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

[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.

[Tek_4]

The process i used to get it to start was.

- Start daemon tools v4.0 and mount the .bwt mini image.
- Shut off daemon tools
- Not sure that this affected anything but i then turned on anti-blaxx and shut it off again.
- i then started the game and it worked fine no errors. (now just to get around this loading problem.)

[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