Help! Game no longer recognizes the CD

[Canvas Wings]

Must be Karma.

Right after posting a message saying how great things were running under Alacrity, I suddenly get this. When you "Go to Field" an error message indicates the wrong CD is in. Tried popping it out and in again, no go. It's not Alacrity -it does the same thing with a standard launch. It's not the V 1.30b patch; I hadn't installed it yet (though I have now, in the wildly ridiculous hope the new patch might toggle something - it didn't) -is there anything I should try first before using the reset buttons or worse, a re-install ? I'd hate to lose my pilots -plus, I have sent a couple of weeks finding all the right/wrong tweaks, and like an idiot, I didn't write down the final configs.....

[ONETINSOLDIER]

First off, I dont have this game and Im not to be considered an expert, but Ive experienced this with other games, namely, cfs3 and OFF phase2, Im asking these questions in hopes it will help you which in turn will help me.

Have you installed any other games or programs?

Have you installed any hardware?

Have you updated windows in any way?

Have you had any unpure thoughts about,,,,,,,,oh, disregard that last one.

 

But seriously, lets hope this gets the ball rolling and you on your way to the wild blue yonder.

[Canvas Wings]

Have you installed any other games or programs?

Have you installed any hardware?

Have you updated windows in any way?

Have you had any unpure thoughts about,,,,,,,,oh, disregard that last one.

 

Thanks, gwar...

 

That would be No.

No.

And no.

 

It was running fine, I exited clean, did a little online surfing, and a little later re-launched the game.

Here's where it went sideways. I run "Alacrity' first (a program that shuts down unecessary programs, then launches your game, and re-starts those programs when the game closes.)

This time for some reason, the game failed to start when Alacrity tried to launch it. Needed to re-start the computer. Ran Alacrity again, and everything worked as it should; OFF started properly, but then failed to recognized the CD when it was called for. I tried running CFS3 itself, and got the same error message.

 

When I try to push it past the "Wrong CD" message, it comes up with another error warning-

 

Patch DLL error Game terminated prematurely. PatchMemorySync::Done: TerminateProcess() failed(5)

[ONETINSOLDIER]

you have tried going back to the old registry settings before installing alacrity, havent you?

[Canvas Wings]

you have tried going back to the old registry settings before installing alacrity, havent you?

 

 

Yup. But that wasn't what cleared it. (It's up purring like a like a well-tuned prop fighter). After trying everything else I could think of, short of a total game re-install, I looked at the error message again- "Terminated prematurely" and out of sheer desperation, I went back into the game, and before it got to the "CD error", I deliberated crashed the system with <Cntr/Alt/Delete> -inessence, terminating it prematurely a second time. It came back up working fine. When logic doesn't work, use Voodoo. Go figure. Thanks for ridin' shotgun, gwar. I appreciate it.