madDdog67
09-28-06, 11:03 AM
Well, so it didn't eat my baby...but I had a very weird experience with an SHIII installation.
I bought this game at the beginning of this year...messed around with it, then kind of shelved it...didn't re-install it when I bought a new HD.
I installed the game Monday night, and played though the training missions. I passed the exam in all but the last mission, the convoy attack.
Tuesday night, I decided to patch the game to 1.3, then install some mods. I d/led the patch (I have the DVD version), installed it, and rebooted when it prompted me to. After the reboot, I tried to access the internet, but the browser page never tried to find my home page...I got an immediate "done" message. I tried rebooting a few times, to no avail. I could see the other machines on my lan, and all the machines could see the one I use. All the other machines could hit the 'net w/o any trouble. I called a buddy who's a network security guru, and we figured out that something was blocking port 80...but my firewall was off at this point, so we couldnt' figure out what was doing it. At this point I bailed and went to bed.
Yestarday, after I came home from work, I messed with it some more, w/o any success. At that point, I tried to run a few other games, and noticed that quite a few wouldn't start...I could double click the icon, but nothing happened. Then I started getting a weird sound when I clicked on any program group in the start menu...like the "ding" sound from an MS error, but repeated over and over at 100mph. At that point, I went to reboot the machine..and when it came back up, my DVD drive started making weird noises.
By this time, I half expected aliens to pop out of the computer, so I hit the reset button, popped XP into the drive, and did a reformat/reinstall.
I have NO friggin' idea what exactly happened, but everything was swimming along fine until the reboot after the 1.3 DVD patch. Does anyone here have any experience even romotely similar to mine?? I'd love to play SH III, but at this point, I'm sure as **** NOT gonna patch the game.
I bought this game at the beginning of this year...messed around with it, then kind of shelved it...didn't re-install it when I bought a new HD.
I installed the game Monday night, and played though the training missions. I passed the exam in all but the last mission, the convoy attack.
Tuesday night, I decided to patch the game to 1.3, then install some mods. I d/led the patch (I have the DVD version), installed it, and rebooted when it prompted me to. After the reboot, I tried to access the internet, but the browser page never tried to find my home page...I got an immediate "done" message. I tried rebooting a few times, to no avail. I could see the other machines on my lan, and all the machines could see the one I use. All the other machines could hit the 'net w/o any trouble. I called a buddy who's a network security guru, and we figured out that something was blocking port 80...but my firewall was off at this point, so we couldnt' figure out what was doing it. At this point I bailed and went to bed.
Yestarday, after I came home from work, I messed with it some more, w/o any success. At that point, I tried to run a few other games, and noticed that quite a few wouldn't start...I could double click the icon, but nothing happened. Then I started getting a weird sound when I clicked on any program group in the start menu...like the "ding" sound from an MS error, but repeated over and over at 100mph. At that point, I went to reboot the machine..and when it came back up, my DVD drive started making weird noises.
By this time, I half expected aliens to pop out of the computer, so I hit the reset button, popped XP into the drive, and did a reformat/reinstall.
I have NO friggin' idea what exactly happened, but everything was swimming along fine until the reboot after the 1.3 DVD patch. Does anyone here have any experience even romotely similar to mine?? I'd love to play SH III, but at this point, I'm sure as **** NOT gonna patch the game.