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DVD incompatibility
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| Author | Topic: DVD incompatibility |
| Greyhawk |
posted 03-16-99 07:29 PM ET  
After numerous posts in this forum about SMAC having trouble with DVD-ROM drives I still have had no satisfactory explanation. SMAC is the ONLY game (believe me, I have lots) that causes big problems with my DVD. It takes many many attempts to start up the game, no crashes just nothing at all, no game nothing until that lucky time, maybe the tenth attempt it fires up the game. Is this a copy protection problem? I'm playing V2.0 UK game (genuine!) I've also had to reinstall my DVD player software twice now, both times after playing SMAC. Firaxis - please look into this, I'm sure i'm not the only one to suffer this problem. Another thing, the sound is knackered after loading up V2.0, it was OK before then very stuttery after patching. Any clues? SB PCI 64 if you're interested. |
| Brian Reynolds FIRAXIS |
posted 03-17-99 09:10 PM ET
Hi Greyhawk, I've asked someone to e-mail you a more DVD-friendly version of the TERRAN.EXE file for you to try. BR |
| Santiago |
posted 03-18-99 02:46 AM ET
maybe i have exactly the same problem, could you please send me this DVD-friendly version in french (please) |
| BikeDude |
posted 03-18-99 12:54 PM ET
GreyHawk, If you want to try another game that probably won't run, then buy Settlers3... ;-) I collected some information and wrote a piece about S3: "http://runesbike.com/BlueByte". The conclusion is that European software retailers are demanding more copyprotection, hence various distributors (mostly small ones at first I think) have started complying with this. Hence games such as Railroad Tycoon II and now SMAC appeared in a Euro-"friendly" <g> version which simply doesn't work properly with certain CD (or in your case DVD) drives or e.g. an OS such as Win2k. The US version should work great though, and as far as I can tell, patch v 3.0 will turn every version into the US one. (thank you firaxis if this pans out) If you, like me, buy a lot of games, then this isn't remotely amusing. There's too much sloppiness going around the game industry, and the current fad of adding copy protection (which doesn't work properly[1]) is nothing but an insult to those of us actually buying the games. EA in UK have finally answered me an apologised for the mishap. They failed however to ensure me that future releases will work properly. So now I'll have to buy all my games directly from the USofA? <sigh> (great to see that Brian is involved in this forums btw... if they haven't sent you the friendly terran.exe yet, you could follow the link elsewhere in this forum to a place where you can get the US version of terran.exe) -- |
| cousLee |
posted 03-18-99 05:57 PM ET
I have a DVD and no problems here. chalk one up for Compaq (rarity)  I have not had any crashes. |
| morindin |
posted 03-19-99 06:55 PM ET
So how do I go about getting hold of this thing that will fix my DVD problems? Its a pain having to uninstall and reinstall five or six times to run the game. Please aid me! |
| cousLee |
posted 03-23-99 04:44 AM ET
I have a DVD and no problems as i said before, what file would you need copied? [email protected] what brand DVD? mine is a "COMPAQ DVD-ROM GD-2000" |
| Starshiptrooper |
posted 03-28-99 01:26 PM ET
Please Please Please someone send me a fix for this DVD problem. I have Creative labs 5x drive, and get the same problem!!! ICQ: 25955214 |
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