notepad.

[Winters 1]

I think i am going to just get a new Motherboard tonight after work.

[Placebo 29]

For the sake of an easy life avoid anything based on the VIA chipset, they're fine but can be troublesome, I have an Nforce2 based motherboard and I really like it, onboard sound/LAN/Modem are nice bonuses as well, this is my motherboard K7N2 Delta-L

Cheapest price I could find with Pricegrabber.com is $58 from http://www.mwave.com/

Obviously this one is Socket A so no use if you're an Intel man

[shinRaiden 0]

Hold on there. Before you go grabbing an nforce2 board, make sure you check out the relevant links at nforcershq per manufacturer here. Make sure that whatever nf2 board you look at has the newer chips that have resolved the AGP + goobs of ram low power issue. I dunno about the p4 dept, I don't keep up on that side of the pipeline.

Actually, you shouldn't need to get a new mobo if I read your post right. If you can get OFP+R installed on any PC anywhere with your serials, all you need is that to get the keys built. The actual contents of a correctly dumped regfile will look like this:

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Codemasters]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Codemasters\Flashpoint Resistance]

"MAIN"="d:\\srn\\ofp"

"KEY"=hex:Th,is,fi,ll,er,fo,rt,he,en,cr,yp,te,dk,ey

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Codemasters\Operation Flashpoint]

"MAIN"="d:\\srn\\ofp"

"KEY"=hex:Th,is,fi,ll,er,fo,rt,he,en,cr,yp,te,dk,ey

I haven't (can't) try this from 9x -> XP, but if the layout of the .reg file is different, you can copy and paste the hex value for the key to make it work right.

Now the tricky part comes with patching. You need the the regkeys in place, and the appropiate version files (inc. the exe) before the patch will take effect. Once you have a system all patched up, it is really handy to dump that entire 'raw' OFP folder to disk, netshare, cd's, or a dvd, so that you don't have this hassle again.