I had a problem running EU2: when I opened the program, I would get the loading hourglass, but then nothing would happen and the hourglass would go away. I had to exit the program from the ctrl-alt-del screen. Because the program did not give me an error when I put the wrong CD in the drive, people thought that it was a problem with the CD-protection and/or my DVD drive.
It turns out that there was a conflict between some part of my DVD drive and my joystick which was causing the CD-protection to mess up. I have a joystick through the game port on my sound card, and all I had to do was disable it. Now everything works fine (with full read-ahead on my CDROM).
So I'd like to add Soundcard gameports to the list of things for people to check if things aren't working.
Also, I'd like to say that my experience with tech support on this forum, in IRC and by e-mail with Paradox, and over the phone with Strategy First has been excellent. You all have been extremely friendly and helpful, much more so than other tech support people I've come across. And I have my problem resolved one business day after buying the game. Thanks a lot.
Varian
It turns out that there was a conflict between some part of my DVD drive and my joystick which was causing the CD-protection to mess up. I have a joystick through the game port on my sound card, and all I had to do was disable it. Now everything works fine (with full read-ahead on my CDROM).
So I'd like to add Soundcard gameports to the list of things for people to check if things aren't working.
Also, I'd like to say that my experience with tech support on this forum, in IRC and by e-mail with Paradox, and over the phone with Strategy First has been excellent. You all have been extremely friendly and helpful, much more so than other tech support people I've come across. And I have my problem resolved one business day after buying the game. Thanks a lot.
Varian