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I just purchased EU and tried to install it on my PowerBook. (I know it's a Mac, but VPC 4.0.2 simulates a Pentium III just fine. I currently have Baldur's Gate installed, and it runs at full speed.) I blow off when setup.exe is unable to write some sort of license file into a temp subdirectory. I'm running Windoze 98 with DirectX 8.x. WTFO?

Note, I'm in the EU, but the Windoze version was originally US.

 

[BiB]

Dunno, but u'd better try the support forum.

 

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At installation, I've gotten the following messages:

"an installation support file c:\windows\temp\{hex string...}license.txt could not be installed. The system cannot read from the specified device." On another attempt, I got "Please insert disk 0 that contains data3.cab."

As far as I can tell, the programming of this product is extremely poor quality. I like the board version of Europa Universalis, but the computer version appears to be as severely hosed up as Victory at Sea was. I intend to return my copy to the distributor and warn off anyone else who is thinking of buying it.

Sorry, but maintenance of minimum standards is one of my hobby horses.

 

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Installed at Last!

I finally got EU installed. All I had to do was remove my D: hard drive so the CD player moved up to the D: slot. Apparently the game is hard-coded to expect the CD player there. It does make it a bit of a bother to play.

 

[UnionBuster]

Hmm, I don't think so. The CD Rom I use to run the game is drive F:, no problems there.


I think it's the evilness of trying to run the game on a Mac.

 

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My CD ROM is f: with no problems - but I have a PC.

Cheers, Ice

 

[unmerged(3564)]

Probably a combination of things. From various
bug reports, EU does seem to do something bogus
when it looks for the CD. The main symptom seems
to be that if the EU CD isn't in a CD drive with
a cursed-DOS-letter-name that is one past the
last hard disk, it can't find it. Couple that
with the fact that the Windows emulator has to
fake the disk drive naming structure at some
level more abstract than that used by Windows
on a PC, and it's a wonder that it works at all.

Balzingo!

 

[Paradox Interactive]

Ok, first of all. EU is developed for Intel based Windows.

The error you where refering to earlier "an installation support file c:\windows\temp\{hex string...}license.txt could not be installed." is the installer, not the game. Another thing is that the copy protection is what says that the CD could not be found, it is not the game in itself.

Patric

 

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EU on a Mac <heh>

It _is_ running on Windows on an Intel Pentium II 8)!. It just happens that VPC allows you to simulate a 266 MHz Pentium II at the _hardware_ level (Intel Triton chipset, Microid Research Systems BIOS, El-Torito CD-ROM booting spec, std dual IDE/ATAPI controllers, ATAPI CD-ROM, S3 Trio 32/64 PCI SVGA, etc.) in real-time on a 400 MHz G3. The nice thing about this configuration is that it's _less_ flaky than most commercial hardware. Apparently the problem here is that I'm running with both hard drives and shared drives in my configuration before the CD is encountered. At least I didn't need to use a screwdriver to get the game to install.

Mutter... 8)