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I installed SW Battlefront on my new PC because it never worked on my old one, and for some reason, it just wouldn't start. I mean, the autoplay worked, but whenever I clicked on the autoplay menu to start the game, it would just dissapear- i.e. back to the desktop, like nothing happened.

I installed KOTOR (another Lucasarts game ...) and this actually ran. Occasionally. I exited out to do some stuff on the net and when I went to go back in, the same stuff happened. A few more attempts, and it went back in.

Strange thing I noticed though- when it *was* going to work, the mouse cursor turned into a little CD icon, i.e. loading.

Today, KOTOR wouldn't run at all. So I experimented and cracked the .exe (patched, 1.03).

Voila, it worked.

This doesn't happen on Prey, Hitman: Blood Money, or FEAR.

It may have happened on Chronicles of Riddick, but I wouldn't know to check again, since I uninstalled it after inadvertently patching it and discovering the patch refuses to run the game without Service Pack 1 (I have WinXP ... Special Edition.)

The common denominator here is that KOTOR, Battlefront, and CoR are CD games, while the others are DVDs.

Thoughts?

(btw, I finished Prey. Man, that was awesome!)

My laptop has similar problems; I have concluded that it is something to do with disk copy-protection methods. The best thing to do is crack the game. Sadly, not all games have this option avaliable - it is frustrating when, for example, I want to play MVP Baseball 2005 with the latest patch and have to fight with the PC to actually recognise and play the disk because there is no crack available.

Ubiquitous wrote:My laptop has similar problems; I have concluded that it is something to do with disk copy-protection methods. The best thing to do is crack the game. Sadly, not all games have this option avaliable - it is frustrating when, for example, I want to play MVP Baseball 2005 with the latest patch and have to fight with the PC to actually recognise and play the disk because there is no crack available.

Fair enough- it's good that I don't think any games are on CD anymore, so I'll only have this on old games where cracks are likely available. Annoying as hell though!

Vympel wrote:

Ubiquitous wrote:My laptop has similar problems; I have concluded that it is something to do with disk copy-protection methods. The best thing to do is crack the game. Sadly, not all games have this option avaliable - it is frustrating when, for example, I want to play MVP Baseball 2005 with the latest patch and have to fight with the PC to actually recognise and play the disk because there is no crack available.

Fair enough- it's good that I don't think any games are on CD anymore, so I'll only have this on old games where cracks are likely available. Annoying as hell though!

Um, what? Most games *are* still on CD. It's just the newer, high-profile ones that tend to get DVD releases as an alternative to CDs. Is that what you're referring to?

Elheru Aran wrote:
Um, what? Most games *are* still on CD. It's just the newer, high-profile ones that tend to get DVD releases as an alternative to CDs. Is that what you're referring to?

Meh, I thought most were DVDs. Eh, doesn't matter. It's only older games that will have this issue.

Vympel wrote:Strange thing I noticed though- when it *was* going to work, the mouse cursor turned into a little CD icon, i.e. loading.

*Snip*

The common denominator here is that KOTOR, Battlefront, and CoR are CD games, while the others are DVDs.

No. The common denominator is that they all use Securom. That was the cursor you saw.

Try using CureROM, that MAY solve your problem, but I don't know.