Cossacks II

[CrossWire]

Originally Posted by AloneSoul

any way to make it work if I don't have a USB drive ?

You dont need a usb drive. And you shouldent get the unlicenced disk error.
If you are, then you have missed one of the steps for getting Cossacks 2 to work.
Remember ths crack will not work if you patch the game to 1.1

[ArchSoul]

hmm well, i have tryed it with reinstalling, multiple times etc etc..

so, lets see what we have now..


1 group of people can lay it following the official carbon way

1 group of people can play it through the usb- trick

1 group who cant play it, whatever they try to do..


-are there certain programs we have to shut in order to make the game playable?

[CrossWire]

I found that you must disable node and sec ide using the latest SFnightmare just before you try to boot cossacks2, because something is in the habit of re-enabling them.

[kye04]

GSC Game World\Cossacks II\Data\ENGINE.EXE

try to launch the game from here after u install the miniimage

[ArchSoul]

what mini-image do you mean?

if u meant nico's one, that one is crap (for me) , i cannot use it

[AloneSoul]

Originally Posted by CrossWire

You dont need a usb drive. And you shouldent get the unlicenced disk error.
If you are, then you have missed one of the steps for getting Cossacks 2 to work.
Remember ths crack will not work if you patch the game to 1.1

i'm not stupid and I can read, I tried MANY times the step by step method and it didn't work for me.

[HubU]

It works only on XP SP2 for me
Didn't worked on W2K ;s

[CrossWire]

Originally Posted by AloneSoul

i'm not stupid and I can read, I tried MANY times the step by step method and it didn't work for me.

Okay so your the most intelligent intellectual brainbox to ever walk this sweet earth, but some poor people are not as clued up on this game as you, and I only mean to help, no offence meant.

[ArchSoul]

hmm, i have downed star****, but it seems quite difficult..
( well, ok, i have a german version, and my german isnt that good, so that might be a little problem for me to :P)

is there someone here willing to write a little tutorial on how to use it correctly? (using beta 0.83)


and another question, when i select the lates starforce profile, and i "patch blacklisted" it says it has found 2 drivers, but patched 0 ? how can i kill those 2 drivers? (alcohol disabled, daemon has changed .dll file-names)


thanks in advance!

[w00t]

if anyone wants to play cossacks2 multi join #cossacks @efnet

[dokimastikos]

Hi,

I 'm thinking of buying this game and I've read through all replies to this thread, but I have a couple of questions (because I don't want to give money away for a game that may cause me a thousand problems), if someone is kind enough to help me
1. If I install this game and after some time I decide to uninstall it, will this Starforce protection be uninstalled too or will it remain in my system?
2. While I have the game installed (but I don't play it), is it possible that this Starforce protection affects the way other applications (eg. MS Word, Photoshop or any other application) I launch funtion?
3. From what I 've read here, there are two ways in making a duplicate: Either by using this Carbon method and mounting in Daemon Tools or Alcohol. I didn't quite understand, which dlls or other stuf do I have to disable in Alcohol or Daemon Tools in order to mount the duplicate without problems? Could anyone explain in some detail? And further, does anyone know if this method is possible to be applied to a laptop (since I am using one)?
Second method, using an external USB drive. I would like to ask, if I want to burn the images, so I have a duplicate of the game in CDs and not in my HDD, what is the right way of doing it (if any?)? Btw, I tried to duplicate an older game (the Punisher) using Alcohol, but when I tried to burn the images, after finishing burning and I insert it in the drive, it appeared like an empty disc with no content in it, but showing 640 or sth MB disc occupied, does anyone know why I got this blank - full disc instead of the acual burned image? I note that I didn't have the same problem when I converted it to .ISO file using UltraISO. So, if I try and convert an Alcohol file for Cossacks II to .ISO file will I be able to use this duplicate disc or the Starforce Protection will resurect?


Thnx a lot in advance

[m184]

notworknotwork

[CrossWire]

Ill let you into a little secret. This game isen't all that good, your not missing much. "Sit's and waits for the flames."

[HubU]

Originally Posted by CrossWire

Ill let you into a little secret. This game isen't all that good, your not missing much. "Sit's and waits for the flames."

You are right. This game is "cool", but not for long.
It could have been great, but they ****ed up a lot of things...

www.histwar.com

[cybermcm]

hi,

maybe i missed something within this thread, but how was Carbon able to create a mds file that works (I tried to do a backup with Alcohol and Starforce settings with write speed x1 but my image won't work)

can someone explain me the way to a backup copy of my disks?

btw: the usb and the clone carbon method is working, now I try to backup my german original disks without success by now