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| 13 MAR 2005 at 6:08am |
The_cranky_hermitPrivate Detective
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Joined: 14 MAR 2004
Status : Online | My first guess is that the disc is damaged. Try copying the entire contents of the disc to any folder and see what happens, see if it's unable to copy one or more of the files manually.
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| 13 MAR 2005 at 6:25am |
kuddlesPrivate Detective
Posts : 702
Joined: 22 OCT 2004
Status : Online | What exactly occurs? Because I got a couple wierd messages while installing it on mine.
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| 13 MAR 2005 at 7:39am |
JoGuild Master
Posts : 3313
Joined: 3 NOV 2002
Location: AU, Qld.
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By The_cranky_hermit (13 MAR 2005 6:08am)
My first guess is that the disc is damaged. Try copying the entire contents of the disc to any folder and see what happens, see if it's unable to copy one or more of the files manually.
No, the disc isn't damaged, it's my original disc that she's using, I checked it the other day and it's fine, I even have a copy here which I usually use myself rather than the original - for obvious reasons seeing the game was hard enough to come by in the first place - and she's tried both.
Still, I know she wouldn't have tried copying the files to a folder manually, so thanks, I'll email her and let her know to try that.
Kuddles,
I'm not even sure what message she's getting, just said it installed part way and then stopped - this is the second weekend she's tried too. As always, it's a bit awkward trying to help her when we're in two different places, but thanks anyway.
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| 13 MAR 2005 at 7:53am |
JoGuild Master
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Location: AU, Qld.
Status : Offline | Kuddles,
I just spoke to my daughter on the phone but she said she doesn't get any messages when using the installer - it just stops! That's about a third of the way through.
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| 13 MAR 2005 at 2:02pm |
lexxy2uIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 21
Joined: 18 JAN 2003
Status : Online | I will be looking forward to a solution to this problem as I too played the game a long time ago on my old W95 but would like to be able to play it on my WXP. Honestly I got to Day 9 and never finished after those awful zombies attacked me so many times. I am looking forward to finishing the game and putting it back on my Won't sale/trade shelf .
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| 13 MAR 2005 at 4:09pm |
kuddlesPrivate Detective
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Joined: 22 OCT 2004
Status : Online | Originally Posted By Jo (13 MAR 2005 7:53am)
Kuddles,
I just spoke to my daughter on the phone but she said she doesn't get any messages when using the installer - it just stops! That's about a third of the way through.
I know this just may not be the answer, but ask her how she knows it stops. I've used both the GK1 and GK2 installers, and they both seem to act like they are doing nothing about a third of the way through and it takes an unusually long time before it continues.
Other than that, my only other guess is that the communication between the installer and her Cd drive isn't working properly.
Sorry. ???
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| 13 MAR 2005 at 8:53pm |
JoGuild Master
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Location: AU, Qld.
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By kuddles (13 MAR 2005 4:09pm)
I know this just may not be the answer, but ask her how she knows it stops. I've used both the GK1 and GK2 installers, and they both seem to act like they are doing nothing about a third of the way through and it takes an unusually long time before it continues.
Other than that, my only other guess is that the communication between the installer and her Cd drive isn't working properly.
Sorry. ???
Well, that's not something I've asked, thanks, I'll try and give her a ring at work this morning if I can get hold of her. Actually I thought she said a week ago that it sort of started to play the first time she used the installer but that there was something wrong with the sound - I could be wrong about that, I know she downloaded VDM sound - but she said the game itself didn't show up in Windows Explorer or anywhere else on the computer - as I wasn't there when this happened I'm not quite sure what actually happened, but whatever it was, she's since tried several times to install it with no success.
It's bad enough when you have a game already installed and it won't play, seems to me it's even worse when you can't install the thing in the first place.
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| 14 MAR 2005 at 8:57pm |
JoGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Kuddles,
Thanks to your input here it appears that our daughter has at last installed GK1. She rang me last night to say that she used the installer again and this time just went off and did something else for awhile (not just the 4 or 5 mins. that she'd left it originally). When she came back the game had installed and was running through the introduction as we spoke! Obviously she just hadn't given it enough time the first couple of times she tried installing. Well, I'm just writing this in case anyone else has the same problem - and maybe it wouldn't take so long on some computers, but hers is a 2.6Ghz. so the computer itself shouldn't be slow but it could have something to do with the way it's setup I suppose.
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| 15 MAR 2005 at 2:00am |
kuddlesPrivate Detective
Posts : 702
Joined: 22 OCT 2004
Status : Online | Mine is a 2.6 as well, and while I don't recall it taking longer than 5 minutes, it does seem like a weird "freezing" effect. My guess is that is one of the very large files that all needs to be moved in one chunk unto the hard drive and/or changes need to be made to it so that it will play from the hard drive.
Anyways, glad to hear things worked out!
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| 15 MAR 2005 at 2:03am |
jalexSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | I have played this game on 98 many times and there has never been any problems. You might have a nad disk.
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| 15 MAR 2005 at 4:07am |
JoGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By jalex (15 MAR 2005 2:02am)
I have played this game on 98 many times and there has never been any problems. You might have a nad disk.
No Jalex - no bad disc! This was just because my daughter was trying to install it on her new XP computer - it plays fine on Win98 which is what I have myself, the new GK1 & 2 Installer seems to be a godsend for playing these two games on XP when for some people even Dosbox doesn't seem to work.
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| 16 MAR 2005 at 6:51pm |
jalexSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Jo (15 MAR 2005 4:07am)
No Jalex - no bad disc! This was just because my daughter was trying to install it on her new XP computer - it plays fine on Win98 which is what I have myself, the new GK1 & 2 Installer seems to be a godsend for playing these two games on XP when for some people even Dosbox doesn't seem to work.
Yea, That's why I don't run XP as I have many old games like this one. It has a nice look to it bit for me I am greedy, I want more. LOL
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