ww2steel Posted December 29, 2007 Share Posted December 29, 2007 My Toshiba laptop will not run the install/ setup programs for any CM1 game. It just sits there and reads. Brand new laptop- maybe it's the drive, maybe incompatability with one of the millions of crosslinked software components, who knows? Mike 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ww2steel Posted December 30, 2007 Author Share Posted December 30, 2007 It looks like problem 2 under the install guide. (PC taking up to ten minutes to look through the CD) .... I've tried like 10 times to install the software, waiting a significant amount of time each time. This time I've been waiting for 22 minutes and it hasn't even opened the setup program I clicked on. Is this a drive, Vista, or Battlefront software problem??? Mike 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenAsJade Posted December 30, 2007 Share Posted December 30, 2007 A friend experience the same thing. Gave up and installed it on his XP home PC instead. GaJ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ww2steel Posted December 30, 2007 Author Share Posted December 30, 2007 Yeah, it's really wierd. I may try to copy it onto a flash drive and install it from there. Maybe I'm a dork, but this is one of my favorite games. I MUST have it on my laptop. I have CMBO,CMBB (US and German versions), and CMAK. None will start the install. The drive is sitting there doing ??? just reading. Many other games install and run without difficulty. Battlefront, (not giving you a hard time) why do these CDs not work in my Vista powered DVD player? Thanks 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.R. Posted January 5, 2008 Share Posted January 5, 2008 Try right clicking on the installer and selecting 'Run as Admin'. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ww2steel Posted January 5, 2008 Author Share Posted January 5, 2008 It would never stop reading the CD (like it was looking for an autorun) to try anything else. Took the Toshiba back, the DVD player in the HP does not have Vista conflicts. Vista has problems and many errors installing other common XP era programs (including one from Microsoft). CMBB runs, so I'm happy. Mike 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jomni Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 Well it just takes to long to read. But it will eventually install. The long read times for old installers are not only for BFC games... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leprechaun Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 Originally posted by GreenAsJade: A friend experience the same thing. Gave up and installed it on his XP home PC instead. GaJ Yeah, I think this is the best solution for most old and even current software applications until Vista matures. I, myself, wouldn't touch with it a 39 1/2 foot pole. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Legh Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 I have the same problem ie I bought a new computer dual core 2.4ghz processor, nvidia geforce 8500 video card with Vista as the o/s.This is a pretty decent rig and it runs every game I had on my old old XP system perfectly well(some better) apart from the CM series - bought all three, best fun ever. But now one of them now work properly - very long load times, blocky graphics, sluggish(actually unplayable)gameplay etc etc. Result - I have stopped playing. I am disappointed that Battlefront do not seem to be addressing this problem which will increase as more and more people switch to Vista over time. Most of us are just game players not computer techs. It should up to Battlefront,not us, to suggest the right workaround (use administrator mode, set o/s to XP in the properties box or whatever)or issue a patch. However I fear that the Battlefront team are so busy trying to make TOW playable that sorting out this issue is right at the bottom of the to-do list or not on it at all - happy to be proved wrong. Cheers 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c3k Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 Add me to the this list. In another thread in this forum is a suggestion for tweaking the graphics menu for Nvidia desktop manager. That seems to've worked for some folks. (Assuming you can get CMx1 to load.) It didn't work for me. Vista with no CMx1. Regards, Ken 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
easytarget Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 that's strange, i loaded up all the CM's under vista and they ran fine i've since rolled back to XP simply because i hated the driver issues with vista seems odd though that so many would have trouble with vista not even loading up the game, because you'd think it would do this consistently to anyone attempting to load under vista?! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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