Hi Everyone !
Just got EU. Installed fine on both of my machines at home...but when I RUN the program, it simply turns the screen black and dumps me back to the desktop.
Tried installing the program at work. Worked just fine (CD is good, then...even a different OS...so I know it's probably not OS/Drivers/Video, etc).
Tried using a friends US CD (mine is the UK one) - Same problem. This "bug" is probably not version specific.
After spending some time on these boards, I found a common thread of problems and worked out a solution :
1) EU does NOT like the CD to be mapped to anything OTHER than right after the Hard Drive. In other words, if you have ONE Hard Drive
(C:\), the CD must be drive D:\. On the machines I have that it wouldn't run, the CD was mapped to X:\
2) You can change the CD mapping! In Win98, right click on My Computer, go to Device Manager, head over to the CD section, and change the Start/End settings to be RIGHT after the Hard Drives.
* DON'T REBOOT YET *
3) You'll need to edit the registry (REGEDIT from START/RUN). You'll have to search through for Europa, but eventually, you'll find a CD key for EU. Mine was mapped to X: .... you need to change it to whatever you changed your CD to.
* Now reboot *
EU now ran without a hitch....
NOTE :
I'm not a computer expert. If you don't understand any of this, don't try it. This solution is a temporary solution only, as you will HAVE to change your CD mapping BACK to whatever it was to get everything else to work, and you have to do the whole procedure and reboot everytime you want to play ! This is not good.
My guess? The copy protection scheme is causing problems.
They will hopefully fix this in the next patch.
Sam_F7
Just got EU. Installed fine on both of my machines at home...but when I RUN the program, it simply turns the screen black and dumps me back to the desktop.
Tried installing the program at work. Worked just fine (CD is good, then...even a different OS...so I know it's probably not OS/Drivers/Video, etc).
Tried using a friends US CD (mine is the UK one) - Same problem. This "bug" is probably not version specific.
After spending some time on these boards, I found a common thread of problems and worked out a solution :
1) EU does NOT like the CD to be mapped to anything OTHER than right after the Hard Drive. In other words, if you have ONE Hard Drive
(C:\), the CD must be drive D:\. On the machines I have that it wouldn't run, the CD was mapped to X:\
2) You can change the CD mapping! In Win98, right click on My Computer, go to Device Manager, head over to the CD section, and change the Start/End settings to be RIGHT after the Hard Drives.
* DON'T REBOOT YET *
3) You'll need to edit the registry (REGEDIT from START/RUN). You'll have to search through for Europa, but eventually, you'll find a CD key for EU. Mine was mapped to X: .... you need to change it to whatever you changed your CD to.
* Now reboot *
EU now ran without a hitch....
NOTE :
I'm not a computer expert. If you don't understand any of this, don't try it. This solution is a temporary solution only, as you will HAVE to change your CD mapping BACK to whatever it was to get everything else to work, and you have to do the whole procedure and reboot everytime you want to play ! This is not good.
My guess? The copy protection scheme is causing problems.
They will hopefully fix this in the next patch.
Sam_F7
