Oznoyng -> RE: Game Will Not Run (5/5/2004 3:16:54 AM)
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ORIGINAL: marky lol its not even my copmputer so trying to put a new drive in even by myself is out of the question i honestly think its the game disk and not the drive, cuz the drive runs my other games fine and i dont think its the spex, since my computer geek brother in law- (same 1 that tried to make it wrk) himself said that it should run, even tho this computer is 6 YEARS old Ordinarily, I would agree with you... However, someone posted above that loading from a dvd rom rather than their CD rom made a difference. That suggests that there might be an issue with *some* CD ROM drives with respect to UV. Given that UV checks for the presence of the CD in the drive and it is so easy to copy CD's, I suspect that there might be a bit of unusual code in UV. Hypothetically, the code works with almost all CD drives.... except yours and the one referred to above. Any non-standard code, or even a bug in the drivers/firmware/etc. of your CD-ROM, could be at the heart of your issue. Were it an option, changing your CD-ROM would be something to try, especially given that you are pretty he11 bent on getting it installed and playing UV... however, I ran across something else that might make more sense. The following is for anyone that follows that might run into the same issue. It is kinda technical and *is not* something I suggest you try marky. Show it to your computer nerd brother in law. Ron Saueracker mentioned in another thread that UV would only run from a "master drive". I am not entirely sure I understand his meaning, but I think he is referring to IDE Master versus Slave. Quick explanation: Lots of hard drives, cdrom drives, and dvd roms use an interface in the computer called IDE. It is fairly standard for a computer to have two IDE connections, each capable of handling two devices on it. If two devices are installed on one connection, one is the Master and one is the Slave. Which is which is usually determined by settings on the devices themselves (often using jumpers on the drive itself). By jumping (connecting) the right pins on each device, you can change the Master and Slave on most configurations. The proper configuration is usually printed on a label or embossed on the device near the jumpers to tell you what jumper setting is what. If the drive you are trying to run is the slave on an IDE connection, you might have a problem. Usually, computers are shipped with the CDROM as the master on one IDE connection and the hard drive as the Master on the other. If a second hard drive gets installed, the new drive is likely to assigned to be the Master and the CD ROM gets to be a Slave. Because the vast majority of computers never get a second hard drive, and because the vast majority of those that do probably leave the CD ROM as the master on the connection, a very small minority of people probably encounter the bug. Grats on hitting the lottery marky? [:'(]
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