Technical problems with THE HORROR: downloading, installing, and running it
jsader:
Teels posted this back on page 14:
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I downloaded the Razor version (from seedgames) , and followed intructions I gathered from this thread. The program started up and loaded, but when it got to the neighborhood window, it said EA didn't recognize the disk as valid (something along those lines).
I'm having the same issue. Does this have anything to do with modifying the TS3.exe, aka no-cd crack? I've tried using morriganrant's crack, but obviously just pasting over the old .exe file doesn't work.
I know I'm missing something somewhere, just don't know what, exactly.
Chain_Reaction:
Quote from: jsader on 2009 June 11, 20:10:12
I'm having the same issue. Does this have anything to do with modifying the TS3.exe, aka no-cd crack? I've tried using morriganrant's crack, but obviously just pasting over the old .exe file doesn't work.
It should, worked fine for me... though I didn't use morriganrant's crack. Try installing Awesome mod with the no cd enabled if you can't get the new exe to work.
LMahesa:
Quote from: Argon on 2009 June 11, 19:51:00
Quote from: moondance on 2009 June 11, 06:27:17
I had a similar problem a while back (on Vista) and doing a system restore fixed it. I'm not sure why it fixed it, but it did. Registry thing, maybe.
System Restore only covers system files or extra folders you define, so that wouldn't help in this case.
Horrible thing. Don't trust it.
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Quote from: LMahesa on 2009 June 11, 06:57:02
Try renaming them both, then merge the contents.
I get a file could not be found error when trying to rename the duplicate. I did manage to move the TS3 files out of there so I can at least get the game to load now, but now I'm left with a folder that says it's zero bytes but can't be deleted because it's "not empty".
Try doing it via DOS/CMD.
CD C:\Program Files .... etc.
REN borked_folder die
RMDIR /S die
If that fails, CD die, rinse and repeat.
There'll be a file in there somewhere with a dodgy character in the filename probably.
If deleting a file still fails, try ECHO FUCKING>die
Oh, and check the permissions if you're on an NTFS partition.
Argon:
Quote from: LMahesa on 2009 June 12, 04:27:26
Try doing it via DOS/CMD.
CD C:\Program Files .... etc.
REN borked_folder die
RMDIR /S die
If that fails, CD die, rinse and repeat.
There'll be a file in there somewhere with a dodgy character in the filename probably.
If deleting a file still fails, try ECHO FUCKING>die
Oh, and check the permissions if you're on an NTFS partition.
"CD /D G:\Program Files\Electronic Arts" brings me to the real directory, not the invalid copy. You can't CD into the broken one, not because of an dodgy character but because the folder doesn't contain the "*" file (google testing if a folder exists using batch scripts if you don't know what I'm talking about).
I can rename the real one (Changed it to Electronic Arts2) but renaming (or trying to CD into) the second Electronic Arts that shows up in DIR says it can't find the path. RMDIR /S, same error. NTFS permissions can't be set because it's not a real file/folder, it's an invalid entry in the filesystem, Vista throws an error if you try. If you rename the real folder, the contents of the screwed one disappears.
Redirection doesn't work on folders, if you actually ran that you'd get a file called die.
I tried booting from an Ubuntu 9.04 livecd and was able to remove it that way.
LMahesa:
Quote from: Argon on 2009 June 12, 06:52:52
Redirection doesn't work on folders, if you actually ran that you'd get a file called die.
I tried booting from an Ubuntu 9.04 livecd and was able to remove it that way.
Yeah, but sometimes folders get converted into files by rogue filesystem doctors and I was unsure of your level of commandline-fu. Anyway, nice one. Still, it would be nice to have a windows-only solution for future reference.
I've had this before, my solution was similar - I dropped into actual DOS and nuked it that way. My gentoo install was borked at the time. :p
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