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Alastair Ingram
www.saxlessons.com
Good Luck
David Samper
Diamond Star Racing
http://webpages.charter.net/dstamper
If it won't run in D3D on a V5 then you must have something wrong
somewhere. Runs fine on a V5 in D3D using vs-w9x-1.04.01-beta.exe
drivers. His won't run due to the copy protection and his specific
cdrom drive.
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Jagg
| How long of a wait for the "2 or 3 percent" of us that can't get N4 to
run?
| How many are there, really? I am pissed! I have this game that I spent my
| $50.00 on just sitting here doing nothing! I have NEVER had this problem
| with any other game. Does anyone from papy read this NG? I have e-mailed
| tech support three days ago and I haven't heard a peep from them. If you
| can't get N4 to run, please say so here. I would like to know that at
least
| I am not alone. Thanks for letting me rant.
|
| --
| Alastair Ingram
| www.saxlessons.com
|
|
If I return it, I can' it use it at all. If I wait, it will undoubtedly be
past the return period.
Sierra needs to say, now, that they will replace the CD's for those people
with problems at the point of sale.
Marc.
> >How long of a wait for the "2 or 3 percent" of us that can't get N4 to
run?
> >How many are there, really? I am pissed! I have this game that I spent my
> >$50.00 on just sitting here doing nothing! I have NEVER had this problem
> >with any other game. Does anyone from papy read this NG? I have e-mailed
> >tech support three days ago and I haven't heard a peep from them. If you
> >can't get N4 to run, please say so here. I would like to know that at
least
> >I am not alone. Thanks for letting me rant.
> Alastair, why don't you return the game and wait for the fix?
> If you bought it somewhere that won't take it back, then
> Sierra has a money-back guarantee. You can find out about it
> on their site. www.sierra.com
> I can really understand your frustration, though.
Steve
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Mike Grandy
Precision Racing
www.precision-racing.com
Sierra is full of ***this time. Drivers will do nothing for the problem
some of us are having. I do believe Sierra knew full well that the copy
protection scheme they were going to use was going to shut out 10% of the
people from playing the game.
So right now I have two options. Use the WAREZ (nice word, ain't it,
Sierra?) fix/no-cd and forget about the WON servers, or else go through that
convoluted process of disabling port-tabbing out-enabling port-going back
in-reconfiguring wheel crap.
I've chosen to go the WAREZ way, for the most part, only occasionally going
the other route to get onto the servers.
There is always Kali and just plain TCP/IP with friends. And then there's
the hope that IRF gets updated to include N4.
There might be quite a few people who just decide to return N4 and then get
the WAREZ version, something which Sierra wanted to prevent but with this CD
thing has only encouraged.
Such is life.
Alanb
It is Papyrus' problem. They knew the scheme they were using caused
problems and they could have used a different scheme. It's very easy to get
N4 on the net, so what's the sense?
Alanb
That is honestly just a guess
> If I return it, I can' it use it at all. If I wait, it will undoubtedly
be
> past the return period.
> Sierra needs to say, now, that they will replace the CD's for those people
> with problems at the point of sale.
> Marc.
> > On Wed, 14 Feb 2001 05:19:12 GMT, "Alastair Ingram"
> > >How long of a wait for the "2 or 3 percent" of us that can't get N4 to
> run?
> > >How many are there, really? I am pissed! I have this game that I spent
my
> > >$50.00 on just sitting here doing nothing! I have NEVER had this
problem
> > >with any other game. Does anyone from papy read this NG? I have
e-mailed
> > >tech support three days ago and I haven't heard a peep from them. If
you
> > >can't get N4 to run, please say so here. I would like to know that at
> least
> > >I am not alone. Thanks for letting me rant.
> > Alastair, why don't you return the game and wait for the fix?
> > If you bought it somewhere that won't take it back, then
> > Sierra has a money-back guarantee. You can find out about it
> > on their site. www.sierra.com
> > I can really understand your frustration, though.
I've seen some suggestions elsewhere that you need to contact the
manufacturer of your CD-ROM drive to find out when(if) they plan to
implement support for SecureRom copy protection.
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Jeff Causey
FrogDog Racing
www.frogdogracing.com
Home of the FrogDog *** Racing School
Member of the raceserver.net network of servers
> > --
> > Alastair Ingram
> > www.saxlessons.com
> > How long of a wait for the "2 or 3 percent" of us that can't get N4 to
> run?
> > How many are there, really? I am pissed! I have this game that I spent
my
> > $50.00 on just sitting here doing nothing! I have NEVER had this problem
> > with any other game. Does anyone from papy read this NG? I have e-mailed
> > tech support three days ago and I haven't heard a peep from them. If you
> > can't get N4 to run, please say so here. I would like to know that at
> least
> > I am not alone. Thanks for letting me rant.
> > --
> > Alastair Ingram
> > www.saxlessons.com
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