Colin McRae Rally 2.0 No CD problem

[ShackW429]

Hiya. Sorry to bring this subject up again. As with most people, I've tried every crack around to get the CD protection to disappear, but with no success. I have looked through this forum for answers, and followed instructions from VLuka - download the 1.09 patch from CodeMasters, then replace CMR2.exe with the file in VLuka's archive. However, as the game is about to start, it says that I need the CD.

Are there really any cracks or patches out there that will work, or is the game just too stubborn?

Regards,

Chris


PC Spec:
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1.4 GHz AMD Atahlon
384 MB RAM
nVIDIA GeForce 2MX 64 MB
60 GB + 40 GB HDDs
Windows XP Professional (No service packs)

[Siedler]

Try this one:
Colin Mc Rae 2 No-CD /XP (http://home.tiscalinet.de/siedler1/cmr109xp.exe)

(password=siedler)

[ShackW429]

Thanks for the reply, but it still has the same "Please make sure CMR2 CD is inserted" (or something like that). Why is it the game won't work, do you think?

Chris

[Siedler]

:confused: just at the moment i´ve reinstalled the game, crk works fine in arcade and rally mode :confused:
1. i made a full installation of the game (610mb)
2. patching the game to V1.09 (http://www.codemasters.com/cmr2pc/patch/CMR2Patch109.exe)
3. change exe file

[ShackW429]

Sorry! It works! Thanks so much! I tried what you said twice though! Must have got something wrong.

Many thanks,

Chris


OK, now I'm confused... It worked fine just then. I just hit return loads of times (i.e. Rally, Guest User, Ford Focus...) to start a race to see if it worked, and it did. It worked fine. I then changed the graphics details (i.e. higher res, etc), made a new Driver Profile, then tried to start an Arcade game, just to have a go, and sure enough, it said the CD wasn't present. I tried Rally once I'd restarted the program, and that didn't work either. Now the game won't work again. I'm damned if I know what the problem is, especially since it worked beautifully just then.

Regards,

Chris

[Dr Apocalypse]

Hmmm.. this smells of using a 'rip' not an original CD!

I vaguely remember something like this popping up before, the 'rip' had a hi-res 'addon' released and the game gave an 'insert CD' message if you tried to use hi-res graphics and didn't have the hi-res 'addon' installed!

Maybe wrong, but this seems to be the cause!

DrA.

[ShackW429]

Have you any idea if the 'hi-res add-on' is available for download from anywhere, or should I just give up!

Regards,

Chris

[podunkviller]

i think , if ur looking for the high res addon, that this thread should be CLOSED.

[ShackW429]

What do you mean? Anyway, it works ok in low res.

[JoyBoy]

HEHE, Love those Kazaa Rips.