Not the right version

[{KiA}-Shadowwave]

I just installed BF2SF and every time it gets to the "join game" button point of the loading, it goes back to the server list with a "This server only runs on the origional version, please revert to your original version and retry". I just installed it! what is wrong?

[tazman311]

did you install the patch after installing special forces. if you installed it before then you will have to reinstall the patch

[Kawasaki12]

what game does that happen in, BF2 or SF? Or both?

[sackynut]

i would say patch

[Casey]

Yeah, you need to reinstall the patch if you already had it installed prior to installing SF (installing, installing, installing).

[{KiA}-Shadowwave]

is there just a special forces patch, or it it the 1.12 (or whatever) patch, cause i put in bf2, then 3 patches, then special forces.

[sackynut]

lol. ok you put in SF CD, install special forces. Download ONLY the 1.12 patch, install the 1.12 patch and your done.

[Tenshi]

I did that (installed bf2->SF->1.12 starting from a clean system) and i cant join any servers - theyre all the wrong version.

Ingame it says im at version 1.1.2552-344.0

[{KiA}-Shadowwave]

I got it working by just re-patching it.

[Tenshi]

I fixed it.

first...i installed bf2->sf->1.12...this resulted in my game being out of date.

I reinstalled the patch...no change.

Then i uninstalled everything. Installed BF2->1.12->SF at this point i tested the game and it worked. I joined a server with everyone else running the game post patch whereas according to the documentation i should have had to install the patch again. It worked for a few hours then eventually said i had modified content and kicked me off the server.

I think the proper installation process is...

BF2->1.12->SF->1.12

To be sure I also ran the game between each installation step.