I've got a problem with GPL - help please?

Hi, I bought gpl from my local "one step beyond" game store ages ago and installed it, played it then after a while uninstalled it. I just now decided to instal gpl again, but when i click where i want to install gpl to on my drive, it says, "this is not a valid CD, please contact your vendor for further information." Well, it is a valid cd, i haent downloaded it or anything like that, it is genuine (with box, manual etc) so do you have any ideas on how to install it? thanks for any help, mikey

Yeah its a bug. Here is the workaround:

[groups.google.nl]

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It's only after we've lost everything, that we are free to do anything.

thanks for that link but still got problems. i dowloaded and did everything it said and i can successfully load gpl. But when it loads, it goes straight into the create driver screen thing, its incredibly slow (got no other programs running). Are you meant to be able to do alt+tab btw, i try and everytime i try it crashes and i cant do ctrl+alt+delete and i have to restart the whole computer. any ideas? i got the patch and everything

Have you got a Pentium or something? I tihnk gpl might not like hyperthreading and that makes it slow? I really don't know.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/16/2005 10:56PM by Daniel Knott.

i got an amd athlon. thing is, it worked thing like 2 months ago and i havent updated my pc at all. all my other games work fine

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I tihnk gp4 might not like hyperthreading

Who said anything about GP4?

Have you tried going past the driver creation screen?

If that Athlon is an Athlon64, then disable Cool 'n' Quiet in the BIOS.

It effects all Papyrus sims, and makes them run at either half or double speed most of the time.

Hmm but I think I have cool and quiet enabled and mine seems to be running fine?

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Go Alesi Wrote:
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> Who said anything about GP4?


Somebody's been Guowned

By far the easiest way to install GPL is to get the 2004 demo and copy the tracks from your gpl install across (then update 'em separately).

Daniel Knott Wrote:
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> Hmm but I think I have cool and quiet enabled and
> mine seems to be running fine?

If you've got it enabled it's either not working (sometimes doesn't) or the Windows util that some mobos have has it disabled.

You'd know if it was enabled.

Fair enough. must not be working then :S

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Go Alesi Wrote:
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> Quote:I tihnk gp4 might not like hyperthreading
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> Who said anything about GP4?
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> Have you tried going past the driver creation
> screen?
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> Win XP Home- P4 2.66Ghz- GF4Ti4800SE Starstorm
> 56.72 drivers- 512MBDDR Ram- Dx 9.0- SB Audigy
> with Creative 5.1 Speakers
> :with:
> Win XP Home SP2 - AMD 64 3200+ - GF6600GT - 1GB
> DDR-Ram - Dx9.0 - SB Audigy 2 ZS


yeah. I type in my name, team etc and click that little green flag thing, and it says unable to save driver data or something similar. so i can't go back, or forward, or ctrl+alt+del or alt+tab lol. i did a virus check incase it was a virus, but no.

I'd uninstall, reinstall, apply all the patches, and then make sure the entire folder isn't setting itself to read-only for some reason.

I attepmted what you said gav, but when i selected "full" during install, it came up with the "this is not a valid cd etc"...hmm, i'll try that demo idea someone said above

no, but what the instructions said were to manually just copy eerything off of the cd and paste it, and the make sure the whole folder is not set to read only.

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Yup thats what I posted. There whole process is there, right at the end of the link.

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It's only after we've lost everything, that we are free to do anything.

Yer I know, just it sounded like that he was still trrying to do a nromal install. I dunno about it myself, jkust was reiterating what it said in the link you posted.

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