Broken Sword 1 problem

[Ped Xing]

I bought the "Sold Out Software" edition of Broken Sword. The game
installed without a problem on my Windows XP machine. I made it to
Ireland, did a few things, and triggered a cinematic.

However, now when I go back into the game and try to restore my save game,
it asks for CD2 to be inserted. I have the correct CD and have inserted
it, trying both of my disc drives. It still refuses to accept the CD. I
read the readme.txt included on the CD and it mentions this problem, saying
to start the game without a CD in the drive, and the insert the CD only
when the game prompts you to. That doesn't work.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

[The Wonderer]

Post by Ped Xing
I bought the "Sold Out Software" edition of Broken Sword. The game
installed without a problem on my Windows XP machine. I made it to
Ireland, did a few things, and triggered a cinematic.
However, now when I go back into the game and try to restore my save game,
it asks for CD2 to be inserted. I have the correct CD and have inserted
it, trying both of my disc drives. It still refuses to accept the CD. I
read the readme.txt included on the CD and it mentions this problem, saying
to start the game without a CD in the drive, and the insert the CD only
when the game prompts you to. That doesn't work.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.
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Ped Xing

Are you shure that's the original game?
Sounds like a bad copy!

Maybe some sort of crack or patch will fix that. But I haven't heard
anything like this about BS

[Diana]

Hi,

I remember having the same problem. At the time I was using Win95 though,
and the only way I could solve it was to play the game in MSDOS.
Maybe you could email Revolution and ask them for advice.

-Diana

Post by Ped Xing
I bought the "Sold Out Software" edition of Broken Sword. The game
installed without a problem on my Windows XP machine. I made it to
Ireland, did a few things, and triggered a cinematic.
However, now when I go back into the game and try to restore my save game,
it asks for CD2 to be inserted. I have the correct CD and have inserted
it, trying both of my disc drives. It still refuses to accept the CD. I
read the readme.txt included on the CD and it mentions this problem, saying
to start the game without a CD in the drive, and the insert the CD only
when the game prompts you to. That doesn't work.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.
--
Ped Xing

[Bronxtim]

Have you tried the www.sold-out.co.uk site for tech support? Did you install
and play in Win98 compatibility mode?

[Morpheus]

Post by Ped Xing
I bought the "Sold Out Software" edition of Broken Sword.

I'm currently playing the same version on a Win98 machine. The "Sold
Out" discs are *definitely* suspect; I found the only way to get through
certain scenes of the game was to rip each disc to the hard drive, then
reinstall and play using Daemon Tools (or similar virtual CD program...)
Otherwise a lot of the in-game speech made the CDs spin up and down
constantly, taking *forever*, as if there were a lot of error-correction
going on or something; but everything is smooth and fast playing from
the hard drive. :-)

So anyway, this'd probably solve your problem as well. Just back-up
your saved games, and after re-installing from virtual CDs (just for the
heck of it), edit the 'sword.ini' file in the game folder to read:

V:\smackshi\
X:\smackshi\
V:\speech\
X:\speech\
V:\music\
X:\music\
V:\clusters\
X:\clusters\
saves\
English

(Where V: and X: are the virtual drives for discs 1 and 2...)

(Or you could try doing that without reinstalling - just copy the disc
contents to the hard drive and change the 'sword.ini' file. But either
way, the game *is* worth the effort. ;-) )

Post by Ped Xing
However, now when I go back into the game and try
to restore my save game, it asks for CD2 to be inserted.

Come to think of it, I had that problem as well before doing the above,
right at the beginning of Ireland (where the second disc kicks in...)


};> M v3.2

Assassins do it from behind!

[Ashikaga]

When I tuned to 45kHz, I received Morpheus:
<snip>

Post by Morpheus
};> M v3.2
Assassins do it from behind!

Random quote generator. :-D

Anyways, thanks goodness you are alive. Happy New Year. :-) Yesterday I
got a stupid rumor that a friend from another NG was dead. Now the person
came and cleared it's a troll effort. But it still bothers me very much.
I couldn't sleep too well last night and was thinking all the possibilities
why the guy was dead (was he killed or it was a suicide). Stupid troll.

[Morpheus]

Greetings in 2004, :-)

Post by Ashikaga

"Assassins do it from behind!"

Random quote generator. :-D

It is indeed! ;-) (also known as OE-QuoteFix) It was quite a laugh that
one, 'cause I'd just returned from a session of BS1 where the Assassin
killed poor-ol' George. ;-D (You know you're playing a true adventure
when the accidental death of the main character is made funny... ;-) )

[PS other readers: That was not a spoiler of any plot as such, merely a
question of the gamer purposely placing the protagonist in danger ;->]

Post by Ashikaga
Anyways, thanks goodness you are alive.

Oh yes, I'm fine, thank evilness (Mwahah) I just reloaded the game. :-D

Post by Ashikaga
Happy New Year. :-)

Thanks ;-), and a Happy New Year to you, too! :-) :-)

The "Year of the Monkey", this one, right? It should therefore be full
of mischievousness... ;-> (Bwahah) And so it shall be! ;-) It would be
the perfect time of year for some Monkey Island...

