StarFury CD check is screwed up!!

gregebowman · #1 October 10th, 2003, 08:29 PM

Ok, I'll try that tonight if the changing to 1072 x 768 doesn't work. Thanks

Phoenix-D · #2 October 10th, 2003, 08:51 PM

It's not so much a bug as weird programming, I think.

What it does:
Check first CD. No CD? Error message.
Check next CD. No CD? Error message.
-repeat until out of drives-
Error message "Insert the Starfury CD and restart"

ColdSteel · #3 October 10th, 2003, 09:00 PM

Hmmm. I'm wondering if it's where the drive letters are on your system that causes the problem.

I have a DVD/CD on R: and my CD-RW on S:, same for my old PC (which also had the same problem when I tried to install there). Could it be that the CD check code just doesn't expect to see CD drive letters that high up in the alphabet?

gregebowman, what is your CD drive letter? How about any others having similar problems?

Just curious if there's a pattern to this.

-ColdSteel

Phoenix-D · #4 October 10th, 2003, 09:04 PM

Give me a moment, I'll try remapping my drives to see if that causes a problem.

Phoenix-D · #5 October 10th, 2003, 09:18 PM

Confirmed. The Starfury CD check will only read down to drive I. Any further than that, and it can't see the CD and refuses to start.

EDIT: it reads down to drive J actually, not I.

[ October 10, 2003, 20:20: Message edited by: Phoenix-D ]

ColdSteel · #6 October 10th, 2003, 09:40 PM

Hah! The old debugging instincts are still there.

Phoenix, did you email Aaron to let him know about the drive letters? Or, I can do it if you think I should. He may already know about this and I hate to bother him again today but..

I'm sure hoping he can get a fix out soon. I don't want to mess around with Alcohol, I hear it's very bad for you.

I could try remapping my CD drive letter down to I:, installing, and mapping it back to R: after I play. I'd have to remap back and forth everytime I wanted to play though. Uggh!

Mama says CD checks are the devil.

-ColdSteel

gregebowman · #7 October 10th, 2003, 09:45 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by ColdSteel:
Hmmm. I'm wondering if it's where the drive letters are on your system that causes the problem.

I have a DVD/CD on R: and my CD-RW on S:, same for my old PC (which also had the same problem when I tried to install there). Could it be that the CD check code just doesn't expect to see CD drive letters that high up in the alphabet?

gregebowman, what is your CD drive letter? How about any others having similar problems?

Just curious if there's a pattern to this.

-ColdSteel

My drive letter for my cd-rom is Z. How can I change it for this game to read, but not screw up anything else?