I installed EU (the UK version) and immediately installed the 1.7c patch.
Upon startup it played the two movies fine, and then showed a picture of a city with a 'load progress' bar. The bar reached about a quarter of the way, to 'initialize audio', and then the game quit back to the desktop. A small window appeared which said: 'created with demo-maker'. And the CD-auto-init dialog appeared on screen.
Presumably something in the game causes Windows to resend the CD-insert-notification message again. I have an oldish 24x Hitachi CD-ROM.
My solution was to go to Start|Settings|ControlPanel|System, and turn of auto-insert-notification in my CD's properties.
Upon startup it played the two movies fine, and then showed a picture of a city with a 'load progress' bar. The bar reached about a quarter of the way, to 'initialize audio', and then the game quit back to the desktop. A small window appeared which said: 'created with demo-maker'. And the CD-auto-init dialog appeared on screen.
Presumably something in the game causes Windows to resend the CD-insert-notification message again. I have an oldish 24x Hitachi CD-ROM.
My solution was to go to Start|Settings|ControlPanel|System, and turn of auto-insert-notification in my CD's properties.