Battlefield Vietnam Problem

[E_J]

I just installed Battlefield Vietnam and updated it to v1.02. However, when I go to run it by double-clicking on BFVietnam.exe, the game does absolutely nothing: no error message or dialog box. The dedicated server executable runs fine though.

The EA technical support website has absolutely nothing that relates to this problem. The game does run when I replace BOTH the mod.dll and BFVietnam.exe files with cracked ones, but I don't like the idea of paying for a game and only being able to run it using a crack especially since this game is frequently updated and cracks are not immediate.

I have the latest version of Alcohol 120% installed, however I have disabled its virtual SCSI adapter in the device manager so that should not be the problem. Plus, this game uses Safedisc v2.90 so blacklisting should not be an issue. In addition, there is no error message like there should be if this was a blacklist issue.

So, has anyone else experienced this problem when running the game from either copies of the CD-ROM's or the originals? Right now I can't even get the original CD's to work so I don't know if the copies I made are good or not.