Hey all, maybe one or more of you can help me with a problem i have.
I bought Master of Orion 3.
Installed it and tried to play it, but all it does is the disk spins and spins without loading.

I have an E-machines computer, AMD processer (3000+), Nivida GeForce Card, 512 Meg Ram, and i run it on windows XP.

Cant figure out why it dosent load up, and i let it spin the disk for near like 10 minutes and it still didnt load up.

Anyone have any clues what could be wrong?
I checked out my system and as far as i can tell everything works fine.

Tielee

P.S. Do i need like a patch or mod or sum such thing?

typ in run drwatson, and start the exe, then press the Dr.Watson thingy, are there any errors?

what does drwatson do?

(im haveing some trouble running some disks i burnt)

it checks for errors and displays them on screen. Anyway i have moo3 and didn't had any problems with installing it. Seeing your specs, i would think you won't have a 98 or 98se system . You could try and download the latest patch, yet i don't know if that would work. What kind of DirectX do you have? Check if you have a equal or higher version to that what MOO3 needs. Also do you have the latest drivers for your videocard?

Minimum System Requirements

Pentium II 300 MHz,
128 MB RAM,
Windows 95/98/ME/XP,
DirectX 8.0,
DirectX-compatible video card able to display 800x600x16-bit, DirectX-compatible sound card,
8x CD-ROM drive,
and 400 MB hard-disk space

hrm, on vidio drivers i got the latest that i know of, for direct x i had 9.0, then i installed the 8.0 the game requires, neather one fixed the problem.

Im gona try the drwatson thing, and also instal it and then patch it to see if that works.

So far no luck thou.

Tielee

Have you tried it on other machines? You know... to rule out the possibility that it might be your cd drive.

moo3 sucked anyway, moo2 was better but none of the moo games could hold a candle to botf. it sounds to me like your drive is acting up, go into the disc and run the exe manually, that should work.

A lot of times it is the disc the software is written on. Your CD-Rom drive is most likely a 50+ X speed. The older games where written with slow data burn drives. The .exe file is having a problem uncompressing to a shell directory. Try copying the CD to a folder on the computer and re burn the game to another disc. See if that works.

Val

hrm, i tried to run it manualy using the exe file, still did the same and just spun and spun in the drive.

Is there a way to make my drive spin a bit slower so maybe it will read it?....if its because my drive spins to fast i mean.

I tried Drwatson and it didnt come up with any error on the disk.

Only got the game really because i found it at a discount store for $5.
Figured, what the hell, only 5 bucks.
Would like to get it to run thou.

As far as trying it out on other machines, only one i have access to is my mothers, and its the same model and type. Didnt try it on hers, but it probaly will act the same way.

Tielee

Ehm they don't burn the cd's they press the data on the cd.

Anyway about your little problem tielee, i think a fixed exe might work, i have pm'ed a few links to you. Also first try and patch the game with the newest version, that might do the trick.

WTF!!!
Damn, why the hell did I buy that game for €50,- when it first appeared! It sucked, but I didn't imagine it went that bad with MoO3, though

That game was released, say what, 2 years ago? I mean games that you buy now will only cost 5-10 €/$ in 2 years.

No way!
If a game is good it will not be reduced that much. Perhaps you can buy it for €20,- at minimum after 2 years, but for $5,-... Not a chance!

Well only if that game is really good (actually if a game sells good), games like Halflife 2 and games like that. But most games really get a enormous price drop, because after two years there is no place anymore in the shop for an old game. They just either throw them in a big box with a load of other games, or when they have some room left, they put them somewhere along with a lot of older games.

I had the same problem when I tried to run the game on this machine - search the web for patches - I can't remember the version... but download it, and it should work fine. Solved the problem here anyway.

I already told hime to first download the latest patch for the game, i just hope he read it.

UGH. I saw that you bought the game for $5, but even thats too much money for that stinker of a game. MOO2 was so much better than its sequel. I've already heard one person saying the oposite, and there will probably be others who agree with him, but botf (while a great game) pales in comparison to MOO2. So much more depth and strategic creativity in MOO2.

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I’m aware on how "commercial" disc are produced, but like most of us; most of my games are obtained as “unofficial off site back ups.â€￾ So if he is using a commercial disc there can be a few other things in play going on.