ME Problems? - Page 2

Phoenix-D · #11 October 9th, 2003, 05:09 AM

Let me make it clear, for me it does work despite the noise. Try burning a copy, for me the copy is quieter.

Austin · #12 October 9th, 2003, 05:15 AM

Yeah, it does seem to require you use the CD. My laptop asks me to put it in when it is not present. The very first time I ran the game, it did not detect the cd but after reinserting it, things worked fine. I use Windows XP Professional.

DeadZone · #13 October 9th, 2003, 08:31 AM

I do suggest imaging the CD to your hdd and creating a virtual cd drive
I do this alot as my CD drive is slow and sometimes causes my machine to play up

XenoTheMorph · #14 October 9th, 2003, 07:03 PM

Well it seems this is not just an ME problem

I'm having the same problems as Gregebowman with my 98 system with both CD drives! No matter how many times I reinstall or change the drive nothing else happens. (Just to note Autoplay is off)

So does anybody have any ideas how to solve this or get around it. Please post if you have had the same problem and solved it (or even not

). Hopefully this will be fixed in the patch if it is to difficult to get around.

[ October 09, 2003, 18:05: Message edited by: XenoTheMorph ]

Mephisto · #15 October 9th, 2003, 08:26 PM

I can only guess. Do you have a music folder on the hd? Is there one on the CD. Maybe SF tries to play music but cannot for some strange reason. The beta Version has a dedicated music folder on the hd and does not require any CD.

gregebowman · #16 October 9th, 2003, 09:27 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Mephisto:
I can only guess. Do you have a music folder on the hd? Is there one on the CD. Maybe SF tries to play music but cannot for some strange reason. The beta Version has a dedicated music folder on the hd and does not require any CD.

Maybe that could be true, but since I can't get past the install screen, I don't know. Maybe if I got past that point and I was having difficulties, I would think about the music folder. My music folder is part of my Morpheus program, so I think it's called My shared folder, or something like that (I'm at work, so I can't check). Plus, it's making that loud noise, like it's a vacuum cleaner or something like that. Hopefully when I get home and check my e-mail, there'll be something from the support tech people with a possible solution to my problem. If there is and it works, I'll pass it on.

Suicide Junkie · #17 October 10th, 2003, 12:42 AM

Could be a bad batch of disks...
http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin...;f=70;t=000102

gregebowman · #18 October 10th, 2003, 01:52 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by DeadZone:
I do suggest imaging the CD to your hdd and creating a virtual cd drive
I do this alot as my CD drive is slow and sometimes causes my machine to play up

How does one "image" a cd to the HD?

gregebowman · #19 October 10th, 2003, 04:52 AM

[quote]Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:
Could be a bad batch of disks...
http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin...;f=70;t=000102[/QUO TE]

That's what the e-mail I received suggested. But they're still trying to figure it out and will get back to me later. Now I have to download that demo to make sure it does work on my system. Too bad the demo couldn't have been on the disc.