**GAME WILL START** TWO FIXES

[StrongLad]

1st FIX
-Install game on same harddrive as steam. (suggested)

OR

2nd Fix
- replace original .exe with a crack. Chill out, you paid for it. (Multiplayer still works)

Go to this page http://gamecopyworld.com/games/pc_rainbow_six_vegas_2.shtml

Look for and download: Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 v1.03 [MULTI5] No-DVD/Fixed EXE
-It's 6.5 MB
-Click the floppy disk picture
-skip the ad
-choose a mirror to download from (It doesn't matter)

It's a .7z folder. Extract it. (Google WinRar. it a program that will extract it)

64-bit WinRar (try this one FIRST)
http://download.cnet.com/WinRAR-64-bit/3001-2250_4-10965579.html?spi=d547e68c27176ab8d2bd3cee927317ff

32-bit WinRar (THEN this one)
http://download.cnet.com/WinRAR-32-bit/3001-2250_4-10007677.html?spi=9bb21d6c7a2151f6856faa8beb081259

Find the new R6Vegas2_Game.exe you just extracted, you're going to move it to another folder in the next step.

Go to the folder for the game located at:
-C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Rainbow Six Vegas 2\Binaries

If you can't find the game files-
Find the game in your steam library, right click hit properties, local files tab, browse local files button, binaries folder.

Move the EXE you just extracted into that folder. MOVE AND REPLACE.

And that's it. No extra installs. You can boot the game within steam like normal.

Happy Hunting!

If it worked for you, post that it worked in this thread. It'll help other people find the fix.

[SokimMan]

Im having trouble when I download the file from the link it downloads as a file and I can not extract it.

[StrongLad]

Originally posted by SokimMan:

Im having trouble when I download the file from the link it downloads as a file and I can not extract it.

Use WinRar to extract the file. Link for download in the instructions above.

[Potoskull]

Does replacing the original exe with the cracked one make online play not work anymore?

[Secret Santana]

Online play worked for me with the cracked exe. My friend just bought this game and his worked instantly without any crack so I really don't know what the hell the problem is

[SokimMan]

YES FINNALY IT WORKS!!! Thank you so much I have been trying to get this game to run for 3 freaken hours.

[Jäger]

Wow, it actually works, thanks a lot dude <3

[StrongLad]

Originally posted by PotoSkull:

Does replacing the original exe with the cracked one make online play not work anymore?

Second confirmation, crack does NOT stop online play.

[RedBallCarry]

big thx

[Secret Santana]

Hey guys. I had the same problem I was having with this game with Splinter Cell Chaos Theory.

They figured out that the problem was installing the game to another steam library on another hard drive, and not the library contained within the steam folder containing steam.exe

To test this, I moved some other games from my primary steam library to other libraries and pasted my Vegas 2 and Chaos Theory folders from within "common\" to the common folder in my primary steam folder.

I deleted local content and chose to reinstall both of these games to my steam folder containing steam.exe, let steam discover the existing content, and voila! Both games started up correctly and without the No-CD crack.

[Genesis]

I'm not sure piracy is allowed here but well...

The cracked version actually works online if you have a valid CD key (disclaimer : I own the game on Steam).

If the original executable didn't work for you but the cracked executable did, then it's weird, it would mean the DRM or something that has been removed from the original executable is faulty.

However, I've never seen so many complaints about the game not working since the latest Steam update, that could be part of the problem...

[BG-Team-DRIFT]

+1!!!

Originally posted by Daddy Spritzer:

Hey guys. I had the same problem I was having with this game with Splinter Cell Chaos Theory.

They figured out that the problem was installing the game to another steam library on another hard drive, and not the library contained within the steam folder containing steam.exe

To test this, I moved some other games from my primary steam library to other libraries and pasted my Vegas 2 and Chaos Theory folders from within "common\" to the common folder in my primary steam folder.

I deleted local content and chose to reinstall both of these games to my steam folder containing steam.exe, let steam discover the existing content, and voila! Both games started up correctly and without the No-CD crack.

[Inquisitioner]

Originally posted by Genesis:

I'm not sure piracy is allowed here but well...

The cracked version actually works online if you have a valid CD key (disclaimer : I own the game on Steam).

If the original executable didn't work for you but the cracked executable did, then it's weird, it would mean the DRM or something that has been removed from the original executable is faulty.

However, I've never seen so many complaints about the game not working since the latest Steam update, that could be part of the problem...

First of all, owning a copy - regardless if retail or digital; dose not entitle you to pirate the game nor justify it in anyway. And of course valid cd key works offline - all the crack really is intended for is to prompt the game to not check for a CD or alike in the tray in order to launch the game, not intended to change the online aspect of the game.

The crack simply bypasses the ubisoft drm such as detection for punkbuster demands to be installed in this case. Which presents problems and if nothing more is plain annoying and unwanted to install - especially for a game that's at this stage just played by a few friends co-op at most.

And the latest steam update is nothing major - game has had all sorts of issues ever since it landed on steam. The most common being the "failed to initilalize network" one.

[Yato]

Worked for me too~

The same "tactic" actually works for Rainbow Six Vegas (1) too~

[StrongLad]

Updated Fixes. Two possibilites.
Found a Fix for xbox 360 Wireless controllers not working. (in another discussion)

[ChiaChia]

Not sure if this will works, i installed it normally but then it stop installing on the punkbuster thingy so i "X" it and delete local content and reinstall it again and it works for me =/