Homeworld 2 no longer works with no cd applied
 

Hey all. Hope someone can help. I have applied a razor no cd crack to homeworld 2 and now it appears to load for a few seconds then drops me back to desktop. it's V1.1 if thats relevent. Any help will be appreciated.

Dan.

Try without a crack, too, and read the forum FAQ.

it works fine with disc. only rather intermittently. Hence the nocd. Any advice is appreciated.

have you tried the German crack from Souldrinker? "Should work on any other language too!" is the text on the GCW Page - maybe it works ;)

I will look into that. In the meantime, does this make sense to anyone?
Loaded Archive: 'Homeworld2.big'
UTIL -- filepath failure, path doesn't exists 'C:\Program Files\Sierra\Homeworld2\data\locale\english'
Loaded Archive: 'english.big'
Uing ..profiles\ for profiles folder
Changing from a 32 bit colour depth in winNT (5.1 build 2600), Service Pack 2
Using SiS's 1.4.0 661 VGA renderer (Suspected driver is sisgl.dll 6.14.10.3800)
Loaded Archive: 'englishSpeech.big'
Loaded Archive: 'Music.big'
SOUND -- created destination [ fdaudio ], handle [ 4 ] with [ 48 ] channels created
SOUND -- created destination [ fda streamer ], handle [ 5 ] with [ 8 ] channels created
Build name: The Dust Wars - AutoBuild3569 - Ordered by smmatte
Built by : mrbuild
Data path : C:\Program Files\Sierra\Homeworld2\data
Could not initialize all fragment programs. Please use the '-fragment_program 0' command line parameter

You should try so called "german" version. The only and the main difference between this two files is that "german" version of .exe was properly restored, i.e. there is a chance that it will work.