Damn you, Homeworld 2! How dare you disobey me!

Goatmon

So, I decided to whip out the game after not playing it for far too long. Only I can't seem to play it. It gave me no trouble installing, yet it seems to forget where the disc went when time comes to run the game. Any suggestions?

pacbowl

I'm only posting this because it seems like a legit reason. Please don't jail me.

http://www.gamecopyworld.com

(and because the homeworld series is awesome and nobody should be denied.)

Goatmon

I was kinda paranoid that I would be accused of piracy. Any claim I could make to the contrary would only carry as much honorable weight as my own reputation here, which isn't exactly superb. Needless to say, I do have the disc, but it's been with me for a while so it could just be defective in some small way (If this problem would be considered small, anyway)

I honestly don't remember if this problem came up when I played it before, as it's been a couple of years (or more) since I first picked it up. So I'll try this out. Thanks.

I'll check this out, thanks.


Edit: Fassive Mailure. Now I'm getting a new error message altogether. It seems that replacing the exe file with the alternative from the webpage has caused further errors and the game won't even get as far as I got before.

Well, fuck.

kevbot

I had the same sort of problems with the original Homeworld... I could install the game from my DVD-ROM drive, but when I tried to start it it'd ask me to insert the disc. I event went as far as to remove my other drives to try to get it working, but nothing seemed to help. I ended up creating a disc image with Alcohol 120%, mounting it with daemontools and using that to start the game. Once the game was started it'd start reading from the disc again and I could unmount the image.

Goatmon

I reinstalled it, and now the game seems to run fine. Ho-hum.