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[iratefive]

Okay I am downloading a copy of Pax Imperium II from HOTU and it says in the tech notes it is a CD Rip version.....

Can some kind soul give me a step by step process on how to get this bad boy up and running?

[BeefontheBone]

first up, you should be asking hotu not us - we're different sites, you know. secondly that shouldn't be a problem - just means it was taken from the CD (possibly with some of the movies etc removed to save space), and thirdly wouldn't it have been an idea to try and get it going yourself before asking for help?

[omg]

agreeing with beef here man, jus search the hotu tech help forum, dont use more than one word for the search though.

[iratefive]

I was talking in general about CD ripped games...I have gotten a number of them that tell me to put the CD in. It seemed to me that the forums here have a higher level of knowledge then HOTU..sorry to have asked.

[Eagle of Fire]

It really depend for each CD-Rip since they are all similar but ripped differently. More often than not there is an help file which come with the rip (sometimes not .txt) which should explain to you how to make it work.

If it's a .cue, .bin or similar file you should burn the CD yourself before playing the game.

[BeefontheBone]

It'll vary from game to game like EoF says. You can also mount the .cue files with Daemon tools or in DOSBox to save burning a CD if it is a CD image.

[omg]

also some games need patches to allow cd location under nfts , may sound odd but for
dos games for which i have the cd to just get the installer running i ususally have to make an image, mount it into deaomon tools then install it via deomen tools, then install a patch so the game can find the cd image to verify copyright ...
not often it happens, but it happens

[Eagle of Fire]

That would be called a "crack", not a "patch".

[iratefive]

Bah I ended up hitting the wrong thing doing the download from HOTU and get like seven segments going at once and they banned me for a week or so LOL.

I got ranked Enemy of the Site...so now I have to wait to try all the advice

Thanks for the help anyway

[omg]

OMG when they say 1 download at a time they mean it.

LOL about having to crack games i own the original cds for, dam xp, im getting temepted to go back to a duel boot sys, with a win 95, or 98 drive for old school dx games.