[Stryke 9]

HomeWorld. Grr.

All right, so I went to all the trouble to track down, buy, install, and troubleshoot this miserable thing. I've fulfilled the system requirements. I've downloaded patches. WHY won't the little bugger do anything but give me **** ablut "no disc inserted" and then close? Do I need to remove and insert my hard disk? Or just the part of it that includes HomeWorld?

Is there some problem with putting the game on anything but the C drive? Or having multiple CD drives? 'Cos I already have a frisbee, and this was a bit expensive to be one.

[Pera]

Originally posted by Stryke 9
Or having multiple CD drives? .

You have multiple CD Drives?

I Assume you've tried putting the CD in all of them?

[Stryke 9]

A straight CD drive and a CD burner minus the burner (doesn't work. Nothing does at the moment, apparently. I should have learned better than to ever touch a shared computer ever again.)

And yes, I have. Putting the CD in the burner-sans-burner gets a slightly more descriptive error message noting the existence of the other drive. I have yet to try and put the disk in both simultaneously.

[Fineus]

I don't normally like to suggest this kinda thing but if you really have bought the game then I suggest tracking down a no-cd crack and seeing if that works. Best of luck

[Pera]

Yes, a nocd-crack would be a good idea.

BTW am I missing something here? Since when have nocd-cracks been illegal?

[Darkage]

I had the same error as you, I got it working by downloading the patch, it should have worked whit you also. But as Thunder said a No-CD crack to test it would be a good idea. only you can't play online. Hmmm......when you used the no CD crack go to the multiplayer area in the game and let it download the patch automaticly. exit the game and restart it see if it works.

[vadar_1]

Originally posted by Pera
Yes, a nocd-crack would be a good idea.

BTW am I missing something here? Since when have nocd-cracks been illegal?

nocd-cracks are illegal because they are usually associated with warez... if you d/l a warez, you will need a nocd-crack... but if you actually have the cd, its still illegal to get one... but not to use it (weird isn't it?)

[Martinus]

Relic lawyer:  So exactly how did this crack get onto your computer then?
Disgrunteled owner:  I dunno. Act of God?

Really who gives a damn if you do run a crack? You bought their game and your not exactly giving it to everyone and their gaming buddies.

If this is what it takes to make the game work then they should have put it on the disk for you.

[Fineus]

Lets just concentrate on getting Strykes copy of the game working - I only mention the whole thing about not condoning nocd cracks because its the rule we don't talk about warez and I wanted to save myself the trouble of explaining it if someone bought it up

[Stryke 9]

Mmm... They stopped having one at the site I know about, so... wow, illegal zero-day SimCity 4000 looks nice... lots of Russian... lots of German... I think I'm partially blind from some of those pop-up ads... and how the HELL can they have a Heli-Heroes crack but not a HomeWorld one? You can't even BUY Heli-Heroes outside of Germany, and it's a bad corporate imitation there!

Hello... what's this?
I knew Trekkies were behind all cybercrime. Ah well- thanks. We shall see if this works.

[Martinus]

*ignites lightsaber*

Warez...

Do not post any links!

If you really want to talk about it go use email.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

Originally posted by Stryke 9
SimCity 4000 looks nice

considering Simcity4000 doesn't even exist

Simcity 4 on the other hand

[Grey Wolf]

*Hops in Incom T-65, loads the proton torps, and sends both of them and a 4 blaster shots at Stryke 9*

And yes, this was a p1mp for my X-Wing.

[CP5670]

I actually have downloaded no-cd cracks for every game I have (most support mutiplayer too), only because I got fed up with hunting around for the CDs in the dark and sometimes falling over furniture as a result, since I usually play games during the nights. Anyway, I also have a similar CD configuration (one normal drive, one RW drive) and the game seems to work fine for me without any patches or anything.

Mmm... They stopped having one at the site I know about, so... wow, illegal zero-day SimCity 4000 looks nice... lots of Russian... lots of German... I think I'm partially blind from some of those pop-up ads... and how the HELL can they have a Heli-Heroes crack but not a HomeWorld one? You can't even BUY Heli-Heroes outside of Germany, and it's a bad corporate imitation there!

LOL most of those sites are simply jokes; I remember seeing reportedly full versions of Warcraft 3, Doom 3, Unreal 2, Starcraft 2, 3DS max 5, and several other nonexistant (at the time) programs on some major site about a year ago. It is usually possible to get what you need, but you usually have to slog through loads of these lies (along with "downloads will be corrupted if not 'enabled!' ") for at least a hour before finding something.

[Nuclear1]

I know this sounds like crapola but I got this same problem too. If you accidentally deleted an app extension (ex. binkw.dll), this will hurt the game.

Also, your CD drives might just be gettin' shot . Reassuring, I know.

[Stryke 9]

Maeg: Not to worry. I'm not a friggin' idiot, and considering that it takes almost no effort to track down multiple warez sites, I don't see why I'd go through the trouble so that someone else couldn't run a Copernic query.

[Martinus]

Originally posted by Stryke 9
Maeg: Not to worry. I'm not a friggin' idiot, and considering that it takes almost no effort to track down multiple warez sites, I don't see why I'd go through the trouble so that someone else couldn't run a Copernic query.

Don't take offence it was more of a generalisation. You'd already posted without posting a link

[Sandwich]

Have you reassigned your CD drive letters? IIRC, Homeworld installed fine off a drive Z CD, but refused to play from that drive until patched.

[Stryke 9]

I'm sure somewhere out there someone is willing to screw up every other program that regularly accesses a CD drive just to play HomeWorld.

And the crack worked fine. Game's either slow or hard to see, but that's likely an issue with my screwed-up video card.

And hey- 's pretty cool, and the ships aren't all THAT hideous in-game.

[CP5670]

I think the models are good but the textures need a lot of work. The gameplay is very nice, though, and that's what matters.