Jess and Obi,
I too am having the same problem. I just bought the Gold Edition and I've installed all the patches, and I still get a "memory could not be read error" while the logo screen is displayed.
I've read all the FAQs, followed every troubleshooting piece of advice posted on this board, and the game still doesn't work!
My computers specs are ATI Radeon 64 VIVO (fully patched) w/ DX 8.1, 512 MB RAM, 450 - 750 MB of Win2k swap space, ONE 72x cd-rom drive with no applications like Nero running, Win2k, 500 MHZ Pentium III, and a 36 gig ultra2 scsi hard drive. I would hope that a game like operation flashpoint would work on that system, not to mention I tried it on other PCs in my house and still doesn't work!
It looks like I'm taking the game back as well.
Pret