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what_smell
12 Jan 2009, 23:38
While playing the super sheep training mission, the music began to skip, and then the game lagged, so I exited. Then a dialog box popped up saying Training Mission Could Not Be Found or something like that. I tried re-entering the game, and then it crashed. Another box opened up I forgot what it said. Now when I try to run W:A, it asks for the CD to be inserted, but it is. I have included the error log. I am running vista home premium. Also I my cd drive became unavailable until rebooting.

franpa
13 Jan 2009, 02:45
CD becoming unavailable, there are programs to fix that, it is simply Windows locking the drive. it sounds like your disc may be unreadable or scratched.

what_smell
13 Jan 2009, 05:32
it sounds like your disc may be unreadable or scratched.
Nope, not a single scr atch and the disc is readable since i can start the game. i think it has something to do with the save game because game crashes after one game. then error, and trying to open another instant crash. when i have a chance will post dialog box that appears after chrash.(on PSP right now)btw after-reboot i can launch W:A again.

CyberShadow
13 Jan 2009, 06:38
W:A crashed because it failed to read a certain file from your CD. Try making a copy or image (http://worms2d.info/NoCD) of the CD to see if it's really unreadable.

lDarKl
13 Jan 2009, 13:04
A clanmate of mine had the same problem, WA crashed when it was loading up. He's using an image now and it works like a charm. :)

what_smell
13 Jan 2009, 23:33
W:A crashed because it failed to read a certain file from your CD.
100%, you nailed it, hands down. My laptop has confirmed that it has terminal cancer. Six months ago all USB ports mysteriously died. Now, the CD drive itself has been brutally murdered. I acuse ACER inc., with the Faulty Motherboard, in Billiards Room. It's only a matter of time before the video card, sound card, touchpad and keyboard go. Never, ever buy another ACER product. Save yourself a lot of money.

what_smell
15 Jan 2009, 05:11
100%, you nailed it, hands down. My laptop has confirmed that it has terminal cancer. Six months ago all USB ports mysteriously died. Now, the CD drive itself has been brutally murdered. I acuse ACER inc., with the Faulty Motherboard, in Billiards Room. It's only a matter of time before the video card, sound card, touchpad and keyboard go. Never, ever buy another ACER product. Save yourself a lot of money.
Ok, I overreacted there, but still, the acer 5100 is loaded with problems. Anyway after a factory restore, my cd worked like new. It was untill I installed the latest beta patch that my cd drive dissapered from explore and refused to acknowledge its own esistance. I have no idea how this is possible. My computer is an Acer 5100, 1gb ram (2 512 stick) Ati Raedon Express 1100, Athelon 64 processor 2.0ghz(not dual). However it must be something from the update.

franpa
15 Jan 2009, 06:17
the games beta update extracts some files into your game folder, it doesn't do any registry changes or adjust files elsewhere.

Wormetti
15 Jan 2009, 06:25
However it must be something from the update.
More likely it is unrelated and is just a coincidence. Worms can't make your drive disappear but hardware/driver failures can.

what_smell
16 Jan 2009, 01:32
Well i don't know what do, when ever i install the beta patch, this happens. 3 times now with they same result, but i know its not hardware since factory restore fixes cd.

franpa
16 Jan 2009, 07:14
It "could" be the actual installer that the beta update uses to extract the files with that is at fault, not likely though.

Roboslob
16 Jan 2009, 07:37
It "could" be the actual installer that the beta update uses to extract the files with that is at fault, not likely though.
This may be the problem, since i had 2 run beta installer twice. 1 for gfx second time for beta. i watched the files that installed 1 time. most were gfx.

Roboslob
18 Jan 2009, 21:26
Also franpa, what would these programs be, since I googled searched, and couldn't find any.

Wormetti
19 Jan 2009, 05:44
Does the drive show up in device manager? My real and virtual optical drives stopped working recently and device manager said there was a problem with the driver. Uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers didn't fix it but this registry change got my drives working again (http://www.theeldergeek.com/restore_missing_cd_or_dvd_drive.htm).
As far as I know this problem was unrelated to worms and was most likely caused by some other program or Windows itself.

Roboslob
20 Jan 2009, 05:17
He`s running Vista though. Those instructions are for XP, or does that not matter?

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