rome total war question

[sublime90]

im backin up rome total war with alcohol 120 and i clicked make copy and selected safedisc 2/3. its going really slow like after 25 mins its only 3% complete and theres about 2 million errors showing up. am i doing this right?

thanks

[krondike]

yes!
You can also do the quick way. Install the game, run the game from the original .exe file, shutdown the game, dont push out the cd.
Run alcohol, add settings that support fast safedisc, than make an image.

It will go mutch faster now . Or you contine where you left, becuase of you have hit the cancel button now, it will take atleast the 25min again + another 25min maybe...or even 6-8hours....who knows....

[johnsmith]

so does this mean no cracked exe?

[sublime90]

i let it ride through and right after i posted my message it started flying. took about 25 mins just to get past the protection then for the remaining cds took about 5 mins. i got it working so cool and thanks for the reply

[Rosacrux]

May I second the question about the no-CD?

meaning: is there a no-CD out yet for 1.2? I've searched the relevant sites but nothing came up...

My problem is that I have a defective CD - installs fine but doesn't recognize it afterwards, when I try to run the game - and the local house here in Greece that imports RTW say they will have to order a replacement CD from the makers... that would take (since we are talking about Greek time - it's kinda warped) about 4-6 weeks, and I really am not fond on waiting that long to play my fav. game.

[P22]

There is some mini-image file that can be found at one RomeTW thread at megagames forums (or as 2.17MB RAR at eMule). Mount it with Alchohol and you won't need no-cd anymore (works with all patches).

[johnsmith]

Is there any hope of this nocd? The mini image is great and all, but there are cheats that require the cracked .exe because its decrypted.....

Its been more than two weeks since the patch

[Rosacrux]

Something extremely funny is going on with my computer... I installaed Alcohol 120% (to make an effort with that bleeding mini image or - if the damaged CD didn't cooperate - to d/load a ready image and mount that) and every time I try to start it (Alcohol), my #@!@$%#@#%$# computer is rebooting!!!!

Tried to close every running program save those absolutely necessary for the system - no good. It still reboots. Have you ever seen that?

[johnsmith]

do you have other virtual cdrom software running? If so make sure its disabled, I had a similar problem and this was the fix.

[Rosacrux]

Nope, never installed VD software on that machine... I closed all running programs anyway (kept only the very vital XP functions, to make sure it ain't SW issue)... yet something else funny is happening. I assembled this machine myself only two months ago (and while I was - and still am - rather short on spare time) and I had two drives, a CD-RW and DVD, from my previous machine I used to build the current.

Well, I never managed to make the DVD work! Every time I connect it, it reboots the system incosistently! I tried half a dozen times, changed jumpers, settings, BIOS - to no good. Then I just gave up and kept the DVD disconnected with the system. Now I am operating only with the CD-RW and looking forward for a free weekend to start fiddling around with it again.

Does this have to do anything with it, perhaps?

[johnsmith]

beats me, sorry

hope you find the solution!

[Rosacrux]

Still not out yet? That's funny... the 1.1 no-cd came out days after the patch... this one takes ages... darn, I think I should've returned the CD to the retailer after all... would take the same amount of time and I've had a correctly working CD after all.

[Viperbrand]

I wonder what's taking so long.It's an unusual wait for a no-cd patch.I've been waiting for weeks for this and I really hope that it comes out soon.

[Viperbrand]

Does anyone know the eta on the no-cd patch? Is it being made at all? Thnx.

[GLH]

Thread closed!
When a crack exist, it will be on GCW. Until it's available, use your original cds!!!