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Originally Posted by Noah Vaile
After several years of no problems my faithful Inspiron 8000, Me O/S has started to crash SPWW2v7, only. Other games that are downloaded (PG2, SPWAW) play just fine. I am having a video problem that requires me to re-set the video settings to "Use display adapter scaling" every time it shuts down or sleeps.
When I open the game I get a small DOS window that says "Drive not ready error reading drive D" even though there is no disc in the drive; but by hitting "f" (fail) two times the game starts right up. It has been doing that for years. When I put the 'game disc' in the d-drive it starts right up without the small DOS window, going directly into the game. However in both cases the game freezes after only a few moves.
Right now it is (I am) trying to get through the AI turn but freezes in a few seconds. Then I have yo alt-con-del.
I have erased and reloaded the game without effect.
Unfortunately this I-8000 has no virus protections and no internet capability. I use it solely to play Steel Panthers.
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V7 is the obsolete and unsupported DOS version, not WinSPWW2 right?.
The DOS versions of SPWW2/SPMBT do
not read or require any "game disks".
Are you confusing DOS SPWW2 with the original SSI SP games (which did require a CD in the drive)?.
The only suggestion I would have for you is to do a disk surface scan for bad sectors, since you may have some corrupting the game data.
Cheers
Andy