Civ3:PTW NoCD Crack Crashes game

[FNBrown]

Here's some more info (not sure if it'll shed any light on the situation or not):

The system I'm running on is an HP OmniBook 6000 laptop (WinXP). On my desktop PC, I don't seem to have any problems. In fact, the only reason I really want the NoCD crack to work is so I can play LAN games at home without having to swap the CD.

Here's the thing... on the laptop, the CD seems to spin up intermittently throughout the game. For example - If I want to launch the game on the desktop PC, I only need the CD in the drive for the initial launch. After the intro movie starts, I can remove the CD and I never need to have it in the drive again.

However, on the laptop, if I remove the CD after launch, it will ask for it again just as the game begins and the initial map appears on the screen. I can re-insert the CD, play for a turn, remove it, but at the next turn, it will try to read from the CD again. So, basically, I have to play the whole game with the disc in the drive.

Again, this doesn't happen on the desktop pc - even without the NoCD crack. So I'm thinking maybe something is screwy with the laptop... I dunno.