UFO Afterlight

[Grumpy]

@Argail

did i just break my pc or something?

No, you just have a software program installed which is conflicting with the protection on the game.
The only way to find out which program is causing the conflict is by uninstalling them one at a time then trying to start the game again by using the original game disc.

Uninstall programs like Alcohol, Daemon, CloneCD, AnyDVD etc. (basically any burning or emulation program.)
You will eventually find the cause.

[Argail]

I only have alcohol and daemon tools on there i think. I ll search around. But if i uninstall those, i won t be able to play ufo without cd. On the other hand, now i m not able to play it at all. Decisions Decisions

[DABhand]

Uninstalling those things will allow you to play the game first off. So that looks like the only way for you.

Unless you didnt know about the other programs that can help hide Daemon Tools. Read the FAQ.

[BJ_RedCat]

Originally Posted by dajunka

THIS WORKS
First mount image with DT, then run YASU, now copy "Dat3.cab" from image to desktop, while Dat3.cab is copying wait about 3 seconds, then click play. This seems to work for everyone.
Afterwards just delete Dat3.cab from desktop.

You should only have to do this once, after that UFO al will run everytime without the copying of the Dat3.bat.
Dont ask me why it works but it does.

Thanks for this great method, but for me it did not work everytime. I had to retry it quite often sometimes before the game started. Then I figured, that the timeout for the validation is about one minute.

WHAT I FOUND OUT:
You can delay the check by copying one, two or even three files simultaniously from the mounted image. If I stop the copying after about 50 Seconds it will always (100%) let me in.
Usually I copy two files, stop the first after 50 seconds and the second file after about 55 sec. But that depends on system performance i guess.

[Grumpy]

@Argail
My suggestions were only for you to be able to first get the game working using by your original disc to play.

Once you have established that you can again install each program to find out the best method to get the game to work 'without' using the original disc to play.

[Argail]

@Grumpy:

Thanks for your help. Uninstalled everything then reinstalled alcohol + DT + driver update.

Now i can play with original again, but the method with daemon tools and making an image with alcohol doesnt work. Error 1000 don t use backup disc. Is it normal that i cannot access the drive with poseden image? It says damage or not readable. Tried to copy data files from a backup disc i made, and doing an image, and without backup disc and just imaging. I get a timeout at first then click retry and then it always gives the error. As far as i could tell i was doing it correct so far?

[Stevi]

Crack is out finally...

[Argail]

Originally Posted by Stevi

Crack is out finally...

Care to elaborate?

looked on megagames and gcw, didn t see anything.

[wolfsrain]

Submitted. Hatred released the crack finally.
http://rapidshare.com/files/17453189...atred.rar.html
Here is a temporary link until is up on the sites.

[theslig]

I don't understand, with the crack the game went upside down for me (the bottom become the top)

or can I fix it please?

[erlijus]

On Vista, the crack crashes seconds after launch... Anyone having the same problem?

[DABhand]

LOL


The crack works for me. No upside down nonsense :P


Perhaps the warez version thats going about isnt the Gold Release. Which is why people are having upside down screenies. Oh what a shame lol

[Joe Forster/STA]

Or a buggy, not-the-absolutely-very-latest video driver?

[DABhand]

No dont give them hope! lol

[neliz]

Afterlight gives absolutely no problems with the crack here either.
It's probably a driver issue.. nVidia card maybe?