The troubles continue...

[strangetomato]

So things continued to work just fine with adding the EPs and SPs back in, until I arrived at Bon Voyage. This would be where SecuROM first made an appearance, so wanting to avoid that whole mess, I have switched to running the game with a no-cd crack. And here seems to be where my problems lie. It won't run. I get the same message as seen in this post. I tried running it with FT, AL, and M&G Stuff as the most recent EP, all with the same result. This seems to somehow be the issue, but what exactly is going wrong?

I have updated my graphics card drivers, made sure I have the latest full DirectX9.0c Redistributable installed, as directed by several tech support forums for this exact issue (DirectX9 incompatibility), but none of those things seemed to help. I am also running Sims 3 with a no-cd crack with no issues. I'm even using the same cracks I had on my old computer, which worked just fine then. *sigh*

If anyone has any ideas on what's going wrong here, I'd love to hear them. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.

Comments

[maranatah.livejournal.com]

Have you tried running the game as an administrator? (right-click the game icon on desktop and select "run as administrator")

I had the same problem with my older computer, but it got fixed after I bought a better graphic card. All I can say is try deleting all your cache's, make sure your no-cd crack is in the right place and if necessary, try an arrr'd version of BV? I hope the issues will go away that you get to enjoy the game again!

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Yes, I did try to run as administrator and also to troubleshoot compatibility and run it in a Windows XP mode. Neither of those things worked.

Thanks for all the suggestions. I'm going to try them all. I hope it isn't the graphics card itself that's simply not compatible.