XIII crash question

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I bought XIII at EBGames used for the PC. I installed the game and
everything went fine. However, when I went to play it, I got an Enter
Play CD message. Tried all the CDs that were in the case, but to no
avail.

I went to Ubisoft's website for tech support and found a patch and a
SecureROM patch. I applied both patches and tried to start the game
again. Now I don't get the CD message, but now it just sits on the
loading screen. I never get into the main menu or anything else. It
is really irritating me.

I have tried this on two different AMD machines. I have not tried it
on an Intel machine although that should not matter anymore. Anyone
else have this problem or is it unique.

 

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<tballfst@pacbell.net> wrote in message
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> I have tried this on two different AMD machines. I have not tried it
> on an Intel machine although that should not matter anymore. Anyone
> else have this problem or is it unique.

Probably the copy protection scheme is interfering with your PC. Try a
no-cd patch, frankly it's the first thing I look for when getting a new game
so I don't have to be bothered with swapping out the CD's.

Go here: http://gamecopyworld.com/

 

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<tballfst@pacbell.net> wrote in message
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>
> Yeah, I got it for $2. Was 75% off of the normal price. So if it does
> not work, no big deal. It is funny that it installs without a hitch.
> I thought about trying a no CD crack, but was wodering if it was a
> common problem. I alson let the game sit there for five minutes
> figuring it was just a long load screen, but that did not help the
> problem.
>

Glad to hear you only paid $2 for it! You might really like the game. It's
pretty cool looking because of the cell animation and the game play is
there. I just didn't like the not having quicksave. You might want to give a
no-cd crack a try, just so you can judge the game for yourself. JLC

 

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On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 18:50:59 -0500, "Nitz Walsh"
<nospamtwits@nospam.com> wrote:

>
><tballfst@pacbell.net> wrote in message
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>
>> I have tried this on two different AMD machines. I have not tried it
>> on an Intel machine although that should not matter anymore. Anyone
>> else have this problem or is it unique.
>
>Probably the copy protection scheme is interfering with your PC. Try a
>no-cd patch, frankly it's the first thing I look for when getting a new game
>so I don't have to be bothered with swapping out the CD's.
>
>Go here: http://gamecopyworld.com/
>
IIRC, XIII is one of those titles for which the official patch removes
the copy protection. I've got an AMD system and XIII runs just fine.

 

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On 25 Jan 2005 10:50:51 -0800, tballfst@pacbell.net wrote:

>I bought XIII at EBGames used for the PC. I installed the game and
>everything went fine. However, when I went to play it, I got an Enter
>Play CD message. Tried all the CDs that were in the case, but to no
>avail.
>
>I went to Ubisoft's website for tech support and found a patch and a
>SecureROM patch. I applied both patches and tried to start the game
>again. Now I don't get the CD message, but now it just sits on the
>loading screen. I never get into the main menu or anything else. It
>is really irritating me.
>
>I have tried this on two different AMD machines. I have not tried it
>on an Intel machine although that should not matter anymore. Anyone
>else have this problem or is it unique.

I spoke WAY too soon. The SP demo runs just fine on my AMD system.
The full game does not run at all. At. All.

And I am not alone.

Visit the Ubisoft Technical Support Forum for XIII to see just how
complex and varied the problems with running XIII actually are....

http://forums.ubi.com/eve/ubb.x?a=frm&s=400102&f=602103532

I've tried every way I can think of to get the game to run and it
simply won't. Demo still runs beautifully.....