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

[Sintep]

Ok, listen up. Follow these steps. i tried all above and no such luck. untill i tried this just to see what happens. And it works...

1. Install DOW fully. ( I burnt my Image to cd's. 3 of them & installed that way. shouldnt matter though )
2 Install Winter assault, but let it fully patch DOW then it will install itself. ( again i burnt it to cd first )

Now, go into the Dawn Of war instalation directory, Should be C:\Program Files\THQ\Dawn of War.

Now go to Tools, Folder options, Click on View Tab and select show hidden files and folders. then apply.

Ok, look for a folder named Disk1Check and just change the name to Disk1Check OLD.

Now, go to gamecopyworld and download the Winter Assault [ENGLISH] No-CD/Fixed Image #2. Now unzip it.

Now I use deamon tools, So using deamon tools with all options off. Mount the file WH4-KWA-MINI.BWT.

Then the option to play the game should pop up. click play game as you would normaly. It will take about a minute for the disk search but it will work.

Make sure you dont have any other winter assault image mounted, of a burnt copy of the game in any of your drives.

Then using the mounted image, run it like normal.

Im a noob when it comes to this kinda thing, but i found out how to do it, im sure you can to.

Please leave your responces if it works. Id like to know i helped

[Trayder]

Almost all of these methods work for me up to the point of it asking for the second disk during the disk search, in which case emulation, fixed images and burnt cds are detected. Anyone have any idea how i can get past this without using an original disk?

[caki]

it never asks for the second disk....

[Sintep]

Almost all of these methods work for me up to the point of it asking for the second disk during the disk search, in which case emulation, fixed images and burnt cds are detected. Anyone have any idea how i can get past this without using an original disk?

When you try to run the game, and it searches for the disks and asks for the 2nd disk. your doing it wronge...

if u follow my steps it will work fine.. dont run it from the game installation shortcut. open my computer and double click on the mounted image u did using deamon tools of the file u should have mounted.

if u change the file like so and u click on the wronge thing. it will scan disks, and replace the file.. then u got to delete the old one, and do it all over again..

its not brain sciance people..

[BigMone]

Originally Posted by Sintep

Ok, listen up. Follow these steps. i tried all above and no such luck. untill i tried this just to see what happens. And it works...

1. Install DOW fully. ( I burnt my Image to cd's. 3 of them & installed that way. shouldnt matter though )
2 Install Winter assault, but let it fully patch DOW then it will install itself. ( again i burnt it to cd first )

Now, go into the Dawn Of war instalation directory, Should be C:\Program Files\THQ\Dawn of War.

Now go to Tools, Folder options, Click on View Tab and select show hidden files and folders. then apply.

Ok, look for a folder named Disk1Check and just change the name to Disk1Check OLD.

Now, go to gamecopyworld and download the Winter Assault [ENGLISH] No-CD/Fixed Image #2. Now unzip it.

Now I use deamon tools, So using deamon tools with all options off. Mount the file WH4-KWA-MINI.BWT.

Then the option to play the game should pop up. click play game as you would normaly. It will take about a minute for the disk search but it will work.

Make sure you dont have any other winter assault image mounted, of a burnt copy of the game in any of your drives.

Then using the mounted image, run it like normal.

Im a noob when it comes to this kinda thing, but i found out how to do it, im sure you can to.

Please leave your responces if it works. Id like to know i helped

It Actually worked for me while other pretty similar solutions mentioned in this forum didn't Nice work Sintep.

[Maurosso]

From that i read in this topic...non of you guys had such a strange problem as i have had in the past days...I instaled DOW:WA, every thing patched well...i tried MDS and MDF but thos would not work...i tried the mini files from GameCopyWorld, and it worked sweet...I copleted a few campaigh missions, some skirmishes, even a deathmatch 1vs.1 with my friend via direct host/join...and then...i want to start my game...the little check holo disk appeared as usual...then it vanished and nothing happend...no erros saying "No valid cd found"...simply...it checks the cd, and won;t star...I reinstaled dow:wa, demon tools, i have even dowloaded the mini's again...nothing, still the same...if i use the mds, mdf files, or what ever other method it gives me the error: "No valid cd (bla bla bla)", and with the mini's it simply won;t start...(even in the task menager, after checking the cd, the dow:wa task vanishes...)

Any ideas? Maybe i need to re instal DOW?

Edit: Btw. sorry for my spelling mistakes!

[Tric]

Well, I registered to reply to this thread. Anyway, I was surprised (positively so) when I noticed how great the copy protection companies were doing. I didn't think they had any chance. Good job to them. It's nice to face a challenge sometimes

This is my solution, probably done before:

1) Install DOW
2) Install WA
3) Rename Disk1Check to Disk 1 Check OLD.Bak. Prob doesn't matter what you name it, as long as you rename it. This is what I called it though.
4) Mounted the small 4 meg something image from GCW in D-Tools. No emulation activated.
5) Too bad Imperial Guard sucks (don't let the Baneblade deceive you - they get it far too late). Long live the Eldar!

[FarCry]

does tha nocd crack released by fairlight for dow GOTY work for winter assault too? because i think the GOTY includes both dow and winter assault. thanks

[CTYScorpion]

Okay, after messing around a bit with several tools, I finally got it working.

What you need:
- Daemon Tools 4.0
- wh40kwa-mini MiniImage from GCW (the 20,xx MB Blindwrite image)
- SR7.Stop 1.0 (get it at CDMediaworld)

First, start up DT4; leave all emulation options DISABLED.
Mount the mentioned Blindwrite MiniImage witg DT4.
Execute SR7.Stop and click 'Hide'; Leave SR7.Stop OPEN while you're playing!
Now execute the W40kWA.exe from the DOW:WA directory.

Thats how it works for me (Complete game, not only skirmish or so )

[Tek_4]

Ok i have finally found a way to get it to start after about 6 hours of reading the ways listed here and trying them. Now that it starts it will load through the movies and then get to the Please wait loading... screen 3 secs or so after it shuts itself off. Does anyone else have this problem or know how i can fix it. I know it is not my hardware because i have played it before on this computer before i patched to 141. Second, is there a way for me to roll back my patching to 140? 141 seems to be the starting point of my problems. also if it helps here is the warning log

14:30:50.51 W40KWA started at 2005-12-20 14:30
14:30:50.51 OS NT 5.1, 256MB Physical Memory
14:30:50.51 RUN-OPTIONS
14:30:50.51 WORKING-DIR C:\Program Files\THQ\Dawn of War\Patch
14:30:50.51 USER Owner
14:30:50.51
14:30:50.75 APP -- Executed syscmd GraphicsConfig.exe -rungamewa through dlltie.dll
14:30:50.75 APP -- Exiting to open Graphics config tool
14:30:50.75 AppInitGlobal -- Failed load for step: 'Config'
14:30:50.75
Application closed without errors

Thanks in advance.

[gogool]

ok i mean this.coms are supposed to be smart.........
then why dose it not work.......
and what kind of retards sell gmaes which u are missign a file.......
i undersatnd that ummmm protecting stuff.......
BUT I SUCK AT COMS......
and one know how to make it easyer to understand
PLZ

[gogool]

my keyboard sucks

[gogool]

it not google mistspelled k

AND PLZ NO retarded looks