Post patch crash and uninstall problem

[17pounder]

this may take a little time. The previous attempts to resolve this also appear to have incapacitated both my CD drives (system worked fine before all of this). Odd, I had run a full scan and defragged after my first removal manually. No errors popped up then.Once i get my system straight again, I'm a little wary of reinstalling WinSPWW2 tbh.

[Mobhack]

That would be remarkably odd, as the game makes no registry entries, nor does it install any drivers or CODECS, relying on the windows default CODECS etc (which has caused some problems with MP3 sound, as some third party applications have installed their own ones that interfered with Microsoft DirectPlay, hence our reversion to the larger format wav format in later releases).

The files you identified in an earlier post are the bog-standard Borland C++ builder support libraries. Those get installed to support the application, which is built using Borland's C++ builder development environment.

So I would look elsewhere on your system for any problems. We do not do anything that would interfere with your CD drives etc, the game is a standard windows DirectX application.

Hoewver some forms of game copy protection are known to cause CD reading/writing problems on some systems. Which you seem to have had?. So if e.g. you have installed anything that uses the starforce copy protection system then that may have been your problem - google on "starforce". This link is to a page which lists such games (site itself is rather anti the scheme! )

You may also want to re-download your patch files again, on the off-chance these have been corrupted on your hard drive (especially if the defrag shows any errors), just to be 100% sure.

Cheers
Andy

[DRG]

17pounder said:
this may take a little time. The previous attempts to resolve this also appear to have incapacitated both my CD drives (system worked fine before all of this). Odd, I had run a full scan and defragged after my first removal manually. No errors popped up then.Once i get my system straight again, I'm a little wary of reinstalling WinSPWW2 tbh.

Given what you've told us so far I don't blame you but also keep in mind that thousands of people ( not hundreds, thousands... ) have upgraded their games through all the patch updates without encountering the problems you have so the problem is at your end. Since the CD installed and ran fine and the problems only appeared after you patched the problem would be in the patching but since you patched them all then ran the game there is no way for us to say which patch may be corrupted OR for us to check how you did the patching so Andys recommendation that you DL the patches again would be wise since we have had people get bad DL's of the patches before but in those cases they were only patching up one level not three at once

Two questions

1]What operating system are you using?

2]Did you use the default installation location ( ie C:\Program Files\Shrapnel Games\The Camo Workshop\WinSPWW2 ) ?

Don

[17pounder]

Thanks, guys. I honestly appreciate the time and thought you have put in on trying to help me out. My system in running Win 98SE (Retained for older game compatability) and I did run to the default installation location. The cd rom problem really manifested after my (misguided) attempt to use add/remove programs after the uninstaller failed. Starforce is an interesting thought. I do have Silent Storm on my drive, so it's another lead. Once I get my CD roms running I'll have another look.
Cheers

Zin

[17pounder]

Yay!

After a long time thinking about it, I installed SPWW2 on my XP system-works like a dream. No crashes and install smooth as anything. Used up a lot of time over the Seasonal Break!

Looks like my previous install on my Win 98SE system fouled up due to my having 768MB RAM installed-this messes up a lot of programs.

Something to watch if you keep an old PC for compatability issues.

[Mobhack]

Originally Posted by 17pounder

Yay!

After a long time thinking about it, I installed SPWW2 on my XP system-works like a dream. No crashes and install smooth as anything. Used up a lot of time over the Seasonal Break!

Looks like my previous install on my Win 98SE system fouled up due to my having 768MB RAM installed-this messes up a lot of programs.

Something to watch if you keep an old PC for compatability issues.

Or you have an old programme. I have a perfectly good office 95 CD, and everything works bar Access database - because the new PC has >1 MB of RAM, the old version of Access throws a memory error. Only cure is to pull RAM from the PC! .Only found that out because I needed to use Access the one time (I normally use Paradox).

Cheers
Andy