Descent 3 - Invalid CD?

[socalgal]

Yep - it's a retail CD. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif

I don't know why, but now when I go to play D3, with the CD in the drive I hit Play and an 'Invalid CD' prompt error comes up (not Insert CD).

It did it with DX7.0, and still with DX7.0A installed. So what can be causing this? Is there a patch for this?

I thought it might be due to a couple of little scratches on the CD, but I reinstalled it sucessfully. This started happening the last couple times I've tried to play...

Win98

http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/frown.gif

[GroundZero3]

hey you know what i got that game in a network package and it won't even install onto my computer. its say that winapp is not a correct file or something. im to lazy to return the game i need to look into that. anyone else have this problem?
JaYsin

[chipbgt]

I got it with my SBlive Platinum and iyt didnt work either....hmm...conspiracy here?

[ScaryBinary]

That's pretty wacky. I actually installed D3 yesterday for the first time on my PC and it's working great. I've got DirectX 7a and Windows 98SE.

Socalgal, have you tried a full install so you won't have to use your CD (I think that was one of the options)?

...I'll see if I can crash my copy. Already I'm getting some wierd cache erros, but it may be 'cause of Netscape. I don't know what would cause it not to recognize the CD, other than a bad CD.

ScaryBinary

[socalgal]

GZ3 and chip, that's messed up. I guess you'd probably have to contact the vendor of the package or Interplay themselves... http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/frown.gif

Scary http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/redface.gif Binary ( http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif )... perhaps... I had the full install which worked fine along with the CD (till it didn't). Maybe something got corrupted or accidentally deleted, or something, but the reinstall I did without the movies. Maybe that's it, I'll reinstall it tomorrow.

If the CD was bad wouldn't it not install sucessfully? Or maybe the error comes from another part of the disk.. heck I don't know.

Thanks for the idea! http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif


[This message has been edited by socalgal (edited 07-03-2000).]

[socalgal]

Guess I should have tried the CD in my CDRW before reinstalling the full ver.

I'm thinking it's a hardware issue (firmware/driver) as the Invalid CD prompt still comes up on the DVD-R but *not* on the CD-RW. So... must be something with the DVD-R drive.

At least it works! http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif Thanks for your suggestions, everybody, errr, Scary http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/redface.gif Binary <g>. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[This message has been edited by socalgal (edited 07-04-2000).]

[ScaryBinary]

Um, ya, that was my second guess. See, you didn't tell me you had TWO cd drives, so...uh...I couldn't properly assess the situation. I think we've all learned a valuable lesson here. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/icons/icon12.gif

Scary http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/icons/icon5.gif Binary

[socalgal]

Mea culpa!

You're right, of course. I hadn't even tried the CD-RW drive until later. Lesson learned http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif (doh)