[RESOLVED] FREEDOM FIGHTER WON'T START IN WINDOWS 7 (Non-Steam Game)

[AlmightyYogs]

Okay, so I have had Freedom Fighters game (which came out in like 2003 and was made by EA and IO) for a long time. like 12 years or so. Loved it back in high school when I was playing games on my windows XP crappy desktop. The graphics were managable, and the gameplay was fantastic. This might be the reason I was so in love with Battlefront 2 on PS2.
ANYWAYS
I decided to play it again recently on my windows 7 laptop, and figured it would be amazing again!
At first I tried to get the DVD drive to work, but that is another issue. so I moved it over to a USB on my other laptop. it installed easily, and I still have the CD Key, so I had no issues.
AND THEN I TRIED TO RUN THE GAME
I double clicked it
and
nothing
Absolutly nothing! I tried again, and again nothing. so I tried running as administrator. Same thing. Compatability mode. same thing. Reinstalled. nothing.
Nothing I tried worked. So I finally resorted to google. and saw i wasn't the only one with this issue! and there was even some suggested solutions! removing the movies folder so the game skips trying to play them. Reinstalling with a setup file already given administrator privilages, and compatability. Changing my audio acceleration. even Regedit. Tried them all. nothing worked. they seemed to work for other people, but nothing worked for me.
Depression was setting in. I would never be able to play my beloved Freedom Fighters again!
so I spent a couple hours googling and rephrasing the search. nothing was different. I even tried to pirate the game, but with that I had different issues. no sound in cutscenes. couldn't handle that either. so I went back to trying to fix my game. I even tried to find a digital version somewhere I could buy! I was willing to pay for the game a second time!! But you can't buy a digital copy, and the easiest to find versions were for PS2 and Gamecube. I want my old pc Russian shooting simulator!

I tried one more search. "Freedom Fighters Windows 7" and before I could hit enter, Google, in it's infinite wisdom, suggested "Freedom Fighters Windows 7 Fix".
A FIX
WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF THAT
So I search.
and I found it. There is a site with a NO CD Fix, many different cheats, trainers, saved game modifiers, AND A WINDOWS 7 FIX.
Now, after my hours (literally like 5 hours) of searching, I am very skeptical. this probably won't work. I will double click it and nothing will happen. but I tried it.
and I waited.
1 second.
2 seconds.
3 seconds.
the screen flickers.
It goes black.
and then I hear it.
"EA GAMES! Challenge EVERYTHING"
then the build up to "NVIDIA"
and then I see SUBS MOVING THROUGH NEW YORK HARBOUR!
IT WORKS!
MY BELOVED FREEDOM FIGHTERS IS WORKING!
I play a bit of the single player.
Flawless.
I max out the graphics.
Flawless.
Max out the resolution.
FLAWLESS!
I find the pages with the solutions I tried that failed. I want to express my gratitude to the writers and offer my solution to those who had my issue (whatever it actually was).
But those posts are from years ago. sometimes as far back as 2008.
The topics are locked or archived and can no longer be posted on.

SO I HAVE COM HERE TO SAVE THE GAMES OF THOSE WHO HAVE TRIED AND FAILED EVERYTHING SO FAR!

BEHOLD
THIS IS THE PAGE WITH THE FIXES AND CHEATS
copy the below url into your address bar replacing the words in "Quotes" with the appropriate character
gamecopyworld "dot" com "slash" games "slash" pc_freedom_fighters "dot" shtml

this works. I have used this exact page for the fix. I am using the above format for the link because steam removes the link otherwise.

[Dominic]

I remember Freedom Fighters. Pretty good game.

[gattsu]

DUDEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE, THANKS A LOT

U SAVED MY LIFE WITH THIS TOPIC

THANK YOU MY LORD

[TurboKrazy]

I remember that game. Really liked it... Back in early 2006.