Chaos Empire D2 + LOD Mod

Computer-Games => International Support => Topic started by: back2toxic on December 09, 2005, 11:57:18 pm

Title: Cant start the game - PC tells me wrong CD is inserted
Post by: back2toxic on December 09, 2005, 11:57:18 pm

hi folks.

i just installed CE 7.64 at my girlfriends PC, but when i try starting CE the PC tells me that there is no Expansion CD inserted.

i installed D2 -> LoD -> 1.10 -> 7.55 -> activated -> 7.64

i can play CE at home without problems, but it doesnt work at my girlfriends PC though its better equiped than mine... any suggestions about the problem?
its a windows machine btw

things i tried:
-rebooting

Title: Re: Cant start the game - PC tells me wrong CD is inserted
Post by: webwalker on December 10, 2005, 12:02:27 am

There are two ways to meet the requirement:

Either
1: have the LOD CD in the drive or
2: create an image of the LOD CD (via BlindWrite or Alcohol120%) and mount the image on a virtual CD drive (DaemonTools)

If you use BlindWrite (as I did) you get two files, one 640MB in size the other a few KB with a .bwt extension.  This smaller file is the one to mount with DaemonTools.

Alcohol120% might (from what I've read here) have the ability to both create the image and mount it... somebody who uses Alky please fill in.

Title: Re: Cant start the game - PC tells me wrong CD is inserted
Post by: back2toxic on December 10, 2005, 12:03:48 am

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tried everything. wont work on this mashine, not even d2 classic or lod 1.10 work...

gonna drive home now and get my warcraft tft CDs and install them...hopefully they work or ill die caused by being deadly boored...

so long

Title: Re: Cant start the game - PC tells me wrong CD is inserted
Post by: webwalker on December 10, 2005, 04:43:17 pm

This massive failure-to-allow-fun suggests that maybe the install is not corerct for lack of video drivers or something as basic...
What version of DirectX is installed?
What evrsion OS (I'm runnign Win98SE)?
What video chip & driver?
Glide Wrap? Direct3D? DirectDraw?

This sounds like a fundamental hardware/OS hole-in-the-road-and-somebody-stole-the-steel-lid!