Homeworld 2 no longer works with no cd applied

[Nebraxis]

Hey all. Hope someone can help. I have applied a razor no cd crack to homeworld 2 and now it appears to load for a few seconds then drops me back to desktop. it's V1.1 if thats relevent. Any help will be appreciated.

Dan.

[Joe Forster/STA]

Try without a crack, too, and read the forum FAQ.

[Nebraxis]

it works fine with disc. only rather intermittently. Hence the nocd. Any advice is appreciated.

[ERASER_M]

have you tried the German crack from Souldrinker? "Should work on any other language too!" is the text on the GCW Page - maybe it works

[Nebraxis]

I will look into that. In the meantime, does this make sense to anyone?
Loaded Archive: 'Homeworld2.big'
UTIL -- filepath failure, path doesn't exists 'C:\Program Files\Sierra\Homeworld2\data\locale\english'
Loaded Archive: 'english.big'
Uing ..profiles\ for profiles folder
Changing from a 32 bit colour depth in winNT (5.1 build 2600), Service Pack 2
Using SiS's 1.4.0 661 VGA renderer (Suspected driver is sisgl.dll 6.14.10.3800)
Loaded Archive: 'englishSpeech.big'
Loaded Archive: 'Music.big'
SOUND -- created destination [ fdaudio ], handle [ 4 ] with [ 48 ] channels created
SOUND -- created destination [ fda streamer ], handle [ 5 ] with [ 8 ] channels created
Build name: The Dust Wars - AutoBuild3569 - Ordered by smmatte
Built by : mrbuild
Data path : C:\Program Files\Sierra\Homeworld2\data
Could not initialize all fragment programs. Please use the '-fragment_program 0' command line parameter

[movq]

You should try so called "german" version. The only and the main difference between this two files is that "german" version of .exe was properly restored, i.e. there is a chance that it will work.