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(OT: I can login and stay logged in now... )

No One Lives Forever, done this the other day and worked...

Empire Earth: Art Of Conquest, done this today, took 2 goes to get it to work...

Both games I created my own BWA file...

1st time I noticed that after writing that there were 1190 Dual sectors added to recreate lower sector densities. I used the same settings for the both games so I couldn't understand why EE:AoC failed to work. Instantly failed verification.

Being that I run 2 HDD's with 1 XP Pro and the other 98SE I could try again, installed BlindWrite Suite onto the XP system, recreated another BWA file then wrote. Something different, the CD Occupation was higher then last time, 33.39% this time while it was only 29.??% last time. After writing I seen something else, there was 1309 Dual sectors added to recreate lower sector densities. I wrote to a CDRW to test. Wrote again to a CDR and the CD Occupation had changed again, now it was down to 31.17%...

Ok, I run newest ASPI on XP but stuck with default on 98SE. I wrote in DAO PW mode at 4X speed. A BlindWrite error or difference in ASPI layers, don't know. But if it was the difference in ASPI layers then NOLF2 would not have worked either...


Just thought I would pass this information along, very strange that 1 game worked while the other didn't....

Are you saying that it was only with xp that you could get copies of both games to work whilst a copy of Empire Earth: Art of Conquest made under 98 failed?

So far that's correct ....

More info, just swapped over to the HDD with 98SE and found that the backup on CDR didn't work, fails verification instantly. But the backup on CDRW works fine. I updated ASPI layers to see if that made any difference, deleted the registry keys for securom then rebooted. It made no difference of course, so I tried something else. Deleted the securom registry keys then started the game with the backup on CDRW, it failed. I restarted the game by the desktop short-cut and it worked again. Checked out the registry the first keys were different, I then tried the CDR to find that now it actually works. I have noticed that there's another registry key been added "SecData2" is now present, whether or not this means anything I don't know yet, but i'm still working on it...


Edit: My spelling is bad..

Hmmm, well I'm not wholly surprised since I haven't been able to copy EE: AoC successfully with blindwrite on my win98se system either.

I can and have done so with blackcheck's twinpeak tool so I suppose that this is just another example of blindwrite not working very well on my system.

After messing around all day, playing with different things I have found it's very touchy. Sometimes it works and other times it doesn't, EE: AoC might work first go but then it might take 3 or 4 tries under win98se. Winxp though, works first go everytime ....