Star Wars Empire at War Forces of Corruption

[FoC_works_thisway]

Hello everybody,

after a lot of testing I found a solution to run Forces of Corruption without your original CD (which you & I own, because this is a great game and otherwise it would be illegal!).

The trick seems to be to mix some of the different ways for a NO-CD patch for this game.

I HAVE IT RUNNING RIGHT NOW!
So, please don't doubt that it would work.

Here is what I did:
1) installed the game from a functioning CD-copy, because I was to lazy to insert my original. (For example the SILENTGATE image, but other will work, as long as they are not corrupt)
2) went into the install-directory and made the swfoc.exe to run in Windows2000 compatibily mode (right click on exe, fileoptions, compatibily mode, activate the field and set to W2k mode, then ok)
3) unmounted the SILENTGATE image and unmounted all other images in all other virtual devices.
4) Installed DemonTools 4.08.
5) downloaded and started YASU 1.04 (!!! 1.04 !!!) YASU said it worked and hide all my virtual devices.
6) loaded the PROPER.UNLEASHED clone cd 1 of Forces of Corruption into deamon tools.
7) started the game, sweated while the spinning CD-Symbol was on the desktop
8) screamed YES!!! WORKS!!! and played the game.

I hope I did not break any rules by posting this way.

I will test for FoC-Version 1.1 later.