Dawn of War - Winter Assault (A Working Way No CD)

[Maxtor102]

ok if your usen Alcohol 120% uninstall it.
if your use virtual-cd-hide disable it ie don't run it
mount ther BWT file to daemon tools
disable any emulation options
no cd/dvd in the real dvd/cd drive

duno what else to say guys either your jumpen around or missen steps but it has worked on several computers for me. Hell last idea unmount your dvd/cd drive lol

[MakaveliKeith]

1. i have no Alcohol 120% installed

2. i have mounted it with DaemonTools

3. all emulation options are disabled (the daemontools icon is red)

4. My real DVD/CD drive is empty

5. ive tested it on 4 pc's and it doesn't work :/

[caki]

Hello all,

Yesterday the game cafe I hang out at got 2 new computers. We installed DOW:WA off of a burned backup cd, and then mounted the mini image and ran it. For some reason, it didn't work. Then, we inserted the original CD, ran the game, exited, and then ejected the original, mounted the mini image once again, and the mini images works. It seems that you have to run the game once with the original CD before the mini image can function. Probably a feature of the protection...

Anyways, just telling you guys what I found

-rendari.

[BeatPirate]

use antiblaxx 116 and the modified exe and you have no probs with this game

[Mkilbride2599]

I can't find the cd check thing in my main DoW folder, even did a full system check...

and anti-blaxx has done nothing but **** my system up.

[Ethain]

I am trying to run Winter Assault on Windows x64, but it hangs once loaded. Initially event log said that tandpl.sys was being blocked as it is not supported on Winx64, so I renamed the file so it is inaccessible. I am guessing it is part of the copy protection system, as the game still doesn't work.

I don't particularly care about running without the original CD (as I have it right here in front of me)... I just want to be able to run it at all. I registered with the official website from the game, and despite saying they respond within 24 hours I've heard squat.

Is it a copy prevention system causing this? If so why are they so naff by not supporting software that early adopters (e.g. high spenders) are likely to use?

So far Microsoft official support have been equally slow, but I expect that.

[caki]

If its a .sys its prolly the copy protection, since the game doesnt need to run in ring0 :P. Unless of course, the programmers are crazy ASM coders, but even then it would take YEARS lol.