First, I will point out to HH that promoting software piracy on this site can lead to a ban.
Having said that, I do direct people to noCD sites myself when they have problems running legitimate games due to problems with DRM, but don't condone piracy as such.
"When I go to programs and features and scroll to mohaa, there is no publisher or version listed, only the date it was installed."
Same here. The other EA games all list the publisher, even patches for MOH-PA do, but not MOH-AA.
"NVidia GT 555, 3MB graphics card. I installed a legit copy of mohaa, and it installed just fine. I tried to install the 1.11 patch, but for some reason it won't install, that could be because of where I'm at which is the middle east...
a message box pops up and says that it could not find the US/UK version of mohaa "
- Do you have other games installed that are functioning properly ?
The 'Middle East' covers a lot of area, but I don't know if they made a version specific to that region.
I see there are patches for German, Spanish, French, Italian and Dutch though.
- Have you tried re-installing the game ?
- Did you get the drivers for you graphics card from DELL ? It is often best to use DELL's drivers
vs drivers direct from Nvidia.
- Just to verify. Have you run the Direct X Web Installer to update DX ?
While MS only mentions DX11, Win7 actually installs three versions of DX - 9, 10 and 11, and
DX does need to be updated on new Windows installs.
Download details: DirectX End-User Runtime
Also regarding updates. It is best to not allow Windows Updates to install any of the 'Optional'
updates unless you have a use for them ( .NET or Visual C++ updates, etc.), but you should never allow Windows Updates to update graphics drivers on a gaming machine.
You should install the 'Important' updates though as there are several gaming related updates
among them.
There is also some possibility of a software conflict, so it's always worth trying Clean Boot to
troubleshoot that possibility -
How to troubleshoot a problem by performing a clean boot in Windows Vista or in Windows 7
It's difficult to visualise the problem. Upload a couple of screen-shots to Skydrive so we can see
just what is happening.
Use SkyDrive to upload collected files and post screen shot/picture. (Updated: 1/16/2012)
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