OK - I see what you all mean now :((((

[Scouse]

Fekking typical. (Please bear with me!)

OK - so I've been playing T2 and laughing at everyone because I've had no problems at all with it since I got it.

Today I whack a Creative DVD ROM in my secondary IDE channel. Works gr8. Install some crappy DVD software, works fine.

Tribes 2 stops working. Crashes just after you log on.

Hmmm.

OK. I decide to do this methodically:

1) So I un-install the DVD Software (which is a pisser because I just bought Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon). Result: No Effect

2) I upgrade my Video Card drivers, just in case. Result: No Effect

3) I un-install and re-install the Vid Card drivers. Result: No Effect

4) I un-install and re-install Tribes 2. Result: No Effect grr.

I'm NOT going to take the bloody DVD drive out just to get T2 to work and I'm buggered if I'm going to do a whole OS re-install just for that.

Here's my system specs in case any of you clever people have any sparks of inspiration!:

1Gig Athlon.
Asus A7V M/B.
Creative Labs GeFarce 1 DDR.
512Meg PC-133 RAM.
2x 45-Gig IBM Deskstar (Deskpro???? can't remember) HDD's.
Couple of 10/100 NIC's (one for LAN, one for Cable).
SB Live! Value.
Big F*ck off 21" monitor :b
WinME is the OS (yes - I know I should put Win2K on but WTF eh!)

I tend to run only ICQ and a firewall (which have never affected it) - not even mIRC when playing (Oh and the sidewinder joystick crappy drivers).

VIA drivers are A-OK.

How the heck can the addition of a DVD rom smeg up my Tribes?


HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BTW people - I really feel for you now I know what was going on with all of your PC's!!

 

[old.KmA_MANTIS]

Sorry m8 but I think one word springs to mind...

F O R M A T

Sorry man

 

[Durzel]

Something to consider...

Did installing your Creative DVD ROM drive change any of the drive letters on your machine?

I would imagine when you install Tribes2 - like most games - it will make a note of what drive letter your CDROM was on when it was installed. Then whenever you run the game, it checks that drive for the installation CD which you need to have in there to play.

...hmmm.. although having said that, you wouldn't be able to even get to the login screen if the above were happening.

 

[haggisman]

tried the new version of directx? DX8.1 is good

 

[X-CaL]

couldnt ascertain from ya post whether u still had the original cd-drive still installed? or is it extra ala secondary ide drive?

cus from my experience the dvd i got a crappy samasung combo drive would do exactly the same thing on the cd-auth step, so i put a really crap cd-drive into my pc and just keep the T2 cd in this and it works fine now

in my case i installed tribes 2 from the D: drive (DVD) and place the t2 cd in the G: drive (Crappy CD drive) may be worth quickly swapping to your previous set up which was working fine- and testing it again making sure it works on old CD drive that to me would point to ya DVD not being able to process the CD-Auth properly

failing that sod a format bring out the axe

 

[Scouse]

Nah - it's not a DX8 problem, and not a CD-Auth problem and I've re-installed off my crappy old drive

Feck knows what effect a DVD rom can have on tribes 2!

This makes me feel a lot more sympathetic to all the flamers who rant on about Dynamix quality control - they're right.

76,000-odd different hardware combinations???? How come every other games company do a damn sight better?

Grrr ((((((