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| DJMurtz wrote: | | Man, I am so leaning towards buying the game on direct2drive... Please let there be a good version any time soon |
Hold out abit longer mate.. it wont be long. Think i'll go play fsx to kill some time
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| Posted: Thu, 19th Oct 2006 18:59 Post subject: |
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| DJMurtz wrote: | | Man, I am so leaning towards buying the game on direct2drive... Please let there be a good version any time soon |
I would have bought it anyway. But the european release is at the 27th. Right now there is neither a demo, nor a european release nor a proper scene release. Kinda sucks.
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Epsilon
Dr. Strangelove
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| Posted: Thu, 19th Oct 2006 19:07 Post subject: |
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| DJMurtz wrote: | | GenX wrote: | | DJMurtz wrote: | | Man, I am so leaning towards buying the game on direct2drive... Please let there be a good version any time soon |
I would have bought it anyway. But the european release is at the 27th. Right now there is neither a demo, nor a european release nor a proper scene release. Kinda sucks. |
I am not even sure direct2drive accepts downloads from europe. |
It doesn't Direct2Drive doesn't care about europeans, moreover they encrypt all the game files causing all the games they sell to run like crap as the game has to decrypt it's data all the time while running it, not worth it even if you live in North America, wait for a scene release that works or wait till it gets released in Europe |
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| Posted: Fri, 20th Oct 2006 00:39 Post subject: waste of a cd |
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I followed the instructions.. and it failed: "insert original instead of backup".
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| Posted: Fri, 20th Oct 2006 01:02 Post subject: |
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The most interesting thing is that the error message says "insert original instead of backup", instead of "insert original instead of pirated copy".
According to dictionary.com:
back‧up /ˈbækˌʌp/
5. Computers.
a. a copy or duplicate version, esp. of a file, program, or entire computer system, retained for use in the event that the original is in some way rendered unusable.
So technically, that error message is wrong, since the backup should be used instead of the original without any hassle.
Lame-o-Meter of this post = high
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| Posted: Fri, 20th Oct 2006 01:09 Post subject: |
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I have been wondering why this game is getting so little attention. From my perspective just the name "Sid Meier" should warrant people to make a big fuss about it. Maybe people like Sid Meier do not have the reputation they once had. Or the attention of the computer gaming world has shifted more and more from people to brands.
Can anyone name the designer of GTA? I couldn't without googling.
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| Posted: Fri, 20th Oct 2006 02:28 Post subject: |
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that may be true, but Will Wright never put is name in the titles but everyone know him, same thing with Peter molenyeux (I'm sure that I spelled that wrong).; I guess it's just a case of fading fame rather than a changing trend but I could be wrong
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| Posted: Fri, 20th Oct 2006 03:54 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Fri, 20th Oct 2006 04:21 Post subject: |
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Yah that's a good point.. I guess he's just fading out.
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| Posted: Fri, 20th Oct 2006 05:09 Post subject: |
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Thanks hiatus_gsw, maybe i'll give it a try now.
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| Posted: Fri, 20th Oct 2006 05:14 Post subject: |
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funny thing is it doesnt work all the time, I need to try 3-4 times and suddenly it would start running. And I was wrong about the drives, it also starts from the cd writer.
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| Posted: Fri, 20th Oct 2006 06:27 Post subject: |
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hiatus_gsw: does yours time out first, then give the "insert original" message?
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| Posted: Fri, 20th Oct 2006 07:05 Post subject: |
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yeah a lot of times, but sometimes it works...
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| Posted: Fri, 20th Oct 2006 08:14 Post subject: |
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Ok, I can confirm it, the repack works, but it is a pain to get it working.
1- I burned the image with BlindWrite 6 (the lastest version I could find), settings Automatic.
2- Used a cheap CD-RW disk and a LG DVD writer;
3- Disabled all devices in DT, and disabled all emulation;
4- Run the game without any loader.
It took me 15 tries, I think, in all of that I got either a timeout or a "replace with original" error. Suddenly, when I was almost giving up, the game launched.
HEre is proof:
Now, lets see if it was worthy... Hope it doesn't crash.
UPDATE: Played for 2 hours without problems (except for the laggy performance typical of Civ4)
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| Posted: Fri, 20th Oct 2006 08:54 Post subject: |
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well you might get it too work but its still time for a no-cd backup..
but ill give it yet another try.
the strange thing is the error it give's "replace with original" this is the same error whit most of the games. when you replace the exe whit a c***** then it works.
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| Posted: Fri, 20th Oct 2006 10:58 Post subject: |
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I can confirm that it works, but after like 30 tries... so it sucks big time! Game is not stable, and it crashed after 10mins of play...
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| Posted: Fri, 20th Oct 2006 12:14 Post subject: |
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did you unistall the old version of railroads and installed the repack. or did you installed the old version and burned the repack ?
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| Posted: Fri, 20th Oct 2006 12:20 Post subject: |
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I uninstalled the old version and reinstalled from the burned repack...
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| Posted: Fri, 20th Oct 2006 12:49 Post subject: |
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I tried for 25 minutes hammering the bloody exe with repack cd burned in the cdrom and no luck , anyways just sucks if u know the game will eventually work but all u have to do is try for 1 hour lol , I hope they will crack it soon!
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| Posted: Fri, 20th Oct 2006 15:19 Post subject: |
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this is identical to chris sawyer railroads except civ4 graphics right?
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| Posted: Fri, 20th Oct 2006 15:58 Post subject: |
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listen, this version realy works, it justa takes betwen 10-30 times to click on game icon, so if u realy want to play, it can be done till the crack gets out.
p.s. game is not that good, i expected much more...
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| Posted: Fri, 20th Oct 2006 16:41 Post subject: ***** |
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*****
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NOW YOU SEE HOW THEY FEEL ! 
I live in europe as well. But I would like to try the game first before I go buy it (oh man, that sounds so corny when posting on a site like this)
