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 umm... *perks up* new problem!
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| Draconian23 |
Posted on 19-03-2009 19:41
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I installed PDS 7.3.1 last night and it worked awesomely. but when I tried to play it today, I get an error message, saying: Conflict with disk emulation software detected. See www.securom.com/emulation for more details. This is a new PC I'm running on, folks. I dont have emulation software, and I'm running on a retail disk. no copies. can ya help a bro' out? |
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| MagneticNorth |
Posted on 20-03-2009 00:55
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 Posts: 33 Joined: May 18 2008 |
I know you said you didn't have any emulation software, but are you sure you don't have -any- virtual drives? For example; Nero Image Driver Alc120% Daemon Tools VirtualCD MagicISO? Sometimes Nero, and I mean any type of Nero product, can cause conflicts with secuROM/ safedisc protection. For example, Nero Live (A media program like Windows media player) used to cause Shogun: Total War to crash after about 50 turns. |
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| Draconian23 |
Posted on 20-03-2009 02:11
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Posts: 6 Joined: May 18 2008 |
Nothing. absolutely no sort of virtual drive at all. |
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| Draconian23 |
Posted on 20-03-2009 02:56
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Posts: 6 Joined: May 18 2008 |
Nevermind the first problem. I fixed it by running it under windows NT w/service pack five enabled. worked like a charm. I do have one problem though. When I go to play the normal campaign in the PDS version, I get to play level one, and then Homeworld crashes after I finish the level. what gives? I can hear a split second of cutscene music, you know, the violins right before Karan says "Our home" and then I suddenly hear the main menu music for a moment, then the loading screen comes on, and then it crashes to windows. pardon my french, but wtf? I was sooo relieved to get the game working on my own, and then it crashes after the first level! *laugh* I can do without homeworld, but, where else would I base my fleet-like short stories from? (you guys have the best battle chatter ever... especially when a capital ship goes down I'd like to hear some bloopers of you guys doing battle chatter.) Edited by Draconian23 on 20-03-2009 04:21 |
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| MagneticNorth |
Posted on 20-03-2009 17:48
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Posts: 33 Joined: May 18 2008 |
Hmm  I was going to ask earlier if you were trying to run it under Vista, I know Vista just doesn't work with securom. If you got it working then great! But if it crashes after the first mission, not so great. I'm not a technical wizard and I had no part in creating the PDS mod, so I'm not sure what to suggest..Normally when someone gets a problem like that, usually re-installing from scratch seems to work. I used to get problems with my HW2 running PDS 7.3.1 for no apparent reason and when I re-installed it was fine. :/ I guess if nothing else you could try that and if that doesn't work then I'll really rack my brains for a solution.I'm not sure if there are any technical wizards here, but if there are, make yourselves known xD |
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| Draconian23 |
Posted on 21-03-2009 14:31
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Posts: 6 Joined: May 18 2008 |
Agg... reinstalled Homeworld, redownloaded PDS 731, moved all the mod files to the correct folder and boom! same thing. I got to the end of level one, and it crashed. however, it did save my progress into level two. BUT, when I tried to load level two, it crashed after the initial load screen for that level. *polishes revolver* I've never had this problem before. what gives? I'm about ready to shoot my game disk. |
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| MagneticNorth |
Posted on 23-03-2009 19:49
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Posts: 33 Joined: May 18 2008 |
Okay, I've looked all over and this -is- a well known problem. It just doesn't have a fix. What you could try to do is to download a different version of PDS. http://www.pds.homeworldaccess.net/fo...ad_id=1189 is kind of related to this. If you definately have version 7.3.1 you could try downloading either the older version or the newer version here http://www.pds.homeworldaccess.net/do...?cat_id=10. V11 doesn't have a working campaign atm, and if the other versions of V7 don't work for you I have -no- idea what to say anymore. ;3
Edited by MagneticNorth on 23-03-2009 19:51 |
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