Hey i recently bought BF2 Special Forces. Took it home and installed it, went too play it and i got the below error.
if anyone can help me with this would be much appreciated.
did you complety uninstalled bf2 1st? if not do so, install bf2, then booster pack, then patch it with the 1.41 patch, then go play :)
Ah! I know this error! This is a patch issue. When your game is patching and you all of a sudden quit the patch tool. eg.you were patching the game to 1.2 and suddenly quit. The game will identify it as 1.2 but with missing file(s). So i suggest you patch your game with the latest patch ;)
Wow, I also had problems with SF and got that error, i went to that folder /mods/bf2/shaders and i saw no files in it so go back out of shaders and look around the that folder and went into a winrar which HAD THAT file and i extracted it into shaders and the error went away!
I know how to solve that :D sorted it today myself. Go into your C:\Program Files\Battlefield 2\Mods\bf2 folder, there should be a zip file called "Shaders_client". Create a new folder in the mods/bf2 folder called "Shaders" and extract all the zip files into this folder, this will allow SF to run using those "Shaders" and BF2 to run using "Shaders_client". Hope this helps.