Now, everyone say it together with me: **mischievousness!** ;-> :-)

Post by Ashikaga
Yesterday I got a stupid rumor that a friend from another NG was
dead. Now the person came and cleared it's a troll effort. But it
still bothers me very much. I couldn't sleep too well last night and
was thinking all the possibilities why the guy was dead (was he
killed or it was a suicide). Stupid troll.

ArgH! :-\ Stupid troll, I hope you smoked that troll... :-) <hands over
some reassuring grass and chocolate milk to help you sleep better> ;-)

By the way, my New Years Resolution is 1024 x 768, in 32-bit true
color. ;-) </dazzled by the standard joke> (In all seriousness, I have
some other resolutions as well...)

I hope everyone is having a great year so far. :-) Be sure to remember
the key-word: **mischievousness!** ;-D


};> M v3.2

"Perhaps you're experiencing a paradoxical state-dependent associative
phenomenon?" (Tuvok)

[Ped Xing]

Thanks for the replies.

I went with Morpheus' suggestion to copy the data files from the CD to the
hard drive and edit the config file to point to them. Initially it didn't
work, but then I put in the real CD and suddenly it worked, with the added
benefit of not having the annoying pauses while the CD spun up to read
speech.

I didn't want to go the virtual CD route because I already have too many
drive letters for my liking.

Now I just have to get unstuck from where I am without consulting a
walkthrough. ;-)

[Morpheus]

Post by Ped Xing
I went with Morpheus' suggestion to copy the data files from
the CD to the hard drive and edit the config file to point to them.

Glad you got it to work! :-)

Post by Ped Xing
Initially it didn't work, but then I put in the real CD and suddenly
it worked,

Classic form of copy protection I think, the game expects to find a
physical CD in the drive - any CD, even a music CD worked for me.
('Led Zeppelin', in this case... ;->) (But then I was using the virtual
drive method, might make a difference...)

Also, I tried just copying the files as you did, but the in-game music
would not work that way for some reason. It recognized everything
except the music, so I went for virtual drives instead.

Post by Ped Xing
Now I just have to get unstuck from where I am without consulting
a walkthrough. ;-)

Oh yes, I finished it on my first run-through just the other night.
(Needed a few hints here and there, though...) Excellent game! :-)


};> M v3.2

* Psychoceramics: The study of crackpots.

[Lasse Reinikainen]

Post by Ped Xing
However, now when I go back into the game and try to restore my save game,
it asks for CD2 to be inserted. I have the correct CD and have inserted
it, trying both of my disc drives. It still refuses to accept the CD. I

Same problem with original release of Broken Sword (I just replayed BS1
and BS2 before starting BS3). I was not able to make game to detect any
CDs at all so starting the game was impossible.

Installing under XP is "impossible" (if one has over 6 (or 8?) free
diskspace) so I switched to W98SE. After that I was able to install the
game but not start playing (because it id not detect CDs). All that
happened with my P4 2533 MHz.

Post by Ped Xing
read the readme.txt included on the CD and it mentions this problem, saying
to start the game without a CD in the drive, and the insert the CD only
when the game prompts you to. That doesn't work.
Any ideas?

My solution was to install the game into older computer. P2 400 MHz was
OK (I used MS-DOS v6.22, not Windows). That computer missed some parts
which was the reason I did not try it to begin with.

[Katia Hayati]

Post by Lasse Reinikainen
Installing under XP is "impossible" (if one has over 6 (or 8?) free
diskspace) so I switched to W98SE.

I had the disks from SoldOut. I used VDMSound to run the installer (the
original BS installer, not the glitzy SO one if I recall correctly) as it
would also not recognize my disk. Worked fine.


-- Katia

[Access]

Post by Lasse Reinikainen

Post by Ped Xing
However, now when I go back into the game and try to restore my save game,
it asks for CD2 to be inserted. I have the correct CD and have inserted
it, trying both of my disc drives. It still refuses to accept the CD.

I

Post by Lasse Reinikainen
Same problem with original release of Broken Sword (I just replayed BS1
and BS2 before starting BS3). I was not able to make game to detect any
CDs at all so starting the game was impossible.
Installing under XP is "impossible" (if one has over 6 (or 8?) free
diskspace) so I switched to W98SE. After that I was able to install the
game but not start playing (because it id not detect CDs). All that
happened with my P4 2533 MHz.

Apparently, Broken Sword is very picky about CD-rom drive letters. You need
to give your CD-rom the drive letter D: or E: in order to make the game
"find" the CD. At least, this is my experience ...

Post by Lasse Reinikainen

Post by Ped Xing
read the readme.txt included on the CD and it mentions this problem, saying
to start the game without a CD in the drive, and the insert the CD only
when the game prompts you to. That doesn't work.
Any ideas?

My solution was to install the game into older computer. P2 400 MHz was
OK (I used MS-DOS v6.22, not Windows). That computer missed some parts
which was the reason I did not try it to begin with.
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