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Started by Nahtt0
Tue, 19 Mar 2002 06:05
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Author: Nahtt0
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 06:05
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 06:05
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I purchased a renegade yesterday. i am running windows xp home edition. it installs without a problem but when i want to play the game it keeps asking for the CD even when the CD is in the bay...anyone having this problem too please let me know thanks!!!
Re: Help
Author: Leigh
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 09:33
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 09:33
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I get this but I didn't buy mine from the shop if you know what I mean ;-) I just hit the cancel button and it plays fine. Leigh "Nahtt0" <rena...@bellsouth.net> wrote in message news:4pAl8.110322$Yd.5651912@e3500-atl1.usenetserver.com... > I purchased a renegade yesterday. i am running windows xp home edition. it > installs without a problem but when i want to play the game it keeps asking > for the CD even when the CD is in the bay...anyone having this problem too > please let me know thanks!!! > > >
Re: Help
Author: Neil Adamson
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 09:38
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 09:38
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"Nahtt0" <rena...@bellsouth.net> wrote in message news:4pAl8.110322$Yd.5651912@e3500-atl1.usenetserver.com... > I purchased a renegade yesterday. i am running windows xp home edition. it > installs without a problem but when i want to play the game it keeps asking > for the CD even when the CD is in the bay...anyone having this problem too > please let me know thanks!!! >From someone who hasn't yet bothered with Renegade and doesn't use XP, so please consider this a wild guess. Do you have two CD-capable drives (e.g. DVD drive and CD-RW drive)? If so, are you putting the CD into the first drive that the system detects? There was a bug with Yuri's Revenge, released not so long before Renegade (so maybe the same bug crept in), in which the game would try to read both CD drives when loading and hang. They fixed this, but IIRC, bizarrely RA2 (which I'd guess was written before many people had two CD drives so it wasn't an issue) expects the RA2 CD to be in the first drive recognised by the system (in my case the CD-RW) or you get the symptoms described. Thus my son was playing YR from one drive and I was playing RA2 from the other and neither had to swap CDs after the other had been on. If you have two drives, try loading a CD (any CD) into the other drive. If this doesn't work, try swapping the CDs. If it still doesn't work, check Westwood for a patch (they had a patch for the problem in YR before I'd even bought it).
Re: Help
Author: Nahtt0
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 06:09
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 06:09
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Yeah this CD rom drive in my notebook pc is CDR and DVD i get the same problem in my PC which has one drive for CD and other CDRW odd i know i have tried to call WEstwood but their hours are crazy thanks for the information i am glad im not the only one i wished they have patched this before i can say that i am not satisfied with the purchase of this software and i was not satisfied with RA 2 big disappointment...oh yeah let me add Emperor Battle for Dune what the hell is going on at Westwood Studios? "Neil Adamson" <ada...@uk.ibm.com> wrote in message news:a79la6$mae$1@sp15at20.hursley.ibm.com... > > "Nahtt0" <rena...@bellsouth.net> wrote in message > news:4pAl8.110322$Yd.5651912@e3500-atl1.usenetserver.com... > > I purchased a renegade yesterday. i am running windows xp home edition. it > > installs without a problem but when i want to play the game it keeps > asking > > for the CD even when the CD is in the bay...anyone having this problem too > > please let me know thanks!!! > > From someone who hasn't yet bothered with Renegade and doesn't use XP, so > please consider this a wild guess. > Do you have two CD-capable drives (e.g. DVD drive and CD-RW drive)? > If so, are you putting the CD into the first drive that the system detects? > There was a bug with Yuri's Revenge, released not so long before Renegade > (so maybe the same bug crept in), in which the game would try to read both > CD drives when loading and hang. They fixed this, but IIRC, bizarrely RA2 > (which I'd guess was written before many people had two CD drives so it > wasn't an issue) expects the RA2 CD to be in the first drive recognised by > the system (in my case the CD-RW) or you get the symptoms described. Thus my > son was playing YR from one drive and I was playing RA2 from the other and > neither had to swap CDs after the other had been on. > If you have two drives, try loading a CD (any CD) into the other drive. If > this doesn't work, try swapping the CDs. If it still doesn't work, check > Westwood for a patch (they had a patch for the problem in YR before I'd even > bought it). > >
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