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simple
21-09-2003, 02:51
I downed the no cd from machina's link, btw ty bud...but its not working for me..i dble click on it and i get no response really...any ideas? ty.
simple
21-09-2003, 03:01
Sorry probly not enough info there...i downed it, extracted it, replaced the original exe with the new one, dlbe click on it and no response, the game is installed correctly as far as i can tell.

A little stumped...tried another exe i found but it didnt work either..any advice or help would be much appreciated, i hear the game is very good, ty again.
GLH
21-09-2003, 03:19
Which game you are talking about ???
simple
21-09-2003, 13:05
temple of elementel evil
krondike
21-09-2003, 13:07
Dose it work with your original .exe file?
Machina
21-09-2003, 13:29
Its not the crack, its your video settings. Just like several games these days, TOEE is sensetive to your refresh rate settings.
In order for the game to run - you must NOT use ANY refresh rate-forcing utilities OTHER THAN DirectX's OVERRIDE feature.
seebs
23-09-2003, 21:23
It's not the refresh rate. I once got the game to run with the actual CD (it mostly fails on my system, because SecuRom doesn't like Thinkpads), and it ran... so my refresh rate and other settings are fine.

If I run the real EXE (5MB), it works maybe one time in twenty, sometimes..

If I run the nocd EXE (3MB), it plays the intro movies, then crashes.
RincewindTheWiz
24-09-2003, 04:16
There seems to be a lot of problems with the copy protection crashing the game. Try making a hard disk image with Alcohol120% (www.alcohol-software.com) and mount that, using no cracks. It might work this way, and I'm interested in any results.
seebs
24-09-2003, 04:56
Originally posted by RincewindTheWiz
There seems to be a lot of problems with the copy protection crashing the game. Try making a hard disk image with Alcohol120% (www.alcohol-software.com) and mount that, using no cracks. It might work this way, and I'm interested in any results.

I might. $50 is a lot to pay for *another* CD-ripping program, but maybe it's worth a try.
seebs
24-09-2003, 05:34
I downloaded a trial of Alcohol 120%, and had it read an image. The resulting image doesn't seem to work. Since I have to go do something else, I've set it to try making one using 1x for reading and DPM, maybe that'll work better. Maybe not.

Atari has *so* made my usability book as a case study. Jerks.
seebs
25-09-2003, 00:27
FWIW, I finally got it to work; looks like SecuROM now ignores Alcohol drives, but Daemon Tools can mount an image burned from Alcohol, and it works.

Finally I can play this stupid game! I've only had to spend something like $70 on tools to make it run at all. On top of $50 for the game.
RincewindTheWiz
25-09-2003, 05:56
Originally posted by seebs
FWIW, I finally got it to work; looks like SecuROM now ignores Alcohol drives, but Daemon Tools can mount an image burned from Alcohol, and it works. Could be, that's called 'blacklisting', and usually A120% is beter at avoiding it than DT. If DT works, by all means keep using it. It's free, and I kinda like it, but it DID trash my XP install a few times when upgrading to a new version :D