LotR:BfME noDVD 1.02 question

[DABhand]

You need latest service pack installed for 2000

[kenmeller]

I am using sp4.

[Joe Forster/STA]

What's the result with the official 1.02 update but without the no-CD patch for 1.02?

[kenmeller]

Hi Joe,

Using the officially updated game.dat, I get the the splash screen, the CD/DVD emulation software present warning, click ok and the game closes.

Using the noDVD version 1.02 game.dat, task manager gains an entry of lotrbfme.exe which disappears just over a second later - end of story.

Any ideas?

The hardware might be the same running under both Win2k and WinXP but there's a world of difference in the apps (and possibly drivers) installed in each partition.

Ken.

[Joe Forster/STA]

Hi Ken,

What I wanted to aim at is that, perhaps, something is wrong with your Windows 2000 installation and the game wouldn't run on it anyway. You know, an application, a driver, a config setting, whatever... I suggest that you temporarily remove CloneCD - or only its registry entries, after backing them up; see relevant threads on this forum! - and try again with or without the 1.02 update, with the original CD and without a no-CD patch. Does that work?

Joe

[DABhand]

I tried BFME on 2000, it worked fine both original and mini-image, but if I was on as a limited user, well all hell broke loose.

[kenmeller]

Joe,

I tried removing CloneCD - no change, I still get the CD/DVD emulation warning - but then again I do also have VirtualCD, Daemon Tools and Alcohol (plus various other CDRW tools) installed. I am loathe to remove them all in case I have problems re-installing - do we know to which apps the game specifically objects?

Last night I was going to try an LOtR:BfME installation on my second HDD under another (cloned) Win2k partition which sits alongside WinXP and then remove all of the CD/DVD apps from there. Unfortunately, that version of Win2k wouldn't boot - it looks like the registry hive is corrupted.

So it looks as though I'm going to have to re-think my setup and probably use an OS loader to keep the second Win2k (which is used as a testbed) and WinXP (also a testbed) completely independent.

I don't use copied games and I don't give them away but when publishing houses cause me so much grief, it makes me want to - just to get back at them.

Ken.