Rick Wrigley Posted July 5, 2001 Share Posted July 5, 2001 I recently reinstalled Windoze again (it was getting sluggish, crashed a lot, etc.) and I started reinstalling some of the games I had already installed. I did delete everything on my game partition prior to reinstalling. First, I reinstalled Alpha Centauri and Alien Crossfire; no problems there. Then, secondly, I attempted to reinstall CMBO. It got to 87% of completion, and then I got a requester asking me to insert the disk which had "data3.cab" in drive 0. The path was defaulted to the read-only CD-ROM, so that was OK, but I kept getting a message that the file was not found. There is NO "data3.cab" on the disk. However, I was completely unable to get CMBO installed. I have installed it, then reinstalled it before, and have never gotten this error. I'm working with a pretty clean install of Win98SE, all drivers loaded, DirectX 8.0, and all. Can ANYONE figure out what the hell is going on here? I want my CMBO! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MajorH TacOps Developer Posted July 5, 2001 Share Posted July 5, 2001 Sounds like some obscure Windows system file did not get reinstalled and now the Combat Mission installer can't figure out where its little MS buddy has gone. Try using the manual installation procedure below - don't use the installer. 1. Insert the Combat Mission CD. If your computer automatically starts the Combat Mission installer then immediately cancel and exit the installer. 2. Create a folder titled 'CMBO' on your hard drive. 3. Copy the follwing files from the CD into the CMBO folder on your hard drive. Combat Mission.exe ReadMe.txt OpenPlay.dll (If present on your CD) Internet Play ReadMe.txt (If present on your CD) 4. Copy the following folders from your CD drive into the 'CMBO' folder on your hard drive: BMP Mov OpenPlay Modules (If present on your CD) Scenarios Wav 5. Create the following empty folders inside the 'CMBO' folder on your hard drive. PBEM Saved Games 6. Leave the Combat Mission CD in your CDROM drive. Double click on the file on your hard drive titled 'Combat Mission.exe'. The game should start up. [ 07-05-2001: Message edited by: MajorH ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Wrigley Posted July 6, 2001 Author Share Posted July 6, 2001 Thanks *10^6! It worked just fine! You're a pal. Rick 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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