MechCommander 2 patch EXE CRASHES

[seri_cs]

I was having problems with MC2 freezing, and I thought it might be the copy protection so I tried installing the no-cd patch.

I had trouble with it at first (either freezing in startup or complaining about lack of a texture file), so I tried re-installing the full install. When it listed the options for "minimal", "regular" and "full" installs, it showed that it needed an extra .5MB for the full install even though I had done a complete install previously. I have no clue what the difference was, but after re-running the full install (which did not overwrite the no-cd exe), I was good to go.

My steps were:
* install MC2 with full install
* install mc2rel.exe from mc2_nocd.ace (used winace 2.03 to unpack it)
* re-install mc2 with full install

The no-cd method is working perfectly for me now. Like I said, I don't know what was wrong with the initial install. You might want to try uninstalling/reinstalling or just plain reinstall like I did. Can't hurt....

Unfortunately, it didn't solve the crashing/freezing problem, but that is behaving EXACTLY as it was when I was using the CD, so it is not a problem with the no-cd fix.

YMMV, HTH, etc.

While I'm posting - anyone have any news about a patch coming out for this from MS or am I the only one with freezing problems APART from issues with the no-cd patch?

seri