Ok, it is now 22:16. I have worked with this since 11.00 today, thats 11 hours.
I purchased CMBN upgrade pack 3+4 and installed it. After a hazzle with support regarding wrong serials i managed to activate my products.
BUT when i press the PLAY button the tank picture re-appears after 3 seconds without any buttons, and the game never starts.
So i close the app and removes the exe from the taskbar and retry, and now i have to activate the product with the key again. This is infinite. Every time i start the program i have to re-activate with the key and still it does not lauch. Rebooting, reinstalling, uninstalling gives exactly the same result. Nil. Note that products gets registered in green okay so according to the app my game is ready for play.
What i have tried:
1. Launch from steam as other guy here suggested. No difference.
2. Completely reinstall with only CMBN 4.0 installer. No difference.
3. Completely reinstall with CMBN 1.0 then 2.0. Game runs fine. Installing 4.0 over this breaks the game though. No difference.
4. Reboot computer in between, shutting down virusprogram, inactivating firewall, no such things affect the outcome in any way.
I feel that the copy protection for these titles are just the worst i have ever come across.
I am wodering if anyone here might know a trick to work around this.