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Started by Detonate
Sat, 12 Sep 1998 00:00
XCOM - TFTD CD problems
Author: Detonate
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 00:00
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 00:00
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After having problems with my original, floppies version of this, I purchased the CD version of the game. I'm having some real problems with getting this to work, especially when it comes to sound issues. I have found there is a missing file, from what I can gather, called Sound.exe[?] - a DOS file, which I have found in my other TFTD games. I have tried to copy this file to the new CD version of TFTD on my system - my HD is partitioned, so I now have three copies of TFTD sitting around! However, this still does not work. I can access the setup, to sort out the sound & music details, but after trying to configure, the following message keeps popping up at the DOS prompt: Error writing sound config file; Null pointer assignment I have no idea what the problem is, as I have a SB AWE64, which I imagine should be okay, since it works with my floppy version of the game. I don't believe there is any problems with my system - but any suggestions would be really appreciated! Sys Spec: P166 MMX 3.5g HD 64Megs SDRAM 24xCDROM AWE64 SB Matrox 4m GFX card [Millennium, IIRC] Win98 Intellipoint mouse Any help really, really appreciated! Detonate
Re: XCOM - TFTD CD problems
Author: Detonate
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 00:00
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 00:00
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Thanks for the suggestion, which I have experimented with. Seems weird though, I've copied the whole CD, and tried running the setup from that, but it still insists on giving the same message, amongst other things. Ah well, I'll keep trying Detonate rrevved wrote >> >I don't have the game, but it sounds as if it is trying to write >the sound config file to your CDROM(which it can't). >I would be sure that I ran the setup prog from the HD directrory >where the game is installed and double-check to be sure the file >is not write protected.... >I don't know if this is the case, but I thought I would give >you another thing to try.
Re: XCOM - TFTD CD problems
Author: pet... Platypuss
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 00:00
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 00:00
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On Sat, 12 Sep 1998 23:32:31 +0100, "Detonate" <deto...@detonate.demon.co.uk> wrote: >Thanks for the suggestion, which I have experimented with. Seems weird >though, I've copied the whole CD, and tried running the setup from that, but >it still insists on giving the same message, amongst other things. > >Ah well, I'll keep trying Have you changed the file attributes of all the files you copied from CD to HD away from read-only? It sounds like it's trying to update a configuration file which has been marked as read-only. -- Pete Langdale At the moment, the net is mostly made up of educated individuals. What will happen when anyone can login? J.C. Herz 1994
Re: XCOM - TFTD CD problems
Author: Detonate
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 00:00
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 00:00
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Forgive my ignorance, but I am a little unclear as to which files should be unmarked as read only - I assume you mean the files in the sound directory? I'm only curious to know why I cannot play the animated sequences, except when run straight from the CD - which is when I can't get sound to play at the same time, naturally cos I cannot write to the CD. I've tried to copy the whole CD into a directory, but this has so far led to no luck with both sound and animations running together... Thanks Detonate Platypuss wrote... > >Have you changed the file attributes of all the files you copied from >CD to HD away from read-only? It sounds like it's trying to update a >configuration file which has been marked as read-only.
Re: XCOM - TFTD CD problems
Author: chule... Craig Hulett
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 00:00
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 00:00
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In article <35fca69f...@news.i-way.co.uk>, pet...@DELETEMEdoska.ANDMEi-way.co.uk wrote: >On Sat, 12 Sep 1998 23:32:31 +0100, "Detonate" ><deto...@detonate.demon.co.uk> wrote: > >>Thanks for the suggestion, which I have experimented with. Seems weird >>though, I've copied the whole CD, and tried running the setup from that, but >>it still insists on giving the same message, amongst other things. >> >>Ah well, I'll keep trying > >Have you changed the file attributes of all the files you copied from >CD to HD away from read-only? It sounds like it's trying to update a >configuration file which has been marked as read-only. > > Had problems with this game, too. Stumbled across a directory on the CD called 'harddisk' or something to that effect, and it turns out the 'install' you can run from there installs the entire game to your drive. I *think* you may loose some of the cut-scene or intro movies, but you won't need the cdrom any more to play. Give that a shot... Craig
Re: XCOM - TFTD CD problems
Author: Detonate
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 00:00
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 00:00
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Thanks Craig, I'll try that out later! Detonate >Had problems with this game, too. Stumbled across a directory on the CD >called 'harddisk' or something to that effect, and it turns out the 'install' >you can run from there installs the entire game to your drive. I *think* you >may loose some of the cut-scene or intro movies, but you won't need the cdrom >any more to play. Give that a shot... > >Craig
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