Stronghold 2 Mini image

[RoNi*[email protected]>]

I don"t know for you guys but the crack for v1.0 is working fine for me..Only the trainer doesn't work,but the game is easy so you don't want aany trainers..

[crossmr]

The 1.0 crack from hoodlum works fine last I heard, the problem was with the 1.1 there are random errors with it, but a specific error that most people seem to have it crash when starting the war campaign.
Regardless, this isn't a discussion of which is better, etc. I made this simply for people who didn't want to have to wait for a crack before upgrading.

For those getting errors, I need more information to try and diagnose your issue.
Specifically: What CD software do you have on your PC: Both emulation and copying
OPerating System

Different copy protections will try and blacklist different things.

[Xeticus]

I'm also having problems. I went into regedit and observed that I had no scsi port 3, just ports 0, 1 and 2. So I disabled port 2 read, and it didnt work. I disabled all of them, and it didnt work. I uninstalled alcohol just in case, with no avail. I have several CD copy programs, including Nero, CloneCD, others. I guess I should also note that when I restart windows, the permissions for the scsi ports revert back to read. Strange eh? Any help is appreciated.

Xeticus

[crossmr]

Remember you're not disabling read, you're setting the 'deny' box beside read.

The settings are supposed to revert on restart (this is why its helpful to bookmark the settings for those 2 registry entries)
There is one more solution that may help. You may need to change the name of your daemon tools virtual drive. I apologize that I've completely forgotten about this step (as its something you only do once, and I had previously done for another game)
To do this start daemon tools
right click the icon in the systray
goto virtual CD/DVD Rom
goto the drive you're using
choose "Set Device parameters"
change the vendor name to something else
change the revision to something else (I just made it 2.0)

Try again.
This only has to be done once.

[Xeticus]

Still doesnt work... I've deleted all of my copying progs except Nero, done the regedit thing, downloaded the latest daemon tools version, unplugged my cd-roms manually, used starforce nightmare and disabled CD ROMS, changed the device parameters in daemon tools as described in your last post.... nothing works. Any other clues?

Xeticus

[crossmr]

You remounted after you changed the parameters correct? (becuase it will unmount the image to apply them)
One thing you need to watch out for with certain applications is left over registry entries.

Is this working for anyone else at all, or was it some freak accident that caused it to work for me?

You might try running a reg cleaner to make sure any entries left over from say CloneCD are gone taht might tip the copy protection off.

[Game-Hacker]

I can run with hoodlum but it was lag. I played the Kingmaker path of war and it lag with AMD Sempron 2.8 and geforce 5200FX 128MB and Ram of 512. In some cases, it also said I ran out virtual memory.

So I tried your image and all your instruction but unforetunately it said I need the original CD. Do you use any anti-starforce software besides starforce nightmare?

Maybe you should try your image in other PC if you have one. I also tried using your image in my Acer Ferrari AMD 64 3000+ with 1 GB of Ram and the same thing happened, it needs the original CD. Thx for your attention and time by the way.