[TrashMan]

The best strategy game I ever seen!

100 times better than Warcraft 3. It's incredible! It's amazing! It's unbelilable!

And why do I get the "Your CD failed the authenticitacion check!" message wehn ever I start to install it? And the instalation aborts
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

*cries like a little baby!*

I just formatted by C:/ drive and re-istalled Win XP Pro! It gives me the same ****ty message again.
And the game works fine by two of my friends!

[TopAce]

Try to install from one of their CDs.

[aldo_14]

Wait a mo....how can you know if it's 1000(etc) times better than anything else if you can;t even install it?

[TopAce]

He probably played with it previously, but on the computer of someone else.

[TrashMan]

I played it at my friends. They installed it from my CD...ARGH!

[TopAce]

Try to put all the files onto your winchester, and attempt and install from there. (From C:).

[Knight Templar]

*Was hoping this thread would some sort of spell checker for the board.

[StratComm]

Originally posted by Knight Templar
*Was hoping this thread would some sort of spell checker for the board.

ROFLAMO!

[Knight Templar]

Teacher! They promised they'd laugh with me, not at me!

*runs away crying

[Gloriano]

is there demo for Spellforce? i could check this game

[TrashMan]

Belive me - it's unbelivable!

you can control your Hero from a 3rd person view (like in Tomb Raider) if you like it. You can zoom, rotate and stuff like that. The graphics is unbelivable!
You can create your own hero and equip him/her with items (which are seen on his model - from boots to armour and swordsa nd staffs).
The races are remarkeble - gotta love the elves.

Anyway - the full message it spits out is the following (after I accept the license agreement and choose the install directory)

-> Spellforce could not install successfully becoause the CD fail edthe authentency check.

Make sure  the Spellforce Play-CD (CD1) is inserted in your local CD/DVD ROM drive while starting the installation process. If your PC has more than one CD drive, plase insert the CD into another drive and start the installer from there. Please make allso sure you are using current drivers for your IDE controller and mainboard. Please allso disable all emulations in case you are using a virtual CD drive.

[DragonClaw]

Make sure CD is clean.

Also, some CD drives have problems with some CDs. I think it has something to do with the laser strength. I think some versions of the Kenwood drives have this problem. I personally couldn't play the Homeworld: Cataclysm until I got a new CD drive because of this problem.
[edit]So I suggest you try to install this on someone else's computer to see if this is the problem[/edit]

[TrashMan]

Tried it...it hasn't...but I have a DC/R and a DVD drive...
I tried it on both...and it don't work on either

[DragonClaw]

Then you've probably got a bad CD and will have to call tech support, send in your old one and get a new one. Because the only other problem that I would think of is you burned the CD, but thats unspeakable

[TrashMan]

But it works on my friends PC!?!?!?!?!?!!

[Ashrak]

well your friend must have burned it then.....my cd writer reads CD's that other writers drives dont

[StratComm]

My computer's got that problem.  It can read off of burnt CD's but will not authenticate them for copy protection.  I think it's a OS issue or something though (maybe not OS but something besides the drive itself) because both of my drives have the same problem and they are vastly different in age.

[TrashMan]

It's the IDE drivers!!!!

Argh... They have to be Microsofts standard IDE drivers!

[Martinus]

[color=66ff00]Frankly if I buy a game and it starts acting up because of some touchy copy protection or it asks me to swap the disks an annoying number of times I just find the no CD 'patch' and fix0r that bugger.

Of course that's still taken as dodgy no doubt but if I spend 40 odd snarlers on a game I want it to work. *mumbles about Black & white*
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