BF2: Invalid CD-key??

I installed BF2 Delux Edition on my laptop, and the game worked until I created a new user account on my computer. (The first user was the computers admin.)

After launching BF2 on the new user, I was not able to play online games. When I try to enter a internet server, I get the message: "Your CD-key is invalid."

Anyone know how to fix this problem? (by the way: the CD-key IS VALID!):?

Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but why install it twice on the laptop? Why not just give the second account rights to use the first installation.

If you are trying to create an account it may be detecting the other account linked to the CD key, so even if you type it in correctly it recognises that it is already taken by another account.

I know from playing that you can only have one account per CD key playing at any one time. If another account with the same CD key connects to an online server, then it kicks all other instances of that CD key.

Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but why install it twice on the laptop? Why not just give the second account rights to use the first installation.

If you are trying to create an account it may be detecting the other account linked to the CD key, so even if you type it in correctly it recognises that it is already taken by another account.

I know from playing that you can only have one account per CD key playing at any one time. If another account with the same CD key connects to an online server, then it kicks all other instances of that CD key.

Avenger1324

Well I have 5 computers and my friends were dumb enough to try and go online using the same CD-Key and the exact thing happened.SoberWarock

Well, that would be the problem right there. EA doesn't play nice with you putting any of their games on more than one computer. It's fine if you only play the game on one computer at a time but if you try to play it on both at the same time with the same CD Key it won't work.

As Thanatose said, EA doesn't take sharing lightly.

My advice would be trying to explain your problem on the EA Battlefield 2 Feedback/Help forum

Well, I first installed this game on our "family-computer" before I got this laptop. And when I got the laptop, I installed BF2 on it, and uninstalled it from the family-computer.

I did not use BF2 on the "family-computer" after buying the laptop. (The onlineservers worked fine on the family-computer).