Anno 1701 Fixed Image Problems

[mannigame]

Hello
can anyone explain on german me step by step how to use the annno 1701 fix image??
i'dont know what to do with this image
thanks mannigame

[King9072]

OK a little discovery, go into your virtual cd's folder, and double click your fixed image that you downloaded from GCW. When it opens it has a bunch of settings you can change, but specifically in "Autorun Program" point it to your anno1701.exe in its official install directory. Now just to let you now as of posting this I have not been able to play, and additionally as of this post I have not been able to get into the game at all since my last post in which I mentioned that it was finally working. But what this new thing allows, is anno loads, but it gets stuck at a white screen but it DOES NOT FREEZE YOUR COMPUTER, forcing you to reboot. So I believe this is small progress.

Ok I am redoing the whole method and changing a couple things, as soon as I find out if it works or not ill repost.

[Frido1000]

it is all about luck...

i do the following. i have two PCs, one laptop one normal. Since one day by the normal pc anno is still runing in the backgorund i never shut it down. And all the othter stuff which i have to do, i do it on the laptop. So if you have 2 pcs just let one run all the time. Simple trick o_0

If you dont have 2 PCs your luck must be very hight.. i tried it often but somtimes it works.

I know that luck is the dominating thing but so it worked 2 ! times.
-start pc
-disable all virtual-drives
-mount image in the GCW-Image in the physical-drive
-now check that you CPU-Temperature is low (if my CPU-Temperatur was high it never worked )
-now i have started it from the CD 3 times and presst after the autoran-screen each time "Beenden" (=Exit) and at the 4th time i presst "Start" (=Play) and than it works, by me.

i know it sounds very stupid, and i think too that it was just luck but probably it help somebody.

[King9072]

Yay! Alright I finally got in again. I simply loaded it into virtual drive (for the millionth time), told vc to execute autorun and started the game. I have done this sooooo many times... and this is now the second time it worked, so really folks until a proper exe for nocd is released to remove the protection completely it will be a hit or miss science, no stupid little gimmicks and tricks will work like. ... to get it to work mount image into physical drive, stand up from your chair blow one kiss north, spin around 4 times, click your mouse 4 times wait 10 seconds and then run the game... no none of this shit will work you must just keep restarting your computer on freeze and try and try and try again. ONCE ITS OPEN DO NOT CLOSE IT OR YOU WILL HAVE TO DO THIS WHOLE PROCESS OVER AGAIN!

Edit: If you are keeping it open but you have a semi-public computer where other family members or in my case my girlfriend uses the computer. You can download a very small program called WinMizer its freeware and easily found on a google search. This program just lets you hide open windows, so you can hide your anno 1701, people can use the computer without accidently closing it so you don't have to go through the hassle. Hope this has been some help to others, this game is a bunch of fun. If anyone expresses interest, ill post pictures with translated names by now I have figured out what almost every german term in the game means haha... anyways good luck guys

[Echnaton2007]

Hi guys,
Well done so far but there's a small thing in the way u mount the vc4 that i don't understand:

I know that luck is the dominating thing but so it worked 2 ! times.
-start pc
-disable all virtual-drives-mount image in the GCW-Image in the physical-drive

The Point is that i don't know how to disable the last virtual Drive with Virtual CD ... I think there is a limit so that u need to leave one virtual drive aktivated...
... So I mounted the "new" image file (which I renamed to .vc4 in the right path of the new image folder) with my physikal drive, after I did the same with the Virtual one.
After that I could see only a black Window with the "Loading" mouse sign of Anno1701... I waited for around 35min but the window won't dissappear and the game aint started thou.
I think this is because I didnt disable the last virtual drive... and I also didnt know that u can mount a virtual CD in a physical drive

Advice for me ?
Thanks

PS: Could we (admins & users) make a compromise that there can be german language in this threat as long as there is a english translation for the others ? Many guys can't speak English that good so it would be a big help to get this problem solved faster ! ThxX

EDIT: I just mountet the image in my virtual, then the physical (one virtual drive still aktivated but un-mounted) and then the black screen with the loading sign appeared again. I controled my processes with the tast manager and i saw that the "anno1701.exe" was on "no response" status ... i got quite a lot of CPU capacity so it didnt freeze my computer so i just canceled the process structure.
Is it possible that u just have to wait some hours until the game gets started ? .. well, but more probably its just the fact that I didn't deactivate my last virtual drive, coz it don't know how to.

[*Schmusehund*]

The same problem here.

I've done exactly as said in the picture tutorial. In the last step after
mounting the .vc4 -image I see the sandclock and a black screen... and then it freezes

I hope somebody can deliver a crack or something that works as soon as possible.

[poco_loco]

Hi

I think I've got another way to get it to work and you don't have to disable the last Virtual drive

It work's reproducable on my computer. The other way's don't work (my computer freezes).

I'll try to explain it as good as I'm able to but my english isn't the best

1. Reboot so you get a "clean" Windows
2. Mount the Image in the physical drive
3. Start game --> Please insert correct disc
4. Unmount image
5. Mount image in the virtual drive
6. Start game --> Please insert correct disc
7. Unmount image
8. Mount it again in the physical drive
9. Start it
10. Should work

And please mount it in a special way. You have to use another option but I installed VirtualCD in german, so I don't know how the option is named in english but I've made an screenshot:

This shows up (maybe in another language ^^) when you're right clicking on the small icon in the taskbar.

I hope you all understand it
If you have questions, just ask them.

[br.gecko]

Nope, it wont work at all. Tried a hell lot of ways but it either freezes or it just says the i have to insert the od.

I guess it is the best to whait for an crack.

[annohol]

It worked - til yesterday!!!
Suddenly I can't start the game anymore! Before yesterday never ever an error occured, no freezing or anything else. But since yesterday evening there is no chance to start the game! I tried aprox. 40 times - no chance!

Is it possible, that "they" sent something to disable this image???

Anybody out there with the same problem?

Regards

[-104-]

I want to play without my original Disk, plz Razor1911, we luv u if you give us an no DVD Crack =)))

[Razor666]

So here is what works for me everytime.

1. Installed VC latest Edition Demo
2. With VC converted my ANNO.mds image to an VC image
3. Got 4 files anno.000, anno.001 anno.002 anno.vc4
4. Delete anno.vc4 and replace it with the one from the mini image. Rename it to anno.vc4
5. Install 2 virtual drives, one drive enable sharing with your 1st physical drive.
6. Mount the image on the lone virtual drive (drag an drop in the VC Manager)--->Please insert Disk Message appears.
7. Dismount image and drag it onto your shared virtual drive.
8. Play!

[StripTheSoul]

@ Razor666: What exactly do you mean by
"5. Install 2 virtual drives, one drive enable sharing with your 1st physical drive."?
Where are those options to make a virtual drive "share" with 1st physical drive?
Or do you just mean one virtual drive and one physical drive that can be used as virtual drive?

[poco_loco]

Originally Posted by mannigame

Hello
can anyone explain on german me step by step how to use the annno 1701 fix image??
i'dont know what to do with this image
thanks mannigame

Hi Manni

Why don't you take a look at this tutorial?
KLICK

EDIT: Sry, I didn't want 2 this post :/
Maybe a Mod could edit it?