Boo Radley Posted April 24, 2002 Share Posted April 24, 2002 This just started the other day. After I input my moves and hit "GO", sometimes halfway through the movie and at other times right at the end of the movie, I hear the CD "spin up" and the action freezes for 2-3 seconds and then the action resumes. I've recently added some mods and I was wondering if that may have something to do with it. But I added the mods a few days before this began. Any clues? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted April 24, 2002 Share Posted April 24, 2002 I've had this happen with several applications (both game and non-game) on two different computers over the last three years. Well, to be accurate, at least on my present computer I'm not seeing any hesitation yet, but it sure did on my last one. I'll be right in the middle of something and give it a command, and I can hear the CD player start thundering away. Worries me that the sucker is going to wear itself out. I've recently acquired the habit of emptying the CD player whenever I am running a program that does not actually require a CD. Originally posted by Boo_Radley: Any clues?Nary a one. Cyberjuju. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boo Radley Posted April 24, 2002 Author Share Posted April 24, 2002 This only happens with CM. And it happens at exactly the same time. That is, if the CD spins up at 42 secs. into the movie, if I rerun the movie, it will spin up again at 42 secs. That's why I think it's something that is contained in the game. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schrullenhaft Posted April 24, 2002 Share Posted April 24, 2002 I'd suggest reinstalling CMBO, in its default form, to another directory and see if the problem repeats itself with a different installation. It's possible that something in your installation is corrupt and the CD is being read to load it up. However I would have thought that this would occur before the movie is played, but possibly not. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boo Radley Posted April 25, 2002 Author Share Posted April 25, 2002 What the heck, I'll give it a shot. It can't hurt to try it. Thanks. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt Shultz Posted April 25, 2002 Share Posted April 25, 2002 I get the same thing. It seemed to start after I installed a whole bunch of mods. Removing the CD after start up seems to solve the problem. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harry flashman Posted April 26, 2002 Share Posted April 26, 2002 i just wish i could see the damn movie! i installed quicktime but it still just goes into the start/options page w/o any sign of a movie. tried looking for it on the CD but no luck. ah well.... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boo Radley Posted April 26, 2002 Author Share Posted April 26, 2002 Originally posted by Sgt Shultz: I get the same thing. It seemed to start after I installed a whole bunch of mods. Removing the CD after start up seems to solve the problem.What I may do is remove the last set of mods I installed. All they were were some skins for armor...not that important. Another thing that's interesting is that it only occurs during PBEM plays. If I just play a game against the AI it doesn't happen. Weird, huh? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schrullenhaft Posted April 26, 2002 Share Posted April 26, 2002 harry flashman - I assume that you have the CDV release of CMBO (the retail version that is available in Europe). There is NO QuickTime movie in that version, just a short AVI movie from CDV (which is probably nothing like the QuickTime movie on the internet version). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt Shultz Posted April 27, 2002 Share Posted April 27, 2002 [/qb] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boo Radley Posted April 27, 2002 Author Share Posted April 27, 2002 Originally posted by Sgt Shultz: Yeah that is weird, I get it with the ai too. Maybe something got corrupted during the installation of the mods.That's my bet. OK, that settles it, the newest mods I installed are history. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boo Radley Posted May 2, 2002 Author Share Posted May 2, 2002 BINGO. I dumped the game, reinstalled and played a couple of pbems. No problem. Added all the mods except for the last set I had installed prior to this problem and everything is still running perfectly well. Problem solved. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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